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1 DECEMBER 2006.- MEL GIBSON TALKS WITH "PIOLIN"
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"El Show de Piolin", Mel Gibson
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1 DECEMBER 2006.- APOCALYPTO, NEW FILM CLIPS
NEW! Four Film Clips From Mel Gibson's Apocalypto.
Touchstone Pictures has supplied the IESB with four film clips from Mel Gibson's highly anticipated film Apocalypto.
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Touchstone Pictures has supplied the IESB with four film clips from Mel Gibson's highly anticipated film Apocalypto.
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2 DECEMBER 2006.- PREMIERE OF "APOCALYPTO" AT TRIBAL CASINO
From www.KSWO.com
Yesterday an enthusiastic audience at one of Oklahoma's largest American Indian casinos got an early look at, "Apocalypto".
Neither Gibson, who arrived at the casino in a sport utility vehicle, nor two of the film's stars took questions from reporters before settling in for the screening at the Chickasaw Nation's Riverwind Casino. A scheduled news conference was canceled.
Chickasaw Governor Bill Anoatubby says Gibson's effort to employ indigenous people for his cast makes the film more authentic and serves helps aspiring Indian actors.
Tickets to the premiere were 55 dollars. Gibson matched the proceeds, which are going to American Indian health organizations and charities.
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2 DECEMBER 2006.- GOOD REVIEWS FROM CRITICS
From The Daily Telegraph.
MEL Gibson's new movie Apocalypto drew several good early reviews today from critics who cautioned the thriller set against the end of an ancient Mayan civilisation is also extremely violent.
"Blood-and-guts action audiences should eat this up," said show business newspaper Daily Variety.
"Despite the subject's inherent spectacle, conflict and societal interest, Central America's pre-Columbian history has scarcely been touched by filmmakers," writes Variety critic Todd McCarthy, who also called the film "remarkable."
Another veteran critic, Maxim magazine's Pete Hammond, said he was "blown away by the filmmaking."
"Say what you will about Mel Gibson, but the guy knows how to get the goods up on the screen," Hammond said. "It's a chase movie; it's an action movie ... it's extremely violent. . At it's heart, this is a pure action movie,"
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3 DECEMBER 2006.- AMERICAN INDIANS HAIL "APOCALYPTO" CAST
Mel Gibson's effort to find an indigenous cast for his new movie "Apocalypto," which depicts the end of the Mayan civilization, is drawing praise from American Indian leaders.
Gibson wanted an indigenous cast for the project, so the filmmakers found people from the Yucatan, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Xalapa, Veracruz and other spots. Two of the cast members are from the United States, three are from Canada and the rest hail from Central America.
"It is very important to note that Mr. Gibson has gone to great lengths to cast indigenous people in this film," Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby said. "This not only helps make the film more realistic, it serves as an inspiration to Native American actors who aspire to perform relevant roles in the film industry."
Gibson screened the movie Friday for a sold-out audience at Chickasaw Nation's Riverwind Casino. Tickets were $55, proceeds going to American Indian health organizations and charities.
Actors from the movie "Apocalypto" Raoul Trujillo, left, and Rudy Youngblood, right, visit's Riverwind Casino for a special benefit event and screening of the movie, Friday.
Rudy Youngblood, who makes his acting debut as Jaguar Paw, and Raoul Trujillo, who portrays Zero Wolf, arrived in sports utility vehicles and stood on Riverwind's version of the red carpet _ a black carpet that led into the theater _ to pose for photographers.
Youngblood, a powwow dancer, singer and artist, told reporters he was just there to enjoy the movie, which opens in theaters Dec. 8.
From www.casperstartribune.com
Mel Gibson's effort to find an indigenous cast for his new movie "Apocalypto," which depicts the end of the Mayan civilization, is drawing praise from American Indian leaders. |
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Actors from the movie "Apocalypto" Raoul Trujillo, left, and Rudy Youngblood, right, visit's Riverwind Casino for a special benefit event and screening of the movie, Friday. |
Rudy Youngblood, who makes his acting debut as Jaguar Paw, and Raoul Trujillo, who portrays Zero Wolf, arrived in sports utility vehicles and stood on Riverwind's version of the red carpet _ a black carpet that led into the theater _ to pose for photographers.
