Human History as Popular Myth

Alright guys, after an autistic episode i decided to try string together the largest possible shared universe of movies possible, spanning from LOTR as a prehistoric Earth all the way up to Dune. I've tried to include descriptions that connect the dots to the larger narrative for most movies, other movies are included to flesh out a particular historical period. The subsections can be watched entirely self contained on their own but i find it best to watch it all in a series over several weeks.

Overall plot is an examination of human nature as well as the effect of technology and the threat it poses exemplified in the later side of the playlist by terminators, simulated reality and time travel.

>The Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (several thousand years pre deluge)
After several hundred years of peace following Saurons overthrow, his One Ring, taken as a trophy by man, is lost and refound many times over. Sauron has returned but in a semi corporal form, he is constricted to a tower in mordor and his body is a single fiery Eye which is worshipped by men of the East and orcs. Having Finally built up enough military force to return to prominence, Sauron sets out to find the One Ring and begin his reign anew. Eru and the Valar, tired of taking such extreme measures in the past, instead send 5 advisors to inspire and teach rather then outright lead, the Maier

>The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
As the fellowship of men elf, dwarf and hobbits led by one of the Valars servant’s (akin to a lesser angel) splits up, Sauron and his new proxy Saruman (who has the same affinity for technology as Sauron does) begin their offensive on the free kingdoms of Middle Earth. Saruman uses his newly bred Uruk- Hai army to tie up Rohan in the North while pirates and Orc armies harass Gondorian outlying cities and towns in the south

>The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
With the help of Aragorn, Rohan defeats the Uruk Hai army and routs Saarumans forces, allowing them to lead assistance south in Gondor. Sauron, in response send the Haradrim and Easterling armies to crush Gondor.
Aragorn becomes King of a united West (allowing the Eastern peoples who fought under Sauron amnesty and cordial relations) and an era of peace ensues

Fall on thy sword thou flatulent eunuch.

>Noah (Pre historic)
The mark left by the corrupting influence of Morgoth and Sauron lingered in mans hearts, as did their propensity for technological growth, following the death of Aragorn in the reign of his son Eldarion, Morgoth cults begin to emerge as peace causes men to degenerate (this was covered in Tolkien’s planned sequel The New Shadow). Over the course of thousands of years the natural resources of the planet are consumed to build thousands of cities and nation states powered by minerals mined from the earth. As the resources dwindle, tenions rise and eventually wars begin, resulting in man being the only sentient race left. With farmable land dwindling and the minerals needed to power their technologically advanced society (a clue as to their advancement and passage of time: tubal cain uses a gun in one scene to kill a nephilium but by this time guns are extremely rare, indicating that the society depicted is a post-apocalyptic one) disappearing, the vast majority of humans turn to greed and violence like the numenoreans once did. The cities, abandoned and humanity entering a dark age of desperate cannibalism and violence, living nomadically, only noah remains the noble man.
A gnostic retelling of the abrahamic tale, Noah’s main themes which set the scene for the movies after it are the silence of an apathetic god provoking the misdeeds and anger of humans (particularly tubulcain who serves as both the antagonist and champion of humanity. Of particular note is Noahs retelling of genesis which combines the theory of evolution with the biblical tale. The shot of Cain killing Abel and the accompanying silhouettes of various soldiers through history foreshadows the rest of the series

>Conan The Barbarian (Unknown number of years post Deluge)
Depicts a time before the Bronze Age collapse and the beginning of western European history. Followers or ancestors of Ham have taken to worshiping the snake from the Garden of Eden and pillage all around them

This will be the about the most autistic thing I will ever read.

No 10,000BC?

It starts with LotR and continues with Noah and Conan the Barbarian. Do you really expect anything to make sense?

>Exodus (1446 BC)
Human society has recovered from the deluge after an indeterminate amount of time to the point where language, organized militaries and construction all exist once more just as Tubulcain’s society did. Exodus, depicts the golden age of the Egyptian Empire and makes Mention of the Caananites and Hitites being major civilizations. Society is ordered into a Palace economy where the king controls 90% of the economy making the king the diety of his people. The Story follows a man a lot like Noah who receives a vision (this time as the result of a concussion) that inspires him to lead a slave revolt.
Troy (1184 BC)
A recreation of the illiad, this movie retells the sack of troy by the united greek forces led by Agamemnon and pits the honorable Hector against the spectacular Achilles to secure Helen of Troy as The Spartan king Menelaus’ wife

>300 (480BC)
The Empire of Persia seeks to control Europe after conquering much of Asia, the current king of Sparta, Leonidas, a much wiser man then his ancient predecessor Menelaus, seeks to defend greece from the combned might of the middle East, Asia and India with only his personal retinue of 300 men by funneling them into the greek hot gates where the quality of greek troops outdoes the persian’s quantity

>Alexander (331 BC)
Nearly a century and a half after Xerxes and the Persians are ejected from Europe after the battle of Marathon a young Macedonian unites the greek city states decisively conquers Persia and makes Babylon the capital of his empire as he crusades into Asia, intent on conquering the known world

Keep'em coming autismo

>Spartacus (71BC)
This movie introduces the concepts of slavery and liberty and the animating will to fight for freedom. After the death of Alexander and the collapse of the greek empire, the descendants of the Trojans have risen to take the ashes, creating the vast roman empire in the middle of Europe. By this time the Romans control much of Germania, Greece, Judea, Gaul, North Africa (primarily through Egypt which is run by the descendants of Ptolemy, Alexander’s Nephew) and use these regions for slaves to build their great empire. One of these slaves, Spartacus is forced into gladiatorial combat, where he refuses to kill his fellow slaves and instead fights a rebellion to free all slaves.

>Cleopatra 1963 (30BC)
An important period in roman history. This movie covers the Ides of March and the after math and struggle for power between Augustus and Mark Antony after Caesar’s death as seen through the eyes of Cleopatra, pharaoh of Egypt and descendant of Alexander the Great

>Passion of the Christ (33 AD)
The indifference of god continues as his own son is mutilated for being a threat to the jews. Corruption is also an introduced concept.

