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ORIGINAL: SirDiscipliner69

Should Mayan people be concerned about the way Mel Gibson's Apocalypto film portrays them in declining civiliation just before Spain arrived to "save them" when they were involved with war and human sacrifice?

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ORIGINAL: LordODiscipline

Reminds me of the Geico advertisements with the Neanderthals who are complaining about being characterized as socially and technologically backward and rather stupid and hte offense they are taking.
 

~J
 

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

What on earth for, and even more to the point who gives a fuck if they do?

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

Its not the financial gain that would annoy me.

Its the forcing of the notion of Christianity as the sole, be all and end all, true religion in the world, down the throats of the largely ignorant and impressionable masses. (Abeit that I guess there wont be too many car chases and 'copter mounted machine guns in this particular production.)

I have no problem with proselytyzing(sp?) as such, but this sounds like more of the same insanely zealous evangelical nonsense as The Passion from our Mel; influencing the weak minded and ignorant to join the flock out of gratitude for the lifting of evil which Christianity is portrayed to accomplish. Strange how such films get made during a time when insane zealotry against another faith is required....

If I only had the money, I'd finance a film to show how the peoples of northern Europe were converted to the "true faith" through the "merciful compassion of revelatory preaching" through extreme violence, threats, maimings, torture, theft, destruction and murder. Maybe that would help to redress the balance on this issue.

But then again, I hope most people can see fascism in action when they see it, and will reject it, wondering alike with so many how the teachings attributed to Jesus of Nazareth can have come to be abused and twisted into such a worldview.

E

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Well, I finally saw the movie.  It's actually not as bad as I was fearing (the promotion of Christianity is not overt; in fact, the hero turns away from the arriving Spanish at the end, and is implicitly lauded for it), but there are all kinds of historical inaccuracies.  The Wikipedia article points out many of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto#Mesoamerican_history

Edited to add: I'm also very dubious that the Mayans used poison dart frogs (that's more typical of the Amazon region), but I don't know enough about this to say for sure.

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ORIGINAL: Daddysredhead

*wonders how many Mayans would go to the movies to see the movie*  [sm=confused.gif]  

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ORIGINAL: SirDiscipliner69

I am sure not every movie has been produced wit authentic historical accuracies...might not be for an exciting movie.

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

The best "Old World meets New World" movie I've ever seen is Black Robes.  The Mission was very good too.

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ORIGINAL: LordODiscipline

PS: LadyEllen - it is a sad commentary that you should have to delineate about which 'Constantine' you were referring to - although, I that cracked me up to the point where the girl actually asked what was 'so funny'.

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Given that the average example of the american sheeple WOULD assume she was talking about the bastardization of the comic book character which Reeves raped with a serrated spiral bladed rusty iron dildo in that movie and would be confused about what Keanu had to do with the Roman Empire ... yes,  it IS a sad commentary.