[Aztlan] Apocalypto
Nick Hopkins
nhopkins at mailer.fsu.edu
Sun Dec 10 15:54:36 CST 2006
Rudy Youngblood (AKA Jaguar Paw) is said to be of Comanche, Cree,
Yaqui, and African-American descent (according to Wikipedia--but if
that information isn't any better than their linked reference to the
Yukatek language, forget it!). I wonder how he would feel about
acting in a movie that portrayed his Comanche ancestors as totally
bloodthirsty savages ravaging innocent women and children for no
particularly good reason? Of course there is plenty of historical
evidence that some of them sometimes did just that, but how would he
like to act in a movie that portrayed his entire ancestral tribe as
simplistic sadistic killers who brought about their own destruction
because of their excesses?
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