I remember reading some years ago that it was speculated that humans never had a knuckle-walking ancestor, that chimpanzees and gorillas evolved knuckle-walking independently from each other and that the earliest hominins instead were more gibbon-like bipeds on the ground. Is that still supported?
If you don’t know, Cold Crash Pictures is a Youtube channel dedicated towards film analysis, especially towards dinosaur movies. He now bought the rights off the British Film Institute to officially show the movie Prehistoric Peeps (1905) on his channel. Before that the BFI possessed the only copy of it and you were only able to watch it by literally going there in person, without being allowed to make copies.
Archaeology seems to indicate that the Hittites had extensive contact with the Achaeans and even had Aegean city-states (including Troy) as their vassals. Yet after the Bronze Age no memory seems to remain of there having been a major empire in Central Anatolia and Herodotus misattributes their monuments to the Egyptians. I‘m just curious how that can happen.
We think the word "propagana" gets thrown around a bit too much when the source stays closer to the material! 😄 If people don't believe the Bible to be fully true, then why worry? People can think it's fantasy then! 😉
Hey look at the art! it's cool isn't it? 😃 And it's others who are bringing up these discussions. All we did was post was the project! Oooh look..a. dinosaur! rawr!!
Christians can't make their own high quality content? 😄 But we think that's going off topic a bit now? How about that world building? 😉 EDIT: Aww downvoted? Haha... but it's true! We realize we're in a bit of opposing territory here if we're bing honest, but hey, the people seem to be liking it! 😄
Young Frankenstein: Mel Brooks‘ parody cemented the idea that Dr. Frankenstein has a hunchbacked assistant named Igor/Ygor, which has become an expected staple in subsequent adaptations of the book. In the original story, Frankenstein has no assistant. A hunchbacked assistant is introduced in the first movie from 1931, but there he is named Fritz. Son of Frankenstein has a character named Ygor, but he isn‘t an assistant but an undead ghoul and the villain of the movie. Young Frankenstein is the first to have an actual assistant character named Ygor.
Spaceballs: This is technically just speculation, but there is no way at least someone working on Rogue One didn‘t think of Druidia when coming up with the planetary shield of Scarif.
Hardware Wars: This is George Lucas‘ favourite Star Wars parody and Rian Johnson included a homage to it in The Last Jedi.
Austin Powers: As revealed by interviews with Daniel Craig, the newer James Bond movies had to seriously tone down the more fantastical and horndog elements, because Austin Powers had so devastatingly lampooned the older movies that nobody could take them seriously anymore. Alotta Fagina lowkey does sound like a more believable name than Pussy Galore.
Monkey Island: The games took a lot of their aesthetics from the Pirates of the Caribbean theme park ride at Disneyland. The first POTC movie in turn took inspiration from the script of the planned but cancelled Monkey Island movie (allegedly).
Shrek: Similarly to the Austin Powers example, Shrek parodied so many fairytale tropes popularized by Disney movies that its massive success meant general audiences could no longer take them seriously. It arguably killed the Disney Renaissance, indirectly leading to the end of Michael Eisner (caricatured in the movie through Lord Farquaad) as CEO of the company. The effects of this are still felt decades later when Disney went back to fairytale stories, with films like Frozen being self-aware and poking fun at their own clichés.
Galaxyquest: On top of being beloved by many veteran Star Trek actors, the characters from this movie actually ended up in the official Star Trek videogame Star Trek Fleet Command
So I know this is kind of an odd question. I recently got myself a blue tongue skink and in his enclosure I put as decoration an old sheep bone I found many years ago on a field and kept in my curiosity collection. Yesterday I observe him actually trying to chew on the bone like a dog. Is this maybe because in the wild they’re scavengers and he hoped there’s still a bit of flesh on it? Or was he maybe smart enough to recognize it as a calcium source? I took the bone out for now since I’m worried this might be bad for his teeth.