Re: Esperanto film (was Re: Meta-History of Atlantean)
| From: | J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 12, 2001, 22:08 |
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Rik Roots wrote:
> I've only heard of one other film with all the dialogue in a dead or
> constructed language - Derek Jarman's 'Sebastian'. Are there any other
> such films?
"Quest for Fire", a film from the early 80s about an encounter between two groups of
prehistoric humans, a primitive cave-dwelling group and a more advanced
hunter-gatherer group (possibly meant to be Neanderthals and homo sapiens sapiens,
respectively). Although there isn't much dialogue in the film at all, what little
dialogue there is is in conlangs--a simple grunting language for the Neanderthals,
and a more complex 'modern' language for the homo sapiens sapiens. The languages
were constructed by Anthony Burgess, author of "A Clockwork Orange" and an occasional
dabbler in conlanging.
Matt.
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