They were advanced enough in math and calenders to know the time of the eclipse. A manipulation of the masses by those elites. Thus the smiles between the leader and the execution guy. Good movie. Good historic rep.
No , mate.... They didn´t know how to write ," the alphabet" , they didn´t know about wheels and how to manage with the farms. They were hunters and of course they practiced cannibalism ... Thanks god the spaniards arrived and conquered them cause they would have became extinct... A babies heart for the sun god every day , etc,etc.... The spaniards brought them civilitation , universities , infraestructure and the believe in one god with no slavery allowed. The anglosaxons , on the other way , just killed them . learn history before saying nonsense.
Amazing and sad how many Americans don't know the history of the Americas - Aztecs, Mayans, the arrival of Cortez etc. The pyramids for sacrifice, the religions.
I had one history teacher in 10th grade who happened to be Native American and he was cool as hell cause he'd say how our textbooks were bullshit, ignore em for a couple weeks, and really educate us about indigenous civilizations and folks when we were covering some of that time and subject. He taught us about the Mayans, Aztecs, and other people in the Americas about their feats when it came to astronomy, engineering, medicine, religions, politics, and societal hierarchies. I'll never forget actually being locked in and educated in class. It's like our curriculums are still locked into the 1950's where we skip over all that, only because they're indigenous people, and focus on the settler and colonial side of history while coincidentally hopping over those genocides and everything awful inflicted on the people with societies already here. I was a terrible student on paper since I was a kid, but I still graduated high school a whole year early because I like learning things on my own and definitely beyond the usual curriculums and structure of school. Aside from that class and perhaps a couple English lit ones where I could actually write what I wanted to write, I learned basically nothing from school that I learned on my own taking advantage of school libraries waiting 2 hours for a ride home after school or using the Internet to study these things cause they're cool as hell to know and learn.
@@ZoeAri3 .. No offence intended. It is personal to you and of course you know. Most Americans I spoke to in my 5 years living there didn't know. I don't think they are taught world history!
@Falopia5150 United State too I like very much the natives Americans names Cherokees Navajo Mustang Dakota Cheyenne Siux Tihuas in New México wow amazing names and Culture Americans Natives
Good movie just didn't like that it was not accurate to the time period. The Mexica (Aztec) and Maya where very different timelines. About 600-800 years difference. By the time the Spanish landed in the American Continent the Maya civilization was long gone. The language they are speaking is Mayan and not the Mexica language of Nahuatl.
The high priest and the ruling class knew when to expect the eclipse, they knew astronomy and all sorts of stuff they exploited. The head nod to each other was to say it's time, we are pretty much done here with these peasants.
Facts, thank you for pointing that out and wording it. I feel that goes over a lot of folks heads which is largely no fault of their own; it's not exactly taught in school that deeply here in the States about indigenous people and their histories from the Americas to understand that these civilizations were extremely wise when it came to math, astronomy, engineering, and what have you. This movie can't exactly be called historically accurate since they purposely mixed aspects of both the Mayans and Aztecs together to weave a more interesting film for audiences, but I still feel that Gibson and company captured the spirit of these cultures as well as breaking down the genre of a chase movie to its bare but most extremely levels in a fantastic way.
@@IKALmx2018 Cancún es literalmente lo opuesto a la tradición de México. No sé si estés al tanto pero cancún es básicamente financiado por y de los americanos. Además la ciudad de Cancún en sí está bien culera, pero creo que te refieres a los lugares en los alrededores.
These native empires were so brutal to all the surrounding tribes that when the spanish arrived many of those smaller tribes that were being killed and enslaved joined them against the empire. That is how a few hundred spaniards managed to conquer empires of millions: they made many native allies. The conquistadors said that after the war, once the empire was defeated, they had to stop their native allies from torturing and killing the prisoners, that is how much these smaller tribes hated the other guys.
True but also the spanish were also very brutal to norther tribes in mexico lets not ignore that as well the spanish were an empire there for gold and it was there motto . Human lives were expendable
I just have to mention that because the tribes were always fighting but tue spanish wiping out millions and oppressing and killing many in the north was quite a horrific event i juat really want to say that because i see on youtube so many people wanting to promote spanish empire as the nicest and there for benevolent reasons when in reality they werrent and we shouldnt rewrite history to make them look better we should be honest
Nobody is rewriting history. Where is your source for the "Spanish killing millions". Yes, no empire is innocent. That is the nature of conquest, but to make such grandiose statements without proof is irresponsible.
you only have the conquistador version of events. Gibson didn't do his research -- or didn't care about it. Watch The Mission and Embrace of the Serpent. Read A People's History of the United States.
