{"id":35578,"date":"2024-04-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35578"},"modified":"2024-04-10T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T13:57:51","slug":"apocalypto-2006-directed-by-mel-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35578","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Apocalypto&#8221; (2006) directed by Mel Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z041024zview_apocalypto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Apocalypto <\/strong><\/em>(2006)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>\u00a0Mel Gibson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Max Trujillo, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer <\/strong>and <strong>Iazua Larios<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>No one can outrun their destiny.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Jaguar Paw&#8217;s village is attacked, he manages to hide his pregnant wife and young son in a deep hole right outside their jungle settlement.\u00a0 He then goes back to fight the attackers.\u00a0 With overwhelming numbers, the attacking Mayans kill or capture every man and woman in the village.\u00a0 The prisoners will be marched to the Mayan city.\u00a0 The women then sold into slavery and the men publicly sacrificed.<\/p>\n<p>Jaguar Paw is determined to escape, survive and get back to his family.\u00a0 Odds are against it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When people talk about Mel Gibson&#8217;s directing ability they usually mention <em>Braveheart, Hacksaw Ridge<\/em> and <em>The Passion of the Christ<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>Apocalypto<\/em> should be included in that group.\u00a0 It&#8217;s arguably the best film he ever directed.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the roles in<em> Apocalypto<\/em> were performed by Mayans who had never acted before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Apocalypto<\/em> was nominated for three <em>Academy Awards<\/em>: <em>Best Achievement in Makeup<\/em> (Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano); <em>Best Achievement in Sound Mixing<\/em> (Kevin O&#8217;Connell, Greg P. Russell, Fernando C\u00e1mara) and <em>Best Achievement in Sound Editing<\/em> (Sean McCormack, Kami Asgar).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Apocalypto <\/strong><\/em>(2006) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z041024zview_apocalypto2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apocalypto (2006) Director: \u00a0Mel Gibson Screenplay: Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia Stars: Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Max Trujillo, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35600,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578\/revisions\/35600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}