#Apocalypto historical accuracy series

The plot may be very similar to his others, and the ending is defintely questionable from a moral perspective - but the action scenes were top notch. It was exciting, funny, sad - and not in a preachy way either. STILL, that said, I friggin LOVED the movie. Hell, obviously Passion doesn't entirely fit that - but it IS in subtitles!!! :O) Also, that pretty much describes the plot in Lethal Weapon and Mad Max also. Obviously, they're different settings and such, but they're all about a lead character getting tortured, brutalized, and having his loved ones killed in front of him and then he gets his bloody revenge. 3) If you watch Braveheart, The Patriot, Passion of the Christ, and Apocalypto in the same sitting, it's almost like you're watching the same movie. In Apocalypto, the lead character's father has his throat sliced open, which. Maybe these Indians deserved to die? (That seems to be the 'moral' of the movie, according to my friend) 2) In Braveheart, the lead character's love interest has her throat sliced open, which spurs him into action. 1) Is Mel Gibson trying to say that it's GOOD that white people came and took over this land? Because it certainly seems that the white settlers saved the day in the end. We argued about it after, and I felt my friend made some interesting points. But I watched it with a friend of mine who was thoroughly disappointed. I laughed, I gaped in horror in certain scenes, etc. What matters is whether it works on film, and if this perhaps lacked the emotional core of Braveheart, that might be because IвЂ™m Scottish, rather than Native American.I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Historical accuracy and even-handedness will always suffer when it comes into conflict with cinema.

Some critics have said this is cultural pornography, for it ignores the aspects of Mayan culture such are art or astronomy: however, thatвЂ™s like criticiing SchindlerвЂ™s List because it doesnвЂ™t mention that the Nazis made the trains run on time. From there on, throats are slit, impalements abound, and severed heads bounce down steps like some kind of Ed Gein approved Slinky. Subtlety is not this filmвЂ™s strong point, right from the opening scene where a tribesman is fooled into eating tapir testicles for fertility purposes. The Mayan cityscape is perhaps the high-point of the film, though I confess I was expecting to see a Predator on top of the pyramid, not a high priest. This works well, for the most part, though at 140 minutes, could perhaps have used some trimming.

ThereвЂ™s little doubt about who is good or bad, with only Zero Wolf possessing any grey at all. So best not look for historical accuracy, since this is largely straightforward action cinema.

There are obvious attempts to link this to the current state of things, most obviously an opening quotation from Ariel Durant which portentously tells us that, вЂњA great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.вЂќ Though he was talking about Rome, and the Mayan culture had been in decline for about six centuries by the time the conquistadors arrive. Can he escape that fate, and return to his village, ti save his heavily-pregnant wife, who is stuck at the bottom of a well?

#Apocalypto historical accuracy series

Here, the hero is young Mayan hunter Jaguar Paw (Youngblood) whose village is raided by the malevolent Zero Wolf (Trujillo), and he is carted off to become another in an ongoing series of human sacrifices, intended to appease the gods. I guess you could also add вЂњrelentlessly machoвЂќ to the list, depending on your view of Jesus Christ, and that would reflect most of the characters Gibson has played, from Mad Max through Martin Riggs and Hamlet to PaybackвЂs Porter. Save his debut, pretty much everything Gibson has directed has been a) historical, b) hyperviolent and c) ripe with modern metaphors, one way or another. Star: Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Rodolfo Palacios, Dalia Hernandez