Mayans were masters of time and astronomy. They knew the eclipse was coming, and used these theatrics to convince the masses that they were in tight with the gods.😎
Definitely one of my favorite movies for sure! It's one of those that makes you think about what life would be like if you lived in that type of civilization.
An eclipse was like a sighn from god to the regular people, but the priests new exactly what was going on. Remember they were on the same level as the ancient Egyptians as farxaa understanding what was going on with the solar system
The irony the crops and plagues were probably a result of lack of hygiene and the tons of bodies they dumped there from the sacrifices to “stop” the plagues. Lol
@joseESSJ eating babies isn’t hygenic. Not only that but I gurantee tons of them died from diseases from eating human brains. No wonder tons of them were insane they probably had a form of mad cow disease.
Another fun fact about this movie, is that for Meso American cultures, the afterlife was reserved for the warriors. In those cultures going to war and having a child was equivalent, that's why they represent Jaguar Paw's journey parallel to his wife's.
Yeah that was equal for Vikings enter to Valhalla after they die in battle.the parallelism it's just insane and unbelievable to think that these culture were living totally separated from each other.
The trick was to be able to calculate when an eclipse would happen but to make the people believe it is a sign from god. That way you can control people, of course the people don't know you can calculate when an eclipse would occur. This was part of the knowledge the priest class kept to themselves.
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"@@elfodd35
Also it's parallel to when aliens came down and taught their ancient ancestors how to read the stars creating an advanced calendar and such. That's why they sacrificed to the gods because they know the gods where real once and gave them gifts thousands of years ago.
The civilisation shown here were the Mayans, not the Aztec. The people speak a Yucatan Maya language, they are dressed as maya, the architecture is Maya. Mel Gibson took however many liberties. Sacrifice on this scale was something of the Aztec, not the Maya. However, in the period of time portraited here (postclassic), the Maya of Yucatan were heavily influenced by Aztec and other groups of central Mexico, thus it could be possible that some Maya city state went completely into Aztec mode. Mel Gibson also mixed the decline and downfall of two different periods of the Maya. The Classic Maya fell around 500 years before the invasion of the Spanish conquistadores. The reason of there downfall is still heavily discussed, the most accepted theory is a period of decades of drought. Another is that there downfall came from environmental degradation. Mel Gibson portraited this in his depiction of the felling of the forest for the building of the pyramids (the white stucco portraited in the movie needed a lot of firewood). This period was followed by a Maya renaissance in Yucatan, the Postclassic period. This civilisation was already in decline when the Spanish came, with warfare between city states that were once allies, and a military caste taking over a priest cast. Finally, we see already the first appearance of the destruction by the Europeans. The prophesy girl in the movie has smallpox, a disease brought into the Americas by the Europeans, a disease that will kill more Amerindian then all wars and slavery brought by the invaders combined. So we can set the timeframe of this movie around the first decades after European contact, in Yucatan with a Maya civilisation in decline.
Thank you so much for the comment! I've always been fascinated by the Mayan civilization, so I really enjoyed learning more about them from your comment!
You have to understand that Gibson and his screenwriter did a ton of research on all of these cultures, but in the end they purposely mixed and matched civilization aspects of both the Mayans and Aztecs to weave a film that would be the most interesting with the most to depict to audiences. The movie is not historically accurate, to say the least, but I still feel it captured the spirit of these great cultures and times in cinematic fashion, and that's a way worthwhile thing considering Gibson sought to hire indigenous actors, speaking Mayan throughout the film, and create a whole world that sucked in every audience to believe the stakes at hand. That's a film's first job and he always does it magnificently. Apocalypto can't be called a historically accurate flick but it shows people, who wouldn't otherwise know or see these cultures and civilizations, just how awesome they were and the fact they were obviously way more advanced than this silly idea about indingeous cultures not being extremely adept at math, astronomy, engineering, medicine, language, and everything else.
This was based on the Mayan culture correct. Fun fact: the pyramid city was all man made/constructed for this movie. All the clothes, jewelry and hair were also crafted. You can tell the different hierarchies based on the clothes and jewelry each person has on.
When Jaguar paw made the connection to his wife, she felt it, that's why she shuddered....... The little girl was an oracle. Crazy but they knew of eclipses and manipulated people with what they didn't know. Jaguar paw had an edge which is why he dodged the arrows and sensed the refugees in the forest.
@@claudiotepedino5753 Yeah but the movie purposely mixed Mayans with Aztecs to mix and match what makes it more interesting to audiences. There are a million examples but that's why the plot twist of the Conquistadors at the end was most definitely a plot twist since it wouldn't make historical sense. Europeans didn't encounter the Mayans as their era and civilization was a long, long, long time before any such thing.