Youngblood, a powwow dancer, singer and artist, told reporters he was just there to enjoy the movie, which opens in theaters Dec. 8.
From www.casperstartribune.com
3 DECEMBER 2006.- THE TONIGHT SHOW
Actor-director Mel Gibson is scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, airing 12:35 a.m. Thursday.
4 DECEMBER 2006.- APOCALYPTO, NEW TV SPOT!!!
From www.comingsoon.net
Exclusive Apocalypto TV Spot!
ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at a new TV spot for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, in theaters this Friday, December 8.
SEE SPOT Click Here
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5 DECEMBER 2006.- APOCALYPTO, A REVIEW
We post some paragraphs extracted from a review.
Source: JoBlo.com
Despite his current negative status in Hollywood, this Mel Gibson guy isn't a bad filmmaker. APOCALYPTO was an unexpected surprise. I had no idea what I was getting into and based on the trailers, the movie looked more like THE NEW WORLD (which sucked) and something out of a National Geographic special. But it wasn't! Instead, we got a little of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, mixed in with a bit of DANCES WITH WOLVES and a dash of FIRST BLOOD to finish it off and…BOOM! We have a great film here folks! Even the subtitles didn't bother me...in fact, they enhanced the movie even more (the entire film is subtitled as the characters all speak in ancient Mayan).
All the characters were great and engaging. Every character was so interesting by the way they spoke to each other and wore their ornaments, hair, make-up and weapons. You could probably make individual movies with each of these characters. Just one look at them and you can see their story. The fact that Gibson didn't use any recognizable actors made the film that much better as it certainly didn't need any star power to push this film and it made the film more authentic.
"APOCALYPTO", DALIA HERNANDEZ
Mel Gibson is a great storyteller. I was glued to the screen the whole time and there was never a dull moment. I'm assuming Gibson did his homework for the details of the Mayan Civilization to enhance the storyline's authenticity, as my knowledge for Mayan history is pretty limited. He managed to re-create this amazing civilization that was mesmerizing and brutal. It felt like I was learning a piece of history first hand, which made the movie that much more interesting. Obviously, I can't take everything I saw on face value as I'm pretty confident there was a bit of Hollywood thrown in there, not to mention that I'm sure there will be a whole bunch of historians disagreeing with the content of the film, but even if there were discrepancies, I didn't see them and I wouldn't care if there were any, anyway!
Well...Gibson is now officially on a roll when it comes to making great films. This is an amazing motion picture that's entertaining and mesmerizing and please don't let the subtitles turn you off. In this case, they really do make the movie better! By the way, it is a very graphic film (spoiler).......Very disturbing and mind-blowing stuff! So if that kind of content turns you off, maybe sit this one out. But despite the graphicness, the film does deliver!
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Positive buzz from screenings has convinced the studio to expand Friday's opening from 2,000 screens to 2,500 nationwide.
Source: JoBlo.com
Despite his current negative status in Hollywood, this Mel Gibson guy isn't a bad filmmaker. APOCALYPTO was an unexpected surprise. I had no idea what I was getting into and based on the trailers, the movie looked more like THE NEW WORLD (which sucked) and something out of a National Geographic special. But it wasn't! Instead, we got a little of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, mixed in with a bit of DANCES WITH WOLVES and a dash of FIRST BLOOD to finish it off and…BOOM! We have a great film here folks! Even the subtitles didn't bother me...in fact, they enhanced the movie even more (the entire film is subtitled as the characters all speak in ancient Mayan).
All the characters were great and engaging. Every character was so interesting by the way they spoke to each other and wore their ornaments, hair, make-up and weapons. You could probably make individual movies with each of these characters. Just one look at them and you can see their story. The fact that Gibson didn't use any recognizable actors made the film that much better as it certainly didn't need any star power to push this film and it made the film more authentic.
