Question: I was watching The Gods Must Be Crazy and wonder whether you know the location of "the end of the Earth," where the Bushman throws the Coke bottle at the end of the movie. My only guess is that it's somewhere in Africa.
Answer: South African filmmaker Jamie Uys' surprise hit The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981), a comedy in which a discarded Coca-Cola bottle profoundly disrupts the lives of a community of Bushmen, was shot on location in the Kalahari desert. The Kalahari proper covers most of Botswana and extends into the northern end of South Africa and the eastern portion of Namibia; the larger semidesert sand basin of which it's a part stretches into Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The "End of the World" is where the land meets the water, so the place where Xixo (N!xau), the Bushman who ta
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