The thing is in the part with the eclipse the priests knew it was going to happen, the Aztecs and Mayans had detailed observations and records of the movement of the moon. You can see the priest look back at the others like "Okay showtime" and then he looks back to the people like he was the one that made the sun return. It's all theater to keep the population in line.
When Cortes arrived he burned his ships so there was no return. He and his soldiers numbered about 300 and although they were out numbered 10,000 to 1 they were able to walk into the heart of that empire. Unbeknowst to them dressed in their black apparel, the Mayans thought the Spainards were a fulfilment of a prophecy of an earlier priest who was against human sacrifice was returning as he said he would. The Spainards were housed across the street from the pyramid watched and heard the human sacrifices as they happened. On the other side of the pyramid they could hear animals wailing because they knew their breakfast of human torsos would soon be coming to feed them.
It wasn’t that far of a gap . Every other tribe JOINED AGAINST THE MEXICA ALLIANCE . Had they not ….. Spaniards would’ve lost BADDDD . Disease helped too
During the timeline of this movie the Spanish have been in the Americas for five years. The disease in the Mayan city was cause by their arrival. The city authorities sent out war parties into a flower war. To find human sacrifices to end the plague. The Mayans and Mexica could have easily defeated the Spanish if there were no European diseases involved.
I love history , what i can’t understand how people are so shocked by human behavior in todays world , when it’s all written down🧐, thanks for sharing😊👍✌️🇺🇸
That's because they don't know. Nobody told them. Especially African Americans should know all this by heart because this is how they ended up in America and Europe. Their own people imprisoned them and sold them.
@amparocruz951 It blended Mesoamerican cultures and the time lines are off. But, it's not inaccurate in its depiction of human brutality unto one another which can be found across all cultures and time periods.
It was not for fun or entertainment. Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to pre-Columbian Mexico. Other Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Purépechas and Toltecs, and the Maya performed sacrifices as well. In the Aztec "Legend of the Five Suns", all the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind could live. Estimates of the number of sacrifices in relation to the population vary, however, it has been estimated that up to 250,000 people were sacrificed per year. This is equivalent to approximately one percent of the population. This movie "Apocalypto" depicts Maya culture and the sacrificial ritual was an offering of nourishment to the gods and goddesses. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities, and the sacrifice of a living creature was a powerful blood offering. By extension, the sacrifice of human life was the ultimate offering of blood to the gods, and the most important Maya rituals culminated in human sacrifice. Generally, only high-status prisoners of war were sacrificed, and lower status captives were used for labor.
Not 1%- more like 40% of the population, or a bit more. Remember.. the world's population was steadily at around 500K - 700K - for most of the time since the fall of Rome. before that, it was even lower. So for about 1600 years, since Christ.... the entire world population steadily climbed from around 200K... to 700K(estimated of course), around the time of Cortez arrival in America. This is due to low survival rates, low life expectancy(if you reached 40, you were an old, blessed and wise man), wars, famine, plague etc.. The invention (or upgrade) of the Mechanical Lathe changed all of that and all our lives. It led to the Industrial Age, and the Industrial Age extended people's lives and more and more people moved from the farms and medieval land barons, into the cities.. where life was better, more secure, food was easier to come by, etc...
Kinda was the end of their world. The arrival of Europeans was the beginning of the apocalypse for the Mesoamerican, North American & South American native civilisations. Really like your reactions, subscribed!
Most favorite reaction so far. I love this beautiful couple. Felt like I was watching this again for the time. Had me rolling when they added Chappelle. I'm jealous though...wish I had someone to watch movies with. Will watching more of their reactions
As for the other prisoners that were waiting their turn to run the gauntlet, the moment the chiefson started running towards his son, some of the evil warriors turned around and started stabbing the prisoners, while others, we're shooting arrows and javelins. You'll notice they were delayed in catching up to the chieftain as he was seeing his son out.
Allegedly Motezuma the ruler of the Aztec empire at the time had a dream where the gods told him they needed sacrifices for the gods to return back to the Aztec empire. In the years leading up to the Spanish arriving it’s said that they sacrificed somewhere in the area of 250,000 per year but many people find that number hard to believe.