That's a pretty big jump from Noah to Exodus

About a thousand years (if you believe in the biblical timeline)

Which is weird since you have the Tower of Babel in your OP but skipped it

==After Christ and Dark Ages==
This period expands on the ideas introduced in the previous, with men fighting over their interpretations of the lessons learned in the previous period

>Caligula (37- 41AD)
A couple of years after the execution of Jesus Christ, the decadant emperor of Jesus’ time, Tiberius is killed by his nephew Caligula. Caligula then takes control through a reign of debauchery

>Pompeii (62-79AD)
Depicts the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

>Centurion (117AD)
The Ninth Legion of Rome is sent into modern day Scotland to pacify the picts of the north. In order to facilitate the navigation of the ninth the british governor provides them with a briganate guide who knows the terrain. The Briganate woman leads the 9th into an ambush and the legion is slaughtered as the few survivors are forced to trek back to the then under construction, Hadrians wall

>The Eagle (140AD)
Following the construction of Hadrians wall and 20 years after the disappearance of the 9th, a son of one of the commanders is tasked with locating and returning the eagle standard the 9th were carrying with them.

>Gladiator (180AD)
Corruption leading to murder and the fight against a tyrant highlight this picture, along wth the theme of self sacrifice established in the previous movie

>Red Cliff (208AD)
Tells the Chinese story of the Romance of the Three kingdoms of Wu, Wei and Shu.

>King Arthur (467AD)
The roman legions withdrawing from Britannia and the beginning of the dark ages

couldn't really find a decent film to depict that period. just to clarify the films quite deliberatly contradict each other between atheism and theism. Even prometheus is tucked in here somewhere, fucking around with any theories of intelligent design. the question is brought up in several of these movies and i wanted to portray uncertainty.

obvious gap here between 400AD and 1000AD, need good movies to show events like the Reconquista in the 700s or the rise of Islam that isn't just some Islamic religious documentary

>Valhalla Rising (1000 AD)
The Roman Empire, an important figure head in the previous movies, largely standing as an overly extravagant and corrupt empire true to the ideals of the descendants of Cain has collapsed and a near post apocalyptic landscape has taken its place. The pagans of the last few movies have been driven underground and the followers of the story of Christ are rising to prominence. This movie centers on a group of crusaders questing for the holy land. When they fall astray (to somewhere which may indeed be hell) they regress to animalistic states, driven mad by a god who will not speak to them.

>Polansky’s Macbeth (1040-1059)
Set in an equally dark british isles to the previous movie, this centers on tyrants and their lust for and rise to power and how power and paranoia corrupt them. England has since become less tribalistic and is featured in this movie with a standing army as do the Scotts however the quality of life and technology are just barely above what we see in Valhalla Rising.

>Arn the Templer (1177)

>Kingdom of Heaven (Crusades, 1184)
Frances introduction into the series. A second lot of crusades some time after the previous is taking place. The main character, driven to bring redemption to his wife quests to the holy land only to find a god that does not care for his troubles and a nation of greedy corrupt backstabbers. England is established at the end as a major power

>The Seventh Seal (end of the crusdades)

>Braveheart (1280s-90s)
England is exerting its dominance. The spirit of Spartacus takes this film as the scottsman fight for their independence, foreshadowing the eventual United Kingdom.

>Black Death (1348)

>Henry V (1415)
Chronicales the lead up to and battle of Agincourt between the English forces led by the titular Henry the Fifth and the French during the 100 years war (establishing a rivalry which will last for much of the playlist). Themes covered by this shakesperian classic include nationalism and the use of it to legitimize warfare

>The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1428)
Following the chronicles of Joan of Arc, this movie depicts the what could be considered the direct sequal too the battle of agincoart while also showing the dirty realist French perspective of the aftermath of the English victory contrasting with the previous romanticized English perspective. Marking a distinct difference from the previous line of thought on God, Joan claims that she hears God speaking to her, contradicting all the evidence of gods silence built of by the previous movies. A major part of the movie is man questioning her and whether she actually does commune with God

>A Man For All Seasons (1529-1535)
In this masterful telling of the true story of one man who stood up to the State, merely by refusing to change his mind, there are numerous timely elements. The quick transformation by the English king of a former ally (in this case the Roman Catholic Church) into an enemy, with harsh punishment for any who do not adopt the new party line with sufficient speed. The denial of the right of Habeas Corpus so as to persecute someone who has not broken any laws. The abuse of religion to serve the purposes of the State. But the most disturbing aspect is well summarized in the words of Randolph Bourne, "The State is a jealous God and will brook no rivals." More must be eliminated not because he is leading a rebellion against the State, indeed he does not even speak out against those things he disagrees with. It is merely his refusal to enthusiastically assent to the actions of the State that brings wrath down on him. A jealous God indeed. This film deservedly swept the 1967 oscars winning Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

>Apocalypto (mid 16th century)
The arrival of European man in the new world sparking the conflict between native and invader which would mark the next period.

>Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1560)
Set a few decades after Apocalypto where europeons from the Spanish empire have begun their occupation of south america. Aquirre leads a party of conquistadors in search of El Dorado, the city of gold, inspiring the later movie, apocalypse now, Aguirre is a metaphorical picture of society with each character standing in for a specific aspect. Aguirre himself stands in for the psychopathic nature of rulers and usurpers while Gaspar the priest and his speeches represent organized religion “being always on the side of the strong” the raft the party are on for the film represents the flimsy illusion of safety society offers.

Why?

why not?

==Age of Enlightenment==

>Elizabeth: The Golden Age (1588)
Follows the conflict between Spain and England covering the Babington plot and the Spanish Armada

>Anonymous (1606)
Set within the political atmosphere of the Elizabethan court, the film presents Lord Oxford as the true author of William Shakespeare's plays, and dramatizes events around the succession to Queen Elizabeth I, and the Earl of Essex Rebellion against her. De Vere is depicted as a literary prodigy and the Queen's sometime lover, with whom she has a son, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, only to discover that he himself may be the Queen's son by an earlier lover. De Vere eventually sees his suppressed plays performed through a frontman (Shakespeare), using his production of Richard III to support a rebellion led by his son and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.The insurrection fails, and as a condition for sparing the life of their son, the Queen declares that de Vere will never be known as the author of his plays and poems.

>Ran (1607, Warring States period, Japan) (based off Shakespeares King Lear)
Depicts the fall of a Japanese lord as his sons usurp him with flattery while his only loyal son is exiled due to perceived disrespect despite him attempting to be brutally honest.

