Apocalypto
A estreia do último filme de Mel Gibson é já no próximo dia 8 de Dezembro, sexta-feira.*
Apocalypto is a 2006 film directed by Mel Gibson. Set in Mesoamerica just before Spanish contact, it depicts the decline of the Maya civilization. The film will be released on December 8, 2006, and is rated R in the U.S. for sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images.
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Mel Gibson filmed Apocalypto mainly in Catemaco and Paso de Ovejas in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Gibson uses the Yucatec Maya language in Apocalypto, in the same way he used Aramaic and Latin for his religious blockbuster The Passion of the Christ.
Apocalypto features a cast of unknown actors from Mexico City, the Yucatán, some Native Americans from the United States and Canada, and locals from Los Tuxtlas and Veracruz.
While Gibson is financing the film himself, Disney has signed on to release Apocalypto for a fee in certain markets. The film was slated for an August 4, 2006 release, but Touchstone Pictures has delayed the release date to December 8, 2006 due to heavy rains interfering with filming in Mexico.
On September 23, 2006, Gibson pre-screened Apocalypto to two predominantly Native American audiences in Oklahoma, at the Riverwind Casio in Goldsby, owned by the Chickasaw Nation, and at Camaron University in Lawton. He also did a pre-screening in Austin, Texas on September 24 in conjunction with one of the movie's stars, Rudy Youngblood.
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The movie starts with main character, Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), out hunting tapir with his father, Flint Sky, and other male members of his village. They encounter refugees on the run from something which has "ravaged" their land, but Flint Sky restrains his son from asking questions. The movie follows the hunters return to their village, establishes some of the personal relationships there and introduces Jaguar Paw's pregnant wife, Seven, and son, Turtles Run.
Soon the village is attacked by a Maya warband. Jaguar Paw is awakened by a premonition-like dream, and is able to lower his wife and son into a small cave (shaped something like a well) to hide them. The warband capture as many villagers as they can alive, but sadistically and unnecessarily kill Flint Sky in front of Jaguar Paw, establishing the sadism of some of the attackers and the authority of their leader, Zero Wolf, who saves Jaguar Paw as a captive. Seven and Turtles Run remain left in the cave, but one of the Maya cuts the vine that is hanging down as their means of escape.
The movie occasionally shows the pair in the cave, with scenes of attempted escapes and a display of the known Aztec practice of using ant mandibles to suture wounds (Turtles Run's leg). Seven is able to throw up a rock with a vine over the edge. Her attempt is unsuccessful, and because of her fall back into the cave, she goes into labor.
The captive villagers are taken on a long trek toward the Maya city where they encounter the previously met refugees as prisoners, failing maize crops, poverty, and slaves producing plaster and building edifices. They also encounter a small girl with smallpox, whom the Maya shun, but she prophesies doom will follow the darkness of the sun in day and the man who runs with jaguars. In the city, the female captives are sold as slaves, while the men are painted blue and taken to the top of a step pyramid to have their hearts removed, be decapitated, and have their headless bodies thrown down the front steps of the pyramid, a direct representation of what is known about the most extreme forms of human sacrifice in Aztec culture, including the blue paint.
Jaguar Paw and most of the male captives are saved this fate when an eclipse occurs while he is being held on the altar. The captives, now spared as sacrificial victims to the sun god, are taken to an open space by their captors and are allowed to run for their freedom in pairs while the Maya attack them with javelins, arrows, and rocks. The son, Smoke Frog, of the leader of the warband, waits at the end with a stone axe to finish off anyone who survives the gauntlet and acts as a 'finisher'.
Jaguar Paw is able to reach the end, despite being shot with an arrow by the leader, and when his friend gives his life to give him some time, he is able to pull out the arrow and stab Smoke Frog in the neck. The young Maya warrior dies in Zero Wolf's arms, who now wants to take revenge on his son's killer. Meanwhile, Jaguar Paw is able to make it into the jungle while the captors are in hot pursuit. While on the run, he hides up in a tree, only to come between a jaguar and her cub. The jaguar chases him, and when one of the pursuers tries to capture the running Jaguar Paw, the jaguar kills the pursuer instead. Some of the members of the warband are noticeably distraught as the eclipse and man running with the jaguar were part of the prophecy from the small girl with smallpox, yet they continue pursuit.
Jaguar Paw seems to recover from his wound, and leads them on a chase throughout the night. The next day, just as the pursuers are getting close, he comes to the top of a giant waterfall and jumps over. After taunting his pursuers from the bottom, their leader forces them to all jump as well (killing some in the process). After nearly being trapped in a mud pit (the cinematic version of quicksand), Jaguar Paw seems to be revitalized and now begins to actively fight back against his pursuers, starting by throwing a bee's nest at them, but including finding a poisonous frog to envenom blowgun darts.
