The Man From Earth: Difference between revisions

* [[Contemporary Caveman]]

* [[Conversed Trope]] - The backbone of the entire movie.

* [[Exposition of Immortality]]: This film is essentially, entirely about this trope. It consists of an immortal character telling people all about the things he's done, seen and experienced down the ages and their reactions to it. Oldman even lampshades this with his comment about people hanging onto objects from thousands of years ago being ''"absurd."''

* [[The Fog of Ages]] - John only remembers "the ups and downs" and has forgotten most of his ancient life.

* [[The Gump]] - John is {{spoiler|Jesus, even though it's all pretty much a big misunderstanding}}.

** He also met Van Gogh and Buddha. But John also mentions that aside from those, it'd be incredibly difficult for him to know many histoical people, as he is just one man in one place at any given time, and he can't afford to attract too much attention to himself.

* [[I Have Many Names]] - John naturally varied his name throughout history. Still, it's always been something similar to John.

* [[Immortality Immorality]] - Point 2 is discussed much within the movie.

** Also averted big time with John, {{spoiler|already thousands of years old at the time, being incredibly inspired by the Buddha, eventually bringing his teachings, philosophies and ethics to Israel centuries later, and continuing to revere him in the present day.}}

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] - {{spoiler|In the end what confirms that John wasn't lying when he claims he doesn't age was Gruber (who appears much older than John) realizing John is his father. The shock ends up giving Gruber a heart attack and he dies shortly after.}}

* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Mostly averted. In his long lifetime, John has acquired ten advanced degrees, but he points out that, like any typical person, he can't keep up with the advances in that many fields, so his old degrees don't mean very much now.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Fourteen Thousand Years Old]] - John looks 35, but is actually a good bit above just seven hundred.

* [[There Is Another]] - John thinks that there have might have been another person who was immortal. He connected with him for a while in the 17th Century, and might have seen him out of the corner of his eye in a train station a couple of hundred years later.

* [[Time Abyss]] - 14,000 years is a really long time.

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