Posted on 07/25/2005 5:20:32 PM PDT by Liz
I think Mel may have been a little flakey right after the Passion. There have been several reported projects that Mel was supposedly going to do following The Passion.
Which they changed to be PC. The original had Barbara Billingsly (Mrs Cleaver) saying:
"N*gga don' wan' no hep', N*gga don't ge' no hep'"
On the DVD, it is:
"Sucka don' wan' no hep', Sucka don't ge' no hep'"
The idea of Mrs. Cleaver using the N-word is what gave the oomph to the scene! They ruined it!
Mel Gibson should do Victor Hugo's "Ninety-three."
That's the first thought I had. Cool subject, only hope he tells it straight, giving both sides their due. Might be a great film.
Mel Gibson should do Ayn Rand's "Anthem".
(Subtitled: "Golly!")
I think it would be better in Aldus Lamp
Only in part of the movie. Nor is a western with soldiers and Indians quite so esoteric as an ancient Mayan war flick.
I thought the Mayan civilization died off long before the Spanish arrived. Perhaps this is about that mysterious extinction of their culture.
Victor Hugo remains a towering figure in literature; Ninety-Three was his last novel, I believe.
I believe you're correct about the Mayan extinction before the Spanish came. It'll definitely be interesting to watch what he'll do with that.
Nope. The Mayans were still around - ARE still around! From the wikipedia:
The Itza Maya, Kowoj and Yalain groups of Central Peten survived the "Classic Period Collapse" in small numbers and by 1250 CE reconstituted themselves to form competing polities. The Itza kingdom had its capital at Noj Peten, an archaeological site thought to underlay modern day Flores, Guatemala. It ruled over a polity extending across the Peten Lakes region, encompassing the community of Eckixil on Lake Quexil. These sites and this region were inhabited continuously by independent Maya until after the final Spanish Conquest of 1697 CE.
Post-Classic Maya states also continued to thrive in the southern highlands. One of the Maya kingdoms in this area, the Quiché, is responsible for the best-known Mayan work of historiography and mythology, the Popol Vuh.
The Spanish started their conquest of the Maya lands in the 1520s. Some Maya states offered long fierce resistance; the last Maya state, the Itza kingdom, was not subdued by Spanish authorities until 1697.
The Itza Maya, Kowoj and Yalain groups of Central Peten survived the "Classic Period Collapse" in small numbers and by 1250 CE reconstituted themselves to form competing polities. The Itza kingdom had its capital at Noj Peten, an archaeological site thought to underlay modern day Flores, Guatemala. It ruled over a polity extending across the Peten Lakes region, encompassing the community of Eckixil on Lake Quexil. These sites and this region were inhabited continuously by independent Maya until after the final Spanish Conquest of 1697 CE.
Post-Classic Maya states also continued to thrive in the southern highlands. One of the Maya kingdoms in this area, the Quiché, is responsible for the best-known Mayan work of historiography and mythology, the Popol Vuh.
The Spanish started their conquest of the Maya lands in the 1520s. Some Maya states offered long fierce resistance; the last Maya state, the Itza kingdom, was not subdued by Spanish authorities until 1697.
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Maybe. At least they weren't cooking their neighbors, like the Aztecs... I think.
I'd be about 75% sure this has some sort of religious overtone, and not a movie against illegal immigration/multi-culti, etc.
An apocalyptic epic with religious overtones sounds right up his alley.
And illegally immigrating to the United States from Mexico and Central America. Some are full bloods and some are part Mayan blood - Mestizo. The revenge of the Indian race who we warred against as America grew great
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