Definitely they were thanking him for saving their girl. They showered him with food too and showed him how to make fire
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johnwbdw — 18 years ago(January 04, 2008 02:18 PM)
I thought the large women were offered to the caveman BECAUSE they were big women. I'm thinking the tribal elders somehow knew that any offspring sired by the caveman could be quite large at birth. The rest of the "tribe" is composed of skinny runts. The tribal elders probably thought, "The big women have a better possibility of squirting-out the big caveman babies without having birthing problems." Giving birth was nothing new to cavemen or the other folks of the era, so they were probably very familiar with problems during birth. The babies of the "runty tribe" were probably little things when born. The cavemen babies could have been ten-pounders or even bigger, which could certainly cause problems for those tiny women.
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Fripitto — 18 years ago(February 02, 2008 02:08 PM)
Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_willendorf
See any similarities?
If you watch the scene again you'll see there's a whole line of women waiting outside, ready to be 'taken' by Naoh. The chieftan also inspected Naoh physically when he was first brought into their village. Obviously they think Naoh is very strong and fertile, so they let him mate with as many women as possible, making their tribe stronger in the long run.
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jojoson22 — 17 years ago(June 08, 2008 07:02 AM)
they werent trying to humiliate him. Everyone laughed when whe put her rump in the air because our main characters less advanced tribe hadnt figured out how to have sex on their backs yet. She had to put her butt in the air so Naoh would realize that was what they wanted him to do. And I'm sure they did this because their wasnt an abundance of males around. Even the one that was tied up with Ika at the begingin was pretty skinny.
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hvy_g — 17 years ago(July 14, 2008 04:32 AM)
Right after he's captured, the old man checks Naoh's teeth and his junk to see what's going on
Then he arranges the hump fest
Just looking out for his mud-caked homies
(it blows me away that was Everett McGill now I got to see it again)
FYI it's 'free' on hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/13183/quest-for-fire -
Justeatbeans — 16 years ago(November 16, 2009 07:59 PM)
the plumb woman was brought to naoh she was healthy and could likely survive pregnancy and was physically able to nourish the seed in utero and after the child was born something very important given the fact in prehistoric times and through out the ages women were scarce as they tended to die in child birth..
i believed they check naoh "sacs" to see if he too was healthy enough and had "seeds" to spill.
remember too, a tribe is nothing if it doesnt replenish itself with new members..
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE FREAKIN LEOTARDS -
uninemic — 15 years ago(September 06, 2010 05:00 AM)
In addition to having more reliable access to fire (by making it), the advanced tribe was the beneficiary of another profound innovation the idea of using sex to forge cooperation and diffuse tension with nearby tribes.
Until he encounters Ika's tribe, Naoh acts mainly on impulse. Thereafter he learns the self-control that participation in ritual acts bring.
So the scene is vital in two ways: it shows Naoh's introduction to
1 - sex as a tool of alliance-making and cooperation with outside groups; and
2 - ritualization and thus domestication of daily life (group cohesion)
Two innovations, besides fire, that are bound to increase the chances of survival for Naoh's ragtag little tribe.
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wiked_wich — 15 years ago(December 30, 2010 09:58 PM)
I know this post is 3 years old, but I recently saw QFF for the first time since the early 80s.
It's different today when thinness is highly desired in a society that can "feed" people, but back in the old days, I believe that a heavy woman was more preferable in being able to bear children during the starvation times. My own interpretation of the movie was that they were trying to get another child through the blond guy who seemed strong and healthy.
Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.