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Odd realization thought/ theory

Is the first land before time movie a post apocalypse event movie? Meant to take place after the asteroid and volcanic eruptions that were supposed to wipe the dinosaurs out?

And that’s why literally everything is a dismal shit place wasteland with no food, major earthquakes, and a constantly dark grey ashy sky.

The entire movie is this massive struggle for survival, and the great valley is presented as a last hope effort. A Hail Mary pass for survival

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JaredTheBunnyBoy

2 years, 7 months ago

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Huh… never thought that

Jackofak

2 years, 7 months ago

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Lol it absolutely is :D
Put me in depression every time I watched it D:

Daneasaur

2 years, 7 months ago

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That was just Don Bluth's narrative angle to showcase how the Valley was such a utopia to the main characters in comparison to the hard desolate areas they had to go through.

It's part of the mental trickery on how to make something simple look more appealing. Had the rest of the movie been filled with lots of greens and blues and foliage, then the grand reveal of the Valley at the end wouldn't have as much impact. Thus, the rest of the movie has rusty reds, browns, and ashy skies.

He uses a similar trick with character eyes, making a character with green or blue eyes (Cera) literally have red eyes when they are extremely angry (in her fight with Littlefoot, her eyes are suddenly red).

Vexio

2 years, 7 months ago

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Yeah it kind of was it was a super dark feeling movie compared to the rest of the series

SigmundRingeck1438

2 years, 5 months ago

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Hm... good question, but I don't think so. Littlefoot is an Apatosaurus, who died out around 151 million years ago, this was long before the asteroid hit Earth.

WhiteCrest

2 years, 5 months ago

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@ SigmundRingeck1438

I gave some leeway for that since cera is a triceratops and she’d have been from the Cretaceous period. Meaning she and littlefoot would have never left. Plus the movie tried to make it a point that littlefoot’s species was few and far between like they could have been in an extinction decline.also the movie was made before a lot of what we know today through paleontology. I mean they still had sharp tooth standing upright.

SigmundRingeck1438

2 years, 5 months ago

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Edited 2 years, 5 months ago by Owner

@ WhiteCrest

I guess that you have a valid point, Matt! It's a fantasy scenario in the movie, because most of these dinosaurs didn't exist in the same time periods. It would be like Cleopatra meeting Napoleon in New York City and using Windows 95.

WhiteCrest

2 years, 5 months ago

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@ SigmundRingeck1438

Precisely. However a common thread for all the characters in the movie is that they’re all dinosaurs from North America, which would have been hit really hard by the Chixculub impact. Plus it’s explain so much. Why there’s little to no food, why there’s a major earthquake at the start of the film, why the sky is constantly full of a dark grey cloud cover. Plus the cast has to head in the direction of the setting sun every day which means they’re headed west. They pass a large mountain range which could very well be the Rockies, and then a volcanic field which could likely be around the Cascades. And they need to reach a fertile green valley surrounded by mountains on all sides. If you put all these points together one could draw the conclusion that the characters ended up going to the Long Valley caldera in California.

SigmundRingeck1438

2 years, 5 months ago

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@ WhiteCrest

I agree with your observations, but I think that we movie nerds actually put way more thought into these theories than the movie makers think about their product, haha.

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