Guys, fun fact. In ancient times, Mayans that play the ballgames in Mesoamerica when the person wins and the another person lose they get sacrificed by decapitation
0:59 That guy is gargling. He's just gargling. The others are flexing, yet he is just gargling What is he gargling? Why is he gargling??? Why can I not stop laughing????
Louis Brasil Well they are making 2D animated series. One that has very high quality animation is Voltron Legendary Defender, which is made by people who worked on Avatar The Last Airbender.
Louis Brasil yeah, on the one hand, they have gold (This, Shrek 1 and 2, Spirit, Prince of Egypt, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda), on the other hand, PAINFUL, AGONIZING FAILURE (Shark Tale, Trolls, Home, Shrek Forever After)
"We need a miracle!" "No, we need to cheat!" Well... if someone say they are gods they must show a power beyonds any mortal could imagine. That's mean they cheating by default.
just to be a mesoamerican ball game nerd, although the ridiculously high hoop was a part of the game, it was only meant for miraculous plays once in a blue moon. it's assumed that for the most part the game was played like volleyball, but without a net. and with, uh, human sacrifices at the end.
You might have the Incas and the Aztecs mixed up - Human sacrifice in the Inca empire was very rare. The mayans did it a lot more often, and then the Aztecs were just balls-to-the-wall nuts about human sacrifice.
Some woman yelling "That was a foul!" really makes this scene a lot less macabre than it actually is. As does that one guy doing something with his tongue when warming up.
Yeah, I mean like how everyone gasped when he said the word "sacrifice." Like, in real life the games involving sacrifice were special events, not extremely common-place. It seemed like all the characters assumed that this game was just for fun, so they were shocked when the whole sacrifice thing came up.
This is actually a game created by the Ancient Mayans to entertain themselves. They would get the ball on the side-wall's targets or in the hoop. If you lost, then you'd be a sacrifice to the Gods. 😨
Actually, it went both ways. If u won u were sacrificed, if u lost, u were sacrificed. It just depended on who was in charge of each game.... Sometimes they sacrificed the losing team, other times it was the winning team. It was better to not play at all, bcoz there was always the 50/50 chance ur team gets sacrificed.
To be sacrificed in this game was seen as a great honor, even by those who were to be sacrificed. By the way, they sacrificed the winners, not the losers.
At first yeah, but you know what they found out? Nobody likes to die. So the teams always played half heartedly hoping the other team won. Thus later on it was made that the losers were the ones put to death by sacrifice. Unsurprisingly this lead to a lot more competitive play.
I always imagined it was like: “The gods should not be playing ball like this!” Then he starts to walk away, leading everyone with him, “the gods are noble, they are almighty! They should not be playing with such common, unskilled players!” And Tulio starts to get nervous. “They need a stadium worthy to hold their greatness...” gets to where he is standing “...This is how the Gods should play ball!”
And it is referred to as "Pok ta tok", from the sound the rubber ball makes when it hits the ground. Mesoamericans would kill the losers (no; actually SACRIFICE), usually, so I'm glad not many games aren't like pok ta tok.
0:53 First I count 12, then he says there's 15, then it's reduced to 5.... Then 7 come back running, 8 stare down the ball, then 10 appear, lastly 6 are offered to be sacrificed. Feels like this is a code to something -_o
MegaAnimazing You're right. Dreamworks is a studio. On the one hand, gold (This movie, Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda)! On the other hand, PAINFUL, AGONIZING FAILURE (Shark Tale, Home, Trolls, Shrek Forever After)!!!! See what I did there?
Wow, and today we used Tzekel-kan as an example of a typical shaman (well, actually, a mixture of shaman and priest types). We were learning the difference between the priests and the shamans (in the Religious Studies class)
My friend and I actually created d&d caracters based on them Julia and Michelle mighty and powerful adventureres, I was Michelle and a bard and she was Julia and a rogue
This scene is awesome but for the record, Pok A Tok is a Mayan sport. While the city of El Dorado is a Muiscan myth. Different Society and technically, different continents as well.
