LAST STAND OF THE NEANDERTHALS
Movie synopsis by Fran
Detower:
*This film is a work of fiction inspired by Fran Detower and loosely based
on anthropological events. The movie is being developed with the sole purpose of entertaining modern audiences; it is not
meant to disparage any ethnicity or culture or make any sort of racial, political or religious statement.
Introduction: Camera span regressively over the globe with anthropological
illustration on physical characteristics, migration routes, living standard and hunting styles of both human ancestors back
to 30,000 years ago, in the plains of present Europe.
Opening Narrative Scenes:
The peaceful and nature contemplative life of an early human community – the Homo-Neanderthalensis- is about to change
forever. A band of sneering, sadistic warriors from a more advanced civilization –the Homo sapiens- take over their
hunting territory and descend upon them with repugnant savagery, burning their villages, killing the males and displacing
the surviving women and children. One by one, the native clans of Neanderthals were being harassed, hunted down, trade
into slavery and eliminated. Most were exterminated by mismatched 1-to-4 direct confrontations, other died indirectly as result
of being expelled from their homes, environmental hazards, over exposure to virus and contagious deceases for which they have
no natural defense.
Leading Action Scene: But there were some who resisted:
After a fierce fight that causes surprising casualties to both sides, three Neanderthal survivors are chased across the jungle
by a band of determined ‘Sapiens’ hunters; One is killed by a spear, the second is pierced several times with
arrows but the third one (Crawler) escapes by running in ‘all four’ crawling under dense vegetation, climbing
trees and frog leaping across a crocodile infected lagoon. As he crosses to the far side of the water, he is shockingly surprised
as he bumps onto a strong warrior standing tall with a large mallet…It is one of the neighboring Hunks; He is saved
and the counter-insurgency begins!
Center Conflict: The story revolves
around the counterinsurgency led by the Hunks, a small clan of Neanderthals characterized by their robustness and a peculiar
sound used to communicate ‘hjuunnk! By default, the peaceful hunters become defensive fighters in a desperate war of
attrition attempting to save their friends and families from the impending genocide.
Supporting scene: warriors camps, ranks, weapons,
hunting, marching, stalking, chasing, hand combat..
Side Romance: Sapien-2 was
knocked out during a takeover, he was dumped out of the cave and down hill with other dead bodies, but he was rescued later
during the night by a Neanderthal woman looking for survivors among the dead, N2 who nurture him back to life, claim him as
a trophy, drags him to the new camp and cures his wound for days . The pair strives with difficulties until the wounded
warrior leads a band of Neanderthals to free other clan members from a Sapien’s camp. She becomes an active matriarch,
Sapien-2 joins the resistance and their inter-race romance survived through the ages.
Supporting scenes: home invasion, resistance,
captivity, family matriarch, infiltration, shooting gallery, escapes..
After a series of bloody combats, night raids, ambushes,
chases and forced migrations, the Hunks stage a heroic ‘last stand’; a trapped mammoth is set on fire and released
towing a dead tree loaded with swarms of killer bees; hundreds of Homo sapiens were lured into the valley of the dead were
the Neanderthals unleash a pack of captive hyenas and counter attack by thrashing them with large pieces of rocks from the
surrounding cliff; a courageous Hunk, drags a log with four bears across the snow-covered mountain’s top and intentionally
provokes the final disaster in which a large contingent of Sapiens were on pursue of the fleeing caravans, they are forced
to retreat when an unavoidable snow avalanche buries most of their warriors at the foot of the sacred mountains.
Supporting scenes: trapping, wilderness, major
battle, Napoleonic winter retreat and migration caravans..
Ending: The belligerent homosapiens
could not pursue beyond the cold mountain and rugged terrain. They have to unearth the survivors from below the avalanched
snow and turned but retained control of the conquered lowland territories. The legend of the Hunks, immortal guardians of
the frozen mountain pass was born after that battle. Meanwhile the remaining Neanderthals -lead by the matriarch and the heroic
Crawler, migrated beyond the frozen mountain range into the Western European horizon and peacefully disappear forever…or
did they?
*Although most scientist commonly
claim that “no one know why or how did the Neanderthals became extinct”, the story of resistance by the ‘Hunk’s
clan is a fictional sequence of events based on known archeological evidence publicly displayed by the London Museum of Natural
History (www.nhm.ac.uk) and the American Museums of Natural History (www.amnh.org) The concluding points of view and social
evolution theories that follows are the sole opinion of the author @ www.richteacher.net