"APOCALYPTO", DALIA HERNANDEZ |
Mel Gibson is a great storyteller. I was glued to the screen the whole time and there was never a dull moment. I'm assuming Gibson did his homework for the details of the Mayan Civilization to enhance the storyline's authenticity, as my knowledge for Mayan history is pretty limited. He managed to re-create this amazing civilization that was mesmerizing and brutal. It felt like I was learning a piece of history first hand, which made the movie that much more interesting. Obviously, I can't take everything I saw on face value as I'm pretty confident there was a bit of Hollywood thrown in there, not to mention that I'm sure there will be a whole bunch of historians disagreeing with the content of the film, but even if there were discrepancies, I didn't see them and I wouldn't care if there were any, anyway!
Well...Gibson is now officially on a roll when it comes to making great films. This is an amazing motion picture that's entertaining and mesmerizing and please don't let the subtitles turn you off. In this case, they really do make the movie better! By the way, it is a very graphic film (spoiler).......Very disturbing and mind-blowing stuff! So if that kind of content turns you off, maybe sit this one out. But despite the graphicness, the film does deliver!
Positive buzz from screenings has convinced the studio to expand Friday's opening from 2,000 screens to 2,500 nationwide.
6 DECEMBER 2006.- TODAY´S MAYA AND APOCALYPTO
"APOCALYPTO", RUDY YOUNGBLOOD
Source: Orlando Sentinel.com
Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construction camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned.
Some Mayas are excited at the prospect of the first feature film made in their native tongue, Yucatec Maya. But others among the 800,000 surviving Mayans are worried that Gibson's hyper-violent, apocalyptic film could be just the latest misreading of their culture by outsiders.
"There has been a lot of concern among Mayan groups from Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, because we don't know what his treatment or take on this is going to be," said Amadeo Cool May of the Indian defense group "Mayaon," or "We are Maya."
"This could be an attempt to merchandize or sell the image of a culture, or its people, that often differs from what that people needs, or wants," Cool May said.
Gibson employed Mayas, most of whom live on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, in the filming of the movie, and says he wants to make the Mayan language "cool" again, and encourage young people "to speak it with pride."
The film has been screened for some U.S. Indians, who praised the use of Indian actors. The Mayas haven't seen it yet, but like Indians north of the border, they have seen others co-opt their culture, as in high-class Caribbean resorts like the Maya Coast and the Maya Riviera.
But Indians are largely absent from those beach resorts, where vacationers tour mock Mayan Villages or watch culturally inaccurate mishmashes with "Mayan Dancers" performing in feather headdresses and face paint.
"The owners are often foreigners who buy up the land at ridiculously low prices, build tourism resorts and the Mayas in reality are often just the construction workers for the hotels or, at best, are employed as chamber maids," said Cool May.
"Apocalypto" also portrays Mayan civilization at a low moment, just before the Spaniards arrived, when declining, quarreling Mayan groups were focused more on war and human sacrifice than on the calendars and writing system of the civilization's bloody but brilliant classical period.
Outsiders' views of the Maya have long been subject to changing intellectual fashions. Until the 1950s, academics often depicted the ancient Mayas as an idyllic, peaceful culture devoted to astronomy and mathematics. Evidence has since emerged that, even at their height, the Mayas fought bloody and sometimes apocalyptic wars among themselves, lending somewhat more credence to Gibson's approach.
Warrior-kings and priests directed periodic wars among the ancient Maya aimed at capturing slaves or prisoners for labor or human sacrifice. Entire cities were destroyed by the wars, and whole forests cut down to build the temples.
The latest trendy theory is a largely Internet-based rumor that the Mayan long-count calendar predicts a global calamity on Dec. 22, 2012. Some have woven that together with prophecies from the Bible.
Mauricio Amuy, a non-Maya actor who participated in the filming of Apocalypto, says the production staff discussed the theory on the set.