I've actually been to one of these stadiums, and yes, thats pretty much exactly what it looked like *except for the colors, theyve been scraped off from ovr the years*
Hahaha. Looks like he also has a magic... cape? poncho? how to call that red thing covering his chest... anyway, he can store there books without any pockets
You know when I went to the ruins in Chichen-Itza there was a ball game arena much like this one and according to the tour guide there the rules were pretty much the same, the difference is that the winning team was sacrificed to their gods not the losing team
It is true in ancient Mesopotamia the players not only play for glory they play for their lives the losing team gets sacrificed while the winning team get gold my ancestors were weird yes I’m Mayan descendant In other writings it says they also sacrificed the winners
I have an interesting theory for all of you that might clear up any confusion about how it could be possible that Miguel and Tulio would just so happen to wind up drifting aimlessly in a boat with essentially no hope for food or survival of any kind and then just wind up on the island where El Dorado is located. Also, I'm going to point out why the natives of El Dorado and Miguel and Tulio would be able to understand each other with seamless ease (due to the fact the natives unlikely spoke Spanish). Firstly, you guys must understand that even if Miguel and Tulio were con-men, they were con-men with favor from the divine. What I mean by this is that it could not have been coincidental that the island they would have unknowingly landed on would be the same island El Dorado is located, let alone be alive. Also, there is a term known as, "glossolalia", and it is the phenomenon commonly referred to as "speaking in tongues". Glossolalia is essentially a spiritual gift that allows people within a foreign land whom aren't capable of communicating with the native peoples' language of that land to do so with ease. In other words, whenever Miguel and Tulio are talking to, or listening to, any of the El Dorado natives they actually happen to be speaking the native language of El Dorado, even though they are not aware that they are doing it.
I would love to play this game. Also, why does tha game end when the shadow touches the line? Shouldn't it be until one team scores a certain amount of points, since the 2 score keepers only had a certain amount of gold bricks at hand?
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"We need a miracle!"
"No, we need to *cheat!*"
Words to live by.
To later be banned from life. I don't recommend it
The story of being allowed to use a TI-89 during a Calculus exam that has notes stored on it.
@XTheCrystalBeastGuyX I loved those back in the day. They let us store data and our own programs on them, and we could take them into the exam.
Ancient Aztecs Incas , Mayans and of course Tainos, pre-European arrival.
Guys, fun fact. In ancient times, Mayans that play the ballgames in Mesoamerica when the person wins and the another person lose they get sacrificed by decapitation
Any sufficiently advanced "cheat" is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arthur C. Clarke-
0:59
That guy is gargling.
He's just gargling.
The others are flexing, yet he is just gargling
What is he gargling?
Why is he gargling???
Why can I not stop laughing????
XD
Trey Pehl One of them's just chewing.
Trey Pehl The tongue is a muscle like any other, my friend. This man has trained his to perfection.
+Trey Pehl its its battle cry.
OMG I just noticed that and I came down to the comments to write that... and your comment was the first one I saw XD
"Well don't blame me!"
"I BLAME YOU!"
Miguel: Yet, you know wasn't my idea.(flips his hair)
Is T-Kan watching?
Miguel: D-don't blame me!
Tulio: I BLAAAAME YOUUUU!
haha that was funny
lol
You got them mixed it the one that said don’t blame me is Tulio
@@Blackcage3 No they got it right blonde dude is Miguel.
I love how Chel's there like
"Tulio, the hip, the HIIIP!!"
NOICE
I love your name, you like beans?
Her hips, tho.
smol bean her voice or her curvy body and hips?
And the word some of you might be looking for is "thicc"
My sister and I used to laugh at the way she said “the hip,hip!” and how she used the armadillo as the ball...
Miguel-we need a miracle
Tulio- no, we need to cheat!
That's what I say all the time if I didn't study for a test lmao he summed it up perfectly
+Evey Kano thats what I say even when i study for a test
Marina Syndulla tulio said we need a miracle
Midterms be like: We need a miracle. No we need to cheat.
Relatable
"EXCUSSSSE ME, who invented this GAME?" LOL
Why the gods! Of course!
Francisco Sv
I had to think of this worse Zelda cartoon XD
If I was Miguel, in that situation, I'd rather hide myself under the ground.
Kino Cartoon .uuuyhui
The gods so The Mayans can play this game is called pok ta pok
I like how at 0:58 the rest of the team is all big and menacing, and then there's the one guy just flicking his tongue
ikr
+Mason Quigley I had never noticed that! Thank you for pointing that out lmao!
Mason Quigley is DAT a moderfuching iugandan referens?!
@@gabb9109 oh man!
Jojo meme (with cherry) enters the chat
Dreamwork really should rework on these type of animation films instead of always doing CGIs
Agreed.
