The Kalahari in Africa, 600 miles outside the city, is a desert hinterland that doesn't rain for 9 months a year.
After a short rainy season, the water is sucked away by the sand, the grass turns yellow, and the animals migrate away, leaving only the native Bushmen who live here.
They slash and burn, hunt and farm, as if the outside world had nothing to do with them.
Every morning, Kay would take the children outside to dig up tree roots, look for bugs, pick wild fruits, and collect last night's dew to quench their thirst.
Encountering a poisonous snake is not terrible, Kai picked up the snake with a backhand, and then used the snake skin to make a strong belt.
The Bushmen who lived here had never been exposed to the so-called civilized world, and even when there was thunder in the sky, they felt that God had eaten and burped.
On this day, As usual, Kai went out into the wild in search of water and food, when suddenly a Coca-Cola glass bottle fell from the sky. He tentatively tapped with his hand, then found a stick and knocked again.
He had grown so big that he had never seen anything like it, crystal clear and hard, so he returned home with this glass bottle.
The old, the sick and the young gathered around the family, and they were thinking: Why did God throw this thing down?
Soon after, Kay and his family discovered that the glass bottle could be used to do many things, such as making leather underwear, playing music, making marks, making food, and discovering new uses for the glass bottle every day.
But what Kai didn't understand was why God just threw one down?
With the increasing use of glass bottles, more and more people want to use them, and glass bottles once became robbers, causing conflicts between the originally indisputable clansmen.
Gradually, bad emotions appeared among the clansmen, and more of them only wanted to possess the bottle and were unwilling to share it. When someone finally smashed another person's head with a glass bottle, Kai realized the seriousness of the problem.
He tried to throw the bottle into the sky and give it back to God, but he found that God was not willing to take it at all, which made him depressed.
On this day, he woke up early, and in order to restore the harmony of the family, he was going to take the bottle to the end of the world and return it to God, so that a wonderful and funny journey began.
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It's not a real documentary, but rather a film by Garme Youis in 1980, God Is Crazy Too.
The actor who plays Kai in the play is named Li Su, who is a Namibian Bushman and a wilderness farmer.
Before meeting the director, Li Su had never seen anyone other than his own people, and he had only seen 3 white people in the first half of his life.
Born as a Bushman, Li Su has always lived the life of a nomadic people, and like Kai in the movie, he has not been exposed to the outside civilized world before making the movie.
So much so that after filming "God Is Crazy", the 300 US dollars given to him by the director was also thrown into the wind by him.
With the role of Kai in "God Is Crazy Too", Li Su instantly became a celebrity. In 1980, God Is Crazy Too premiered in South Africa and has grossed $30.03 million to date.
After 41 years, this film still surpasses 97% of the world's comedies, and the Douban score is stable at 8.7.
After becoming famous, Li Su's films continued to be made, and the director also tasted the money and honor that Li Su brought him, so he decided to shoot a second film in 1989.
At that time, it had been 9 years since Li Su made his first film.
During these 9 years, Li Su returned to the namibian tribes, still going out hunting every day, living a self-sufficient homeless life.
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In 1989, the director approached Li Su again and invited him to star in the second "God Is Crazy Too".
This time, Li Su seems to understand the meaning of making money, he took the initiative to find the director's side before shooting, asking him to pay him 800,000 South African rands in advance, if calculated according to the current rate, the equivalent is about 360,000 yuan.
But the director refused this request, not because they felt that Li Su was not worth the price, but because Li Su's rapid development of the concept of money surprised them.
The simple Li Su did not get an advance payment, but in order to build a cinder house with water and electricity for his family, he still agreed to star in the second part.
Thus, this barefoot, dark-skinned, curly hair, and unclothed Kai once again appeared in the public eye.
The second plot is very different from the first, and there are two more children and a few small animals involved in the performance.
In this film, I find that the coyotes drool when they see what they want to eat, and that it only attacks animals shorter than itself.
It turns out that ostriches really can't see people lying down, so if you're afraid of being pecked by ostriches, you can lie down.
The cutest thing is the honeypot that bites something for an entire episode.
Like the first, it was full of fun and laughs, but the second part was very dismal at the box office, earning only $6.29 million so far.
So Li Su only got 500,000 South African rands after the play.
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In 1991, after Li Su finished filming "God Is Crazy", he was invited to Hong Kong, China, and filmed "African Monk" with Chen Long and Lin Zhengying.
Interestingly, "The African Monk" was next to Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda at that time.
At that time, Hong Kong films were known as the Hollywood of the East, and Li Su's performance in this film made him popular all over the world.
At that time, Lin Zhengying rode camel milk in front, and Li Su rode a zombie closely behind, and the most wonderful thing was the fight scene where Li Su was possessed by Bruce Lee, which is still in retrospect.
In 1993, after filming "African Monk", Li Su was not sent back to his hometown, but partnered with Liu Jialing and Liu Qingyun to shoot "Hong Kong Is Crazy".
For a time, Li Su became a director, a producer with a serious appetite, and no one wanted to miss this tool to make money.
Just after filming "Hong Kong is Crazy", Li Su thought he could go home, but the director arranged to go to the crew of "African Superman".
In this way, five years have passed, and Li Su misses his hometown too much, and resolutely decides to go home and stop filming.
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After returning to his hometown, Li Su went out to hunt and catch food every day, and continued to live an isolated life.
Without a source of income from filming, Li Su supported himself and his 3 wives and 6 children by planting farming and raising livestock. And the number of livestock raised is never more than 20, because more than 20 numbers, Li Su will count.
In July 2003, Li Su went out as usual to find food for his wife and children. But this time I went out and never came back.
According to Li Su's wife's recollection, Li Su went out on Tuesday, did not return on Wednesday, and on Thursday, the family went out to look for it.
Lisu's body was found on the grasslands on the outskirts of Namibia.
From being discovered by the director to finally dying, Li Su is like a passer-by in the film industry, for him, the most important thing is not how much money he makes from movies, but to stay with his family.
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