250,000 ÷ 365 = 685 bodies sacrifice every day for one year... I call that B.S. where in the 🌎 you're going to find people after one day of killing 685, then the next day and the day after that the same same thing etc.... people will start moving away far away
By the time of this, the Spanish had already arrived to America 5 years ago. The Aztec civilizations was being decimated by many diseases. So Moctezuma thought that increasing the number of human sacrifices, it could stop the diseases. However, it did not stop it, and furthermore, it caused that many other tribes were upset with the Aztecs and so they joined the Spanish against the Aztecs.
In Peru, it was similar. The emperor died suddenly due to the diseases, without having time to name a heir between their children. It caused a brutal civil war, that later the Spanish took advantage of the other tribes tired of this war and the incas more focused on this throne war than the diseases.
Every few years I come back to this movie! What a gem. Totally underrated. It was phenomenal in the movie theatre. I wish more reaction channels would react to it! Glad you were able to go into blind and loved your reaction to it!
@@godisluv-sw9hf it's like calling a cougar a panther...or a puma...is basically the same thing..👌but ok .don't start marching or anything 🖐️😀simmer down.thanks for the invitation to back to school.✌️😅
Honestly everytime I watch this movie I feel bad for Cut Rock (The finisher) honestly I felt bad for him through the movie especially at his death. Mostly because through his screen time you can see him trying to win his fathers approval and small gestures of love between them (like when his father fixed his swollen eye and told him to be more careful) then when Cut Rock finally got his fathers knife (which symbolizes approval and love). Also when his father picked him to be a finisher it showed him that his father trusted him with such a job and you can see the excitement on his face. Sadly he dies because he was trying to impress his father and when his father sees his son die he holds him and goes on a road to revenge. I’m not sure if I’m the only one but I find these two some of the best characters in the movie and honestly I wish it had more screen time. I don’t really see Cut Rock as an antagonist honestly.
Yeah I thought the same, it’s very easy to judge when we are all seating in a couch in 2024 watching this one screen, I can’t imagine watching your son dying like that. I understand the father’s rage to kill Jaguar Paw.
11:15 i cant speak for the mayans. But for the aztecs the lip plug was a sign that you were a warrior and had taken captives. Although im sure in this movie they were just used to make them seem more "tribal"
I just wanna start by saying they was ACTING talk about a man’s drive to protect his family it was a tragic/beautiful movie. I love how this movie was shot, a peak into the culture, and the story was very interesting. I hate when the dad dies on some petty shyt but my boy got his revenge on them, also the whole sacrifice thing something some cultures actually did.
when she said '' I don't like this mathafaka '' I laughed so loud because I guarantee you all those including myself, all said the same thing at the same time😂 that actor did a superb job imo
27:28 The water from the rain is not salty though, so they wouldn't float as easily in it. They would have to keep swimming to stay in the surface for hours and hours until the water reached the top of the hole, if it does.
This movie has always been in my top 5 fav movies of all time. I think the part that resonates the most is when jaguar paw emerges from the mud and realized he needs to stop fearing and running and actually face it head on! Love the gems and messages of this movie
" I don't know if I want to go to Cancun" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is my favorite movie and you'll have the best reaction I'm only halfway through y'all's reaction but you sound like me brethren.
i know im late to this video but if you guys want to be able to hear each other better while wearing headphones specifically, you could get a set of open-back headphones. The back side has perforations to allow sound to escape allowing for a larger sound stage
Fye ass reaction yeah this movie goated my cousin put me on this one of his favorites and became one of my favorites this jawn was shot beautifully my favorite part was when he got let go and immediately start hitting zig zag routes that was some real shit lol keep doing y’all thug thizzle y’all fun and entertaining as hell to watch 🫡💯🔥
I never get nightmares from movies but when my wife and I watched this we both had nightmares…me for 2 nights. A year or so later it popped up on tv about halfway through and I put it on just to have something on and my wife said “hell no!”
In the end, our hero and wifey went into the forest to build a new life. They survived. The others, once exposed to Old World disease, would die. Conservative estimates say that 90% of all the American Natives died of disease brought by the initial contact.
I loved watching this film over the years. I just wish! I just wish there was a scene where Jaguar Paw and his partner run into the children who were abandoned at their ravaged village at the end of the film.
The attacking tribe are Aztecs. They were strictly a warrior culture. Much like the Spartans. Raised from childhood to be warriors. They would try not to kill the captives. They would disable them and bring them back to their city for slaves and sacrifices. The more captives they brought back alive the more status they had in the warriors group. Montezuma used the warriors to hunt other tribes down and bring them under submission. Until the Spanish showed up. Montezuma's mistake is he offered them gold in the hopes that if the Spanish were Gods it would placate them and cause no harm and the Spanish would go away. He didn't understand the Spanish greed.