Louis Brasil Well they are making 2D animated series. One that has very high quality animation is Voltron Legendary Defender, which is made by people who worked on Avatar The Last Airbender.
Louis Brasil yeah, on the one hand, they have gold (This, Shrek 1 and 2, Spirit, Prince of Egypt, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda), on the other hand, PAINFUL, AGONIZING FAILURE (Shark Tale, Trolls, Home, Shrek Forever After)
That end scene was freaking epic. I mean how he stood up against the High Priest was just god like :D
+Andre Klinge Heh, you said "god".
good choice of words
Honestly tzekel-kan is the ultimate hype man, like if I was a god I would want him following me around just shouting things about how I'm a god
Until you need your space
Lorgar.exe
@@Erfierazgzb0ss4u Word Bearer
Yeah, he's epic
It would have been hilarious if they had made a series or second movie as to how these two met and became such good friends.
Good friends? Lol
"Don't blame me."
"I BLAME YOU!"
I think my favourite part of this scene is just the cocky scorekeepers, great little touch there.
"We need a miracle!"
"No, we need to cheat!"
Well... if someone say they are gods they must show a power beyonds any mortal could imagine. That's mean they cheating by default.
XD love lol
+bloom olguin right*
Technically yes
peter siri .
That’s why the game was 15 on 2 XD
just to be a mesoamerican ball game nerd, although the ridiculously high hoop was a part of the game, it was only meant for miraculous plays once in a blue moon. it's assumed that for the most part the game was played like volleyball, but without a net.
and with, uh, human sacrifices at the end.
I always found that aspect weird. I didn't the Mayans sacrificed people all that often. I thought that was more of an Inca tradition.
You might have the Incas and the Aztecs mixed up - Human sacrifice in the Inca empire was very rare. The mayans did it a lot more often, and then the Aztecs were just balls-to-the-wall nuts about human sacrifice.
Esta Fortaleza
yeah that's probably it.
Well, if they're gods then wouldn't it be expected that they reach the hoop way more than once in a blue moon?
You know we should resurrect this game (with some minor modern fixes and twist), it would be a fun game
I've watch this so many times I can recite the script of almost the whole movie without watching it lol love it
lol me too! :)
+Ali Nicky me three
100th like
Who ever said horses were allowed in this game?
Oh yeah, the gods did!
Finally, that little armadillo that's been following them around since the start has a purpose, Loaded Ball!
bjsdemon his name is Bibo.
@@quinna5537 i thought you said bilbo😂
At 5:23, I thought for sure Miguel was going to add at the end of his speech, "...except you."
Some woman yelling "That was a foul!" really makes this scene a lot less macabre than it actually is. As does that one guy doing something with his tongue when warming up.
Yeah, I mean like how everyone gasped when he said the word "sacrifice." Like, in real life the games involving sacrifice were special events, not extremely common-place. It seemed like all the characters assumed that this game was just for fun, so they were shocked when the whole sacrifice thing came up.
That was chel😂😂
Give some credit to that poor little...whatever that thing is for getting kicked around for his friend's sake.
its an armadillo
+MasterSnakeTamer That's because Miguel saved his life I think.
Que A The armadillo's name?
+AngieGandalf6 yes
+MasterSnakeTamer That's an armadillo.
I love Miguel! So brave, bold and kind! True Gryffindor! Even his golden hair somewhat resembles the mane of lion and he look awesome in red.
Nice crossover btw)))
Does that mean Tulio is a Ravenclaw? His blue and black?
Im still seriously amazed at how much the animation team researched the ancient maya to bring this movie to life.
The ball players are even in gear!
"Tulio! The hip, the hip!"
Love that line! XD
My history teacher made us watch this.
You must have a great history teacher!
My RS teacher made me watch Prince of Egypt
SAME here. HAHAHA
I'm currently writing a paper about mesoamerican ball playing.
In fact I should be doing it right now.
DiamondQueen 14 Same did you use to go to Ranch O Pico
I quote this movie a lot and no one I know cares enough about this movie, but its SO GOOD, legendary!
Tulio the hip the hip lol
For real tho lol
My anaconda don't.
Easy for HER to say she got dem fo daaaays
And the word you might be looking for is "Thicc"
This is actually a game created by the Ancient Mayans to entertain themselves. They would get the ball on the side-wall's targets or in the hoop. If you lost, then you'd be a sacrifice to the Gods. 😨
Charlotte Jester If you won you got sacrificed I heard. Apparently they believed the gods wanted the best people.
