Apocalypto (2006)

Avaliação/utilizador:

7,9/10   

Diretor:

Mel Gibson

Escritores:

Mel Gibson (written by) &
Farhad Safinia (written by)

Data de Lançamento:

8 Dezembro 2006 (USA)

Gênero:

Ação | Aventura | Drama

Chamada:

When the end comes, not everyone is ready to go

Argumento:

As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.

Plot Keywords:

Jaguar | Tribe | Temple | Maya | Human Sacrifice

Prêmios:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 13 nominations

Comentários dos utilizadores:

A Brilliant Message About Civilization

Elenco

Rudy Youngblood	...	Jaguar Paw
Dalia Hernández	...	Seven
Jonathan Brewer	...	Blunted
Morris Birdyellowhead	...	Flint Sky
Carlos Emilio Báez	...	Turtles Run
Amilcar Ramírez	...	Curl Nose
Israel Contreras	...	Smoke Frog
Israel Ríos	...	Cocoa Leaf
María Isabel Díaz	...	Mother in Law (as Isabel Diaz)
Espiridion Acosta Cache	...	Old Story Teller
Mayra Serbulo	...	Young Woman
Iazua Larios	...	Sky Flower
Lorena Heranandez	...	Village Girl
Itandehui Gutierrez	...	Wife
Sayuri Gutierrez	...	Eldest Daughter

Conhecido como:

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (USA) (promotional title)

MPAA:

Rated R for sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images.

Duração:

139 min

País:

USA

Língua:

Maya

Cor:

Cor

Aspect Ratio:

1,85 : 1

Som:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Certificação:

Netherlands:16 | Canada:18A (British Columbia/Ontario) | Ireland:15A | Germany:18 | UK:18 | Australia:MA | Argentina:18 | Israel:18 | Malaysia:18PL | China:(Banned) | Indonesia:Dewasa | Thailand:R-14 | Taiwan:R-18 | Philippines:R-18 | Finland:K-15 | Hong Kong:III | Singapore:M18 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Italy:T (original rating) | France:-12 | Canada:14A (Alberta) | South Africa:16 (V) | Italy:VM14 (re-rated) (court decision) (2007) | South Korea:18 | Norway:15 (original rating) | Norway:18 (re-rating) | Poland:18 | USA:R (certificate #42915) | Brazil:16 | Hungary:18 | Japan:R-15 | Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade) | New Zealand:R16 | Sweden:15 | Iceland:16

Locais de filmagem:

Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico

Companhia :

Icon Entertainment International

Pegadinha:

Many substantial speaking roles in the film were filled by Mayan people who had never acted before. For instance, the sick little girl who curses the hunting party as they and the captives pass right before entering the city, was played by a seven year old who lived in a dirt-floored hut in a village not unlike Jaguar Paw's.

Goofs:

Anacronismos: The Murals in the tunnel are nearly exact replicas of ones dating from 100 BCE - 1,700 years before the movie is supposedly set. The only difference is that the real murals don't show people brandishing bleeding, severed heads.

Citações:

[first lines]
title card: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." W. Durant

Conexões:

Aparece em "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2006-12-09)" (2006)

Tilha Sonora:

Nichos del Tiempo

A Brilliant Message About Civilization

Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but he knows how to make an authentically real statement about the human condition. The movie is about civilization and how smaller is better. There are some rain-forest dwelling American natives, somewhere in America where there are jaguars and monkeys. Then there are some "civilized" natives, with a huge society of nobles, serfs, slaves and sacrificial victims who get their hearts torn out and heads chopped off on top of a pyramid, for the appeasement of their gods and for the sake of controlling and entertaining the "citizens." Our noble small villagers of the forest are ultimately hunted down and enslaved by the more organized, and totally vicious, pyramid builders. This is a story of how one of these villagers deals with the horrific trials that his captors heap upon him. The whole movie is in an ancient native language, subtitled in English, and it lends an air of excruciating authenticity to the happenings. One gets the feeling of being a time traveler, as this 500-year-old world seems so real, with every detail of weaponry, cookware, clothing, jewelry, labor practices, buildings, village characters, and sacrificial ceremonies so obviously researched that it made me feel uncomfortably like I was involved in it all. We are constantly getting the crowd's point of view of all the empire's activities and abuse of its captives and underlings. There is a lot to look at here, from God's beautiful nature to man's nightmarish creations, so it deserves to be seen on a big screen.