You Know What They Say About Sticks and Stones
1:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Internet|Movies|VivirLatino
7 Jan 2007
Most people know that I’m not one to shy away from taking a controversial position and that I stick to my points of view firmly in spite of criticism, pero por favor at least get it correct. Recently, another Latino blogger pointed fingers at me, saying I was advocating bootlegging.I do not advocate bootlegging or any other sort of “illegal” activity. If one were to go back and read my posts regarding Mel Gibson’s Apocolypto, one will see that I was reporting on a phenomenon happening in Mexico where the film was available super cheap on the streets before even hitting the screens there, which is ironic on a number of levels. Second, what I did say is that I would be more inclined to give my hard earned cash to an immigrant on the street here in NYC than to Mel Gibson and Hollywood studios for producing what I still consider to be a racist production (because I don’t need someone, for example, to call me a spic to know racism when I see it).
Oh and, by the way, VivirLatino doesn’t need to write anything specific to get into Google News, we’re an official source.
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8 Responses to You Know What They Say About Sticks and Stones
Chapin
January 7th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Whoa Maegan, take it easy
You’re giving this (newbie) blogger a lot more attention than he deserves (which is probably exactly what (s)he wants). Anybody who read your post attentively (and who has a sense of humour) understood exactly what you meant!
Marco
January 7th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
hahahahahahah, i think that latino blogger is looking for comments! did he even read your post and your (and everyone else’s) comments? You know Mala, you should see it already and give commentary…
maegan la mala
January 8th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Well the newbie blogger can thank me for getting him some more attention pero I’m not gonna let people write about me w ithout responding.
Marco – if you want to send me the $10 to see it I will, but I sure as hell am not paying out of pocket to see it.
Sandina
January 8th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
You go girl! Stick to your non-lethal guns.
Sandina
January 8th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
You go girl! Stick to your non-lethal weapons.
Louis Pagan
January 8th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I’ve been blogging long enough and had my share of disagreements, quarrels and such. From my experience the best way to go is to have the person you disagree with a chance to explain their position. Usually, we misread or read into what someone writes and then give a heated rebuttal which then prompts a rebuff. I would say 50% of the time it’s a matter of misinterpretation, 25% of the time it’s a true disagreement and the other 1/4 of the time it’s a faulty report that leads to the disagreement.
Linda
January 8th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Thank god for people like you who speak their peace! That’s the problem with the old school Latino…so afraid of opening their mouths! Good for you girl!
El Picador
January 8th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Apocalypto is indeed a great movie. Sure, if you have Jewish friends, they might not like the fact that when Mel zips a few Coronas he goes on a anti-Semitic trance. Yeah, he’s got to do something about that.
However, the question here is if we judge the artwork or the artist. Sure, Mel has been known to be an ass but Apocalypto was a great, great movie. One that gotdamm Mexicans should have made. I don’t know why, WHY(?!) this was not the case… though I have my suspicions.
Mel did take a huge gamble financially and monetarily, not to mention professionally as a director and producer. And he won.
Maegan, you have a much romanticized view of the Mayan civilization. There is strong… and I mean strong evidence (and agreed among Mexican and foreign scholars) that the Maya may have been a warring people, exploitative and arrogant… like us today.
Most Mexican-Americans who take Chicano Studies at the university level get an idealistic, flowery view of pre-Cortesian Amerindian history, when in fact the aboriginal peoples of the Americas–in particular those who excelled creating civilizations–appear to have been as martial as their eventual European conquerors.
Mel got his time tables wrong with the arrival of the Spaniards at the end of the movie (I am unclear why he did that), but his movie as a whole, was very well done–far from the crappy productions of Televisa or the Churubusco Studios.
The shameful thing about Mel’s ‘pelicula’ is that a NON-MEXICAN spear-headed a movie of this excellent quality. Mexico has equally or better movie director talent (several whom have now migrated to Hollywood), but since the Indian in Mexico is deemed as dirty, dumb, lazy, and ugly, it is not surprising that Mel—an American raised in Australia—is the one who brings the Maya to movie life.
Excellent, Mel. Good job. Just keep your mouth shut when it comes to Jews… or you won’t get nominated at the Oscars.