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Box office. $120.7 million [4] Apocalypto ( / əˌpɒkəˈlɪptoʊ /) is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia. The film features a cast of American Indian and Indigenous Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia ...
- Rudy Youngblood
Going to a general casting call, Youngblood was selected by...
- Raoul Trujillo
Raoul Trujillo (born May 8, 1955) is an American actor,...
- Mayra Sérbulo
It was not until 2006 that achieved international fame by...
- Yucatec Mayan Language
A Yucatec Maya speaker singing with a guitar. Yucatec Maya...
- Human Sacrifice
Important rituals such as the dedication of major building...
- Dean Semler
Dean Semler AM ACS ASC (born 26 May 1943) is an Australian...
- Abel Woolrich
Acting career. His career spanned over thirty years of...
- English
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson [3] AO (born January 3, 1956...
- Rudy Youngblood
Dec 8, 2006 · Apocalypto: Directed by Mel Gibson. With Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernández, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead. As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Mel Gibson
- 2006-12-08
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- Sean Hutchinson
- Mel Gibson made a very fast cameo. The first teaser trailer for Apocalypto, made before principal photography of the movie itself, includes a hidden single-frame image of a heavily bearded Gibson standing next to a group of Mayan actors with a cigarette in his mouth.
- Apocalypto also found Waldo. Gibson wasn’t the only brief cameo. The director humorously—and morbidly—inserted a single frame of a man dressed as Waldo from Where’s Waldo into the scene where Jaguar Paw stumbles into a pile of dead bodies after the ritual sacrifice scene.
- Gibson was a stickler for authentic language. All of the dialogue is in the Yucatec Maya language.
- Gibson got expert help. Though the film exercises some dramatic license, Gibson hired Dr. Richard D. Hansen, Assistant Professor at Idaho State University and a specialist on Mayan culture, as a consultant to ensure a level of historical accuracy.
Summaries. As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression. In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods.
Aug 2, 2014 · Apocalypto, Mel Gibson's post-Passion of the Christ folly, is showing on BBC2 at 11:15pm on Saturday, invading Mayan history and leaving reality in shreds. Peter Bradshaw's review.
Dec 8, 2006 · Directed by Mel Gibson. Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller. R. 2h 19m. By A.O. Scott. Dec. 8, 2006. “I’m going to peel off his skin and make him watch me wear it.” This grisly threat is...