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{{quote|''"What if a man from the Upper Paleolithic survived until the present day?"
''[[The Man From Earth]]'' is 2007 film about a group of college professors (and a grad student) sitting together in a cabin during an intimate going-away party. They contemplate the plausibility of their departing professor friend's story: witnessing thousands of years of human progress first-hand.
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One of the most down-to-earth depictions of a seemingly immortal man in movie history.
The movie hit it big on BitTorrent sites in early November 2007. [http://torrentfreak.com/producer-thanks-pirates-for-stealing-his-film-071113/ The director squealed with glee.] This reaction was one of the earliest admissions by a film director or film producer that [[Digital Piracy Is Okay|"illegal" downloads can be good for getting the word out for a work.]]
Pretty much every trope related to
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* [[Actually Not a Vampire]]: When John stopped aging, his tribe began to believe he was stealing their lifeforce, thus necessitating his need to move on every ten years to avoid arousing suspicion.
* [[The Ageless]]: John is not immune to illness, but since he survived so long and recovered from any injury (he
* [[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.
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* [[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.}}
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]] - The relationship between Sandra, who appears to be in her
* [[No Such Thing
* [[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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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:The Man From Earth]]
[[Category:Science Fiction Films]]
[[Category:Independent Films]]
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