@chiasanzes9770 it’s a fictional people, played and speaking Yucatec Maya but entirely based on Aztec. That’s Aztec clothing, accessories and head dress. Aztec religion, Aztec sports, towers snd infrastructure. The sacrifice ritual is historically accurate, and Aztec.
@@chiasanzes9770 You are correct. It is the Mayans, not the Aztecs. The Aztecs came from northern Mexico, which this movie is clearly not depicting. I saw Gibson interviewed about this movie and he made that point crystal clear, that it is Mayan culture and the language they are speaking is a Mayan dialect.
This is during the end of the Mayan empire Pizarro was in Colombia and Panama and Cortez in Mexico, those 2 were actually blood cousins and some of the most notorious conquistadors. They were praising Kukulkan the Sun God with the hopes that he will lift his displeasure of them and allow their crops to grow. In turn they unleashed their Hunters to bring them human sacrifices to the misfortune of Jaguar Paws tribe.
It was Hernan Cortes crew who arrived to Mexico, he was from Spain(Extremadura) and the ships where located first spanish naval base of Cuba, and they spread from there.
when people say "this is stolen land" they fail to realize, native people (no matter what continent) stole land, enslaved, and warred with each other before the first Europeans set foot in the Americas. it wasnt a peaceful commune where everyone sang kumbaya by a campfire every night.
@@laurencaulton103 this has always been a part of human history. Only thing that changes are the people and borders. We still do this to each other. Dont be so naive.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 it doesn't, but its always been a part of human history. So we cant call out one group of people while turning a blind eye to the other simply because they aren't "white" or w/e
I laughed when you said “good thing the kid’s not hard headed” during the hiding scene bc my niece was that type. She’d be like WHY and made sure we were caught 😂😂
This was like this all around the world everywhere at one time or another. People torturing and enslaving and killing people who had less. I always thank god I live in todays time.
I know that a lot of people don’t like this movie because they don’t like Gibson or the “historical inaccuracies,” but I always thought it was an incredible and artistic film. I really dig how it shows the tribes acting like HUMANS, playing pranks on each other, laughing, and telling jokes. There is no denying that this type of brutality is also no exaggeration in the history of this world. People should be aware of it.
The editing is HIlARIOUS and perfect timing. And your split-screens are actually about better than 90% of the reviewers we watch, really good content you folks have put together. peace-Detroit
"Almost" is what he called him when they first invaded them. Because Jaguar paw almost killed him. So he said it again when he hit him with that stick...it wasn't almost anymore and he knew that. So he said it again!!
When you look at human behavior vs our closest relatives (chimps and bonobos) one big difference is in reactive vs proactive violence. Chimps and bonobos are way more reactively violent, meaning they have short tempers and fight reactively over sudden, petty sh*t. Humans are characterized by proactive violence, e.g., planned raids, wars, surprise attacks.
I'm lived in Venezuelan rain forest amazone , there tribes still making tribal wars same in Brazil , in asia Also i believe ... Some indian native americans wiped out other weak tribes in tribal wars for territory and women... In África tutsis tribe and hutus tribe make tribal wars even today,but with russian weapons ...
I was the same heard the title and thought it was a movie I wouldn't be into. It's a very good movie, especially the Conquistadors at the end. Yall should check out this movie called The Drop it's another one I didn't think I'd be into now it's one of my favorites. Bout a bartender named Bob and a dog named Rocco. Yall will like it. Awesome show 👏 Keep up the terrific work 👌 👏 👍 😀
As a Mexican I´m glad you guys are watching this. Really good freaking movie. You can say whatever u want about Mel but the guy knows how to write shit. Also, the depiction of the culture and the traditions it´s also on point. Not to mention that facepalm you can feel that after all that trouble and fights, you see Spaniard ships arriving to your country lol... we all know what happened after it.
The film is about the Aztec civilizations that lived in Mexico. The great tenochtitlan. It talks about how sacrifices were made to the gods and at the end of the film we see how the Spanish supposedly arrived to conquer the tribes. In fact the movie was filmed in Veracruz, México 🇲🇽
In the Aztec tradition, they believed one of their Gods gave his heart to start the Sun or ignite it, so they believed cutting out the sacrificed hearts and burning them was helping to keep the sun going. Idk about Mayans though, might be the same since they're sister civilizations.
Never considered this movie that I’ve watched more than a dozen times as a horror but after y’all said it, it pretty much is. But it was reality at one point
Is a Maya's story, on how the Aztecs (Original Mexicans) kill peaceful groups of natives. The other enemy are the Spaniards, coming to the Americas and committing genocide. The Mayas and the Aztecs two different civilizations.
