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So what aspect of Mayan culture could have been expounded upon ?

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oscar

In Reply to: RE: Apocalypto...opportunity squandered posted by DWPC on June 22, 2007 at 10:58:04

I'm not sure how much they could have rolled into the movie given the movie was from the point of view of the "victims". I'd have to do some research to evaluate the historical authenticity of the movie.

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I agree the chase scenes, post grievous injury) were a bit much... It might have been more believable if the injury hadn't been so seemingly severe. Even so, not being about to lose the pursuers in the jungle, especially at night....

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Geez...just pick one - DWPC 14:34:22 06/26/07 (1)
Religion. Social structure. Economy. Warfare. Aside from the chase, what the hell was Apocalypto about? And at that, a chase that anyone who made Second Class Scout would rip apart technically? A huge civilization that captures sacrificial victims but the happy forest dwellers are oblivious to it? Fleeting glimpses of a complex Mayan culture as we're taken through the market? That's it? Gibson just a provided few enticing crumbs to fulfill the exotic theme he promised, then moved on to a standard formula action movie.

I'd like him to have explored the irony of a culture that, on one hand, had the only indegenous written language in the Western Hemisphere, high art, and a sophisticated economy, but on the other had wholesale human sacrifice at the center of its value system and didn't perceive the wheel as a tool.
- Sounds like you want a National Geographic special than an action/adventure movie. - oscar 06:20:08 06/27/07 (0)
  You are right Mel glossed over Mayan culture in favor of portraying the primitive life in the jungle and tossing in a wildly unlikely chase scene. I'm not sure how else you make this movie while making it exciting. Perhaps a Middle Class Mayan family force by injustice to flee into the jungles ? Maybe not a enough blood for Mel.

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