>What I think about every time I think of this movie is, "Okay, so he was 12,000 years old at the time of Christ". He lived then - now 6 times, and then then-now again.
In the movie he claimed to have been Christ, which that experience put him off trying to do anything really public to try to help people.
Ok I didn't think that was a spoiler, pretty common for the genre, the immortal guy has been someone important in the past. I think there would be only one real spoiler plot wise that you don't see coming.
In the movie he claimed to have been Christ, which that experience put him off trying to do anything really public to try to help people.
By the way it was written by Jerome Bixby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bixby who also wrote the Star Trek episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_Methuselah which had to some extent the same premise (although a much younger immortal)
on edit: oops, I see diggernet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31454792 already mentioned the Requiem for Methuselah.