Check out the movie with director commentary. Mel Gibson and the director comment through the entire movie. They discuss the history of Mayan culture, actors, and challenges on the set. It’s caulk full of interesting tidbits. Some of the most memorable things I remember was that the seemingly dumbest looking guy on the set was a genius, the lead actor was really a fast runner, Mel challenged the fastest actor the set, and that boar’s leg was real and it stank to high heaven. The carried it around for days. Glad you both enjoyed it.
As an Indigenous Native American from a Federally Recognized Tribe in N. California. I bought this movie because MEL GIBSON is an EPIC DIRECTOR. This was amazing to see with you both. I can feel the emotion when they see the ships ..yes it was Freakin’ Christopher Columbus!! 🤦🏻♀️🙏🏽. Excellent Choice.
That was actually a black Jaguar, not a panther. Jaguars are more stocky in the way they are built and are found in Central America in addition to North and South America.
The conquistadors actually helped many of the 'lower' tribes in their plight against the 'higher' tribes that enslaved them. This is true in both the Western and Eastern hemispheres. History has twisted the role of Europeans when they discovered this land. Both the indigenous and the Europeans suffered diseases that they physically didn't have defenses against and it caused a lot of death. Slavery also existed long before the white man ever crossed the oceans. It was always neighboring tribes that took other tribes as slaves and sacrifices to either use, sell or kill. What is really interesting is that it was the Europeans that put an end to the oppression of the lower tribes and eventually ended the trans-Atlantic slave trade. We learned this kind of information in schools 50 years ago, but the public school system has removed a lot of worldly knowledge to make room for less useful and often backwards 'education'. Rather than our histories and actual real-world knowledge, we have opted to fill the classrooms with gender and 'social justice' issues. Younger people have been left abandoned as far as access to actual history as political winds have sought to divide us and make enemies of the truths that would keep us united.
They were advanced enough in math and calenders to know the time of the eclipse. A manipulation of the masses by those elites. Thus the smiles between the leader and the execution guy. Good movie. Good historic rep.
They were indeed advanced in astronomy and if it was a control over the masses that to date
Total Solar Eclipse April 8th in North America from Mexico through America and Canada.
Total Eclipse of my heart - Bonnie T yler @@SMOOVKILL1
No , mate.... They didn´t know how to write ," the alphabet" , they didn´t know about wheels and how to manage with the farms. They were hunters and of course they practiced cannibalism ... Thanks god the spaniards arrived and conquered them cause they would have became extinct... A babies heart for the sun god every day , etc,etc.... The spaniards brought them civilitation , universities , infraestructure and the believe in one god with no slavery allowed.
The anglosaxons , on the other way , just killed them . learn history before saying nonsense.
Didn't even the higher ups believe in all this stuff too? I don't think they were cynical nonbelievers just doing it purely for manipulation.
Amazing and sad how many Americans don't know the history of the Americas - Aztecs, Mayans, the arrival of Cortez etc. The pyramids for sacrifice, the religions.
I had one history teacher in 10th grade who happened to be Native American and he was cool as hell cause he'd say how our textbooks were bullshit, ignore em for a couple weeks, and really educate us about indigenous civilizations and folks when we were covering some of that time and subject. He taught us about the Mayans, Aztecs, and other people in the Americas about their feats when it came to astronomy, engineering, medicine, religions, politics, and societal hierarchies. I'll never forget actually being locked in and educated in class.
It's like our curriculums are still locked into the 1950's where we skip over all that, only because they're indigenous people, and focus on the settler and colonial side of history while coincidentally hopping over those genocides and everything awful inflicted on the people with societies already here.
I was a terrible student on paper since I was a kid, but I still graduated high school a whole year early because I like learning things on my own and definitely beyond the usual curriculums and structure of school. Aside from that class and perhaps a couple English lit ones where I could actually write what I wanted to write, I learned basically nothing from school that I learned on my own taking advantage of school libraries waiting 2 hours for a ride home after school or using the Internet to study these things cause they're cool as hell to know and learn.
It is. I studied the art history of Mesoamerica in college and continue to study world history today, so I understood the movie.
We know it in Mexico!!! after all this movie is about aztecs and mayas from 🇲🇽
What you mean? Who doesn't know our history??
@@ZoeAri3 .. No offence intended. It is personal to you and of course you know. Most Americans I spoke to in my 5 years living there didn't know. I don't think they are taught world history!
