@Tracchofyre the story got changed during his many retellings of how he first "drafted" the script over the years. The one thing I remember reading was about that in a magazine that is now no longer in publication. Either that, or I went through my own Mandela Effect... who knows? 😅

@Tracchofyre yep, that's how I remember the interview for the article was written. He at one time stated it was a story of only the Highlander, and how he goes through life being immortal and only added details like the quickening, etc. I forgot the rest, but I also remember how one of his drafts included the fact his original immortal wasn't sterile - and that the character every now and then attended his children's funerals later in life over the years.

Thanks for that tidbit - I am going to go rewatch that episode right now!

That character never claim he was Jesus, he claim Merlin and some others.

@@sophiawilson8696 By the time he met Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, he had learned his lesson. I just thought it was funny that the guy who wrote the Star Trek episode in 1966 recycled the same idea into a different story 30 years later.

and most of the cast, had acted in some Star Trek series too :)

The Doctor on the Enterprise series is the man wearing glasses.

right! and the story takes place almost exclusively in one room.. brilliant production!

same i has read and looking holy bible have only lot story, same than grimms brothers story or santa claus. totally only childrens story all have.

I have watched it multiple times myself and find it a very underrated and creative story.

you dont know what a good movie is.....

I have watched it twice myself, it's brilliant.

I in I can't die. This refers to the source of life. Which is the essence of life itself. People are just personalities. That is your soul. Mind,will,and,emotions. When something dies,the source of life is gone .

I've read the story 'Grotto of the Dancing Deer' years ago, I don't know what happened to the book it was contained in, I'd love to get that book again, because it had lots of other great stories in.

Indeed. Also I think the same author wrote a Star Trek episode called "Requiem for Methuselah" with a similar story line but The Man from Earth was a great watch

@@icepicker8528 From what I have read he wrote a few Star Trek Episodes !!!!! I didn't know about this film until this appeared in my feed, I got the film and I actually quite like it, I'm not so keen on the sequel, if they do another sequel I hope they get rid of the 'religious nutter' who stabbed him, and also please that ending !!!!!!!!! I think they might be going towards a 'Cain and Able' type of thing.

Thats what you get when the script had been worked on for 38 years... Jerome Bixby started with it in 1960 and finished it in 98.

@@SuperSlapek Yeah I guess your right, mind you I suppose if someone said that they were Jesus, I suppose the religious minded might go a bit nuts. I'm not religious at all, so to me I'd ask him how he thought about how he has been remembered and written about for the last 2000 years. But I really hope if they do a third one, please keep it away from religious rubbish.

Can't see a way that he couldn't prove his story since human scientists know everything he says, and the religious side is nonsense.

Remember he can't remember everything. So unless you write a diary but that would be only when writing became more popular.

Here's something wild: he eventually DID prove everything 300 years later after fleeing Earth when he met several people from the USS Enterprise commanded by James T. Kirk. He was calling himself Flint by that time. The episode was Requiem for Methuselah. Same author, same character!

@@vaasnaad I am going to have to go rewatch that one!

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The movie is called the man from earth by Jerome Bixby I think he even wrote some Startrek episodes of the original series.

If you liked this movie you might also like the movie Primer.

And with all the technology we have today , they still use the Greek, water well calculation .... and people like you still buy it ...

​@@MastaFlex-lz2qzplease enlighten us.

There is a reason I call the 19th century The Age of Mythmaking. So many modern myths like this one come from that time.

Nope. They got it from the Egyptians. They learned from Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. Fuck, even the history of science and philosophy has been whitewashed to prop up "Western Civilization"...

​@@JakeSmith-em5shI just did

😂 yea but Duncan did it better 😅

Amen. What brought me to Christ is after much study and trying to prove that it is just not true (including my Wicca days), one thing came to the top of everything else; why, if He isn't real, do people have such hate and anger and trying to prove what they themselves say, isn't real? Out of all the other beliefs, why are Christians hated and reviled most? A belief to love one another as yourself. To turn the other cheek at times. To not act of hatre but of love. But to stand on truth and be steadfast. Yet, people hate those that do those things taught by those that follow Christ. Then I started to read the Bible with an open-mind. When I was most humbled, I seen why Christ is real and began to follow Him. And it is a harder life at first because people with hate you. But remember they hate us because they hated Jesus first.

@@ahuman4386 or maybe the vatican starting wars, leaders starting wars, the powerfuls justifying their greeds all in the name of Christianity. Maybe you should not ask why Christianity is hated, maybe you should ask what Christians did to be hated. Im not saying Christians did not do good deeds, but they are the top dog. And people hate the top dog.

i thank god the wickens taught the second christian how to form sentences :/

​​@@ahuman4386?? Alot of religions were around before christian, Asia has entire books that were made way before the Bible existed.

I like this movie also didn't know there was a sequel.

What was the name of the sequel?

@@chrisp1355 "The Man from Earth: Holocene"

My theory that it the other immortal and he was Alexander The Great who been looking John Old since 16 century.

What's the title of the follow up movie

John Youngman? The gospels suggest John was the youngest of the apostles, maybe 18 at the time he met Jesus, and about 21 when Jesus was crucified. So perhaps not the right age. Also, if Jesus's ministry took him from age 30 to his death at 33, then again a man who (at least today) looks mid-thirties might not have a credible claim. On the other hand, it would be plausible if John Oldman does in fact age visibly, albeit at an incredibly slow rate -- say, one biological year for every 1,000 calendar years.

