Wagon wheel
It was (since it was not yet filmed) the year M.A.C (Way Before Christ) when the young Manuel Cro-Magnon was running (also) through the thick French steppes eager to make a great discovery. The Magnon family has always been populated by great personalities of the prehistoric intellectual avant-garde. Great celebrities such as Èmile Fua-Magnon, discoverer of fire, or Adèle Moi-Magnon, creator of the first advanced prototype of toothpicks, swell the list of achievements of this prolific family, without a doubt, the most ahead of its time, although, really, it was the only existing family on the surface of the planet.
Since then and until today, the presence of this invention in our daily lives is essential.
Currently we do not conceive our environment ignoring the presence of the wheel and everything that it entails. From the smallest rotors of micro-surgery instruments to Belén Rueda herself, her very concept of existence would be altered.
Without the invention, the huge stones of the Egyptian pyramids could not have been easily transported. They would probably have rolled the stones over the thousands of slaves picking up the last one and bringing him to the front row again to continue... well, anyway, you know...
The huge medieval caravans transporting wool to the fairs would be very long lines of men carrying bundles of this fabric on their backs, which in a few generations would have made us quadrupedal animals again. (Joke for evolutionists).
And the seventh art? How would we shoot movies without film wheels?…
But not everything has been advantages. The wheel has brought with it the lineups, with their delays at the airports, the press conferences, with or without a round of questions, the bullfighting arenas with their José Tomás and their Ortega Cano, the incomprehensible proverbs, like God rolling and with the deck giving (or something like that)…
Can you imagine a reconnaissance parallelepiped? Or a press parallelepiped? And go to the bullfighting parallelepiped?... And I don't know about you, but I'm not going to parallelepiped God...