@Falopia5150 United State too I like very much the natives Americans names Cherokees Navajo Mustang Dakota Cheyenne Siux Tihuas in New México wow amazing names and Culture Americans Natives
Mel Gibson can direct some good ass movies. This is an underrated gem. And you guys picked up on a lot of the foreshadowing. God bless yall ❤
We need to watch more of his movies didn’t even realize he had so many! thank you ! God Bless 💓
@@Dai.Natreacts Did you watch "The Passion of the Christ"?
Good movie just didn't like that it was not accurate to the time period. The Mexica (Aztec) and Maya where very different timelines. About 600-800 years difference. By the time the Spanish landed in the American Continent the Maya civilization was long gone. The language they are speaking is Mayan and not the Mexica language of Nahuatl.
Ion think this underrated 😂
@@gabrielesolletico6542 they should absolutely watch passion of the Christ. One of my favs.
The high priest and the ruling class knew when to expect the eclipse, they knew astronomy and all sorts of stuff they exploited. The head nod to each other was to say it's time, we are pretty much done here with these peasants.
Facts, thank you for pointing that out and wording it. I feel that goes over a lot of folks heads which is largely no fault of their own; it's not exactly taught in school that deeply here in the States about indigenous people and their histories from the Americas to understand that these civilizations were extremely wise when it came to math, astronomy, engineering, and what have you. This movie can't exactly be called historically accurate since they purposely mixed aspects of both the Mayans and Aztecs together to weave a more interesting film for audiences, but I still feel that Gibson and company captured the spirit of these cultures as well as breaking down the genre of a chase movie to its bare but most extremely levels in a fantastic way.
Dang. I didn't know it was that deep. I thought they just nodded like it was an accident they were taking advantage of.
'I don't know if I ever want to go to Cancun'....🤣🤣🤣
Things are a little bit different from 500 years ago 😆 🤣
They have air-conditioning, roads, uber, etc. The human sacrifice is over lol
@@ezemdianosike5277Maybe not the sacrificing-you’ve still got opposing Cartels executing each other😅
You would like to visit and see how beautiful Cancun is
We are rich in culture and traditions. Viva Mexico Dog
@@IKALmx2018 Cancún es literalmente lo opuesto a la tradición de México. No sé si estés al tanto pero cancún es básicamente financiado por y de los americanos. Además la ciudad de Cancún en sí está bien culera, pero creo que te refieres a los lugares en los alrededores.
No es como lo pintan hermano es mas peligroso una escuela america que la playa de cancun
Todos son bienvenidos hermanos saludos @@grifone2800
These native empires were so brutal to all the surrounding tribes that when the spanish arrived many of those smaller tribes that were being killed and enslaved joined them against the empire. That is how a few hundred spaniards managed to conquer empires of millions: they made many native allies. The conquistadors said that after the war, once the empire was defeated, they had to stop their native allies from torturing and killing the prisoners, that is how much these smaller tribes hated the other guys.
True but also the spanish were also very brutal to norther tribes in mexico lets not ignore that as well the spanish were an empire there for gold and it was there motto . Human lives were expendable
I just have to mention that because the tribes were always fighting but tue spanish wiping out millions and oppressing and killing many in the north was quite a horrific event i juat really want to say that because i see on youtube so many people wanting to promote spanish empire as the nicest and there for benevolent reasons when in reality they werrent and we shouldnt rewrite history to make them look better we should be honest
Nobody is rewriting history. Where is your source for the "Spanish killing millions".
Yes, no empire is innocent. That is the nature of conquest, but to make such grandiose statements without proof is irresponsible.
you only have the conquistador version of events. Gibson didn't do his research -- or didn't care about it. Watch The Mission and Embrace of the Serpent. Read A People's History of the United States.
They also had gunpowder and steel and were ruthlessly seeking gold for their kingdoms.
Mayans were masters of time and astronomy. They knew the eclipse was coming, and used these theatrics to convince the masses that they were in tight with the gods.😎
Convince the masses? I am pretty sure they believed all of it too.
@TurntBucket tbr who knows what the case was. Both could be true but who knows the motives of "them" and "they"
I thought thie were aztecs not mayans
@@jeffalver2047 you thought wrong.😎
@@TurntBucket yup…and they had to keep convincing them which is why they would do this.😎
Definitely one of my favorite movies for sure! It's one of those that makes you think about what life would be like if you lived in that type of civilization.
This movie is a gem. Mel is an amazing Director...
