#Apocalypto 2 movie#

#Apocalypto 2 movie#

Consider all the violence in the movie though the Maya practiced warfare and treated their prisoners harshly, the depiction of wall paintings of blue-painted and decapitated prisoners is just wrong. But the distorted story of the Maya is likely the only exposure a generation of moviegoers will get to the ancient civilization, and the film does the Maya a disservice.ДЄs researchers who have spent our lives studying and teaching about the Maya, we cannot help but be disappointed, and even outraged, by the movie.

True, a movie is a fictional account that, in most cases, places the drama ahead of the historical verisimilitude. The inaccuracies have sparked protests by Native Americans - in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala - as well as by researchers who study the ancient Maya, all outraged by the film's portrayal of the Maya as violent and depraved. Movie reviewers, however, have noted the film's inaccuracies, though at the same time they have granted the director considerable latitude with a common plea from the movie world: It's just entertainment. The promotion for Mel Gibson's new film, вЂњApocalypto,вЂќ points out all of its realistic touches: It was shot on location in Mexico, it stars Native American actors and its dialogue is not in English but Yucatec Maya. The following editorial was written by Mary Weismantel, professor of anthropology, and Cynthia Robin, associate professor of anthropology. Although the film has been nominated for three Academy Awards - in makeup, sound editing and sound mixing - it has received mixed reviews from critics and scholars. Among the villagers is Jaguar Paw, who has hidden his wife and child from the attackers with a promise that he will return for them.

Villagers who survived a savage attack are taken by their captors through the jungle to the central Mayan city. Mel Gibson's latest film, Apocalypto, tells a story set in pre-Columbian Central America, with the Mayan Empire in decline. Now, 500 years after the end of the Mayan civilization, director Mel Gibson delves into this never-explored realm to create a modern screen adventure which unfolds like a timeless myth about one man's quest to save that which matters to him the most in a world on the brink of destruction: APOCALYPTO.Commentary by Mary Weismantel and Cynthia Robin All that was left behind were a few jungle-covered pyramids and a tantalizing mystery. Then, in a flash of history, this world collapsed. Powerful Maya kingdoms ruled in the Americas for more than 1,000 years, forging expansive cities, constructing sky-piercing pyramids and building an impressively advanced society of extraordinary cultural and scientific achievement. The behind-the-scenes team, who spent intense months shooting in the jungle and recreating a spectacular Mayan kingdom of soaring pyramids and mysterious temples, includes Academy Award-winning director of photography Dean Semler ('Dances With Wolves'), two-time Academy Award-nominated production designer Tom Sanders ('Saving Private Ryan,' 'Dracula,' 'Braveheart'), two-time OscarВ®-nominated film editor John Wright ('Speed,' 'The Hunt for Red October,' 'The Passion of the Christ') and OscarВ®-winning composer and multiple Academy Award nominee James Horner ('Titanic,' 'A Beautiful Mind,' 'House of Sand and Fog,' the forthcoming 'The Good Shepherd'). The executive producers are Ned Dowd and Vicki Christianson. Shot on location in Catemaco - in one of the last remaining tracts of rainforests left in Mexico - and in Veracruz, with a cast made up entirely of indigenous peoples from the Americas, APOCALYPTO is directed by Mel Gibson, produced by Gibson and Bruce Davey and written by Gibson and Farhad Safinia, who co-produces. Visceral, thrilling and boldly thought-provoking, APOCALYPTO brings to life, through Gibson's ambitious creative vision, a world from the ancient past hereto never before seen on the modern screen that speaks powerfully to our lives today.

Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family, he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life. When his idyllic existence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, a man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. 'A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.'ДЇrom Academy Award-winning filmmaker Mel Gibson ('The Passion of the Christ,' 'Braveheart') comes APOCALYPTO: a heart-stopping, mythic action-adventure set against the turbulent end times of the once-great Mayan civilization.