The movie 10,000 BC

[sundancingbliss]

What about the orphan girl with blue eyes?

[sundancingbliss]

It would also makes sense to me that the sunken promise land refers to a woman. Women are godesses.We know everything. We can smell another woman on our partners. Women are also considered property. Not in a bad way, but in a sense that men have win over the gal and, because of his territorial nature.

[Dorman1]

What about the orphan girl with blue eyes?

That's interesting, I haven't wanted to watch the movie "10,000 BC" for some reason. But you mention an orphan girl with blue eyes. I happened upon a book, "Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean M. Auel, some years ago, and it was a long novel about an orphaned Cro Magnon girl with blue eyes taken in and raised by neanderthals. The movie paled in comparison to the book so extremely, it was literally insulting to the author in my opinion.

I wonder about the events leading up to blue eyes and green eyes. One view might consider blue absorbs blue, and I suppose it would aid in distinguishing a distant object from a blue back-ground, as in an object on a horizon with the back-drop being air or water. Green would aid in a like manner within a forest. hmmm, a green eyed girl would conjure visions of forest, an innocent child of Nature, witches, magic of the woods. You know, magic is only lawful under the dispensation of a Druid. He maintains the safe and harmless utility of it. My services as Druid are free to green eyed girls, because I see them as unattainable, thus I want one. Brown however, is the desert magic, wonderful and ancient beauty. Blue eyed girls, well, they simply share the same color I have. They're OK combined with the white or wheat type of blond colored hair, I suppose. Oops, I went on like Homer Simpson, only I wasn't drooling over a vision of beer and a steak cooked medium rare.

[DocPtah]

Blue eyes are so distinctly and predominantly Nordic... one would have to suspect that the color arose in dealing with much colder climates.

As for the heroine in Clan of the Cave Bear [think Suzanne Somers], the likelihood for the author's choice is far more likely that Hollywood has long ago firmly established that the hero/heroine has blue eyes... and the bad guys/gals never had blue eyes. (Which is why a blue-eyed leading man playing the bad guy role has to wear contacts to make his eyes dark [e.g. Ben Hur].)

In 10,000 BC the gimmick was to instantly identify the orphan girl with blue eyes as the one to watch.

[Dorman1]

Blue eyes are so distinctly and predominantly Nordic... one would have to suspect that the color arose in dealing with much colder climates.

As for the heroine in Clan of the Cave Bear [think Suzanne Somers], the likelihood for the author's choice is far more likely that Hollywood has long ago firmly established that the hero/heroine has blue eyes... and the bad guys/gals never had blue eyes. (Which is why a blue-eyed leading man playing the bad guy role has to wear contacts to make his eyes dark [e.g. Ben Hur].)

In 10,000 BC the gimmick was to instantly identify the orphan girl with blue eyes as the one to watch.

Seems like an apologists type of explanation for the origin of blue eye color. I would prefer the cold truth. I apologize for nothing. Spends less time toward fixxing when one is spending time apologizing. i'm on the phone at length and very frequently, hearing someone apologize for something, I've already forgiven them and simply want them to fix the problem. If they can't fix it, I will growl briefly, but still forgive them. I'm not here on this planet long enough to worry excessively about the incompetence of humanity. Every ethnic group has snafu and fubar riddling their histories. The two acronyms are easy to look up for those who want to know.

[Acolyte]

I thought blue eyes are simply a lack of pigment (melanin?) in the iris. Thus the 'colour' comes from the surroundings as the no-colour iris reflects back the ambient light.

I doubt it confers an advantage in any way as if it did, there would be a preponderance of blue-eyed people. I think it more likely it has to do with the lack of need for melanin in the skin due to reduced solar incidence far from the equator, & thus an increased need for Vitamin D production. And perhaps the other way as well - the increased UV at the equator might bring about darker eyes to protect against glare & UV damage?

Just my opinion, based on distant memory of Scientific American articles... I don't recall anything about any sight advantage, either way, but maybe it was never tested for, & in these Politically Correct days it would skirt to close to PC-Racism to get funding.

[ozziegem]

Having Blue Ones myself ..and knowing my lineage was far from the equator ..makes lots of sense to me .Same with skin colour ..all for a sensible biological reason.
dorman ....have you not seen the girls with the green eyes ,,they are called coloured contacts ,,so once again is quite attainable ..dont give up yet.

[Dorman1]

I thought blue eyes are simply a lack of pigment (melanin?) in the iris. Thus the 'colour' comes from the surroundings as the no-colour iris reflects back the ambient light.

I doubt it confers an advantage in any way as if it did, there would be a preponderance of blue-eyed people. I think it more likely it has to do with the lack of need for melanin in the skin due to reduced solar incidence far from the equator, & thus an increased need for Vitamin D production. And perhaps the other way as well - the increased UV at the equator might bring about darker eyes to protect against glare & UV damage?

Just my opinion, based on distant memory of Scientific American articles... I don't recall anything about any sight advantage, either way, but maybe it was never tested for, & in these Politically Correct days it would skirt too close to PC-Racism to get funding.

Yeah, I think the PC-Racism thing you mention is another platform to gain power. People are literally afraid, most are scared-to-death. Once racism, bigotry, prejudice, is attributed to them, they fear for their jobs, they even fear for their own safety. Violence coming from 'victims of racism' is a very real concern, and the government treats racism as if it is some extremely terrible ongoing calamity. Perhaps it will be eliminated as such a hot-topic when the power and wealth is distributed to all the races equitably. I keep hearing about racism, and I'm lost, I don't do anything worse to other ethnicities, or religions, than I do to my own, and I don't see anyone of my ethnicity doing anything terrible to them either. I think it is now about perceived "taking" and so now those who feel they have been the victims of loss, by never getting the chances or opportunities in the past, want a sort of retro-active recompensation. I'm OK with this. For them to receive power and wealth is fine. I don't know how to give back self esteem issues. My Father did a pretty good job of completely destroying my own self esteem. I was the only one left to fix this. It took at least three decades. Now it is not so important; I'm old! old I say! Life is mostly over for me.

Cats have blue eyes, they even have green eyes as well. Dogs with blue or green eyes are not so common. Actually, now that I think of it, I'm uncertain about cats commonly having blue eyes. I'm fairly certain it is common for cats to possess green eyes.

[ozziegem]

Cats commonly have green eyes ?
I do not think so !

[Dorman1]

You're correct, blue eyes are more common than green. The latter is actually quite rare. I don't think blue eyes among cats was very common either, in comparison to the other colors.