Are there any reliable texts or documentary films on this era of Mayan history? It was an amazing movie but I'm wondering how accurate it is.
shareA PhD of history for Mayans was on a podcast that talks about historical accuracy of Apocalypto. He agreed with 99,5%; he said Mel was right on except for two tiny things, water and a writing on a wall. Other than that he went play by play through film and said it was done right.
He LOVED the film too.
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I agree. Mel got it right. I think we're dealing with a lot of people who hate Mel Gibson because of his strong Catholic beliefs. My guess is they never saw "The Passion of the Christ" and wouldn't see it because they don't like Gibson. How tolerant of them, right?? LOL! Oh well, you'll never convince them, so why try? 😜
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The external log lines and descriptions just inaccurately state it's about the decline of the Maya. That's layman stuff. It's about some mountain Maya long after the Maya city-states collapsed, and their unfortunate contact with some other city state of the time... there were others. If you ignore the marketing material, the film is fairly accurate. No where inside the movie do they say Maya or Aztec or does it even matter.
shareThe subtitles(Amazon Video) say "[speaking mayan]" sometimes.