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News Item: Mel Gibson to film movie with pre-Columbian Mayan backdrop

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Mel Gibson to film movie with pre-Columbian Mayan backdrop 29 Oct 2005
Gibson says new film has ‘mythic proportions’
‘Apocalypto’ stars unknown Mexican actors speaking in an ancient tongue

"The film’s stars will be unrecognizable to most moviegoers, and they will speak in the Mayan tongue of Yucateco, Gibson said. It will be light on dialogue and heavy on images and action. It’s set 600 years ago, prior to the 16th-century Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America."

"Gibson said that although he researched the writings of a Spanish missionary and the Mayan bible, the “Popol Vuh,” and visited Mayan sites in Guatemala and Mexico, the Mayan setting is merely the backdrop of the movie. he chose it because “it’s just fascinating to me. There’s still a lot of mystery about the culture.”

“I’m hoping by focusing on this civilization we can ... analyze ourselves,” he said, adding that the movie “is kind of an anthropological journey.”"
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