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Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (It's about the Mayan Civilization)
Javier:
--- Quote from: Javy on January 04, 2006, 12:06:13 PM ---http://apocalypto.movies.go.com/ -View the Teaser Trailer here.
the film is set 600 years ago in Central America, before the Spanish conquest, in the midst of the mysterious decline of the Mayan civilization. Dialogue will be spoken in the obscure Mayan dialect of Yucatec
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J @ M @ L:
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 05, 2006, 07:51:10 PM ---
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on January 05, 2006, 05:30:45 PM ---I wonder how accurately he's going to portray the Mayans.
He could portray them in a certain light that would put forth the "Christianity came to civilize these people" image...
Anyways, I hope this movie is as good as "Passion of Christ"
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I don't think it's going to involve any western arrival from what I understand. From what I've read it's going to be entirely in mayan (or whatever the name of the language is).
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Yeah I know... but if he puts them in a bad light... or tries to portray them as savages or something... then the idea of Christians settling and bringing with them the ways of the "civilized" is kinda implied... you feel me?
Anyways... I think he did a great job with "Passion"... and hopefully this will be on that level.
Shallow:
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on January 05, 2006, 10:40:03 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 05, 2006, 07:51:10 PM ---
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on January 05, 2006, 05:30:45 PM ---I wonder how accurately he's going to portray the Mayans.
He could portray them in a certain light that would put forth the "Christianity came to civilize these people" image...
Anyways, I hope this movie is as good as "Passion of Christ"
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I don't think it's going to involve any western arrival from what I understand. From what I've read it's going to be entirely in mayan (or whatever the name of the language is).
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Yeah I know... but if he puts them in a bad light... or tries to portray them as savages or something... then the idea of Christians settling and bringing with them the ways of the "civilized" is kinda implied... you feel me?
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Yeah if he does that then it will take away from the film and make it seem like more "Gibson Bible pushing". I think the only way he can do something like that and salvage it long term would be if his next movie were to be about a Christian civilization that fell through savage ideals and forgetting the essence of what you believe. Then you could at least argue that the Mayans had it fine but went astray like Rome or who ever did. Of course I don't know enough about the Mayans toknow if that is even logical. I guess we'll have to see when te movie comes out.
Shallow:
--- Quote from: Javy on January 05, 2006, 08:57:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: Javy on January 04, 2006, 12:06:13 PM ---http://apocalypto.movies.go.com/ -View the Teaser Trailer here.
the film is set 600 years ago in Central America, before the Spanish conquest, in the midst of the mysterious decline of the Mayan civilization. Dialogue will be spoken in the obscure Mayan dialect of Yucatec
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I just read that the civilization went under in 800 or 900 AD, so is it goign to take place in 1400, or in 800?
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