Alien schoolkid studies primitive human ruins in affecting short film

[beschizza]

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[bathosfear]

This was beautiful. I got goosebumps.

[davide405]

Oh, Daddy was a caveman,
He played ball in skins, with shirts.
He dreamed of lights up in the sky,
While scratching in the dirt.

You ETs and your stars…

Oh, Daddy was a fighter,
He killed his cousins, fourth and third.
He dreamed of peace eternally,
And died speared to the earth.

You ETs and your stars…

Oh, Daddy was a lover,
And yet he beat his wife.
He dreamed, longing for sanity
Regretting all his life.

You ETs and your stars…

Oh, Daddy was a leader,
He dreamed, yet still told lies.
He got the frightened masses,
To put missiles in the skies.

You ETs and your stars…

Oh, Daddy was unlearned,
But ever on he tried.
He hated his damned ignorance,
And struggled with his pride…

He stepped up on a bootstrap, then
And, up on nothing, cried.
That tragic orphan willed to me,
A mind and heart, then died.

So scorn me as a wolfling,
sneer at my orphan’s scars!
But tell me, boys, “WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE?”
You ETs and your stars?

By David Brin, from his Uplift Universe series.

[telecinese]

Good stuff.

Can’t wait for the eye-gougingly stupid “let’s stretch a perfectly lovely, personal-project two-minute concept into two hours of insipid tripe” Hollywood adaptation.

[AsteriskCGY]

9 was okay.

[telecinese]

Was it? Didn’t watch it.

I was thinking more along the lines of this:

[AsteriskCGY]

OH well it was pretty critically panned because the original short had no world or dialogue so the writing ended up being just being terse and simple. Goals had to be created, and motivation wasn’t properly defined. But it was cool to watch.

[telecinese]

You’re talking about 9, right? Pixels was critically panned because it was shit.

[AsteriskCGY]

Yea I was talking about 9.