Posted on 03/23/2007 10:19:54 AM PDT by Nachum
Edited on 03/23/2007 11:48:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
TMZ has learned Mel Gibson exploded in anger last night on a college campus after an expert on Mayan culture accussed him of racially stereotyping the Mayans in the movie "Apocalypto."
It happened last night at Cal State University at Northridge in the San Fernando Valley. Gibson was speaking to a film class about his movies, and several members of the Mayan community came to hear the famous director.
After Gibson's presentation, the crowd was allowed to ask questions. Alicia Estrada, an Assistant Professor of Central American Studies at CSUN, challenged Gibson, asking him if he had read about the Mayan culture before shooting the controversial film. Gibson said he had.
Estrada persisted, stating that representations in the movie that the Mayans engaged in sacrificial ceremonies and had bloodthirsty tendencies were both wrong and racist. Estrada and others tell TMZ that Gibson exploded in anger, responding, "Lady #### off."
We're told Gibson also became extremely angry when members of the Mayan community protested on how they were portrayed in the film. The emotional Mayan members were escorted out of the room, and we're told Gibson screamed a parting shot -- "Make your own movie!"
UPDATE: Gibson's publicist, Alan Nierob, told TMZ, "This person was a heckler who was rude and disrupted the event, so much so that the event organizers had to escort her out." For the record, Nierob, not Howard Rubenstein, reps Gibson.
Puh-leaze.
What is the world coming to if you can't occasionally tell someone to go f*** themselves?
Yep, elimate the best and the brightest from your gene pool, and then spend a thousand years wondering why the Conquistadores came in and took everything not nailed down.
Ex-hippie -- get help!
Der Fuhrer vas a kind man...
Ya, he liked de animals...
I saw a vanity plate last week...ILLIGAF... and the young woman driving 'splained it to me...I look like I give a ....
I laughed until I hurt.
So..you're a raider fan?
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, or Gary Busey
I have to say that all of the Mayan priests I know are NOTHING like they were depicted in 'Apocalypto'. Oh sure, get a few beers in them and they start talking shop-bludgeoning people to death, decapitating virgins, etc., but deep down inside, they love their moms like everyone else.
racially stereotyping the Mayans...
Well, it's true that they weren't ALL canibals (I assume).
Some of them probably could not afford to eat humans.
Wait till all those Martians come down here and see the movies we have made of them. They are going to be really hyper.
Mel just sounds healthy IMO! And probably could have 'screamed' alot more!!
That film always brings tears to my eyes.
Good. Cal State Nowhere is full of dolts.
Mel in the new GSP device, Discriminav:
http://www.navigadget.com/index.php/2006/10/24/discriminav-racially-discriminating-gps-navigation-system/
The fault of the Jews, no doubt.
Or a Nazi.
Well, they did do those things, but they did a lot of other things too. Gibson is just obsessed with violence and gore, so that's the only part he was interested in foucsing on. Says a lot more about Gibson than about the Mayans. The students shouldn't have dignified this egomaniacal crank with their attendance, much less by actually attempting to communicate with him.
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