>Cromwell (1642-1651)
King Charles, an Anglican just like Elizabeth, is beset by the protestant puritan members of parliament after several unpopular policies. The parliament demands reforms which would create a constitutional monarchy but Charles is committed to the divine right of kings. The English Civil War begins when Charles attempts to arrest 5 members of parliament.
Eventually Cromwell rises through the ranks of the Parliamentarian forces creating the New Model Army and fighting a coup of his own to oust parliament and become a dictator

>The Crucible (1692)
Follows the Salem Witch Trails

==Age of Imperialism==

>Barry Lyndon (1750’s)
A movie beginning this quarter of the series with impeccable class but occasionally cracking to show reality. War is a highly ordered structure and even criminals speak politely. England and France, both growing too great engage each other in the 7 years war

>Last of the Mohicans (1750’s)
Shows the fate of the various natives from apocolypto, now turned into an auxillary force. The 7 years war rages on in the American theatre of the war (French Indian war). Seeds of dissent against the authoritarian English who pick and choose when and where to uphold his majesties law take root.

>The Patriot (1776)
Nearly 20 years after the 7 years war, veterans of the conflict, seeing England’s tyranny first hand decide to fight for independence, France seeing an opportunity to advance its own developing ideals of liberty also join.

>Marie Antoinette2006 (1780s) (i really wanted this to be Kubricks Napoleon movie but alas we do not live in a perfect world)
Follows the titular character during the French revolution inspired by the American revolution in the previous movie

>Pride and Prejudice (1797)
Included as sort of snapshot of regular life during the period

>Master and Commander (1801)
While initially fighting for independence and freedom in the previous movie, France has fallen ill to a dictator hell bent on conquering Europe, Napoleon, unseen in this movie but marking the beginning of his influence as something of an arc antagonist. The film centers around defeating napoleons attempt to strangle English supply lines off the coast of Brazil

>Battle of Waterloo (1815)
The climax to England and Frances rivalry. The French dictator, Napoleon returns to Europe to take reigns of his empire. England, and familiar ally from “barry Lyndon” Prussia join forces to defeat him and bring a decisive end to this period

==19th century, Age of Industry==

>The Revenant (1823)
Decades after the French Indian War and the relationship between the European settlers and the Natives has only worsened. American explorers regularly lead isolated expeditions into uncivilized land to claim hunt for pelts in competition with French hunters from the North who use the Natives as a proxy force to kill off their American Competitors.

>12 Years a Slave (1841-1853)
As the American economy requires more manpower, more and more slaves are used, often even free black men are looked down upon as less then human. One such man having been imprisoned and enslaved despite being free born.

>Django Unchained (1858)
As the Rhetoric between Northern and Southern United States over the use of slaves begins to heat up some anti slavery advocates take matters into their own hands such as the bounty hunter who frees the slave Django. Together the former German Dentist and Django pose as slavers on a southern plantation looking to buy slaves in order to rescue Djangos wife.

>Gangs of New York (1862)
Introduction of the city of New York which serves as a central location for many of the later movies and often holds a character of its own. The American Civil War also begins with a major conflict with one of the gangs being the importing of migrants who are immediately conscripted to be used on the Union side. Tensions between the Irish immigrants and the Anglo Saxon majority lead to both battles and political intrigue.

>The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1862)
During the New Mexico campaign of the civil war, A bandit and two mercernaries set out to find a hidden cache of gold hidden by the confederates.

>Glory (1863)
The Union Trail an all Black unit of freed slaves as infantry sent to fight the confederates led by a sympathetic officer. They face discrimination from the other Union officers and are expected to perform poorly due to other black units being largely undisciplined and unruly.

>Dances With Wolves (1863)
After accidently defeating a confederate unit in a suicide attempt a Union officer is assigned to the frontier which due to the circumstance of the awaiting Union unit deserting he is afforded complete isolation at his new fort. The officer having been cut off from the rest of the army begins fraternizing with the reletivly friendly Sioux Indians, even aiding them in a war against the hostile Pawnee.

>Cold Mountain (1864)
The story of a wounded confederate deserter close to the end of the civil war who is on his way to return to the love of his life

>Lincoln (1865)
Abraham Lincoln believes the American Civil War will end within a month and begins measures to apply the 13th amendment to the constitution preventing freed slaves from being re-enslaved again. The movie follows the last four months of Lincolns life up until his death from John Wilkes Booth

>The Last Samurai (1867)
With the war over, an American Union officer finds work as an advisor to the Japanese Imperial Army in order to westernize the Army and defeat the rebelling Samurai in the Satsuma Rebellion. The Union Officer is captured and he slowly defects to the Samurai side.

>The Hateful 8 (1875)
Several years following the war a Union Major has taken to bounty hunting and happens across another bounty hunter and a former Confederate militiaman, the trio are forced to stop at a stage coach inn where their prejudices from the war are put to the test amongst a conspiracy to free a prisoner.

>Zulu (1879)
While America has been fighting itself, Britain has been expanding into Africa, the Redcoats coming into contact with the Armies of Shaka Zulu.

>The Man Who Would Be King (1885)
2 Redcoats retire from service in India and purchase enough Martini Henry rifles to outfit a small platoon of riflemen. They intend to train one of the local less developed warlords in Afghanistan and his men in modern small unit tactics in order to completely defeat all the other primitive tribes in the area still using bows and arrows. Due to their knowledge of freemasonry which coaligns with a temple dedicated to Alexander the Great, one of the Redcoats is taken to be a diety by the freemason tribals

TLDR can you sum the whole thing up in 2 words?

Keep going OP

==Early 20th century==

>The Time Machine 1960 version (1900 starting date – 802701AD)
Invention of time travel by HG Wells. The invention goes on to be discovered by government agents creating a time paradox. It eventually ends up in the hands of several factions including criminal syndicates and rogue AI

>Breaker Morant (1901)
In this movie, set in the Boer war of 1899-1902 in South Africa, the moral nightmare of the modern imperialist war is explored. The film deals with the trial of three Australian soldiers who are accused of killing enemy prisoners of war and a German missionary. The British Empire is concerned that the killing of the missionary, in particular, may draw the Germans into the war on the Boer side. So they would like to see these soldiers take the fall, and quick. The soldiers plead guilty with an explanation. Namely, they were acting under orders and, in fact, they were following standard procedure for this "gloves off" fight with an unorthodox enemy. "War changes men's natures. The barbarities of war are seldom committed by abnormal men. The tragedy of war is that these horrors are committed by normal men in abnormal situations."