Actually, it went both ways. If u won u were sacrificed, if u lost, u were sacrificed. It just depended on who was in charge of each game.... Sometimes they sacrificed the losing team, other times it was the winning team. It was better to not play at all, bcoz there was always the 50/50 chance ur team gets sacrificed.
Actually the Olmec created this game.
For the Aztecs anything that breathed and moved was sacrifice material
Actually it was considered a great honor & service to be sacrificed to the gods.
To be sacrificed in this game was seen as a great honor, even by those who were to be sacrificed. By the way, they sacrificed the winners, not the losers.
At first yeah, but you know what they found out? Nobody likes to die. So the teams always played half heartedly hoping the other team won. Thus later on it was made that the losers were the ones put to death by sacrifice. Unsurprisingly this lead to a lot more competitive play.
This movie was my life when I was younger
Always loved this movie, Always loved this scene.
Studying Mesoamerica in art history, and this movie is all I can think of.
how long was tzekel-kan holding in that sentence at 0:20? did no one else talk in the time it took to walk to the stadium?
finally someone else notices
Magic. Don't question it.
LOL!
I always imagined it was like:
“The gods should not be playing ball like this!” Then he starts to walk away, leading everyone with him, “the gods are noble, they are almighty! They should not be playing with such common, unskilled players!”
And Tulio starts to get nervous.
“They need a stadium worthy to hold their greatness...” gets to where he is standing “...This is how the Gods should play ball!”
Hanbin C zuoA
I like the line Well don't blame me
I blame you
Miguel and Tulio are the kind of people I'd want to be best friends with
5:50 hes like "EXCUSE YOU"
The priest's face: Oh no he didn't! >:O
This movie was my life when I was younger
what a classic movie!!
This is why I love Miguel. woohoo! xD
I'm really impressed by how accurate this movie was about the mesoamerican ballgame.
This movie is VERY under rated
Hrm... that's what you get when you cross soccer with basketball.
And it is referred to as "Pok ta tok", from the sound the rubber ball makes when it hits the ground.
Mesoamericans would kill the losers (no; actually SACRIFICE), usually, so I'm glad not many games aren't like pok ta tok.
Availex_Reigning yep the Maya created the game
Well don't blame me
I blame you
And then they proceed to die from lack of protein.
"Well don't blame me"
*"I blame you!"*
0:53 First I count 12, then he says there's 15, then it's reduced to 5.... Then 7 come back running, 8 stare down the ball, then 10 appear, lastly 6 are offered to be sacrificed. Feels like this is a code to something -_o
This is magic. Tzekel kan loves magic
What. Do you think. You're doing???!!! lol tulio was my fave in this movie
I love Miguel so much.
One of my favourite movies
Dream Works need to go back to hand drawn...or at least try Cell Shading.
Chel shading
HA! I GET IT
boooooo take my damn like
MegaAnimazing You're right. Dreamworks is a studio. On the one hand, gold (This movie, Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda)! On the other hand, PAINFUL, AGONIZING FAILURE (Shark Tale, Home, Trolls, Shrek Forever After)!!!! See what I did there?
Thomas Huffman home isn't a bad movie
This is an awesome movie to watch in World History class!
We did the same. Couldn't stop laughing
Wow, and today we used Tzekel-kan as an example of a typical shaman (well, actually, a mixture of shaman and priest types). We were learning the difference between the priests and the shamans (in the Religious Studies class)
That horse kick tho 😂😂😂
The chief and the priest probably had a bet to see how long these two could pretend to be Gods.
Zerry Borger chief knew they werent gods
"I LOVE this game!"
To mostly quote the high priest: I LOVE THIS FILM!
one of d best adventure movie.love d road to eldorado
and like this kids, is how soccer was born
0:16
Tulio - Yeah. Yeah, like he said!
My friend and I actually created d&d caracters based on them Julia and Michelle mighty and powerful adventureres, I was Michelle and a bard and she was Julia and a rogue
Tzekei-Kan: But I speak up for the gods.
Us: More like speaking against the gods
2:49 ‘FOUL!!! That was a foul!’ 🤣 Chel is BEST referee!
2:18 She said the hip not the butt.
The sound that’s made when they look at the hoop always kills me
that background music sounds brazilian.
