That kind of cultural myth is an effect, not a cause.
Actually, I think that it can suck pretty hard and still surpass Erik the Viking.
Doubt it - he did make Apocalypto after the historical insanities he inflicted on Braveheart.
Hey, hey - The 13th Warrior! Solid, pseudo-Viking flick ( despite the steady stream number of anachronisms ).
I’d love Mel to do a film on the life of aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy - Pemulwuy - Wikipedia, with all aboriginal dialougue done in traditional language/s.
Take it back or I’ll put a mad smiley:mad:
In what respect?
It was actually the Mayans that used a “primal eye” on the backs of their heads, not the Aztecs.
I think if Mel Gibson wanted to accurately portray medieval Scotland or Mesoamerica on the brink of European invasion, he would’ve chosen to film a documentary or write a book. The medium of narrative film is primarily meant to entertain, and he succeeded. The Vikings in his new movie could carry iPods and rally against rising mortgage rates, and it’d still probably rock.
I don’t follow your criticism. Apocalypto was set among the Maya.
I hope he can somehow manage to include a marauding boat full of cats and Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” into the movie.
It’s a reference to Bull Durham. Annie was always getting things confused and at one point confused the Mayans and Aztecs (she thought Fernando Valenzuela was one of the two but couldn’t remember which).
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Apocalypto is mainly about the Maya raiding the jungles around their cities for human sacrifices, performed by cutting out the victims’ hearts. The Maya didn’t do that. The Aztecs did.
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The film ends with Spanish ships being spotted offshore. Centuries before the Spanish landed in Mexico, the Maya civilization collapsed (nobody knows why), the Maya cities were abandoned, the Maya people, greatly reduced in numbers, went back to living in the jungles around.
The Maya did cut out the hearts, as depicted in the movie. Cite. Cite. (In fairness according to the second cite, the postclassic Maya - among whom the movie is set - copied this practice from the Aztecs to the north. The second cite also notes that the victims were painted blue, just as depicted in the movie.)
As noted above, the Spanish arrived during the postclassic period of Maya civilization. At the time the Spanish arrived, the Yucatan was occupied by competing Maya city-states. Nothing in the movie contravenes this. 
Dang. Got whooshed. I hate that. 
I agree, artistic license.
I think it’s all ready been done and cannot be improved upon. 
That’s a’ight, happens to the best of us. It’s one of my all-time favorite running movie gags (look later in the movie and Robert Wuhl is reading a book called “Secrets of the Mayans” in the dugout) and the whole Mayan v. Aztec thing called it to mind.
That movie did indeed rock. Kirk Douglas’ Einar was a great character, and his funeral was one of the most cool ones in cinema. Plus, that theme song sticks in my head every time I see that movie.