It begins to rain and the cave with Seven and Turtles Run begins to fill with water, and they are soon threatened with drowning. Seven climbs onto a rock and holds her son up as the rain accumulates around them. She gives birth while balancing her son on her shoulders.
Jaguar Paw continues to elude his pursuers in the village, although is shot again by an arrow from the warband leader, whom he then tricks into walking into one of the tapir traps established at the beginning of the movie. As the last two of the warband chase the wounded and exhausted Jaguar Paw onto the rainy beach, he is spared by the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.
The film then cuts to Jaguar Paw, Seven, Turtles Run, and the new baby heading further into the jungle to avoid contact with other men, particularly the men from the ships.
Soon the village is attacked by a Maya warband. Jaguar Paw is awakened by a premonition-like dream, and is able to lower his wife and son into a small cave (shaped something like a well) to hide them. The warband capture as many villagers as they can alive, but sadistically and unnecessarily kill Flint Sky in front of Jaguar Paw, establishing the sadism of some of the attackers and the authority of their leader, Zero Wolf, who saves Jaguar Paw as a captive. Seven and Turtles Run remain left in the cave, but one of the Maya cuts the vine that is hanging down as their means of escape.
The movie occasionally shows the pair in the cave, with scenes of attempted escapes and a display of the known Aztec practice of using ant mandibles to suture wounds (Turtles Run's leg). Seven is able to throw up a rock with a vine over the edge. Her attempt is unsuccessful, and because of her fall back into the cave, she goes into labor.
The captive villagers are taken on a long trek toward the Maya city where they encounter the previously met refugees as prisoners, failing maize crops, poverty, and slaves producing plaster and building edifices. They also encounter a small girl with smallpox, whom the Maya shun, but she prophesies doom will follow the darkness of the sun in day and the man who runs with jaguars. In the city, the female captives are sold as slaves, while the men are painted blue and taken to the top of a step pyramid to have their hearts removed, be decapitated, and have their headless bodies thrown down the front steps of the pyramid, a direct representation of what is known about the most extreme forms of human sacrifice in Aztec culture, including the blue paint.
Jaguar Paw and most of the male captives are saved this fate when an eclipse occurs while he is being held on the altar. The captives, now spared as sacrificial victims to the sun god, are taken to an open space by their captors and are allowed to run for their freedom in pairs while the Maya attack them with javelins, arrows, and rocks. The son, Smoke Frog, of the leader of the warband, waits at the end with a stone axe to finish off anyone who survives the gauntlet and acts as a 'finisher'.
Jaguar Paw is able to reach the end, despite being shot with an arrow by the leader, and when his friend gives his life to give him some time, he is able to pull out the arrow and stab Smoke Frog in the neck. The young Maya warrior dies in Zero Wolf's arms, who now wants to take revenge on his son's killer. Meanwhile, Jaguar Paw is able to make it into the jungle while the captors are in hot pursuit. While on the run, he hides up in a tree, only to come between a jaguar and her cub. The jaguar chases him, and when one of the pursuers tries to capture the running Jaguar Paw, the jaguar kills the pursuer instead. Some of the members of the warband are noticeably distraught as the eclipse and man running with the jaguar were part of the prophecy from the small girl with smallpox, yet they continue pursuit.
Jaguar Paw seems to recover from his wound, and leads them on a chase throughout the night. The next day, just as the pursuers are getting close, he comes to the top of a giant waterfall and jumps over. After taunting his pursuers from the bottom, their leader forces them to all jump as well (killing some in the process). After nearly being trapped in a mud pit (the cinematic version of quicksand), Jaguar Paw seems to be revitalized and now begins to actively fight back against his pursuers, starting by throwing a bee's nest at them, but including finding a poisonous frog to envenom blowgun darts.
It begins to rain and the cave with Seven and Turtles Run begins to fill with water, and they are soon threatened with drowning. Seven climbs onto a rock and holds her son up as the rain accumulates around them. She gives birth while balancing her son on her shoulders.
Jaguar Paw continues to elude his pursuers in the village, although is shot again by an arrow from the warband leader, whom he then tricks into walking into one of the tapir traps established at the beginning of the movie. As the last two of the warband chase the wounded and exhausted Jaguar Paw onto the rainy beach, he is spared by the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.
The film then cuts to Jaguar Paw, Seven, Turtles Run, and the new baby heading further into the jungle to avoid contact with other men, particularly the men from the ships.
posted by Mário Casa Nova Martins @ 12/06/2006 10:27:00 da manhã
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