@@davidanderson_surrey_bcif his cells regenerate, he would never have the appearance of aging.

Yes, and that's my mom. She lost all her younger siblings, then close relatives and finally all her friends, one by one. The last close friend she had died last month. Mom drowned in sorrow and had a mild stroke.

@@humanbeing1429 I'm sorry, my dad is the sole survivor of his family. His brother's children don't speak to us, so it is my brother, my mother and myself. My mom is wasting away from something she is keeping to herself. I think being the last one would suck.

Do you ever get the feeling like with Jesus and the apostles. All of them were teachers in their respective fields sitting with John talking and him passing down wisdom and information. Like a loop. He ended up doing the very thing again. People he respected decided to be honest. I get the feeling the physiologist who was his son may have been Judas in reverse. Simulated killing Jim with a gun but didn’t. 😮

This is true, however due to governments government agents and sleeper sales route the country. They would be following him because everything is damn near monitor. So 10 years is approximate in appropriate for this modern daytime. And back then he probably went 20 to 30 years, but they’ll be back down to 10 years because people had a very witchcraft or witchhunt type of mentality. If you’re something different and I don’t understand then you are a demon you must be a demon. Was the mentality of many people back then, even though we’ve come supposedly far today, most people still sport the same type of mentality they fear what they do not understand.

These days it would be too difficult to fake new paperwork every 10 years: Driver's License, SSN, Birth Certificate, etc. He would have to live completely off-grid. But he'd still eventually be found out, once his DNA and fingerprints got into the system. 1 arrest, or 1 visit to the hospital, and the jig is up the 2nd time he goes, especially if it's decades apart, with his face/body remaining unchanged. Off to a secret government lab to be locked away and studied he goes...

I think for an character like this. Probably the persone is a billionaire. He can hides himself from anything and anyone

Jesus wasn't born in December

Mithra? Who he or it copy from?.

Just like Jesus was a copy of romulus, horus, krishna, dionysus, serapis, attis, osiris, buddha, zoroaster, inanna, zalmoxis, tammuz, asclepius, and adonis. And somehow they were all virgin born, had exactly 12 disciples, died for our sins, and rose from the dead exactly three days later. In all seriousness the only similarities between Jesus and mithra's is that they both performed miracles and their holy day is Sunday and even then, that might be a tradition borrowed from Christianity not the other way around. There is literally no evidence of when mithra's birthday was, the only information we have on mithra's cults is second hand and mostly date to after Jesus. December 25th comes from early Christian belief that Jesus died on the anniversary of his conception (Good Friday) and resurrected three days later(easter) so add 9 months and you get December 25th. Of course, nowadays the date of Good Friday changes due to being observed in relation to the spring equinox like it will be observed on March 29 in 2024.

@@greenhardtop5322thanks for saying that, lol. It’d be so much more productive if people actually figured out even the slightest bit what they’re talking about before getting edgy about religion

i think the low budget is what makes it work so well ;)

Most movies do this...

If you notice in most vampire movies, the older ones slp for years for that exact reason

@@joefromdc “and all my friends were vampires Didn’t know they were vampires Turns out I was a vampire myself in the devil town.” Thanks for the piece 👍🏼

Kids don’t know about Highlander 😆.

Well, it might upset the bible bashers in the US but most of the world wouldn't care and still go to see it.

i'm confused.. this is what happens in the movie

And Ohh, the Taxes you'd pay.

What was that movie called I know this movie is called the man from earth. But this has a narrator in the movie the cast spoke.

we don't talk about it :/

Aiight

Who?

WE currently look and age as we do because of the shelter from solar radiation concentrations, modern medicine as well as diet and other factors. Look at how many indigenous tribal people that live in huts will look older because of exposure to the sun The Inuit age faster because of the ice/snow ground reflecting the sun on them. He aged as a caveman/upper paleolithic, would have been on a caveman diet, and had poor shelter from the sun, etc.

@@ChibiHoshiDragonyou’re excluding natural human melanin. The darker the skin, the more protection from the sun, less aging related sun damage.

@@JJ-fq4nl Yeah, I know the whole Black don't Crack adege There are in fact other factors too as Asians are also known to look younger (Yellow Stays Mellow jokes aside) despite being quite light skinned. But John is neither dark skinned nor Asian. We are talking about an upper paleolithic man who looks light skinned; which would in fact be closest to Indigenous in diet, shelter and cultural habits. Hence the appropriate comparison given the known factors

Of course it does, because that's the only way your human mind can accept it. Some people have had real experiences with God.

How much sense does the absence of religion make to you?

​@@txcaviaha

There is a way that makes sense to a man. It leads to death. Read the scriptures. It will tell you who Yeshua really is. He is your king and your savior, not some fantasy wish-fulfillment straw man. You don’t want to know the truth because you love your lies and Sins more than your Maker.

@@johntessier8064he never existed. And the maker doesn't care about so called sins.

My old lady's name is Nola.

@@guugleiswatching I know, the narration said, "Nola was John mom

@@spectra9954 uhhh how d'you know? I was just saying that my lady friend name is Nola.

@@guugleiswatching ok

this happened to me too! i just figured i misunderstood as it became clear from context that john was the guys dad