I love the horse. 🐎
We need the ball like this. To win some match especially in world cup.
I didn't know Nicki Minaj was in this movie
WTF?!?! You SUCK!!
0:42 Me everytime in sport when my teacher explains a new game
Want a sequel to this movie? Go sign the petetion. Look up the road to el dorado petition for sequel. It should come up
I don't want one. This is one of those cases were something is so good, a sequel would ruin it.
Eh I guess. But everyone has their opinions
Roxas Axel -_-
What? I want a sequel and you don't. If I respect your opinion you should respect mine
Roxas Axel But i didnt disrespect yours
2:15 lol tuilo her hip her hip
I love this cartoon movie!!
This scene is awesome but for the record, Pok A Tok is a Mayan sport. While the city of El Dorado is a Muiscan myth. Different Society and technically, different continents as well.
But dude El Dorado is magic. Maybe the city can teleport or something
Lizzy Chrome
pff hahahaha! I suppose but it's still going to cause confusion for those who might be mildly interested in these two societies.
+StringerYT Really? I've never heard of that. I mean, I know about Tenochtitlan but this is the first time I've heard it connected with El Dorado
I love this Movie
Half of most of my bs talk came from this movie
Tzekel-Kan is one of the best villains in history.
I love this scene
I've actually been to one of these stadiums, and yes, thats pretty much exactly what it looked like *except for the colors, theyve been scraped off from ovr the years*
5:55 when bae is with someone else..
I haven't watched this, but their lady friend is hawt!
well don't blame me......I BLAME YOU
EXXCUSE ME. WHO INVENTED THIS GAMM-E?
+Fellow Kid what ?! THE GODS ... ( hahaha ) of course :)
@@bananabus7789 I'm warning you, don't push your luck with this guy!
Came here from Reddit after hearing that Mexico brought this game back lol
Anyone else as a kid think that Tzekel Kahn had magic teleportation powers that could transport everyone to the sports court?
Hahaha. Looks like he also has a magic... cape? poncho? how to call that red thing covering his chest... anyway, he can store there books without any pockets
@@shurale123 yeah, that shirt or whatever is like Hermione’s purse.
You tell’em, Miguel!
does anyone in the game contract leprosy? The armadillo was all over the field. That animal is a carrier of leprosy.
+Shady Badger Most humans are naturally resistant to leprosy, weirdly enough.
You know when I went to the ruins in Chichen-Itza there was a ball game arena much like this one and according to the tour guide there the rules were pretty much the same, the difference is that the winning team was sacrificed to their gods not the losing team
It is true in ancient Mesopotamia the
players not only play for glory they play for their lives the losing team gets sacrificed while the winning team get gold my ancestors were weird yes I’m Mayan descendant
In other writings it says they also sacrificed the winners
gods! i love this movie!
I LOVE THIS GAME !!!!!!!
“I love this game !”
I have an interesting theory for all of you that might clear up any confusion about how it could be possible that Miguel and Tulio would just so happen to wind up drifting aimlessly in a boat with essentially no hope for food or survival of any kind and then just wind up on the island where El Dorado is located. Also, I'm going to point out why the natives of El Dorado and Miguel and Tulio would be able to understand each other with seamless ease (due to the fact the natives unlikely spoke Spanish). Firstly, you guys must understand that even if Miguel and Tulio were con-men, they were con-men with favor from the divine. What I mean by this is that it could not have been coincidental that the island they would have unknowingly landed on would be the same island El Dorado is located, let alone be alive. Also, there is a term known as, "glossolalia", and it is the phenomenon commonly referred to as "speaking in tongues". Glossolalia is essentially a spiritual gift that allows people within a foreign land whom aren't capable of communicating with the native peoples' language of that land to do so with ease. In other words, whenever Miguel and Tulio are talking to, or listening to, any of the El Dorado natives they actually happen to be speaking the native language of El Dorado, even though they are not aware that they are doing it.
Why is there not the scene when Tzekel-Kan sees Miguel's blood and he understands that he and Tullio are not gods? I really like it
I would love to play this game. Also, why does tha game end when the shadow touches the line? Shouldn't it be until one team scores a certain amount of points, since the 2 score keepers only had a certain amount of gold bricks at hand?
i barley learned facts about this old meso game in history before seeing this! lol
“Well don’t blame me!”
“I blame youuuuuu!”