"We know the Bible talks about prophecies, and that the Mayas spoke of a change of energy on Dec. 22, 2012, and it (the movie) is somewhat focused on that," Amuy said. "People should perhaps take that theory and reflect, and not do these things that are destroying humanity."
While they resisted the Spanish conquest longer than most Indians -- the Mayas' last rebellion, the War of the Castes, lasted until 1901 -- many were virtually enslaved until the early 1900s on plantations growing sisal, used for rope-making, or in the jungle, tapping gum trees. Discrimination and poverty are probably their greatest enemies today.
Just as Gibson's use of Aramaic in "The Passion of Christ" sparked a burst of interest in that language, some Maya are hoping "Apocalypto" will do the same for their tongue.
"I think it is a good chance to integrate the Mayan language ... for people to hear it in movies, on television, everywhere," said Hilaria Maas, a Maya who teaches the language at Yucatan's state university.
Maas, 65, recalls that children were once prohibited from speaking Maya in school. There is still little bilingual education, and many of those who speak Maya can't read it.
One sign of progress is Yucatan radio station XEPET, "The Voice of the Mayas," which began broadcasting in the Indian language in 1982. While it began with a mixed Spanish-Maya patois, it now broadcasts in 90 percent pure Maya.
The station is trying to purge words borrowed from Spanish and revive a purer form of Maya. It broadcasts all sorts of music -- from rock to rap to reggae -- with Mayan lyrics.
"For tourists that's what sells ... what catches their attention are the archaeological sites," said Diana Canto, director of the Yucatan Institute for the Development of Maya Culture. "We are trying to sell them on the living Mayas too, so that people get to know their cultural richness."
Today's Maya are known mainly for their elaborate rhyming jokes, a cuisine based on pumpkin and achiote seeds, and loose embroidered white clothing. They're largely peaceful farmers and masons who carry their goods on ubiquitous three-wheeled bicycles over table-flat Yucatan.
Interestingly, some Mayas reach much the same conclusion as Gibson's movie, which focuses on one man's struggle to save his family as a metaphor for saving the future of a people.
"Our culture hasn't been destroyed, because the family is the base of it," says Maas. "Perhaps some material things have been destroyed, but the real basis of the culture is what a family teaches their children, and that survives, and has survived."
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Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construction camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned.
Some Mayas are excited at the prospect of the first feature film made in their native tongue, Yucatec Maya. But others among the 800,000 surviving Mayans are worried that Gibson's hyper-violent, apocalyptic film could be just the latest misreading of their culture by outsiders.
"There has been a lot of concern among Mayan groups from Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, because we don't know what his treatment or take on this is going to be," said Amadeo Cool May of the Indian defense group "Mayaon," or "We are Maya."
"This could be an attempt to merchandize or sell the image of a culture, or its people, that often differs from what that people needs, or wants," Cool May said.
Gibson employed Mayas, most of whom live on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, in the filming of the movie, and says he wants to make the Mayan language "cool" again, and encourage young people "to speak it with pride."
The film has been screened for some U.S. Indians, who praised the use of Indian actors. The Mayas haven't seen it yet, but like Indians north of the border, they have seen others co-opt their culture, as in high-class Caribbean resorts like the Maya Coast and the Maya Riviera.
But Indians are largely absent from those beach resorts, where vacationers tour mock Mayan Villages or watch culturally inaccurate mishmashes with "Mayan Dancers" performing in feather headdresses and face paint.
"The owners are often foreigners who buy up the land at ridiculously low prices, build tourism resorts and the Mayas in reality are often just the construction workers for the hotels or, at best, are employed as chamber maids," said Cool May.
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"Apocalypto" also portrays Mayan civilization at a low moment, just before the Spaniards arrived, when declining, quarreling Mayan groups were focused more on war and human sacrifice than on the calendars and writing system of the civilization's bloody but brilliant classical period.
