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Apocalypto a 2 Dollar Film on Mexico Streets

11:41 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Movies| mexico · 4 Comments

19 Dec 2006

The movie hasn’t even hit the Mexican big screen, but Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is a big hit on the Mexican streets. For about 2 dollars you can get your own bootlegged copy of the film complete with people walking in front of the screen.

I know many people didn’t agree with my take on the movie but I might be tempted to pay $2 for a copy to review from the comfort of my bedroom, especially if I knew that mone y wasn’t going into Mel’s pockets.

Via / El Diario/La Prensa

Apocalypto Racist? No duh!

7 Dec 2006

Looking to Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, set to open on Friday, as a source of historical accuracy regarding Maya culture makes as much sense as looking to this book for information about the Aztecs. Call me a judgemental, oversensitive woman of color (really, it wouldn’t be the first time) but I don’t need to see the movie to have a bad gut reaction, you know what I’m talking about Latinos, that something here just ain’t right. I sure am not gonna drop $10 plus to prove myself right and at least one group of indigenous activists in Guatemala, where a large population of Maya still live agrees.

“Gibson replays, in glorious big budget Technicolor, an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans and thus they deserved, in fact, needed, rescue,” said Ignacio Ochoa, director of the Nahual Foundation that promotes Mayan culture.

Mel Gibson gets Latino business award

11:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Movies · 1 Comment

3 Nov 2006

Yesterday, while a bunch of Latino musicians were being honored at the Latin Grammys in New York, Mel Gibson was being honored on this coast by a group of Latino business owners for his film Apocalypto.

Enthusiastic applause greeted the Oscar-winning actor and director as he walked onstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to receive the Latino Business Association’s Chairman’s Visionary Award.

Gibson answered questions from association Chairman Rick Sarmiento about the film, a Mayan-language epic filmed in Mexico chronicling the decline of the native civilization.

The head of the organization says that Gibson was worthy of the award for using all Latino actors in the film, while Gibson pointed out that the movie was cast using all Mexican actors, most of whom were not actors at all.

Gibson was also quoted as saying that his movie is “a badge of honor for the Latino community.

Spain’s 20 Minutos published a really unflattering photo of Gibson at the event, check it out.

Apocalypto movie site

Via / Guardian Unlimited

Mel Gibson donates money for Mexican housing

7:35 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| mexico · Comments Off

14 Jul 2006

Mel Gibson must have been moved by the living conditions he saw in Mexico’s Veracruz state when filming his upcoming flick Apocalypto, because he’s busting out his wallet to build some homes for the people of the region, according to USA Today:

The 50-year-old director-actor will donate the money through the Rotary Club and Mexico’s family welfare agency, government officials announced Thursday.

Officials said the donation will be used to construct homes for poor residents of the port city of Veracruz and the city of San Andres Tuxtla.

The dollar amount apparently hasn’t been disclosed, but the article points out that Mel has shown his philanthropic side to Mexico in the past, donating $1 million to the victims of hurricane Stan.

Via / USA Today

WTF?: Mel Gibson to speak in Mayan at the Oscars

1:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism| Celebrities| Events| Movies| TV · Comments Off

4 Mar 2006

Yes, you read right, and yes, your cries of “WTF?!” are echoed across America. According to Time magazine, Mel Gibson is to speak en lengua maya at the Oscars this Sunday.

His last film, The Passion of the Christ, was spoken entirely in the dead languages of Latin and Aramaic. Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sunday’s Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue: Maya. That’s the sole language of Apocalypto, the adventure epic set in Pre-Columbian Mexico that Gibson is currently shooting on the edge of southern Mexico’s rainforests, in the state of Veracruz.

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