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12-19-2005, 08:21 PM
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APOCALYPTO --- Mel Gibson's Latest
I couldn't find an existing thread for this summer release, but Entertainment Tonight gave a glimpse of the upcoming teaser.
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Mel: “What I’m doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. It's a story about a man and his woman, his child and his father, his community. The man is put in an incredibly heightened, stressful situation...has to overcome tremendous obstacles. So it’s a universal story in that respect....I’m hoping by focusing on this civilization we can analyze ourselves....kind of an anthropological journey.”
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From Wikipedia...
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Scheduled for release in the summer of 2006, the film is set 600 years ago in Central America, before the Spanish conquest, in the midst of the mysterious decline of the Mayan civilization. Dialogue will be spoken in the obscure Mayan dialect of Yucatec, in the same way Gibson used Aramaic and Latin for his religious blockbuster The Passion of the Christ. It will feature a cast of unknown actors culled from Mexico City, the Yucatan and even some American Indians from the United States. The female lead is a young woman from Veracruz, Mexico.
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Gibson will bankroll “Apocalypto” himself (Disney will distribute.) It began shooting in November and was shot almost entirely in the jungle of Mexico’s Veracruz state.
Interesting to note that this will be the second film to dabble in Mayan culture next year (Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain being the other).
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12-19-2005, 09:37 PM
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I've respected all three of Gibson's films, so I'll go to the theater for this one.
Got to admire a man paying for his own films. GL does it, and Gibson does it. That's worth supporting, and the man can make films.
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12-19-2005, 10:02 PM
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I'm with you on this one, Chuck. Gibson is a damn fine filmmaker. It's nice to see an artist who isn't afraid to take risks, especially with his own cash. 
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12-19-2005, 10:56 PM
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Sounds wildly ambitious which is always exciting with a passionate and capablie filmmaker.
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12-20-2005, 08:51 AM
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My enthusiasm aside, the title sounds like a Tenacious D song. Which isn't a bad thing.
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12-20-2005, 09:00 AM
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My enthusiasm aside, the title sounds like a Tenacious D song. Which isn't a bad thing.
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Maybe the film will open with a caption that reads, "This is the greatest and best movie in the world..."
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12-20-2005, 09:25 AM
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Naw it'd probably read: "This is just a tribute..."
Anyway looks good, I like Mel, I respect him and think he's a great film maker. Wish Caleb Deschanel was the Cinematographer for this movie, but I can't wait to see it, though it's of a different caliber than Passion.
-Nick G.
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12-20-2005, 11:44 AM
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If I could buy my ticket now, I would.
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12-20-2005, 05:20 PM
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Looks great! I can't wait!
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12-20-2005, 07:32 PM
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I'm intrigued.
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12-20-2005, 08:15 PM
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