Selene fell in love with him at first sight, but Endymion is a mortal, would eventually die naturally, so Selene asked Zeus to grant Endymion eternal life, but the price was long sleep. , a shepherd in the Mount Latmus of Asia Minor. After a break in the text, Ziusudra is described prostrating himself to the gods An and Enlil, who grant him immortality. He was commanded to build a boat by the god Enki and the tablet describes the flood. His story is known from only a single fragmented tablet datable by its script to the 17th century BC. Ziusudra, the last king of Sumer prior to the Great Flood. These listings are in chronological order, though some dates are approximate. It also does not include people who, according to their religion, became deities or actually were deities the whole time, such as Jesus of Nazareth (who as part of the Trinity was, according to Christianity, also God) or Parashurama according to Hindu mythology. It also does not include people whose immortality involves living in a place not on Earth, such as Heracles on Mount Olympus or the Eight Immortals of Taoism in Mount Penglai. This list does not contain those people who are supposed to have attained immortality through the typical means of a religion, such as a Christian in Heaven. This list comprises people claimed to achieve a deathless existence on Earth. This list does not reference purely spiritual entities (spirits, gods, demons, angels), non-humans ( monsters, aliens, elves), or artificial life ( artificial intelligence, robots). Mind blowingly perfect in every way, "The Immortal Story" is a stream that runs with pure delight, but not in the conventional sense for the delight here is made up of moments that will likely depress and destroy, but also provoke.This is a list of people claimed to be immortal. This is not a ridiculous, over the top melodrama, but rather a slow, Bergmanesque tale of bizarre tragedy. This is an elegant portrait of eccentricity and philosophy, a film about a heavy (in both weight and mind) old man with a slightly deranged way of thinking, and this man is portrayed with all the mumbling might one could expect from one of cinema's main masters, the great Orson Welles! The music accompanies the film perfectly as the tone of Erik Satie's great piano pieces is calm, but slightly sad, which is exactly what I would describe the film surrounding it as. It is a small scale project that has a limited cast and clocks in at only about fifty eight minutes and yet it surpasses a majority of today's huge, two and a half hour long blockbusters. Welles' own narration adds another cryptic layer to the tale, as each and every performance across the board is practically perfect in tone and slight awkwardness. By the end, I nearly shook with a strange feeling of sadness this movie isn't explicitly depressing, but the subtlety only makes it more gloomy and affecting to the (at least REMOTELY) sensitive viewer. The results are quite unconventional and inexplicably melancholic. Based on a work by Karen Blixen (the woman behind the novel "Out of Africa" as well as the novella that inspired one of my favorite movies, "Babette's Feast") this is a strange story of awkward and borderline surreal events when an elderly and powerful trader played by Welles himself declares his preference to facts over fiction, and requests to recreate a tale he hears so it could have truly occurred. Swimming through the dark shores of "The Immortal Story" is a disturbing, twisted, engaging, sad, entertaining, and unique experience. Orson Welles crafted this masterpiece, shot for shot, in a way that flows with an almost poetic rhythm. However, "The Immortal Story" is among the few films that I have seen that seems to have absolutely nothing wrong with it. Admittedly, many of the films that I give a rating of a ten out of ten to on this website are not necessarily deserving of such an honor, and I do abuse such a privilege because I can always find something wrong with even my favorite films (with a couple of exceptions).
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