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History of the World: Part I (1981) (srt-- bad)

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Here come the bad guys.

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- What did he say? - He said, "The poor ain't so bad."

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Pouilly Fuissé! "The poor ain't so bad"? You're lucky he's still alive.

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Oh, I like that. I like that.

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20 million years ago, an ape-like creature inhabited the Earth.

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And the ape stood, and became man.

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The greatest calamity that could befall early man was the loss of fire.

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Fire, the mysterious phenomenon that cooked his food,

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heated his cave, and kept him alive.

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If he could not start a fire, he and his would surely die.

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Even in most primitive man, the need to create was part of his nature.

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This need, this talent, clearly separated early man from animals

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who would never know this gift.

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And here, in a cave somewhere in the North American continent,

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about two million years ago,

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the first artist was born.

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And, of course, with the birth of the artist,

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came the inevitable afterbirth.

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The critic.

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In the year one million BC,