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That is really a great movie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth A couple interesting detai
by diggernet 4y ago
That is really a great movie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth
A couple interesting details I learned while looking up that link:
- They released a sequel 10 years later.
- The author also wrote the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah", which has a similar theme.
- uranium 4y agoI hadn't known about the sequel; thanks for mentioning it!
- x3n0ph3n3 4y agoHonestly, you're better off skipping it.
- mrtksn 4y agoPeople say these things for almost all sequels, is it that bad really? The sequel of 2021 Space Odyssey for example, is nowhere near as good as the original but it gives a closure so I like it. The Matrix 4, definitely not in the same league as the first ones but it’s still good to have IMHO. It’s a nice wrap up. Is the sequel of this movie really bad? Like ruining the first one bad?
- 8ytecoder 4y agoThis particular sequel is really bad. Plenty of issues with the script and cast but to me the disconnect between a character that doesn’t age and the actor that does made it really hard to watch
- dflock 4y agoIMDb: The Man from Earth: Holocene https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5770864/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5770864/
- bgroat 4y agoIt's very different. The first movie takes place in a single room as the character confides in a group of professors about who/what he is. The sequels is much more conventional (multiple scenes, multiple sets), and features a group of students who independently discover who/what he is.
- jiggawatts 4y agoIf you’re into this kind of thing, The Hydrogen Sonata by Ian M Banks also has a main character that is very long lived.
- hcrisp 4y agoThere is also a character, a wanderer possibly called Lazarus, who appears across the three ages of the book A Canticle for Liebowitz.
- lostlogin 4y agoI took way too long to find this book. If you like Sci-fi and haven’t read it, it’s well worth a try. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
- tshaddox 4y agoI like that movie too. You might be interested in Heinlein’s novel Time Enough For Love. It’s set a couple thousand years in the future and centers on a guy who was born in the early 1900s and is still alive, due to rejuvenation technology and perhaps other reasons :). Other people in the story live long lives as well, but the main character is by far the oldest known in the world. It’s a bit sprawling and weird (even off putting) in some parts, but I found it to be excellently written and very easy to fly through the pages.