Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto
Real quick…. George Takai (SULU) is the the official announcer of the new Howard Stern show! hahahahaha– well, at least for this week. Hearing him introduce all this, and spell out the new phone number was worth my subscription to Sirius. You might remember our Sulu strip… Memories….
Thanks to Chad for sending me the bizarre links to the hidden clips of Mel smoking a doobie in his new trailer for Apocalypto. I guess there is some buzz about this online, and other clips available, but when I tried to download the trailer it was acting buggy.
This of course is a great piece of viral marketing on the part of Gibson’s production company, and they should be applauded for it. There’s even some talk out there that he’s putting hidden things in the movie itself, which will surely boost DVD sales.
The story sounds kinda cool– and no one has ever done a movie with the backdrop being the fall of the Mayan empire. That’s pretty wild. I thought this was suppossed to be about the jewish holocaust— but now I get the picture, that there have been other holocausts. I mean, you KNOW this from common world history anyway– the fact that there have been other civilizations completly wiped out but outsiders. The Mayans… the American Indians…. it’s really frightening just how evil humans are to each other, then the winners go and write the history books how they want them too.
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January 9th, 2006 at 5:47 am
Separated at birth: Mel Gibson Saddam Hussain ?
January 9th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Yo. That llama’s got the hook up.
January 9th, 2006 at 10:43 am
The man has lost it.
it’s one thing to put a wacky frame in a trailer, it’s another to put THAT wacky frame in the trailer.
January 9th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Mel Gibson kinda’ looks like Billy Connolly.
Well, if he is putting hidden things in his new movie, let’s hope that he still leaves some room for a decent plot.
BTW. I think the whole “jewish holocaust” rumor actually stems from controversy surrounding claims that his father (Hutton) is a “Holocaust denier” and that Mel shares the same views.
January 9th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Man’s intolerance to his fellow man.
TV is the pied piper of our doom!
January 9th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
I think a lot of the Mayans died from chicken pox and things. The Mayans were a little put off by half their government dying, and when the Spanish turned up they just couldn’t deal.
Of course, the Spanish would have probably killed them all anyway. They were an invasion force.
Still, Jewish holocaust = fucking evil. I gotta say, that one where they gave smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians = fucking evil, too.
January 12th, 2006 at 10:13 am
The Spanish did not exterminate the native populations of central and south america (nor was it their intention!). Just look at the population of those places now! There is a undeniable racial minority of people with European origin, and even those are usually mixed. The real holocaust happened in North America, where the few remaining natives are kept in “reservations” like animals.
The Spanish did not have the anglosaxon concept of “manifest destiny”. Though the Spanish goal of becoming “lords of the land” by toppling existing empires, converting the people and spreading their culture isn’t exactly humanitarian, they certainly did not want to kill everyone off and take their land! Who cares about land when you can just convince the people that are already there to work it and give you a significant portion of the goods that you can take back home?
Come to think of it, 16th century Spanish Imperialism has a lot in common with the 20th century American version of the same thing.