HW #7: Was the Mayan culture accurately depicted in the movie, Apocalypto?
How did the director portray Mayan culture? Was it positive or negative? Accurate or Hollywood? Both? Use notes from class, your reading of the Popul Vuh, quotes from movie title scene and headline, and the criticisms given distributed in class to support your opinion.
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in my opinion i think that the mayan culture was deplicted in the movie.for example the part were they killed the pig.when they were taking the heart they didnt play aroound with it because the heart is kinda sacred to them. another example is later on in the movie when they get capture and they start to sacrafice them to please the gods.
ReplyDeleteNice Gerardo, Do you think all these actions are accurate? What do you think about the clips we watched today? Explain why or why not.
ReplyDeletei think that the action are kinda acurrate. eventhough that some of the parts in the movie were put in, and they have nothing to do with the nayans society or culter.
ReplyDeleteThe director portrayed the Mayan culture in positive and negative ways. One positive way is the way the Mayans interact with each other in the beginning. I also realized that the pigs heart is scared or any heart rather is scared to them because at the beginning the pigs heart was held gently, while the persons heart was as well.
ReplyDeleteWhat I thought was negative was just the idea that the Mayans invaded the other tribe or civilization in such a harsh manner. I mean if it was that way so be it, but it is a shame that people did damaging things.
I think they were pretty accurate but the scene where the protagonist is saved, i believe it is "Hollywood."
ReplyDeletep.s. sorry for not adding it before.
There were some accurate Mayan Culture activities that was presented in the movie, and, of course, their was some hollywood portrayed Mayan culture in the movie. One accurate part of the movie that showed the Mayan culture was when the whole village was gathered around a camp fire, and the elder man was telling a story. That was how story was passed down since their was not really a written language, oral history.
ReplyDeleteA scene in the movie, that was real "hollywood" was when the main character was going to get his head cut off, to be sacrificed, and the eclipse (I believe. ) happened, and his life was saved. That part was only added to add action and suspense to the movie. There has to be a little to no chance of that happening to someone, during their sacrificing.
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i believe that many of the scenes weren't accurate, i feel that they were exaggerated so that they would be accepted.because many people have a certain view of Indians and how they acted i believe that that view of Indians was put in to the movie to make it seem realistic although it isn't
ReplyDeleteIn the article given in class it states that Mel Gibson made the Mayans look like savages when in reality they weren't, i feel that thats one big thing that was made for hollywood because many people expect Indians to be savages hollywood made sure thats what they looked like in the movie. although many parts of the movie were realistic there was also many scenes that weren't
By (Marcelo) Alonso .- The controversial Mel Gibson returns to the big screen as director with Apocalypto, a movie located in the difficult period that marked the end of the great Mayan civilization. When his idyllic existence is brutally disrupted by an attack by a violent invading force, a man embarks on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by love for his wife and family, will take the return to their homes in a desperate effort to preserve their way of life.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the Maya were well before the Mayans are Guatemalans and no other country and it hurts that sells LO CHAPINES us Mexicans and yucatan, cancun, Chiapas and Tabasco are GUATEMALA and chichen 'itza is also from Guatemala and the Mexican that they believe that outside of the marimba if we clogs adios
They did but there were a lot of things, that Hollywood did that people who are not into history as much would not catch. That is a huge amount of people believing every thing that they hear and see with out researching, when I first saw this movie I did not really care so much about history, education was always a priority but history was not interesting I was always given and handed a text book told to flip to pages and that was it. Then again I would never know if the things that went on and took place in this movie were real unless I research and then again everyone has access to everything whether the know it or not.
ReplyDeleteI cant really say if they depicted the mayan culture correctly but i think that there were a lot of things that were certainlly played up for hollywood. for example the level of violence and brutality. They were shown in a negative light. some aspects of their culture was peobably accurate from what it is I have learned.
ReplyDelete~Vanity S~.
I think this film Apocalypto does not fairly represent the Maya and perhaps for many it has a positive message or not, the movie has some scenes that do not look really, but maybe it is and a scene in my opinon does seem Hollywood is how the protagonist is saved.
ReplyDeletein one scene where the protagonist is fighting for his life, in which he wanted to kill to keep our promise to the gods.
I believe it may be a myth. If it happened, it wasn't on the grand scale that most people think. We were visiting the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan province of Mexico. Our guide, a twenty-year veteran who spoke four languages repeatedly made reference to the long held belief that Mayans practiced human sacrifice. He wanted us to question that assumption.
ReplyDeleteTonny G.
I THINK A POSITIVE ASPET IN THE FILM IS THAT THE AZTEC HUNT THEIR OWM FOOD LIKE PIG HUNTING AND ALSO FISHING ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURE AND BUILT THEIN OWN CITIES AND BUILT THEIR AWN WENPONS AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION.
ReplyDeleteWHAT I THINK IS THAT THE AZTEC TRIBES INVADE AND KILL THE WEAKEST TRIBES AND ALSO TO GAIN MORE GROUND.
yo pienso que esta pelicula muestra mucho de la cultura aztecas sus cultura su forma de adorar a los dioses
ReplyDeletela forma en que ellos conseguian su comida eran casadores ellos crearon sus propias ciudades y una sosiedad organisada