>Throws your head from the top of the pyramid
nothing personel, just trying to appease the sun
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>Throws your head from the top of the pyramid
We need more movies with Maya/Aztecs
Why is there no movie with Cortez is beyond me
>Why is there no movie with Cortez is beyond me
probably has to do something with all the raping
what are you even arguing here
>probably has to do something with all the raping
yeah by the spanish indigenous allies
its been a while since I've seen it
I watched this at the cinema. The walk to sacrifice alter was tense as frick, and made the hair on my neck raise. I felt like I was waiting in line to have my head lopped off. Terrific film.
Historically inaccurate movie, therefore garbage
You will never be Latinx
This movie makes you realize why humans are both disgusting animals but also great.I mean this shit was happening only 500 years ago
this movie is whitte supremacist propaganda not based in actual historical records at all thoughever
The only change was merging Aztec religious practices with a lower Yucatan Mayan society. These types of sacrifices did indeed occur, just a few hundred miles to the north of where the movie takes place.
Weren't the villagers mayans and the headhunters aztec? I know they all speak the same language/dialect, but that's for convenience. I never assumed the warriors were mayans, I'd bet most people also saw it as a raid on their neighbors.
IRL, they were similar, but distinct cultures separated by geography. Once you get to the Yucatan Peninsula, it's not Aztecs (or Nahua/Mexica).
Maya civilization collapsed around 800 CE. Aztecas were killed by Spanish around 1500-1600 CE which makes sense with the final scene.
Mayans and aztecs were the same people, you would never tell apart a mayan from an aztec at a police lineup.
The bulk of the populations of these civilizations were random nomadic forest peoples that just joined them due to conquest and economic pressures. These cities never lasted more than a few generations due to soil depletion in the farm fields around the city, then they were abandoned and new cities would be rebuilt.
Big cities require food shipments, these deplete the soils, in the forest it doesnt happen because the poop and pee are scattered everywhere, in a city people dont poo and pee where the farms are
Bottom line, nomadic measoamericans were all the same race of people that built different short-lived cities
Compared to historical evidence, the number of killings is significantly overstated. That said, humans are an interesting species because we have the instincts to be some of the most brutal of all animals (placental mammals and apes are the most brutal to their own kind of all), but a culture that rejects internal violence as long as the species itself. That means we constantly find ways to murder other humans by finding a correct context, because we are deeply driven to see ourselves as our greatest competition.
apes are placental mammals
Meant it to deepen the statement; placental mammals kill each other most, and apes kill each other most of placental mammals.
How are most placental mammals any more cruel than birds or reptiles? Alligators eat their young and eagle babies kill each other. Even among apes, gorillas and orangutans rarely kill each other. It is mostly just chimps and humans.
It's about number. Eating your young, but not fighting other adults, usually results in less violence than the inverse.
Chimps and humans kill each other a lot but I would not extend that behavior to other mammals. Dogs don't kill members of their own species any more than crows do, etc. Chimps and humans are just particularly cruel to their own kind. Maybe there is some correlation between intraspecies violence and intelligence but mammals in general are not more intelligent than birds are.
Intelligence, the sense to understand a smarter, more driven predator is more dangerous than a strange one, the demand for immediate resources, all probably contribute to it. As much as we're inclined to condemn it, it makes sense.
>only 500 years ago
third worlders still torture small animals and children for fun to this day.
What the frick was his problem?
Mesoamerican Kevin James.
Fat frick
gore fetish
Kino
Using the weather to control the populace. Many such cases.
>Child sacrifice to increase fortune
>Human/animal sacrifice to change the weather
Is this 2023 BC or AD?
History doesn't repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes.
>The Spanish was le bad
It was the Shadow Lords and Lasombra
>The Spanish was le bad
Your english is le bad, lmao
Would you have made it?
>Hey those broken refugees fleeing an invading horde sure seem spooky
>Let's keep this to ourselves and not even put a watch on our family village
Cortes, Cabez de Vaca...
All those guys had incredible stories but unfortunatly they made poor description of their voyage. Rather talking about gold and money to the kid than describing it like a George RR Martin talking about hobit sex
I'd be curious if the main character and his family made it somewhere safe and lived for a long time in peace. The bad guys seemed like they had been expanding outwards more and more and even after defeating a village would hunt down and capture the survivors. Would likely just be a matter of time before they'd run into them again unless he went hundreds of miles away and they'd still want to find another tribe that would take them in