Les dieux sont tombés sur la tête

Titre original : The Gods Must Be Crazy

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N!xau, Sandra Prinsloo, and Marius Weyers in Les dieux sont tombés sur la tête (1980)

A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.

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Une allégorie comique sur un itinérant bochiman qui découvre la civilisation moderne et ses aspects les plus étranges, notamment un scientifique maladroit et une bande de révolutionnaires.Une allégorie comique sur un itinérant bochiman qui découvre la civilisation moderne et ses aspects les plus étranges, notamment un scientifique maladroit et une bande de révolutionnaires.Une allégorie comique sur un itinérant bochiman qui découvre la civilisation moderne et ses aspects les plus étranges, notamment un scientifique maladroit et une bande de révolutionnaires.

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62 k

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Récompenses
- 2 victoires et 3 nominations au total

Card 2
(as Joe Seakatsi)

Brian O'Shaughnessy

Mr. Thompson

Ken Gampu

President

Paddy O'Byrne

Narrator
(voix)

Graham Armitage

The Reverend
(voix)
(non crédité)

Vera Blacker

Mrs. Thompson
(non crédité)

Pip Freedman

Mpudi
(voix)
(non crédité)

Katinka Heyns

Young woman with noise in her head
(non crédité)

Jamie Uys

The Reverend
(non crédité)

Janet Wells

Kate Thompson
(voix)
(non crédité)

Réalisation
- Jamie Uys
Scénario
- Jamie Uys
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CrawlingEye

A happy movie

This movie must have cost $1.98 to make. There are no special effects to speak of. Everybody in this movie is an unknown. So why do I LOVE this movie? All I can say is the whole time I was watching this, I had a smile on my face. The concept was then and even now, unique. You connect right away with the hero, and root him on to the end. I will not tell you what the film is about, because You must watch it with no preconceptions or political bias. Just go rent the tape or download it, and you will watch a really special movie.

RT Firefly

Proves Hollywood is crazy

A lovely little simple film with a shoestring budget. This film proves Hollywood is crazy for spending so much money when all it needs to do is hire one clever person like (writer/director) Jamie Uys. This film is everything that Hollywood isn't. Simple, silly, fun, genuine, not slick, NOT contrived, real...etc... This movie also proves people don't care about big name actors and exploding cars (though if you are a bushman this has both those things). What they want is a good story told in a clever manner.

9Swambi

Masterpiece

A unique film with a brilliant combination of slapstick, subtle humour, wonderful music, brilliant wildlife and scenic shots, all beautifully woven into a piece in an almost "road-style" movie around the adventures of a bushman.

Like any story, there are some aspects which are slightly unbelievable if you stop to think - but the skill of the film is that it is sufficiently convincing to suspend such unbelief whilst you watch.

The message of the film is brilliantly presented, subtly challenging the belief that white civilization has all the answers, gently poking fun at many of our western assumptions (no idea why anyone thinks it's racist - it may be the opposite)!

Some of the high points for me personally were the scenery, the wildlife, and the African huts, children and music. Having lived in Africa for 3 years it was absolutely true to life, and brought back fond memories. This is a classic that will bear watching time and time again, and so different from the run of the mill films generally churned out.

A classic - 9/10.

7Thanos_Alfie

Funny and beautiful...

"The Gods Must Be Crazy" is a Comedy - Adventure movie in which we watch a Bushman traveling in the end of the world when he gets involved with modern civilization. He does not know anything about it so, a lot of crazy situations occur.

I found this movie simply amazing because it had a very clever plot, full of funny scenes and the narration of Paddy O'Byrne was equally good. The direction which was made by Jamie Uys who is also the writer, it was very good and he combined very well adventure with comedy while the narration added a new aspect in the movie. The interpretations of N!xau who played as Xi, Marius Weyers who played as Andrew Steyn and Sandra Prinsloo who played as Kate Thompson were very good. To sum up, I have to say that "The Gods Must Be Crazy" is a nice comedy movie to spend your time with and I recommend everyone to watch it because I am sure that you will laugh a lot and you will have a great time.

8Agent10

Interesting film, one that will be remembered for a long time

It seemed simplistic, yet it was so brilliant in its execution that it ranks as one of the more interesting films of the last century. Unique and different, this film showed a different side of Africa and introduced one of the few genuine characters in the African Bushman. Highly recommended for anyone who has not seen this film. If you can find it, rent it.

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Anecdotes
The film was the world's biggest non-US box office hit during its release.

Gaffes
At the end, when Andrew is covered in flour, a lipstick kiss appears on his cheek before Kate kisses him.

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Narrator: Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city. And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy... 10:30 says you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again... And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances.
Narrator: [Kate looks for a place to have her lunch] My I share a table?
Kate Thompson: No wonder some people go off the rails a bit...
Young woman with noise in her head: Does the noise in my head bother you?
Young woman with noise in her head: No...
Kate Thompson: [Later, Kate finds Pete] Pete, Have you still got that story about the teacher shortage in Botswana?
Pete: Yeah, you gonna use it?
Kate Thompson: No. Maybe they can use me.
Narrator: But in the Kalahari, it's always Tuesday, or Thursday if you like, or Sunday. No clocks or calendars tell you to do this or that.