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nero
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 Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject: Apocalypto; New movie on civilizations by Mel Gibson |
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Mel Gibson is going to make a movie called Apocalypto set in precontact Mayan civilization.
| Quote: | | Gibson said the story would be told through the eyes of a Mayan man, his family and village, and would touch on universal themes about "civilizations and what undermines them," but he declined to go into details about the plot. |
I got to wonder if Mel has a copy of Collapse on his bedside table.
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Colorado-Valley
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:54 am Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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"Mad Mayan Beyond Thunderdome?"
"The Passion of the Pre-Columbian?"
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albente
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:31 am Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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Mel Gibson looks like a complete idiot with a beard.
Never mind his FAT belly... |
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bobcousins
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:28 am Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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| nero wrote: | | I got to wonder if Mel has a copy of Collapse on his bedside table. |
| Gibson wrote: | | "A lot of it I just made up, and when I checked it out with historians and archeologists, it wasn't that far wrong," he said. |
Hmm...I wonder if Gibson is exceptionally astute, or there is just less to archaeology than I thought! So I won't be expecting too much. I just hope that the theme of the film is not religion.
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Aaron
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:23 am Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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Sure are some interesting possibilities here.
Fascinating history with some really interesting current thinking/understanding surrounding the entire region/era.
Such a big topic though, one hopes they pick a specific area or theme, as opposed to boiling the ocean.
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Coolman
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:33 am Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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| Quote: | | Mel Gibson looks like a complete idiot with a beard. |
I like it, looks natural. Bearded men such as myself face a lot of discrimination in the USA. Do you know how hard it is to get a job as a bearded man? It took me forever to find a job. |
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BabyPeanut
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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| Coolman wrote: | | Quote: | | Mel Gibson looks like a complete idiot with a beard. |
I like it, looks natural. Bearded men such as myself face a lot of discrimination in the USA. Do you know how hard it is to get a job as a bearded man? It took me forever to find a job. |
Oh it's simple, cut the beard off get the job, grow it back. 
Meanwhile steel mills turn endless  fossil fuels into safety razors. |
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BabyPeanut
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:31 am Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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trendal
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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Is he playing Saddam in some upcoming movie or something? 
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uNkNowN ElEmEnt
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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If he hadn't been happily married to the same woman for all these years, I'd say he could park his boots under my bed any day.
| Quote: | | Bearded men such as myself face a lot of discrimination in the USA. Do you know how hard it is to get a job as a bearded man? It took me forever to find a job. |
REally? why would people have a problem with facial hair? Is it the old "men who have facial hair are hiding something?" or is it the male version of a "skirt hire"? as in hiring based on attractiveness? |
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rogerhb
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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Osama Bin Gibson.
Presumably the next dance craze will be the Apocalypso.
Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi-Oi!
Oh-vay.
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GrizzAdams
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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Yes, the beard will help keep you warm.  |
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DesertBear2
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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| With the beard, he better resembles his real life status- a religious fanatic possessed by sadomasochistic obsessions. |
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pstarr
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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| albente wrote: | Mel Gibson looks like a complete idiot with a beard.
Never mind his FAT belly... |
Are you sad that your apocolyptic boytoy is growing comfortable? would you rrather him in black leather and chains? or thorns?
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albente
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: Re: Apocalypto |
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He never was my boytoy. I just recogized his existence while entering the Western hemisphere again after years of traveling thoughout countries on this planet, mostly beyond the common sphere way back East... I am not an American and you should not think that all of us poster here are!  |
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