![]() He and Steyn arrange to hire Xi as a tracker for the remainder of his sentence in lieu of prison time, and teach Xi how to drive Steyn's Land Rover. M'pudi, who once lived with the San and can speak the San language, is discontent with the verdict. One day, Xi happens upon a herd of goats, and shoots one with a tranquilizer arrow, planning to eat it. Eventually, a snobbish safari tour guide named Jack Hind arrives, and takes Thompson the rest of the way to the village. She more than once mistakes his attempts to evade wild animals, and putting out an evening campfire, as advances towards her. Their Land Rover stalls while trying to ford a deep river he hoists it out with a winch, but it continues lifting the vehicle to a very high treetop level while a forgetful Steyn is distracted extricating Thompson from a briar bush. ![]() Steyn is tasked with bringing Thompson to the village where she will teach, but he is awkward and clumsy around her. ![]() In a fictitious town called Biryani, northwest of Botswana, Boga's men kill three cabinet members and injure two others in an attempt on the president's life, sending the military in hot pursuit. As a result, Xi, wearing only a loincloth, decides to make a pilgrimage to the edge of the world and dispose of the divisive object.Īlong the way, Xi encounters biologist Andrew Steyn, who is studying the manure of wildlife Steyn's assistant and mechanic, M'pudi Kate Thompson, a woman who quit her job as a journalist in Johannesburg to become a village school teacher and eventually a band of guerrillas led by Sam Boga, who are being pursued by government troops after a failed assassination attempt. Unlike other gifts, however, there is only one glass bottle, which causes unforeseen conflict within the tribe. Initially, Xi's people assume the bottle to be a gift from their gods, just as they believe plants and animals are, and find many uses for it. One day, a glass Coca-Cola bottle is thrown out of an airplane by a pilot and falls to the ground unbroken. Xi and his San tribe live happily in the Kalahari Desert, away from industrial civilization. In 1989, it was followed by a sequel The Gods Must Be Crazy II. Despite its success, the film attracted criticism for its depiction of race and perceived ignorance of discrimination and apartheid in South Africa. The film was a commercial and critical success in most other countries, but took longer to find success in the United States, where it was eventually re-released in 1984 by 20th Century Fox, with its original Afrikaans dialogue being dubbed into English. The Gods Must Be Crazy was released in South Africa on 10 September 1980 by Ster-Kinekor, and broke several box office records in the country, becoming the most financially successful South African film ever produced at the time. When Xi sets out to return the bottle to the gods, his journey becomes intertwined with that of a biologist ( Marius Weyers), a newly hired village school teacher ( Sandra Prinsloo), and a band of guerrilla terrorists. Set in Southern Africa, the film stars Namibian San farmer Nǃxau ǂToma as Xi, a hunter-gatherer of the Kalahari Desert whose tribe discovers a glass Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane, and believe it to be a gift from their gods. An international co-production of South Africa and Botswana, it is the first film in The Gods Must Be Crazy series. ![]() The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Jamie Uys. ![]()
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