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[BobFromPikeCreek]

Okay I'm starting work on a movie pitch in which a hot young New York newspaper reporter goes to the jungle to write a piece on this new tribe and winds up bringing one of them back with her to the big city - (the URBAN JUNGLE, see?)

It's going to be great. Crocodile Dundee meets Apocalypto. Keep your eye on Variety for news of this selling soon.

Isn't that just JUNGLE2JUNGLE?

 

[Count Dookkake]

Isn't that just JUNGLE2JUNGLE?

Or Krippendorf's Tribe?

 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Or Krippendorf's Tribe?

No they were pretending to be a tribe in that one. Totally different.

 

[Count Dookkake]

No they were pretending to be a tribe in that one. Totally different.

It was my... my misunderstanding.

 

[Xenon]

it be funny to take a video camera with a monitor and tell them you captured their soul.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

So we can pretty much mess this tribe however we want, huh?

I mean, people could totally convince that tribe of many things............... An ordinary man would appear god-like with just a few tricks!

Why Micheal Jackson could moonwalk his way right into acceptability!

 

[dallow_bg]

So damn fascinating.

 

[snacknuts]

I just watched Apocalypto for the first time last night and now this.

Is the black one an Uruk-hai?

 

[rxdco07]

this is some crazy shit

 

[Dark Octave]

Carving pictures of their new god in wood:

:lol :lol :lol

And :lol :lol @ them being brightly colored.

 

[VanMardigan]

Ok, so now with all this reality tv programming, someone could make HUGE amounts of money just pulling one of them out and doing a show about one of these guys getting modernized.

I mean, from the first episode where they wake up on a condo bed, to the episode where they teach them how to use a stove, to one where they take them on a plane ride.

We're talking at least 10 seasons worth of material and a RATINGS MONSTER!!

 

[MrPing1000]

Ok, so now with all this reality tv programming, someone could make HUGE amounts of money just pulling one of them out and doing a show about one of these guys getting modernized.

I mean, from the first episode where they wake up on a condo bed, to the episode where they teach them how to use a stove, to one where they take them on a plane ride.

We're talking at least 10 seasons worth of material and a RATINGS MONSTER!!

We had something a bit like that in the UK called Meet the Natives.

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/O/origination/meet_natives/

 

[Rocket Punch]

Uncontacted Tribes documentary

 

[frankthurk]

Ok, so now with all this reality tv programming, someone could make HUGE amounts of money just pulling one of them out and doing a show about one of these guys getting modernized.

I mean, from the first episode where they wake up on a condo bed, to the episode where they teach them how to use a stove, to one where they take them on a plane ride.

We're talking at least 10 seasons worth of material and a RATINGS MONSTER!!

I think you could make a show just of showing how they behave in their normal life. Show what kind of weird rituals they have... just need a way to get cameras in there without them knowing.

 

[Dark Octave]

I think you could make a show just of showing how they behave in their normal life. Show what kind of weird rituals they have... just need a way to get cameras in there without them knowing.

I wouldn't wanna be the camera man. Those spears were long as hell. And they looked crazy as fuck.

A show of either side of the coin would be amazing though.

 

[zoku88]

Why is this called an Indian tribe? It's not even anywhere near the Indies or India...

 

[MrPing1000]

Why is this called an Indian tribe? It's not even anywhere near the Indies or India...

Thats the best you could do? Really?

 

[Chittagong]

 

[rage1973]

Those Starbucks sure have popped up everywhere

 

[Nolan.]

Uncontacted Tribes documentary

I didn't know they were allowed to drive people out like that.

 

[milanbaros]

You do know this tribe will have had contact with other tribes who will have had contact with other tribes etc.

They aren't completely ignorant of the outside world they just haven't had direct contact with it.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

 

[Escape Goat]

Those Starbucks sure have popped up everywhere

:lol

 

[Ether_Snake]

You still think modern society is better? I really don't. Hunter-gatherers are probably more content than an average modern person.

:lol :lol :lol

Except for their habit of eating babies, raping each other, and cutting each other's limbs in fits of superstitious panic.