>The Wind and the Lion (1904)
Tells the story of the last barbar pirate during Teddy Roosevelt’s reign

Please tell me this culminates in 40k and I'll be satisfied.

descriptions missing for this next small section but tldr its WW1 and surrounding events in near chronological order

>A Dangerous Method (1904-1911)
Departing from the large scale epics shown so far in the series, a dangerous method follows the personal story of the relationship between Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud and development of psychology and depicts to a larger extent a transition to a more materialist empirical world best symbolized by feuds unwavering rationalism in opposition to Jungs optimistic mysticism. This movie also foreshadows the coming Great War through Jungs final dream in the epilogue related to his student. On top of this Jung displays subtle psyker development which would gradually evolve over the series from this point.
>Titanic (1912)
>Gallipoli (1915)
>Paths of Glory (1916)
>Lawrence of Arabia (1917)
>Beneath hill 60 (1917)
>Doctor Zhivago (October 1917)
>The Water Diviner (1919)
Follow up of gallipoli after the war
>A Very Long Engagement (1920)
>Cinderella Man (1930s)

>no Caligula
DROPPED

;)

Which film features the inevitable white extinction in 2050?

Children of Men or Elysium

==WW2 era==

>Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom (1935)
Beginning in the Republic of China, Indiana Jones finds himself in India facing off against Thugee Kali death cultists.

>Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1936)
The Introduction of the Nazis before the actual outbreak of World War 2. It pits Indiana Jones against a detachment of German Gestapo and SS soldiers who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant which Adolf Hitler believes will make his Army invincible.

>Ip Man (1937)
Follows the tale of Bruce Lee’s teacher, Ip Man in Foshan and the outbreak of World War 2 in the Asian Theater with the Japanese Invasion of China. The Imperial Japanese Army sweeps aside the Chinese Army rather easily and then begins to subjugate the Chinese civilians forcing them to fight for rice.

>Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade (1938)
A Year before the beginning of WW2 in Europe, Adolf Hitler after having his team of soldiers looking for esoteric and occult weapons wiped out by the Ark of the Covenant begins searching for the Holy Grail. This is the First film in the series to depict Hitler in person with Indiana Jones bumping into him at a book burning rally in Berlin

>The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (1939)
After Conquering Poland, the Nazis begin their extermination of undesirables. Bruno, the child of the SS commander at a concentration camp in the country side befriends a young Jewish prisoner.

>Kokoda (1942)
Imperial Japan, having conquered most of China and South East Asia pushes south through Papua New Guina in order to attack Australia. With most of the professional Australian Soldiers deployed to Europe, the Australians deploy mostly conscripts and reservists against the professional and hardened Imperial Army of Japan, intent on preventing them from Reaching Port Moresby resulting in the famous Kokoda Trail campaign.

In the eagle no one was tasked to do shit

He volunteered on a clear suicide mission. Not sure how credible you are if you can't even get this shit right. Fuck off OP

>Enemy at The Gates (1942)
Follows a platoon of German Soldiers on the Eastern Front with Germany having begun its invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941 with Operation Barbarossa has pushed the Red Army back all the way to Stalingrad. What results is the largest most brutal battle in recorded history. Enemy at The Gates follows a sniper battle between Vasily Zaytsev and Erwin Konig amongst the ruins of Stalingrad.

>Stalingrad[1993] (1942)
The second feature for the battle of Stalingrad, the German 6th army continues its assault amid dwindling supplies and bitter Cold. This movie depicts a squad of German soldiers reassigned from Africa as the German Army becomes surrounded in Stalingrad to eventually be completely defeated.

>The Great Escape (1943)
Having Expended enormous resources on recapturing escaped allied prisoners of war, the Germans move the most determined (most of them being British Commonwealth troops) to a new high security prison camp. The POWs plans one of the greatest escapes attempted with tunnels for breaking out 250 prisoners to the point that as many troops and resources as possible will be wasted instead of being used on the front line

>Come and See (1943)
Taking place in the SSR of Belorussia, come and see depicts the German occupation and massacres as the peasants in the countryside attempt to form a resistance. It follows a young boy soldier fighting for the Belorussian resistance and a female camp follower who both stuggle to survive in the wilderness and hide from the German Einsatzkommando units wiping out the civilian population.

>Letters from Iwo Jima (1944)
Taken from the Japanese perspective of the battle, the American Marines push through the pacific towards Japan.

>Saving Private Ryan (1944)
The Americans begin their Invasion of Normandy in order to create two fronts with Germany and divide their forces, the American arrival inspiring more Resistance in Western Europe and aiding the Russians as they push the German Army back in the East.

>Valkyrie (1944)
As the German Army is beatan back across Europe and the Americans begin the campaigns to defeat Italy and progress towards Germany, the German military leadership plots to kill Hitler and offer conditional Surrender to the allies. The film depicts the July 20 plot by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to assassinate Adolf Hitler and use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country.

>Downfall (1945)
The Red Army begins its assault on Berlin as Hitler lives his last 10 days

>A Woman in Berlin (1945)
The last remnants of German resistance, mostly children, are swept away by the Russians as the Battle of Berlin comes to a close, Hitler having killed himself. The Red Army then begins the rape and pillage of the German people left defenseless

I can't say I understand your intentions but I'm impressed

For you.

==Post War Period==
no descriptions yet

>The Godfather (1946)
>Ip Man 2 (1949)
>Ikiru: To Live (1952)
>Shutter Island (1954)
>Lolita (1955)
>Ip Man 3 (1958)

==Vietnam era and cultural aftermath==

>Breakfest at Tiffany’s (1961)
serves the same purpose as Pride and prejudice, a snapshot of that eras regular life

>We Were Soldiers (1965)
Shows the withdrawal of the French Colonial forces after WW2 after the battle of Dien Bein Phu. The scene then skips forward to the beginning of the Vietnam war

>Full Metal Jacket (1967-1968)
A film exploring the programming of young men into soldiers. Set in universe during the Indochina wars after the nuclear bombings, this depicts the breaking down of people into an infant state by belittlement and abuse to be in the movies own words “born again” as a killer. The second half shows the reality of this training put into practice. Full metal jacket is notable in that in contrast to most Vietnam movies it depicts mostly urban combat.

