Friend and colleague
Traci Ardren, an anthropologist, has written this
review of Mel Gibson's new movie,
Apocalypto, about the Maya for
Archaeology magazine. On November 16, 2006, Traci was featured on Good Morning America in a report about newly designated Wonders of the World, talking about
Chichén Itzá. What a gal!
She writes, "I loved Gibson's film "Braveheart," I really did. But there is something very different about portraying a group of people, who are now recovering from 500 years of colonization, as violent and brutal."
ReplyDeleteA hardcare Scottish nationalist would probably have the same complaint about Braveheart.
Let's face it, all cultures, all tribes, all people have bloody hands somewhere in their history. And many of them had significant achievements too.
It's all part of the package.
I agree, Chas.
ReplyDeleteI just can't bring myself to watch anymore Mel Gibson movies. It's time to send a message that bigotry and prejudice will not be tolerated.
ReplyDeleteWhat next? Mel Gibson's The Burning Times? I don't even want to think of what he'd do with that!
Peace,
Dharmashanti
Here is a Time mag reviewer's scathing comment on Apocalypto:
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I was living in Soctland when Braveheart came out. I refused to go and see it because it was blatantly unhistorical (e.g. Wallace would not have worn woad) and anti-English. There's enough prejudice against the English in Scotland, without fanning the flames with that sort of nonsense.
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