Mel Gibson's Apocalypto

zoomar · Jan 4, 2006

Check the trailer out. A movie about the ancient Maya in Mayan. God only knows what the story will be or if it will have any historical reliability, but the Mayan nobility with turquoise inlaid and filed teeth and all sorts of body piercings look pretty good. To bad they can't shape actors' heads.

Anyone care?

Diamond · Jan 4, 2006

zoomar said:
To bad they can't shape actors' heads.

They could if they wanted to. Who knows? It might make the bouquet of the verbal diarrhea they spew about anything non-acting related a little sweeter. It certainly couldn't impair them any more than they already are.

Do you have a link for the trailer, or are you going to make me actually work to find it?

Anyone care?

I do. Sort of.

Leo Caesius · Jan 4, 2006

Is this a joke? I've got to get in on some of this loot Gibson is throwing around at dead languages.

Faeelin · Jan 4, 2006

Leo Caesius said:
Is this a joke? I've got to get in on some of this loot Gibson is throwing around at dead languages.

Hey, you could work on that movie he's doing about the Maccabees.

What else do we need? A movie with the Goths, perhaps?

Diamond · Jan 4, 2006

Faeelin said:
What else do we need? A movie with the Goths, perhaps?

I'd watch it.

Leo Caesius · Jan 4, 2006

Faeelin said:
Hey, you could work on that movie he's doing about the Maccabees.

What else do we need? A movie with the Goths, perhaps?

I've always wanted to see the Assyrians take on Judea and Samaria. It could have Akkadian, Hebrew, Aramaic, perhaps some Egyptian...

Faeelin · Jan 4, 2006

http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/apocalypto/

zoomar · Jan 4, 2006

Leo Caesius said:
Is this a joke? I've got to get in on some of this loot Gibson is throwing around at dead languages.

Deadly serious. No Mayan spoken in the trailer, but some other articles talk about that. Plus, Mayan's not a dead language. Millions of people still speak it...sort of like we still speak Old English.

Faeelin · Jan 4, 2006

Hmm. I was going to say I was impressed that Gibson, as a Catholic, was going to make a movie about the ruthless Spanish conquest of the New World.

Since it's not, after viewing the trailer, I feel much better.

Psychomeltdown · Jan 4, 2006

Wow, that's cool.

Now, for the AZtec movie....

i'd so watch that.

Leo Caesius · Jan 4, 2006

zoomar said:
Deadly serious. No Mayan spoken in the trailer, but some other articles talk about that. Plus, Mayan's not a dead language. Millions of people still speak it...sort of like we still speak Old English.

Oh, yes, I'm aware of that - I remember reading an article in the Boston Globe a year or two ago about Mayans converting en masse to Islam - I should have put "dead languages" in quotes. Obviously Aramaic and Latin (or Neo- forms of the two) are also still spoken today.