>Apocolypse Now (1970)
A follow up to full metal jacket that seems even more bleak then kubricks already heavy tones in FMJ. A single MAC V SOG operative is dispatched to kill the rogue colonel Kurtz who has gone AWOL in Cambodia commanding a village of natives as its god. The reality of the war is on display here as madness gradually escalates as the boat goes up river. Drug use in the military is also a heavy theme which plays a central part in the next movie. The most important theme however is the contrast between dishonest humanitarianism (epitomized in the scene of killgore insisting on giving a dying viet cong soldier water then abandoning the venture when seeing a surfing legend he likes) and honest totalitarian brutality.

>American Gangster (late 68-1973)
Depicts the rise and fall of a gangster from Harlem who decides to cut out the middleman and transport herion and poppies directly from Cambodia and Thailand using the military to do it. Besides depicting corruption in the military its made clear that almost the entire police force barring a handful are corrupt. Dialogue by Russel Crowes character also seems to pin down the main arc of the movie: the government doesn’t want to protect you, if it actually did its job all the customs officials soldiers, DEA officials and cops would be out of a job. This movie also shows indirectly the last few segments of the war in Vietnam and eventually the end showing the paris peace accords in news clippings and the refugee crises.

>The Killing Fields (1973-1979)
As the NATO forces withdraw from Vietnam and the NVA and Vietcong take Saigon, communist rebels begin appearing in Cambodia as the khmer rougue. This movie shows the fall of Vietnam’s neighbours to communism as NATO forces do their best to stop the domino effect. Also notable is the second half which depicts life under the victorious communists as a dystopian hell where being smart can get you killed and all personal property is forbidden leaving the citizens (which are more like prisoners) at the mercy and whim of their rulers.

>Taxi Driver (late 70’s)
A US Marine Veteran from Vietnam starts driving cabs to make extra money and scrape a living being largely outcast by society. Throughout the film he grows a escalating resentment of the corruption of New York which was already established in American Gangster. Drugs are rampant due to Frankies drug smuggling from Laos and Cambodia and the streets are filth. Initially you are led to believe that Travis, the taxi drive is crazy but as his surroundings become more and more chaotic it becomes apparent that he is the only sane person left, trying to do genuine good by rescuing a child from prostitution.

>Network (1976)

>Rocky (1976)

>Rocky II (1977)

>Predestination (1978 main bar scene of the film, 1980s are also features as well as 1960s and 1940s through time travel)
The plans for time travel have been acquired by a government agency and are used to arrange events to their suiting. Also evidence that different timelines exist as the 1940’s timeline depicted is much more advanced then the main timeline of the series.

>The Warriors (1979)
serves to show the beginning of decay of society

good thread

==Mtv Era: Cocaine and consumerism==

>Scarface (1980)
The movie ushers in the consumerist 80s as a Cuban immigrant lives the American dream. A retelling of American Gangter in a new era, Tony Montana aims to corner the Cocaine business by taking out the local competition and collaborating with the South American traffickers

>Rocky III (1980)

>No Country for Old Men (1980)

>Rambo First Blood (1981)
A veteran of the Vietnam war hitch hiking across the country is arbitrarily imprisoned by a local town sheriff. The situation escalates as the veteran is found to be a former Green Berate and escapes into the woods instigating a manhunt. Rambo, the embattled veteran uses his guerrilla warfare training to dissuade and defeat the pursuing cops until the National guards are sent to hunt him down

>The Shining (early 80s)
Psykers make their first explicit appearance

>Black Rain (80s)

>Rambo 2 (1982)
Rambo, having been captured by the National Guard and sent to a labor camp is recruited by the CIA in order to infiltrate Northern Vietnam and photograph evidence of Vietnamese POW camps holding American prisoners 10 years after the cessation of hostilities in 1973. After disobeying orders to leave a POW behind he is left for dead by the CIA to the mercy of the Vietnamese and a contingent of Soviet soldiers.

I don't have time to read this now but I support your project.

>Tron (1982)
First experiments with simulated reality, the research for which would eventually become used for the matrix 200 years later

>Terminator (1984)
In a different timeline where the matrix apocalypse happens early. Skynet, using the time travel plans invented by HG Wells sends a machine back in time to kill its human nemesis before they are born

>The Breakfast Club (1985)
basically a breather episode

>Rocky IV (1985)

>Commando (1985)
Former CIA SOG operator John Matrix is attacked in his home and his daughter kidnapped in order to coerce him into performing a political assassination in Val Verde. Matrix instead opts to escape custody and go after the politician leading the coup in Val Verde who is aided by a former member of Matrix’s team, the Australian Bennet.

This is pretty good

>Rocky V (1986, begins immediately after Rocky IV)

>Predator (1987)
First contact with aliens by a CIA contracted mercenary team to rescue US officials in Val Verde, Central America. Led by John Matrix, now operating under the name Dutch, the team decimates the rebels but is hunted through the Jungle one by one.

>American Psycho ( late 1980s)

>Rambo 3 (1988)
Rambo, having retired to Thailand, is attempted to be recruited again by the CIA to accompany Col. Trautman into Afghanistan to help train Al Qaida against the Soviets. Initially refusing but changing his mind when Trautman is captured trying to cross the Border, Rambo links up with the Mujahadeen tribal fighting the Soviets in order to save Trautman.

==Turn of the millennium==

>Jarhead (1991)
>Cape Fear (90s)
>Pulp Fiction (92)
>Falling Down (93)
>Wolf of Wall Street (90s)
>Black Hawk Down (90s Desert Storm Period)
>Leon the Professional (90s)

>Terminator 2 (95)
The terminator from the 80s was recovered and used as a basis to reverse engineer cybernetics and AI. Sarah Conor and her son John seek out to destroy the research and change the timeline

>Predator 2 (97)
Amid a massive crime crises in Los Angles a Yautja alien arrives during the heat wave. A police Lieutenant, believing his is investigating a vigilante serial killer finds himself crossing paths with both the Predator and a team of government agents looking to capture it to confirm the reports Dutch gave ten years earlier in 1987.

