The Gods Must Be Crazy II
- PG
- Year:
- 1989
- 98 min
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Anyone else would die of thirst
in a few days. In this arid desert...
... that looks like a paradise,
there's no surface water.
But the slender, graceful
Bushmen of the Kalahari...
... live here contentedly and in complete
harmony with their environment.
They have lived undisturbed for
... the only people in the world who know
how to live without surface water.
When ivory poachers in high-tech
vehicles intrude into this thirst-land...
... to hunt elephant, they have to drag
reservoirs of water with them.
And when the water runs low they have to
hightail it out of the Kalahari again.
So the Bushmen work and play
in peaceful isolation unaware...
... of the crowded, hectic
...and even of the wars that are fought
on the very fringes of the Kalahari.
Sometimes Xixo tells about the time
he looked for the end of the Earth...
...and about the strange,
heavy people he met...
...but it's difficult to describe
those who live outside the Kalahari.
He always ends by saying the heavy
people know some magic...
... that can make things move
and even fly, but they're not bright...
...because they can't survive without
their magic contrivances.
In the mornings, they like
to read the news.
They can read that
the hyena has a new girlfriend...
... the cheetah has lost a baby,
and the oryx is migrating to the west.
Older children teach younger ones how
to read the gossip about the animals...
...because everything that happens in the
Kalahari gets printed out in the sand.
It's all printed out here. This is where
they started infringing on the patent.
Give it to me there.
Now, that I can present in court.
Go back to frame A.
And give me sales.
Cathy, will you take this?
Take him off.
Now, cost per unit.
And a printout on that.
Mr. Geoffrey says he has to go to
Hong Kong about the takeover.
- Tell him, '' Have a good flight.''
- He won't make the ECACL conference.
- He can't do that to me.
- He'd like you to read the paper.
You did the research,
so you deserve the honour.
I have to take this case
to court on Wednesday.
- Says you'll be back before Wednesday.
- Oh, boy.
That morning,
Xabe came with the news that...
... the animals are moving towards
the marula groves in the north.
He shouted, ''The marulas are ripe.
Let's go collect some. ''
Xisa and little Xiri ran up
and said, ''Can we come too?''
Xixo said, ''Let's see if you're big
enough. If you're taller than my bow...
... the hyena will be afraid and stay
away. If you're shorter, he'll take you. ''
But Xiri said, ''Please let me come too. ''
And Xisa said,
''I promise I'll always stay close to him. ''
- Where is the conference this year?
- In Okakarara.
- Where's that, Nebraska?
- No, Africa.
Oh, boy.
They gathered a lot of marulas
and on the way home they found...
... the spoor of a wounded elephant.
Xixo said, ''This elephant is
very weak. It's going to die. ''
He said to Xisa,
''You and Xiri can go on home.
Tell your mother we will come
when we've found the sick elephant. ''
There was a very strange
and beautiful pattern on the ground.
Xisa couldn't read it. She'd never
seen anything like it in her life.
There was another
as beautiful as the first.
She wondered how anything could make
such a long, unbroken track.
She followed the track and saw
a very strange-looking thing.
She said,
''This thing went round and round...
...and that's how it made such a long
pattern without footprints. ''
Xiri saw a beautiful dewdrop grow,
and when it dropped...
...another one began to grow in its place.
They knew the gods put
dewdrops on plants in the night.
But here they could see
a dewdrop form in broad daylight.
Xisa said,
''I think this thing is making the water. ''
Xiri had never seen
so much water in his life.
He didn't know there was
so much water in the whole world.
They found the elephant and saw
the tiny wounds that had made it die.
The tracks told Xixo the
heavy people had been there...
...but wondered why they took the
useless tusks and left the meat to rot.
He said,
''The heavy people are strange. ''
Bo said, ''I'll call Xabo's family
to help us eat it.
If I run all day and night
I can find them by tomorrow. ''
Xixo said, ''We'll go call our family. ''
There were many tusks. It takes the gods
more than a man's lifetime...
... to make a full-grown elephant, and it
horrified them to see so many had died.
Xixo and Xabe found the place where Xisa
and Xiri's tracks suddenly stopped.
Xixo said, ''Xisa climbed onto the thing.
Xiri went up too, and it took them away. ''
He said, ''Tell our family they must
start eating the dead elephant.
I'll fetch Xisa and Xiri. ''
but we're honoured to have you.
Thank you. I would've
liked the safari tour...
- ...but I have to prepare my presentation.
- You'll be all right?
- I'll be fine, thank you.
- Good. I'll leave you to it.
- You know where Stephen's working?
- I think I've got a rough idea.
- You may have to search around a bit.
- Right.
- And Jack?
- Yeah?
Tell Stephen we'll send the rest
of the stuff out to him later.
What's a nice girl like you
doing in a place like this?
- Oh, boy.
- You don't buy it.
Okay, I'll try again.
- Hi. Like to come fly with me?
- I have to work. That's why no safari trip.
Trip's three hours.
I could show you Africa in half an hour.
I have to present this at 3:30.
- Only half an hour?
- Yes, doctor.
- So, what are you, a doctor of medicine?
- No, corporate law.
- What a tiny plane.
- We got a smaller one but we can't find it.
- Can it fly?
- In you go.
- What are those?
- Buffalo.
Look, no hands. Flies by itself.
Safest plane in the world.
- Coffee.
- Morning, boss.
- You only done 80 miles.
- You stopped.
- I was bushed. So I pulled up and...
- You slept more than four hours.
- I was real pooped.
- I told you we're late.
- I was really pooped, boss.
- Move over.
- It's okay, boss. I'm fresh now.
Jeez, boss.
Lazy bastard.
- Get back to sleep.
- I'm wide-awake now.
- Sleep.
- Yes, boss.
I'll be right back.
- Hi, Stephen.
- Hi. Thanks.
You're cutting it fine.
There's a hell of a cumulus building up.
One of those thermals grabs you,
it's gonna whip you right to 20,000 feet.
- See you later.
- Stephen, is Geoff there yet? Over.
Hi, Bob. Yes, he's here. Over.
Can you fly back in with him?
We found a sick baby giraffe.
We need your advice. Over.
Okay. Out.
- You can't cart your floozies around.
- She's not a floozy.
- Hi.
- Morning.
Do you do some kind
of work around here?
Hello, Stephen. Come in. Over.
Stephen, are you there? Over.
- Stephen, come in. Over.
- Hi, Bob. This is Jack. Over.
Jack, don't take off yet. There's
a freak storm moving in very fast. Over.
- Bob, they've just taken off. Over.
- They? Someone is with him? Over.
- Yes. Over.
- Who? Over.
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