Outsiders' views of the Maya have long been subject to changing intellectual fashions. Until the 1950s, academics often depicted the ancient Mayas as an idyllic, peaceful culture devoted to astronomy and mathematics. Evidence has since emerged that, even at their height, the Mayas fought bloody and sometimes apocalyptic wars among themselves, lending somewhat more credence to Gibson's approach.
Warrior-kings and priests directed periodic wars among the ancient Maya aimed at capturing slaves or prisoners for labor or human sacrifice. Entire cities were destroyed by the wars, and whole forests cut down to build the temples.
The latest trendy theory is a largely Internet-based rumor that the Mayan long-count calendar predicts a global calamity on Dec. 22, 2012. Some have woven that together with prophecies from the Bible.
Mauricio Amuy, a non-Maya actor who participated in the filming of Apocalypto, says the production staff discussed the theory on the set.
"We know the Bible talks about prophecies, and that the Mayas spoke of a change of energy on Dec. 22, 2012, and it (the movie) is somewhat focused on that," Amuy said. "People should perhaps take that theory and reflect, and not do these things that are destroying humanity."
While they resisted the Spanish conquest longer than most Indians -- the Mayas' last rebellion, the War of the Castes, lasted until 1901 -- many were virtually enslaved until the early 1900s on plantations growing sisal, used for rope-making, or in the jungle, tapping gum trees. Discrimination and poverty are probably their greatest enemies today.
Just as Gibson's use of Aramaic in "The Passion of Christ" sparked a burst of interest in that language, some Maya are hoping "Apocalypto" will do the same for their tongue.
"I think it is a good chance to integrate the Mayan language ... for people to hear it in movies, on television, everywhere," said Hilaria Maas, a Maya who teaches the language at Yucatan's state university.
Maas, 65, recalls that children were once prohibited from speaking Maya in school. There is still little bilingual education, and many of those who speak Maya can't read it.
One sign of progress is Yucatan radio station XEPET, "The Voice of the Mayas," which began broadcasting in the Indian language in 1982. While it began with a mixed Spanish-Maya patois, it now broadcasts in 90 percent pure Maya.
The station is trying to purge words borrowed from Spanish and revive a purer form of Maya. It broadcasts all sorts of music -- from rock to rap to reggae -- with Mayan lyrics.
"For tourists that's what sells ... what catches their attention are the archaeological sites," said Diana Canto, director of the Yucatan Institute for the Development of Maya Culture. "We are trying to sell them on the living Mayas too, so that people get to know their cultural richness."
Today's Maya are known mainly for their elaborate rhyming jokes, a cuisine based on pumpkin and achiote seeds, and loose embroidered white clothing. They're largely peaceful farmers and masons who carry their goods on ubiquitous three-wheeled bicycles over table-flat Yucatan.
Interestingly, some Mayas reach much the same conclusion as Gibson's movie, which focuses on one man's struggle to save his family as a metaphor for saving the future of a people.
"Our culture hasn't been destroyed, because the family is the base of it," says Maas. "Perhaps some material things have been destroyed, but the real basis of the culture is what a family teaches their children, and that survives, and has survived."
6 DECEMBER 2006.-VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!. MAURICIO AMUY, THE MISSING???
PLEASE, READ IT!!!!
The Question: TRUE or FALSE??? THE ANSWER: TRUE.
Was the first trailer of Apocalypto a STUPID joke???
Did Amuy "star" in the conspiracy?
And you can add MANOLO GALVAN (the High Priest) to this list!!!.
By the way, WE WANT PUBLICLY TO THANK THOSE GUYS AND THEIR AGENTS FOR LYING AND MOCKING US (we got a great collection of e-mails sent by those kind persons) AND, OF COURSE, WE HAVE TO THANK THE "AUTHOR" OF THIS SILLY AND UNFORGIVABLE TEASER TRAILER. THANKS, WE´LL NEVER FORGET IT. PLEASE, NEXT TIME REMEMBER: WE ARE EUROPEANS, NOT "GILIPOLLAS" !!!!.