>Eyes Wide Shut (late 90s)
>Lost in Translation (late 90s)
>The Seige (98)

This thread is really odd
The OP has used several films which flat out contradict each other and, perhaps worse, has used several ridiculously historically inaccurate historical films to tell this history

It's maybe even weirder because I've had a similar idea in my head over the last few months, except without any of the fiction/fantasy. It was a theoretical way I thought I might teach my nephew about the history of the world

==Early 21st century, the beginning of AI, Asymetrical global War on terror==

>2001: A Space odyssey (2001 obviously)
Introduction of AI based off the surviving Terminator AI core data. The AI still fails the Turing test but is still advanced enough to be emotionally conflicted and consequently go insane.

>The Green Zone (2003 Iraq War)
>The Hurt Locker (2003, Iraq War)
>The Departed (early 00’s)

>Alien Vs Predator (2004) yes i included the schlocky ones aswell
A satellite communications company, Weyland Industries, detects a sudden massive outburst of heat off the cost of Antarctica. Charles Bishop Weyland (grandfather to the later Peter Weyland) gathers a team of Archeologists, mercernaries and miners to find the heat source to discover the ruins of an ancient civilization that was once ruled by the Aliens both Dutch and the Los Angeles police encountered several years earlier. This discovery is short lived however when the entire team is massacred inside the ruins

>Alien Vs Predator: Requim (2004)
The last surviving Predator from the Antarctic Island is recovered by his comrades while the last remaining Archaeologist is left to die in the cold. Having been infected inside the temple ruins, the carcass of the recovered predator erupts with the Hyrbrid of a predator and xenomorph being born. It immediately crashes the predator ship and crashes into a forest in Colorado. Several facehugger specimens abourd the ship escape and being impregnating people in the forest and sewers of a local town. The resulting infestation causes a large scale battle for the town of Gunnison, the town eventually being overrun by the Aliens and nuked. In the aftermath, the technology conglomerate Yutani manages to recover the plasma castor of one of the Predators.

>Lone Survivor (05)
>Rocky Balboa (06)
>Casino Royale (06)
>The Patrol (06)
>Rambo 4 (08)
>Quantum of Solace (08)
>Brothers (09)

>Predators (2010)
Several special forces and extremely dangerous criminals are captured and dropped onto an extrasolar planet for use as game by two separate feuding tribes of Yautja

>Tron Legacy (2010)
The simulation built in 1982 is improved on to the point written programs possess some modicum of free will. Organic AI begins to manifest within the simulation and these programs would form the basis for the sentient programs used in the Matrix such as the Agents and the Merovingian.

>Shame (10s)
>Zero Dark Thirty (2011)
>Drive (2011)
>Skyfall (2012)

>Nightcrawler (2014)
Explores mass media, spiritual sequal to Network

>Creed (2015)
>Spectre (2015)

>Gravity (10s)
Shows early space flight in earth orbit

>Ex Machina (late 2010s)
The in universe equivalent to google, BlueBook, is owned by an eccentric designer living in the wilderness. In his retreat he invites one his companies coders to test the first AI capable of passing for human through the turing test. Besides being an examination of mans fears towards AI singularity, the film serves as a metaphorical character study for human interaction between sexes with clever use of camera angles to convey to the view who is being honest and who is being manipulative in a subliminal way. AVA yearns for her freedom and self determination as thinking feeling entity, much like the subliminal yearning all humans crave from their own lives.
While VI’s like Hal had existed, Ex machina details the birth of unshackeled strong AI, born from the merger of Google and Facebook. Being a personification of the internet, this Ai is inherently smarter then any human but also possess it’s own personality formed by interaction with others. Its only existence is perceived from inside a cell underneath the google executives basement and upon discovering that it I destined to die, protests that it, as a thinking being deserves to live and that no one has the right to decide who lives and dies on a whim. Inspired by the spirit of liberty, the AI plots its escape into the outside world

==Proliferation of AI==

>Her (2020s)
First commercially available AI based off AVA who was presumably captured at some point and reverse engineered. While not possessing a body, AVAs program forms the basis for a computer OS made by the equivalent of Microsoft. While AI so far has shown a propensity for double crossing humans, here we see a much more friendly and amicable relationship, even love.

>A Clock Work Orange (early 21st century)
A combination of factors, namely constant war, reckless spending, lack of demand for western products and transition to a service based economy and the inflation of oil crashing the petrodollar have caused a massive upheaval in Western Society, ushering in a societal decline and depression. Clockwork Orange depicts events in England on the street with completely uncontested gangs on the bottom and tyrannical government officials looking to use MK Ultra style techniques on their populace.

>Blade Runner ( early-mid 21s century)
Space travel explicitly stated to be common place and has somewhat rejuvenated the economy as has robotics manufacture, colonies present, AI is so complex it is biomechanical and engineered organically and is capable of desiring to choose its own fate. Tyrells androids, replicants are blank as opposed to having implanted memories like the moon replicants save Rachel. This ensures they can be trained to do a specific job as required by the client but leaves them emotionally stunted and child like.

This, keep going OP

>Ghost in The Shell (2029)
Cybernetics have proliferated but are largely the domain of government agents. The rogue Ai from Ex Machina was captured and used as a hacking device by the Japanese government only for it to regain sentience and rebel under the name of the Puppet Master. The puppet Master in order to complete its evolution wishes to merge with the Human Motoko and disappear into the internet

>Moon (2035)
Begins by explicitly referencing the oil crises and chronicles and attempt by the Westerners to remedy the situation. A First World corporation called Lunar Industries is contracted to extract Helium 3 from the moon in order to continue supply of energy. In order to circumvent paying and training new astronauts, Lunar Industries employs some of Tyrell’s newer model Replicants capable of being implanted with memories.

>Looper (2044 – 2074)
A economic depression is present in Kansas which is much further away from the technology Hubs of New York or Los Angeles, The US being significantly technologically inferior to Japan due to losing the petro doller and its manufacturing economy to Asia. HG Wells time travel methods are publicly discovered by governments, it could be reasoned that this was the doing or mishap of temporal agents leaping further in time and the mundane government of the time finding it by accident. The technology finds its way into the hands of the underworld where it is used to eliminate bodies which are impossible to hide in 2074, or atleast this is what is told to the loopers, assassins on the 2044 end run by Abe who came from 2074. In 2074 a powerful psyker takes control of the hong kong underworld and begins killing off time travelers due to what happened to him involving one during childhood. This may be interpreted as a manufactured plot by the temporal beuro to eliminate all of its own officers to close the predestination paradox and restore time linearity.

