XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: darthchipotle@hotmail.com   
      
   Al Smith wrote:   
   >>> What stake do you have in smearing Mel Gibson?   
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   >> Absolutely none.   
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   >> Based on advanced previews of the elaborate sets and beautiful   
   >> photography, my family and I went to the movie with hopeful   
   >> expectations, but what we saw was an inaccurate hate-filled   
   >> depiction of Native Americans.   
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   >> Not being christian or Jewish, we had never seen Passion Of   
   >> The Christ and were only mildly aware of the controversy of how   
   >> he portayed Jewish people in a negative light. But now we wonder   
   >> if they might not have had a legitimate complaint after seeing how   
   >> Mel Gibson smears the Maya people so viciously in Apocalypto.   
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   > Oh, I get it, you thought you'd see the politically correct, sanitized   
   > version of the natives that Hollywood is so (in)famous for, such as   
   > "Dancing With Wolves" where the white man is the evil monster, and all   
   > the natives are saints. In reality, native Americans were barbarians who   
   > liked to torture and murder anyone outside their own tribe, who   
   > practiced slavery and cannibalism. That's the way it was. When the   
   > Spanish came to the New World, what they saw the natives doing turned   
   > their stomachs. That the reason they were so merciless toward the   
   > natives. They regarded them as demons from hell.   
   Haven't you seen nearly all the antagonists in movies lately? White,   
   Blond, Blue eyed...blah blah blah. Hollywood is really transparent when   
   it comes to antagonists. Who are the protagonists? Usually a rag tag   
   band of "losers of life's lottery" fighting the evil albino and his   
   cronies. Lets see...typical protags...Black Male (misunderstood gangsta)   
   +Goth Chick (has a square boyfriend trying to supress her rights) +   
   Latina (working hard for an unappreciative WASP boss) + Gay white guy   
   (the only acceptable white guy for Hollywood).   
      
   Case and point:   
   Albino in The Da Vinci Code. The only thing this guy needed more was a   
   southern accent and a pickup truck with a gun rack.   
      
   We should make a list of all these fun examples.   
      
      
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