Why has the Epic of Gilgamesh never been adapted? It's the oldest story in known history and it's themes still resonate.
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Why has the Epic of Gilgamesh never been adapted?
Why has the Epic of Gilgamesh never been adapted? It's the oldest story in known history and it's themes still resonate.
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because it's problematic?
>thinking the audience will sit around watching 2 guys fight for a week straight
I imagine the film version wouldn't be a week long
You've never watched DBZ
DBZ isn't a film
Adding to this, DBZ movies never worked because they had to condense the film to just a series of fights. The meat of DBZ was always the weaker characters struggling to survive in an absolutely fricked up situation as they waited for Goku to arrive. Gohan and Krillen have gone through hell and back in all the best sagas. The actual main fights were often the weakest aspect of the show, but they are least built towards them. You had to earn them. The movies usually completely missed out on that aspect this they were just brain-dead.
That's just saying "IM A FLAMING homosexual" with extra steps
the audience will sit around watching 2 guys fight for a week straight
Lots of people are fans of Dragon Ball Z
>how to tame a wild, free man and break his indominatable spirit and connection to nature
>give him prostitutes
goddamn we were redpilled back then.
Undermines the entirety of the Holocaust Cinematic Universe
>first story in written history ends by invalidating the idea of heroic myths
>still does it millennia later
>In Uruk he built walls, a great rampart, and the temple of blessed Eanna for the god of the firmament Anu, and for Ishtar the goddess of love. Look at it still today: the outer wall where the cornice runs, it shines with the brilliance of copper; and the inner wall, it has no equal. Touch the threshold, it is ancient. Approach Eanna the dwelling of Ishtar, our lady of love and war, the like of which no latter-day king, no man alive can equal. Climb upon the wall of Uruk; walk along it, I say; regard the foundation terrace and examine the masonry: is it not burnt brick and good? The seven sages laid the foundations.
>first story in written history begins with "they sure knew how to build them back in the day, back when men were men not like the pussies we got now"
Because it's not very good. Notice how every piece of praise always comments on:
>oooh it's so old
>ahhh it has stages of grief so people in the past were moronic too
>haha prostitutes xD
Gilgamesh was a tyrant who didn't deserve friends and whinges for at least half the story.
Enkidu was a moron who was beaten in 5 minutes of story and is most memorable for being dead.
Storytelling was a mistake. Don't @ me.
No it doesn't. If anything it's far and away pre-heroic.
hello, reddit
>imagine not understanding the theme of the quest for immortality and the attainment of it through legendary actions that still resonates to this day
>oh shit, a fire
>better get my vacuum
...do bongs really?
Its okay, he has a license
sometimes you forget to renew your extinguisher license
That panda is bored and needs stimulation.
>Undermines the entirety of the Holocaust Cinematic Universe
Underrated comment.
Absolute moron here and I dont get it. Why does the epic of gilgamesh undermine the holocaust??
>Gilgamesh, a king.
>At Uruk.
>Tormented his subjects.
>Made them angry.
>They cried out aloud, "Send us a companion for our king! Spare us from his madness!"
>Enkidu, a wild man, from the forest, entered the city.
>They fought in the temple.
>They fought in the streets.
>Gilgamesh defeated Enkidu.
>They became great friends.
>Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.
>The new friends went out into the desert together, where the Great Bull of Heaven was killing men by the hundreds.
>Enkidu caught the Bull by the tail. >Gilgamesh struck him with his sword.
>They were victorious.
>But Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods.
>And Gilgamesh wept bitter tears.
>"He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever."
what did the gods mean by this
They weren't gods they were demons, the real God (Jesus Christ) would never treat people like this
Made him appreciative of those around him, because they could be gone before he knew it.
Anon forgot the part where the goddess of love comes to frick Gilgamesh and he calls her out for being a prostitute who gets her lovers killed. She's so mad that she demands her father send the Bull of Heaven to punish him, but Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeat him without even assistance from the gods. Enkidu, beast man that he is, rips off a leg from the divine bull and slaps his ass while mocking the goddess of love and calling her a b***h. This might also be the first time anyone's ever been mooned (barring a Roman incident that ended with at least 1000 israelites dead) and it offended her greatly. For his insult Enkidu was given a slow and dishonourable death. This is The beginning of Gilgamesh's doomed journey to defeat death and why he was remembered.
DARMOK
AND JALAD
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TANAGRA
PEWDIEPIE
AT THE BRIDGE
HIS ALLY
DECEASED
TEMBA
at rest
I told this story to my girlfriend and she didn't understand why I had a tear in my eye. I guess women just can't see the beauty of friendship.
Mel Gibson would do it entirely in Sumerian
No subtitles either.
It would only work if it was told in the traditional way (people singing the stories). I'd watch 2 hours (plus post-credits scene) of that.
People would realize how much of the old testament is lifted from it
>People would realize how much of the old testament is lifted from it
This, too.
Imagine if an adoption was made today. It would be full of blacks and American Black folk would be convinced dat dey wuz kagz of Babylon.