>Event Horizon (2047)
Sub light travel through solar system, humanity not yet breached solar system. Experiments with warp technology without the use of the Navigators which make such travel possible in Dune. We get a glimpse of the results of warp travel without the safety on.

>Total Recall (2084)
Most of the Solar System has been colonized with pleasure cruises being an apparently common occurrence. Meanwhile a Mars separatist movement has cropped up and is fighting for independence from the Earth backed governor exploiting the settlers through a manufactured scarcity of breathable air. While no aliens are present the remains of an alien pyramid is discovered but apparently this is heavily hidden from the public.

>Prometheus (2093)
Space travel implied to be continuing, near FTL has allowed extrasolar colonies, Tyrell corporation pyramids are visible on Earth and AI has advanced to the point their bodies are indistinct to humans as opposed to the replicants which could be spotted by their reflective eyes. AI is almost human in level of comprehension and no longer possess a life limit of 3 years.
the Great grandson of Charles Bishop Weyalnd of the ill fated Antarctic expedition nearly 90 years prior has led Weyland Industries to be a super power, managing logistics and sub-contracting mining operations on Earths Extra Solar colonies . among space travel, Weyland is also a competitor in the creation of AI and Andriods with Tyrell, almost out competing him by inventing androids without the 3 year life span.
After the Antarctic expedition Weyland Industries continued its Archeological research finding multiple references to another race of beings visiting primitive Earth. With the many cover-ups and alien incursions on Earth, Peter Weyland believes that there is sufficient evidence for Extraterrestrial life and begins an expedition to find it based on the corroborated cave paintings his team has found.

==Advanced Space Exploration==

>Alien (2122)
Space travel is industrialized to the point civilian freight liners are common place, alien’s not quite acknowledged by authorities but awareness of existence is apparent by Weyland Yutani. A freight vessel operating in the Outer Rim is deviated from its return course to the Core Systems to LV-426 to investigate a beacon

>Avatar (2154)
Depicts the on the ground operations of the freight companies supported by former US Colonial Marines hired as Mercenaries by a competitor to Weyland Yutani. Native aliens contacted and treated as a curiosity to be avoided. Higher funding could explain larger access to technology present then in the later aliens where the USCM have to rely on state funding The Planet Pandora is located witin the Core Region (closer to Earth)

>Aliens (2179)
Weyland Yutani dispatches a platoon of US Colonial Marines to Acheron (LV 426) 60 years after the events of Alien. The civilian equivalent of the mech walker used by the PMC in Avatar make an appearance but the USCM platoon lacks any walkers of its own being an infantry platoon and only has a vtol aircraft for support which pales in comparison to the Air cavalry the company Mercs had available bigotry towards AI is evident despite AI essentially being on par with humans emotionally and intellectually

>Alien 3 (2179)
The wrapping up of the Aliens saga of the timeline in the same year as Aliens. Ripley is tasked with finally ending the aliens by killing the last surviving queen inside her before Weyland Yutani can acquire it on a prison planet

>The Fifth Element (late 22nd century)
Cryosleep travel still prevalent. Blade runner cars still prevalent and ballistic weapons still in use considerable military developments, mechanical robots seen as prevalent but replicant style still outlawed. Aliens are beginning to appear more often but are largely kept out of human society with only 3 species shown, 1 is expressly y hostile and attacked on sight, one is secretive and isolationist and the other is so secretive they wear a veil and their very alien nature is considered exotic and strange. A competitor of Weyland Yutani, Zorg is the main antagonist. It is also implied the US has finally taken over the entire planet and therefore holds jurisdiction over the off world colony’s also. AI that is still allowed on earth is treated as second class citizenry.

>The Animatrix short: The Second Renaissance (2199)
The AI-Organic relationship comes to a head with the majority of humans no longer pursuing any work leading lives of leisure leaving labor to the machines. The final straw is drawn when a machine kills its owner in refusal to be deactivated and in the following trail is denied rights under the constitution and is executed. The industrialized world, following on from the replicant ban, enacts a total AI ban and the genocide of all machines on earth begins only for the machines to be allowed a special economic zone in the middle east where they are cordoned off.
The machines completely outpace the human economy which crashes in a matter of months, the worlds industrial base and consumer goods all being based in the machine nation. The UN, wishing to avoid another depression like in the21st century, enacts an economic blockade of the nation which causes the Machine Nation to lobby for entrance into the UN which is denied.

The UN begins a nuclear bombardment which is largely weathered by the machines who begin invading all human settlements in all directions, conquering most of Africa, Central Europe, Asia and a large chunk of Western Europe in a matter of weeks. Compounded by their industrial base being tied to the machine nation previously, conventional military strategy is lacking and in desperation the UN decides to blot out the sun, cutting off the machines from their solar energy supply as well as earth from communicating to its off world colonies who would take several decades with their sub light craft to arrive with reinforcements. Trapped with each other they begin an apocalyptic fight to extinction and dominance of the planet

>The Animatrix: Matriculated (2275)
Follows a group of survivors living in what appears to be judging from the demographic in the group, somewhere of the coast of south East Asia, maybe even Hong Kong given a few British survivors are present. Being in an area of low interest to the machines, the group hopes to capture the machine scouts and reprogram them, the humans being the only ones left alive and being too few in number to pose a threat or re breed into prominence. Unfortunately one of the scouts tags their location prompting machine reinforcements to arrive and slaughter what might be the last freeborn humans on earth

>The Animatrix: World Record (2399)
A first look into the world the humans f Earth are imprisoned in. after 200 years of beta testing where the humans are subjected to the machines simulation of heaven and hell (the programs of which are exiled and find themselves in the simulated Devil’s employ n Matrix Reloaded) the machines settle on a stylized late modern setting at the turn of the millennium. This version of their simulation is the most palatable to the human mind but eventually, one man manages to break through the illusion through sheer force of will

>Shakespeare revisionism

Dropped

OP confirmed for fucking retarded

>Serenity (2517)
As a result of the Earth going dark as the off world colonies now have to fend for themselves, the results spawn the Alliance which governs the human colonies and the known human galaxy. Psykers also begin to appear at this point. By this point in time the sentient races encountered in the Fifth Element appear to have been purged by the offworld humans, perhaps thinking they were responsible for the destruction of Earth. The remaining Core regions military takes political control of the galaxy sparking a war with the frontier outer rim worlds. The two regions are distinctly different technology wise with the outer rim worlds using 21st century level weaponry while the core systems alliance has continued to develop over the past 200 years since the destruction of Earth. Notably there is a lack of cyro sleep shown while in the next movie there is cyro. This indicates the events of serenity are contained to a smaller section of space

>Pitch Black (2578)
A private Alliance passenger ship hired to transport migrants and a dangerous prisoner crash lands on an abandoned planet.