The following article has been published by "Al Día" (Costa Rica)
You can translate the text HERE
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"AMUY BORRADO DE APOCALYPTO (AMUY "ERASED" FROM APOCALYPTO)
Mauricio Amuy no aparece ni en los créditos de extra en la película de Mel Gibson.
Todo el mundo está confundido, hasta el mismo actor costarricense Mauricio Amuy, quien se proclamó por mucho tiempo el protagonista de la película “Apocalypto” de Mel Gibson.
Ahora Amuy no aparece en ningún crédito, ni siquiera como un extra en esa producción.
“Es muy raro, porque a la empresa Icon, de Mel Gibson, siempre me indicó que yo era el actor principal”, aseguró Amuy vía telefónica desde México.
Si bien es cierto el actor apareció en el “trailer” (video promocional) de la cinta, en la página www.imdb.com, una respetada base de datos cinematográfica, no está por ningún lado, como que se lo tragó la tierra.
“Ellos me tiene que explicar, porque ahora los protagonistas son un indio americano y dos canadienses. Aquí en México la gente está muy molesta, porque el asunto de los mayas es delicado”, aseguró Amuy.
Habría que ver cuando Gibson de su versión oficial quien estará mintiendo, si él o Amuy. ¿Quién habló de más?"
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The Question: TRUE or FALSE??? THE ANSWER: TRUE.
Was the first trailer of Apocalypto a STUPID joke???
Did Amuy "star" in the conspiracy?
And you can add MANOLO GALVAN (the High Priest) to this list!!!.
By the way, WE WANT PUBLICLY TO THANK THOSE GUYS AND THEIR AGENTS FOR LYING AND MOCKING US (we got a great collection of e-mails sent by those kind persons) AND, OF COURSE, WE HAVE TO THANK THE "AUTHOR" OF THIS SILLY AND UNFORGIVABLE TEASER TRAILER. THANKS, WE´LL NEVER FORGET IT. PLEASE, NEXT TIME REMEMBER: WE ARE EUROPEANS, NOT "GILIPOLLAS" !!!!.
The following article has been published by "Al Día" (Costa Rica)
You can translate the text HERE
"AMUY BORRADO DE APOCALYPTO (AMUY "ERASED" FROM APOCALYPTO)
Mauricio Amuy no aparece ni en los créditos de extra en la película de Mel Gibson.
Todo el mundo está confundido, hasta el mismo actor costarricense Mauricio Amuy, quien se proclamó por mucho tiempo el protagonista de la película “Apocalypto” de Mel Gibson.
Ahora Amuy no aparece en ningún crédito, ni siquiera como un extra en esa producción.
“Es muy raro, porque a la empresa Icon, de Mel Gibson, siempre me indicó que yo era el actor principal”, aseguró Amuy vía telefónica desde México.
Si bien es cierto el actor apareció en el “trailer” (video promocional) de la cinta, en la página www.imdb.com, una respetada base de datos cinematográfica, no está por ningún lado, como que se lo tragó la tierra.
“Ellos me tiene que explicar, porque ahora los protagonistas son un indio americano y dos canadienses. Aquí en México la gente está muy molesta, porque el asunto de los mayas es delicado”, aseguró Amuy.
Habría que ver cuando Gibson de su versión oficial quien estará mintiendo, si él o Amuy. ¿Quién habló de más?"
8 DECEMBER 2006.- THE DISCONTENTED
Source: World Entertainment News Network
New Mel Gibson movie Apocalypto has come under fire from indigenous Guatemalans for "stereotyping" the Mayan Empire as "savage" and "brutal."
Apocalypto is set in the twilight years of the Mayan civilization, which peaked in the eighth century, and although only the movie's trailer has been shown in Guatemala, human rights activists are up in arms.
Lucio Yaxon, who works to help the 50 percent of Guatamalans descending from the Maya, says, "The director is saying the Mayans are savages."
Ignacio Ochoa, director of the Nahual Foundation that promotes Mayan culture, adds, "Gibson replays… an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans and thus they deserved, in fact, needed, rescue."
