XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: raymokeeffe@hotmail.com   
      
   "Al Smith"  wrote in message   
   news:DBnih.83196$hn.10240@edtnps82...   
   >>>> 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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   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Why do we need bad guys?   
   The example of overcoming problems by peaceful means seems to not even have   
   been thought of.   
   Surely the people who are the bad guys in real life have their issues which   
   caused them to make poor decisions for survival in a world gone wrong for   
   them.   
   If perhaps we thought kindly in the general population, then we might   
   encourage the poor underprivledged which turned to crime to better   
   themselves. But we would have to know how to do that, it is so much easier   
   to blame them and punish them for the act of fate which befell them.   
      
   Sending a General to get peace is bound to start in violence.   
   Sending a philosopher at least will start with good will and kind words and   
   some understanding.   
   If the diplomat is not a philosopher, then he has the General as a backup   
   plan and a threat.   
      
   We feed ourselves movies and TV with violence, abuse and drugs.   
   The hero is usually the outcast reject who makes up his own rules and has   
   just a little of integrity.   
   It's steretype is it's kool to be the rebel hero and to act out with violent   
   means to solve problems.   
      
   Lets still realize that free speech, will still get your a punch if the   
   mouth if you dont use wisdom and grace.   
      
   PEace   
      
   Ray   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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