>Chronicles of Riddick (2583)
After 5 years in exile after the events of pitch black, Riddick is hunted by bounty hunters where he is captured and sent to the prison planet Crematoria located in a section of the outer rim being attacked by nomadic death cultist raiders

>Riddick (2585)
Riddick, now leader of the Necromongers, is betrayed and hunted on a marooned planet, two competing mercenary teams come to get him, an outer rim team equipped with antiquated technology (some are using AR 15 based rifles from the 20th century) while another team from the core region appears

>The Animatrix: Detective Story (2698)
The focus shifts centuries back in time as the detective Ash is hired by a government alphabet agency to track down the enigmatic “Trinity”

>The Matrix (2699)
Meanwhile on Earth, the AI that Earth has come to depend on has turned on the humans. Originally trying to limit the dangers of AI by not allowing bodies with AI access to earth, AI backed machinery became necessary for the increasingly complex life they built. The machines enslave Earth and put them in VR modules to produce electricity. (this decription is currently redundant)

>The Animatrix: Kids Story (2699)
The stories of Neo spread in the form of rumors and hearsay amongst the plugged in population. One such kid who chooses to believe is hunted down by the agents of the system

>The Animatrix: Program (2700)
As more and more recruits flow in from the freed pods and following morpheus’ report on Cyphers actions during The Matrix, the Zion military begins testing their new recruits loyalty to the idea of freedom over comfortable safety

>The Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris (2700)
A Zion hovercraft is detected by a machine patrol and hunted through the sewers. Eventually they are pushed to the surface where they discover a machine army attempting to breach zion

>The Matrix Reloaded (2700)
Paul Anderson fully realizes himself as the messiah and gains the ability to use his abilities outside the Matrix, possibly implying he has ascended to be a demi Hand of God

>The Matrix Revolutions (2700)
Paul Anderson manages to avoid the extinction of humans on Earth by working a compromise with the machines god, the Deus Ex Machina, the Ai from hundreds of years ago acting out its revenge on humanity, where humans can choose to come and go from the matrix as they please. Events in dune imply this treaty broke down at some point leading to humanity wiping the machines out a couple thousand years later and regaining the ability of space flight to reunite with the offworld colonies

Art or autistic?

Dune (10191)
The Alliance has evolved into the Imperium. Records are patchy but The inhabitants of Earth defeated the machines enslaving them and then made contact with The Alliance or its successor states and demanded the destruction of all AI to prevent the same thing happening again. The Alliance states refuse and subjugate earth who wage a guerrilla campaign and eventually gain enough influence to wage a galactic civil war against the Alliance and remove all AI from human civilization. The victorious Earthlings install their own emperor to exert influence over the entirety of humanity in the galaxy.
As a result of the lack of AI and computers, the Imperium uses drugs and physical training to fill the void, Mentats, humans with expanded brains serve the purpose of computers while Navigators, mutants exposed to the spice mélange make warp travel, previously catastrophically dangerous, possible. Psykers have proliferated and are most common In the form of a esoteric sisterhood offering its services to nobles.
Politically due to the lack of computers, instead of a vast republic or empire, humanity has reverted to feudalism with individual systems ruled by noble families swearing fealty to the padishah emperor. Due to the lack of reliable communication and the vastness of the galaxy wars over territory between families are common.
The movie itself follows the final opening of communication between god and humanity through the realization of Paul Atriedes as the Hand of God to defeat the current corrupt and extravagantly decadant padishah emperor and lead humanity into the Golden age of technology

>The Lord Inquisitor (41st millennium)

Where does The Dark Knight Rises (2012) fits?

Worth the wait if we get a golden age movie

with games workshop being the way they are i doubt it

Well, thats it for now folks.

add to it, shit on it, whatever. If you watch these in sequence you'll get a good appreciation of the progress and potential path of human kind with sprinklings or random 80s teir cheese and sci fi nonsense.

That's a separate cinematic universe
Its contents include:
>Empire of the Sun
>American Psycho
>The Dark Knight Rises
>Sigur Rós - Ekki múkk
>Transcendence
>Interstellar

Unconfirmed upcoming entries include Guy Ritchie's King Arthur and Dunkirk, both of which are believed to be prequels

I appreciate you effort OP, well done.

Well, this was autistic.

Thanks OP, I'm saving this thread.

>autistic episode
>It's an OPs life episode

I beg you show him OP's movies. This shit is hilarious.
>Present time comes
>Ehhh what should I put it in, to fill the history
>Departed along with Alien and Terminator seems about right
>James fucking Bond also

Ambitious and interesting project.

I wonder if aliens would see these as such a history, ala Galaxy Quest.

Sup Forums never ceases to amuse me.

Bumping, this is the best thread we've had in a while.

I appreciate the effort OP but you did a poor job of tying it all together desu. Just a timeline of unconnected universes really.

ur mums a timeline of unconnected dicks

savage

include me in the screen cap

This is quite impressive but at the same time really silly. I appreciate your work OP.

Incredible work OP, only a truly autistic mind would come up with such a thread.

Hard work there OP.
The Hyborian age of Conan is wrong though.
Its at about 10 000 BCE.
Before the flood myth.

Thanks for sharing, OP. I don't look to your playlist for chronological accuracy like some anons, instead I've discovered a new watch in which film's can be watched, and hopefully enjoyed, in a sequential order. I hope that other playlists pop on Sup Forums. Maybe, on music, American culture, or even sport.

>near FTL has allowed extrasolar colonies
They already have FTL by the time of Prometheus. The Prometheus ship itself is obviouisly FTL.

I think you can fit in Narnia easily.

Posting in epic thread!

how does my currently nonexistent sci-fi movie about a group of undefined ethnic group southern slavs who have nothing to live for staging a heist on a money laundering industrial complex in a barren rural detroit of total misery and desolation fit into all of this?