 

[Blackace]

Based on my Civ games I'm surprised the Helicopter made it out intact.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Ether_Snake]

BTW there is infinite laughter potential here:

We should just throw random stuff at them once in a while, and come back to see what changed. Like, throw a huge fluorescent green dildo. Will they eat it? Use it as a weapon? Worship it? Run from it?

 

[Hootie]

Oh shit!! :lol :lol

 

[xaosslug]

i would LOVE to see the ep. of Man vs. Wild where Bear Grylls runs into them... :lol

:lol:lol:lol

 

[thebagofsand]

This makes me want to watch Cannibal Holocaust again. :lol

 

[Tirade]

Drop a Coke bottle down thar.

 

[AlexMogil]

BTW there is infinite laughter potential here:

We should just throw random stuff at them once in a while, and come back to see what changed. Like, throw a huge fluorescent green dildo. Will they eat it? Use it as a weapon? Worship it? Run from it?

i love you

 

[Lemonz]

'Lost' Amazon tribe a hoax to raise awareness on logging

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23911019-948,00.html?from=public_rss

 

[so_awes]

'Lost' Amazon tribe a hoax to raise awareness on logging

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23911019-948,00.html?from=public_rss

d'oh!

 

[davepoobond]

we should cut down all the trees so we can make sure there aren't more people breathing my air than we knew about to begin with.

 

[Ferrio]

Well they're just not "Lost", they're still a tribe that wanted to fuck up the helicopter.

 

[milanbaros]

That's what I'd always assumed had happened anyway. I don't see the hoax.

 

[nelsonroyale]

hmmmm, I wonder why we can't leave them alone this once...they may see another place is out there, if they want to take that trip...that is if they haven't made contact yet...

...some of the responses....the populace has become over sanitized...

 

[vas_a_morir]

Okay, they are still adorable, though.

 

[I_D]

Drop a Coke bottle down thar.

That's exactly what came to mind when I saw the picture.



Such a great movie.

 

[rallaren]

'Lost' Amazon tribe a hoax to raise awareness on logging

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23911019-948,00.html?from=public_rss

OMFG!! It was exactly what I thought the first time I read about this!! Holy shit I just saw this thread and was about to say it was some shit pulled by greenpeace or something to save the forest.

The footage of the tribe was so bad i got suspicious..

So, anyway..

edit: ok it wasn't staged as I thought (or maybe it really was..).

 

[speculawyer]

I'm skeptical. It is two-thousand-fuckin-eight. I find it very hard to believe that there is some uncontacted tribe. Surely they've seen airplanes . . . . that must have got them curious.

People will believe anything.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/91536

 

[Vyer]

People will believe anything.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/91536

I was actually about to point this out.

Reading the article, though, it's not quite the 'hoax' you are thinking it is.

 

[JDSN]

People will believe anything.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/91536

Fucking hell, you've done it again. :lol

 

["God's Beard!"]

I wanna blast hard rock and drive a monster truck right through their huts and call them all pussies.

 

[jamesinclair]

Um, the article says they ARE an uncontacted tribe, just that the helicopter people knew there was a tribe in the area, but had never seen them before.

 

[hirokazu]

Um, the article says they ARE an uncontacted tribe, just that the helicopter people knew there was a tribe in the area, but had never seen them before.

Yeah, this.

As I stated in the new thread, the article was confusing in that regard, but apart from that, it still seems factually correct.

 

[Fio]

oh, who didn't know? rolleyes

These european NGO operating in Amazônia are a fucking disgrace. But this "Survival International" is the worst one by far, bunch of fucking liars.

 

[Phantast2k]

New photos:

This man, painted with annatto seed dye, is in the community's garden, surrounded by banana plants and annatto trees.

Men painted with red and black vegetable dye watch the Brazilian government plane

+ one cool interactive photo on that website:

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilphotos

 

[fanboi]

Saw thread.

"Oh, this is like that incident a couple of years ago"

Open thread

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

 

[dude]

I don't understand why people aren't contacting them - I'd guess they'd like to be able to enjoy modern technology instead of living a thousand years in the past...

 

[SmokyDave]

I don't understand why people aren't contacting them - I'd guess they'd like to be able to enjoy modern technology instead of living a thousand years in the past...

Ignorance is bliss. Let's leave them in peace.