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2012 Movie: Geryl, Suicide & the Chinese

November 27th, 2009 by Rob | Posted under drakensberg, geryl, suicide.
Most major newspapers had an article on the new 2012 movie when it opened recently. The Spectator ends their review with something I found amusing & strangely prophetic:
When the remnant of humanity — and a Noah’s ark sampling of animals — has to be herded into movie’s own, apocalypse-proof arks, it’s Chinese engineering, not American, that proves equal to the task. “Leave it to the Chinese,” says somebody. “I didn’t think we could do it in the time available.” That sounds to me like a self-fulfilling prophecy. For a start, all our best technical talent has given up working on military hardware and is now concentrating on computer-generated imagery.

Suicide
More serious now, the idea of 2012-related suicide. Tens of millions of people will enjoy the movie for what it is – popcorn entertainment. A few will unfortunately consider it to be an accurate adepiction of an event that will certainly occur, and decide that it will be all too terrible to deal with. Or they’re already suicidal and the 2012 movie is the tip of the iceberg. Either way, it is almost guaranteed that, sadly, some people will take their lives due to seeing the blockbuster film.
“Two years ago, I got a question a week about it,” said NASA scientist David Morrison, who hosts a website called Ask an Astrobiologist. “Now I’m getting a dozen a day. Two teenagers said they didn’t want to see the end of the world so they were thinking of ending their lives.”
At 2012 Forum a Spanish member recently related how a close friend attempted suicide after watching the 2012 movie:
He saw no way out and now way of saving himself. He decided after he went to the movie why wait to feel the pain or stand in line at the pearly gates when there will be alot of people dieing. … He was in a coma for 3 days and now recovering very well and a group of us has talked to him. He made some points tho.. he said why would you want to try to survive if it will be a nuclear Holocaust.

Geryl
In a plot summary, where Wikipedia describes the end of the 2012 movie, it accurately says:
When the floodwater from the worldwide tsunamis eventually recedes, satellite data shows that Africa rose in relation to sea level, and its Drakensberg mountains are now the highest on the planet.

In my opinion, the plot of 2012 owes a lot to the ideas of Belgian author Patrick Geryl. Not only did he originally advocate the Drakensberg mountains as the best place to survive, he is adamant that a sun-driven pole shift in 2012 will create a tsunami beyond imagination (although his suggestion of a 2km high tsunami is substantially short of Mt Everest…), and that the best way to survive is an indestructible yacht. For more on these ideas, check out his book How To Survive 2012 (no relation to my site, aside from the same desire to survive).
Others agree. Bruce Fenton over at 2012 Rising says:
The most vocal modern researcher of the theory is Patrick Geryl who insists that the Maya and Egyptians new of this phenomenon and predicted it for 21-12-2012. Actually an enormous chunk of the 2012 movie seems to be lifted from his work. For those not familiar with him he states that the safest place on Earth will be the Drakensburg Mountains of South Africa. It is no coincidence then that the closing scenes of the film have the survivors on course for that precise location!

At 2012 Pro, a blog with close connections to Geryl, they say:
What astonished me the most is that the storyline throughout the movie and in very much detail, aligns entirely with the books from Patrick Geryl. Especially The Orion Prophecy and the World Cataclysm in 2012, but also How To Survive 2012 are beyond any doubt the basis for the movie directed my Roland Emmerich. Latest news on this subject is that Geryl is filing a major lawsuit against the Movie Studio and the Director. I’ll certainly keep you posted as soon as news becomes available.

Unfortunately, you can’t copyright ideas. Hollywood can steal ideas from any non-fiction book they like.
While we are on this topic, I reckon the story for 2012 originated in this sequence:
- they heard of 2012 and thought “end of the world”, brilliant!
- they did a Google search
- they found Survive 2012, and the idea of a pole shift (not a stretch, there were few sites on this topic back then, and mine was pretty much the only one to mention a pole shift in 2012)
- they bought some books, including Geryl’s
Good on them.

Related posts:

  1. Patrick Geryl Discovers Labyrinth in Egypt
  2. Japanese Movie Features 2012 Comet
  3. South Africa 2012 Community – Survival Has Begun!
  4. Another 2012 movie!
  5. Patrick Geryl Interview Video

Comments

4 Responses to “2012 Movie: Geryl, Suicide & the Chinese”
  1. NOW&ZEN says:
    November 27, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    The movie is just another atempt by Follywood to flease us of our money. It is al BS and just comes from the list of sure money makers. How much sincerity have we seen from Follywood lately just a steady stream of there jaded afairs and drug taking. These people are loosers living off illusions of there publisity agents misrepresentations of there caracter. Some can actually act and our decent people but the tug of big money overwhelms there need for integrity as there job becomes a reminder of the work of our politicians.

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  2. The Endlight Event - 2012 says:
    November 28, 2009 at 7:24 am

    Sensible and interesting views on the psychology of entering and experiencing a possible ELE. The disaster aspect of the 2012 movie does not however really agree with the Mayan prediction of what will actually transpire on 12/21/2012 written on their Monument 6. That glyphic message should not inspire suicide or other self-destructive actions. Oh, NOW&ZEN get a dictionary. You've got at least 9 spelling and grammatical errors in that short comment. Grow a spellchecker.

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  3. Tom says:
    November 28, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    Perhaps my expectations were too high, but the movie was so disappointing, the plot is so poor, that not even sparse references to the mayas or to the reasons of all the destruction, not even the great special effects were enough to make me like it.
    It was a waste of time, another hollywood movie made to get our money, inconsequential and non-sense.

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  4. voice of reason says:
    April 6, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    i think people are trying to take too much out of this movie. besides the mayans didn’t put on their calendar “this is the end”. only that different astronomical events are supposed to happen around that time. its just a movie enjoy it.

    just throwing this out there but is the whole neurons from the sun thing even plausible?

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