I love the first two Mad Max films in addition to Gallipoli, but he has had a pretty odd career. I believe most moviegoers would tend to look at it this way: "A movie about the fall of the Mayan Empire? How romantic, how exciting!" What about an ambitious film that captures aspects of what life is like for Mayan people today? "Nah, that would be boring. So this new Mel Gibson project doesn't surprise me in the least. This has been conditioned by the U.S film industry with literally thousands of cinematic representations of indigenous people in the mythic past and only a handful about indigenous people in contemporary times. The most significant reason to point this out is that it serves as an example of how most people in industrial societies overwhelmingly think of American indigenous cultures as something that ceased to exist long ago their current state of existence is invisible. "Maya" isn't a language, but more importantly the Mayan language family includes around 30 languages currently spoken by 3 million or so people - hardly a "dead language." I've never been to that site before that seems a bit ignorant. This time they're speaking Maya and the film is about the fall of the Mayan Empire. Mel makes another movie with actors speaking in dead languages.
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