Which South African comedy film has a scene with a rhinoceros putting out two campfires?
There are legends about rhinoceroses stamping out fire in Burma, India and Malaysia. The mythical rhinoceros has a special name in Malay, ‘batak api’, wherein ‘batak’ means rhinoceros, and ‘api’ means fire. The animal would come when a fire was lit in the forest and stamp it out; but there are not recent confirmations of this phenomenon.
The 1980 South African comedy film titled ‘The Gods Must be Crazy‘ featured a scene with an African rhinoceros putting out two campfires. The film is a first in a series, followed by one official sequel, ‘The Gods Must be Crazy II’.
Directed and produced by Jamie Uys, it was released in South Africa in 1980 and the in the United States in 1984.
The film follows the story of Xi, whose tribe has no knowledge of the world beyond the Kalahari Desert, far away from Western civilization. One day, a glass Coca-Cola bottle is carelessly thrown out of an airplane by a pilot and falls to Earth unbroken. Xi’s people assume this strange artifact is a present from the gods just as they believe plants and animals are gifts from the gods.
However there is only one glass bottle, which causes unforeseen conflict within the tribe. Consequently, Xi confers with elders and agrees to make a pilgrimage to the edge of the world and dispose of the supposedly cursed artifact. After multiple adventurous scenes including the rhinoceros putting out two camp fires, Xi arrives at God’s Window and throws the bottle off the cliff and returns to his tribe.
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