In fact, many have argued that colonizers are unethical and the colonized should always revolt. MYTH: The Maya were evil and therefore deserved to be colonized by a bunch of white guys with crosses.įACT: Colonialism is an economic system, not a moral punishment. Partly this was because theMaya were spread out into many different urban areas and each had to bedefeated. MYTH: When the Spanish arrived in the Yucatan, the Mayan way of lifedied instantly, just as the syphillis-smeared prophet chick says in Apocalypto.įACT: It took the Spanish almost 200 years to conquer the regions ofMexico and Guatemala where Mayans lived.
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Hruby įACT: Mel Gibson directs movies about mostly-naked men smeared in oiland blue paint who often run really fast so we can see their musclesflex or bend over and show off their ass cracks. Source: Op-ed by anthropology professor Zachary X. Nobody who lived near a Mayan polis and spoke the Mayan language would have been ignorant of city-dwellers and their love of capturing people for slavery and sacrifice.
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MYTH: There were jungle bumpkins like hero Jaguar Paw who had no idea that his patch of trees was a day's walk from a huge Mayan city full of gigantic, blood-soaked temples.įACT: Mayan life centered around cities. Let's have a little smackdown between the myths of Apocalypto and the world of facts, shall we? Some are stupid-wrong, and others are Gibson-is-kinda-racist wrong. In countless interviews, Gibson has stressed the flick's authenticity, right down to using the Yucatan Mayan language instead of silly accents ala Dances With Wolves.
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What did bug me was the way this fairly OK action movie masqueraded as some kind of accurate historical portrait of the Maya. I'm not complaining because Rudy Youngblood, playing lead Jaguar Paw in this tale of Mayan decadence, was even hotter (and more naked) than 1980s-era Bruce Willis.
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When they get to the new camp, the women are sold as slaves and the men are forced to walk up this temple to be used as sacrifices.I just caught Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, which was sort of like Die Hard in a jungle with naked guys and pointed sticks.
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When she is denied help, she forewarns and foreshadows that the invading tribe will decline at the hands of a man who knows the jungle and that day will turn into night. Along the way, the run into a little girl who is believed by the tribe to be diseased. Jaguar Paw sees the presumed headmaster of the tribe that was asking for permission to pass earlier in the movie, has also been taken prisoner. The men and women are sent on a death march to the invading tribe's home camp. This one member of the invading tribe, seemingly the second in command, takes a liking to Jaguar Paw and deems his new name as "Almost" signifying that Jaguar Paw "almost" killed that guy. Jaguar Paw's father is killed right in front of him after Jaguar Paw accidentally reveals to the invading tribe who his father was. All the men and women of Jaguar Paw's tribe is taken prisoner. He manages to take out a guy or two, and just as he's about to kill another, the headmaster of the invading tribe stops the fighting. Even though his wife begs and pleads with him to climb down and be safe, Jaguar Paw's pride takes over and says that he has to help the others and he promises he'll be back. An invading tribesman sees Jaguar Paw at the top of the cave and begins to charge to try and kill him. Jaguar Paw takes his wife and son to a cave and lowers them into it for safety. He sees an invading tribe member with a torch run by and he wakes up his wife and son and they begin to run for cover as the invading tribe kills many men and rape the women while leaving the children unharmed. When the dog stops barking (because it was killed by an invading tribe) Jaguar Paw becomes suspicious why the dog stopped barking.
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The next morning, Jaguar Paw, and his wife who is visible pregnant, are awoken by a loud barking dog. That night, the tribe gathers together to hear the elders give a spiritual talk that Jaguar Paw really takes to heart. The father gives Jaguar Paw a pep talk about not having fear. On the way back to camp, Jaguar Paw's father warns Jaguar Paw that he saw the fear in his eyes when they were told that the other tribe's camp was invaded. The presumed leader of that passing tribe warns Jaguar Paw that they are fleeing because their campsite was invaded. As they are celebrating the kill, another tribe wanders by only asking for permission to pass. Together with other tribemate, his father, and his brother, then force this pig into a trap that slams spikes into the boar. In the very beginning, this Mayan tribe that Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is a part of, is hunting a wild boar.