But Richard Hansen, who worked as consultant archaeologist on the project, insists Gibson went to extreme lengths to ensure his film was historically accurate.
Apocalypto is set in the twilight years of the Mayan civilization, which peaked in the eighth century, and although only the movie's trailer has been shown in Guatemala, human rights activists are up in arms.
Lucio Yaxon, who works to help the 50 percent of Guatamalans descending from the Maya, says, "The director is saying the Mayans are savages."
Ignacio Ochoa, director of the Nahual Foundation that promotes Mayan culture, adds, "Gibson replays… an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans and thus they deserved, in fact, needed, rescue."
But Richard Hansen, who worked as consultant archaeologist on the project, insists Gibson went to extreme lengths to ensure his film was historically accurate.
8 DECEMBER 2006.- GIBSON TOLD LENO
Mel Gibson told Jay Leno on NBC's "Tonight" that he has been "overwhelmed by understanding" since his notorious California drunk driving arrest.
The Oscar-winning directcor and star of "Braveheart" told Leno he is not nervous about reappearing in public.
"No. Not nervous," he said. "Got to be done. Got to stick one foot in front of the other."
Mel Gibson told Jay Leno on NBC's "Tonight" that he has been "overwhelmed by understanding" since his notorious California drunk driving arrest.
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8 DECEMBER 2006.- "APOCALYPTO" OPENS TODAY!!!
MEL GIBSON AND RUDY YOUNGBLOOD
Source: Gannett News Service
Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" is a fascinating, violent and visceral adventure, set amid the jungles and giant stone pyramids of the ancient Mayan culture. And, as he did in "The Passion of the Christ," Gibson has his characters speaking an approximation of what they originally spoke, with subtitles for those of us who don't speak Mayan.
Unlike "The Passion," "Apocalypto" carries no political and religious baggage
In truth, it's an engrossing, endlessly moving, action film, made more enthralling by its exotic time and locales, and by the realistic portrayals of a cast entirely made up of Mexican and North American Indians. Two, in particular, leave a lasting impression -- Native American Rudy Youngblood as Jaguar Paw, the hero of the adventure; and Raoul Trujillo of New Mexico as Zero Wolf, the fierce warrior chieftain who pursues Jaguar Paw relentlessly....(Spoiler)
Whatever else you may think about Gibson, the man is undeniably a first-rate filmmaker. He makes movies that move, that stir passions and keep filmgoers on the edges of their seats. Undeniably violent, "Apocalypto" matches the intensity and visceral excitement of both "Braveheart" and "The Passion," and provides daring filmgoers a bona fide original film experience.
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FOR "RL", "DP", "AM" and "JC"
GOOD LUCK!!!
MEL GIBSON AND RUDY YOUNGBLOOD |
Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" is a fascinating, violent and visceral adventure, set amid the jungles and giant stone pyramids of the ancient Mayan culture. And, as he did in "The Passion of the Christ," Gibson has his characters speaking an approximation of what they originally spoke, with subtitles for those of us who don't speak Mayan.
Unlike "The Passion," "Apocalypto" carries no political and religious baggage
In truth, it's an engrossing, endlessly moving, action film, made more enthralling by its exotic time and locales, and by the realistic portrayals of a cast entirely made up of Mexican and North American Indians. Two, in particular, leave a lasting impression -- Native American Rudy Youngblood as Jaguar Paw, the hero of the adventure; and Raoul Trujillo of New Mexico as Zero Wolf, the fierce warrior chieftain who pursues Jaguar Paw relentlessly....(Spoiler)
Whatever else you may think about Gibson, the man is undeniably a first-rate filmmaker. He makes movies that move, that stir passions and keep filmgoers on the edges of their seats. Undeniably violent, "Apocalypto" matches the intensity and visceral excitement of both "Braveheart" and "The Passion," and provides daring filmgoers a bona fide original film experience.
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FOR "RL", "DP", "AM" and "JC"
GOOD LUCK!!!
FOR "RL", "DP", "AM" and "JC"
GOOD LUCK!!!
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