XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: invalid@address.com   
      
   >>> 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.   
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   > 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.   
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   > We should make a list of all these fun examples.   
      
      
   When you're right, you're right. The bad guys used to be Russians.   
   Then they became Germanic neo-Nazis. Then they became terrorists   
   -- but not Arab terrorists, European terrorists (Die Hard, etc).   
   Now they are white mercenaries for major corporations. Hollywood   
   has no honesty, no guts, and no imagination.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)