--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > I'll have more to say this evening about Barry's hysterical > > meltdown, but in the meantime, here's a post I made back in > > 2007 after Barry had brought this up again. The Maya expert > > in the Salon article I quoted was, um, not exactly the only > > knowledgeable person to have been upset by the movie: > > > A few selections from articles discussing the historical > > inaccuracies in "Apocalypto"... > > Barry is just doing what he always does, so why is this > an 'hysterical meltdown'?
Well, you'd have to read his posts in this thread to know why I called it that. (I don't *think* Xeno meant to suggest that Barry is always engaged in hysterical meltdowns; I think he just miswrote.) > As for Apocalypto, a rather brutal film, it's fiction. Yes. Once you've read the published commentary I quoted, we can discuss why the historical inaccuracies are so significant. <snip> > Now to this I can layer on additional interpretations from my > own mind, based on rather poor memories of reading history > books and from school. I can then project that the Mayan > civilisation will fall, that the Spaniards are bringing the > true Catholic faith to these poor savages Actually it had already fallen well before the Spanish arrived. As to whether the Mayans were actually "poor savages," well, that's part of the issue with the film.
