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Teenage Caveman
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Teenage Caveman is a 1958 Science Fiction film directed by Roger Corman, heavily inspired by the short story By the Waters of Babylon.Robert Vaughn stars as a 26-year-old teenage caveman with styled hair who seeks to discover what is in the uncharted jungles beyond his tribe's campsite. It is against the Word (and the Word is the Law), but he breaks it anyway. Soon he discovers a strange creature that kills with its touch. We later learn that this is not a prehistoric tale, but a post-apocalyptic tale, and the strange creature is a 500-plus year old irradiated scientist in a radiation suit.The radiation suit was recycled to be a genuine monster in Night of the Blood Beast that same year, which was mostly shot at the same location as well.For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, please go to the episode recap page.Not to be confused with Larry Clark's MUCH darker 2002 film of the same title, or with Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels. | |
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Control Freak | |
| Teenage Caveman / int_11ad560b | comment |
Control Freak: The Black-Bearded One. As pointed out by The Symbol Maker's Son, he holds the ambition of being a tribal leader (whether starting his own clan or taking over this one), and he spends much time going around policing everyone else. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Probably not meant to be quite so subtle as most invocations of the trope; but the character arc for The Symbol Maker's Son mirrors that of a teenager exploring and testing the boundaries of his world and growing beyond the need for parental authority. Meanwhile The Clan represents said teenager's overprotective, formalistic, repressive family (think of the Short Film A Date with Your Family) who tries to keep him in a box — for his own protection, of course, but in the process they're also stunting his growth as a person.note The ending reveals that those boundaries exist for a very good reason, raising a question that was on a lot of people's minds in the '50s: is human innovation a purely good thing, or will it be the thing that destroys us? | |
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After the End | |
| Teenage Caveman / int_334e48a1 | comment |
After the End: Though we don't learn this until scientist starts his post-mortem narration. Whether it's our past or our future is left ambiguous; the survivor suspects there have been several cycles of humanity destroying itself and rebuilding, and the "radiation suit" looks nothing like our culture's technology. Apocalypse How: Class 2, Nuke 'em flavor. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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As The Fair-Haired Maiden stares off into the distance where The Symbol Maker's Son has roamed off to, The Black-Bearded One again steps in and questions it. The girl's mother-in-law sarcastically asks if there's a law against it, basically telling him to mind his own damn business. | |
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Stock Footage | |
| Teenage Caveman / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: Wouldn't be a Corman movie without it! | |
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Future Primitive | |
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Future Primitive: The twist ending reveals the whole setting as this, swapping out what appeared to be Hollywood Prehistory for a tale set After the End. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: The Black-Bearded One leads half the tribe across the river to hunt down and execute The Symbol Maker's Son for breaking The Law by crossing the river, claiming that because they are doing it to enforce The Law, they are not breaking The Law. | |
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Slurpasaur | |
| Teenage Caveman / int_838270b7 | comment |
Slurpasaur: All the dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures are brought to life by this technique. Or rather, they're brought to life by Stock Footage from other movies that used this technique. | |
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Narrator All Along | |
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Narrator All Along: The scientist gives a closing Info Dump: | |
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Nameless Narrative | |
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Nameless Narrative: Everyone is referred to by job (The Symbol Maker), relationship (The Symbol Maker's Son) or physical appearance (The Black-Bearded One, the Fair-Haired Maiden). | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: Class 2, Nuke 'em flavor. | |
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B-Movie | |
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B-Movie: and brought to you by Roger Corman. | |
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Bronson Canyon and Caves | |
| Teenage Caveman / int_9b945875 | comment |
Bronson Canyon and Caves: Why yes, this is a cheaply-made Roger Corman movie! | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Outside of the Symbol Maker, his son and a couple of minor characters, no one is called by their designated names, on screen. | |
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Toxic Friend Influence | |
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Toxic Friend Influence: The Black-Bearded One starts the movie encouraging The Symbol Maker's Son to challenge The Law, then rats him out the moment he actually takes his advice. He spends the movie after that as a Smug Snake antagonist. | |
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AintNoRule | |
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Ain't No Rule: When The Black-Bearded One protests The Symbol Maker's Son making a sleeping barrow outside of the caves for him and The Fair-Haired Maiden, the Elder basically shrugs and says "There's no law that says he can't." As The Fair-Haired Maiden stares off into the distance where The Symbol Maker's Son has roamed off to, The Black-Bearded One again steps in and questions it. The girl's mother-in-law sarcastically asks if there's a law against it, basically telling him to mind his own damn business. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Radiation isn't a way to live forever. | |
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Teenage Caveman | |
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Bronson Canyon and Caves / int_70136d02 | |
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Caveman Media / int_70136d02 | |
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Earth All Along / int_70136d02 | |
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Handsome Heroic Caveman / int_70136d02 | |
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