UUUUUUTREEEEEEJAAAAAAA
they won't allow a thot to be patrolled as hard as ishtar was in modern media
Maturity is realizing that Enkidu was the hero of the story and (biological) immortality is not something to be desired
It was adapted loosely in RRR, with the police guy as Gilgamesh representing kingly order and the tribal guy representing Enkidu as wild power.
There a lot of other stories happening at the same time, but the Epic is definitely one of the major influences, likely by way of the Mahabharata which is itself partially referential of the older work.
fine point, but its either adaptation or bust I'm afraid. What's the main characters name in RRR?Is it Gilgamesh or Gilramesh or just Ramesh perhaps? If not, take your leave to the nearest designated street to unload your shit.
are you fate shitters just bots? your only knowledge of history is from a porn game. unironically neck yourselves while jerkin it to the rhino looking abominations you call cartoons.
>implying you wouldn't frick e-girl Helena Blavatsky
The most obnoxious thing to come from any mainstream adaptation of this would be all the new "queer coded readings" of the source material that suddenly pop up.
all I want is the descent of inanna
What about the epic of Ishtar?
Batman v Superman unironically was an adaptation.
Batman was Gilgamesh and Superman was Enkidu. That's why Batman name comes first in the title. Doomsday was Demon Bull from Heaven.
At last i truly see.
The movie sees Batman branding his victims and Krypton sending Superman to Earth. They fight, discover a respect for one another, become friends, and then team up to fight evil together.
This was similar to the epic, for when King Gilgamesh became too cruel, the gods sent a Enkidu, the Wildman, to Earth to match his strength, and they soon become best friends and go off to fight a demon in the forest together. Zack Snyder, of course, reverses the imagery with the former tyrant being the one with the horns holding the spear. Enemies becoming friends is a common story arc, but there are a lot more parallels here that spur on even more common plot points of both Batman and Gilgamesh.
It's not just parallels between the heroes that the viewers would able to see, there have also been some between the villains of the tales too. For instance, some have been able to draw comparisons between Lex and Ishtar's stories as they get revenge in the same manner.
Like Ishtar, Lex offers to partner with Bruce, but after being refused, continues to weave war and use his own life blood to create Superman's Doomsday. There are just too many parallels for this to be a coincidence.
Doomsday was a horned creature made by Lex Luthor after Batman refused not only to partner with him with his R and D projects but because he also refused to kill Superman. Luthor created this abomination using the forbidden technology of Krypton (a world in the heavens).
This was similar to the Demon Bull, which was a horned creature sent down from Heaven by Ishtar when she was scorned by Gilgamesh.
After a long battle with Doomsday, Bruce's new friend, Clark, dies, leaving him wracked with guilt, grief, and a hard perspective of his own mortality and the need for a legacy to continue to save the world.
Enkidu also dies after the battle with the Demon Bull from Heaven, leaving Gilgamesh to cry and mourn for days, fearfully pondering his own mortality and beginning another chapter of his life.
Based and Snyder-pilled
Alternatively, Batman is Orion. Remember what Bruce told Alfred about the Waynes: "They were hunters."
So he chose to use a fricking spear of all things to finish Superman, and he also flirts with Diana (Artemis) a whole fricking lot.
Goddamnit I always wanted those two to hookup. The super babby they could have had would have been so cool.
It almost happened in the DCAU, and it almost happened in the DCEU. Cursed pairing.
how the frick can you be 1/3 god? this is some american genealogy
Because other cultures and religions thought of Gods differently? Hell, even the OG Heracles myth directly dealt with that. Comment on murrican's all you want, but you're showing USA ignorance right there. You guys can only think in relation to israeli fanfiction.
Was enkidu a sasquatch?
I doubt it but I've heard theories he may have been one of the last Neanderthals or another early human species that co-existed with us before we gained a monopoly over the entire homosexual genus. Gilgamesh was written a long ass time ago and at one time there were another 3 human species co-existing with homosexual sapiens, so maybe he was based on fading memories of those people.
Nah, Neanderthals (the last non-homosexual sapiens humans) went extinct around 40,000 BC, the Epic of Gilgamesh was written around 2,000 BC. So between them you have the entirety of human history times 8, there's no way the Sumerians who wrote it would have "ancestral memories" of archaic humans.
>Theories he may have been the last neanderthal
That's literally from the Genesis doctor who books
lol I read about it on a blog but you're right, looks like it came from Dr. Who. Still, cool theory.
Nowadays it's too politically incorrect. Back when it was discouvered it was too incomplete to adapt - it arguably still is because there are all kinds of different versions being collected.
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I teared up bros....
Yeah I love this video. But I'm not sure to what extent it's an actual archaeological reconstruction of Sumerian music, or just modern music inspired by Sumeria.
He's taken the occasional liberty with the vowels but its a genuinely great rendition.
American Dad and Final Fantasy 5.
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Because they’re waiting to reveal the resurrected Gilgamesh (Nimrod) and cast him as himself.
This webm alone mogs the entirety of modern capeshit.