[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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