An eclipse was like a sighn from god to the regular people, but the priests new exactly what was going on. Remember they were on the same level as the ancient Egyptians as farxaa understanding what was going on with the solar system
Yeah they played it off like the crops are saved. Ancient politics for ya lol
The irony the crops and plagues were probably a result of lack of hygiene and the tons of bodies they dumped there from the sacrifices to “stop” the plagues. Lol
@@bigmikem1578 lol they were
more hygienic than romans. Aztecs had aqueducts and weren’t dirty 😂
@joseESSJ eating babies isn’t hygenic. Not only that but I gurantee tons of them died from diseases from eating human brains. No wonder tons of them were insane they probably had a form of mad cow disease.
@@joseESSJEating bbs isnt hygenic. Not only that but I gurantee tons of them had a similar thing to mad cow disease from eating human brns.
Another fun fact about this movie, is that for Meso American cultures, the afterlife was reserved for the warriors. In those cultures going to war and having a child was equivalent, that's why they represent Jaguar Paw's journey parallel to his wife's.
Yeah that was equal for Vikings enter to Valhalla after they die in battle.the parallelism it's just insane and unbelievable to think that these culture were living totally separated from each other.
"I don't know if i wanna go to Cancun"
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Que no venga ni falta hace.
A really ignorant comment to say ….
The trick was to be able to calculate when an eclipse would happen but to make the people believe it is a sign from god. That way you can control people, of course the people don't know you can calculate when an eclipse would occur. This was part of the knowledge the priest class kept to themselves.
it is a sign from God. just because someone knows when it will occur doesn't make it not a sign.
🥴@@cotdd
how can a sign from god be predictable down to the second? @@cotdd
because that's the point. we can also predict when the sun will "rise" every day.@@elfodd35
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"@@elfodd35
The landing of The Spanish at the end is the equivalent of Aliens landing now.
Also it's parallel to when aliens came down and taught their ancient ancestors how to read the stars creating an advanced calendar and such. That's why they sacrificed to the gods because they know the gods where real once and gave them gifts thousands of years ago.
The civilisation shown here were the Mayans, not the Aztec. The people speak a Yucatan Maya language, they are dressed as maya, the architecture is Maya. Mel Gibson took however many liberties. Sacrifice on this scale was something of the Aztec, not the Maya. However, in the period of time portraited here (postclassic), the Maya of Yucatan were heavily influenced by Aztec and other groups of central Mexico, thus it could be possible that some Maya city state went completely into Aztec mode. Mel Gibson also mixed the decline and downfall of two different periods of the Maya. The Classic Maya fell around 500 years before the invasion of the Spanish conquistadores. The reason of there downfall is still heavily discussed, the most accepted theory is a period of decades of drought. Another is that there downfall came from environmental degradation. Mel Gibson portraited this in his depiction of the felling of the forest for the building of the pyramids (the white stucco portraited in the movie needed a lot of firewood). This period was followed by a Maya renaissance in Yucatan, the Postclassic period. This civilisation was already in decline when the Spanish came, with warfare between city states that were once allies, and a military caste taking over a priest cast. Finally, we see already the first appearance of the destruction by the Europeans. The prophesy girl in the movie has smallpox, a disease brought into the Americas by the Europeans, a disease that will kill more Amerindian then all wars and slavery brought by the invaders combined. So we can set the timeframe of this movie around the first decades after European contact, in Yucatan with a Maya civilisation in decline.
great comments, however we keep finding evidence the Maya also went scale on sacrifices. Just not Aztec scale.
Thank you so much for the comment! I've always been fascinated by the Mayan civilization, so I really enjoyed learning more about them from your comment!
yes, that is true, especially by the end of the post-classic.
You have to understand that Gibson and his screenwriter did a ton of research on all of these cultures, but in the end they purposely mixed and matched civilization aspects of both the Mayans and Aztecs to weave a film that would be the most interesting with the most to depict to audiences. The movie is not historically accurate, to say the least, but I still feel it captured the spirit of these great cultures and times in cinematic fashion, and that's a way worthwhile thing considering Gibson sought to hire indigenous actors, speaking Mayan throughout the film, and create a whole world that sucked in every audience to believe the stakes at hand. That's a film's first job and he always does it magnificently. Apocalypto can't be called a historically accurate flick but it shows people, who wouldn't otherwise know or see these cultures and civilizations, just how awesome they were and the fact they were obviously way more advanced than this silly idea about indingeous cultures not being extremely adept at math, astronomy, engineering, medicine, language, and everything else.
The Mayans were regular practitioners of human sacrifice for centuries, as were the Aztecs.
This was based on the Mayan culture correct.
Fun fact: the pyramid city was all man made/constructed for this movie. All the clothes, jewelry and hair were also crafted. You can tell the different hierarchies based on the clothes and jewelry each person has on.
When Jaguar paw made the connection to his wife, she felt it, that's why she shuddered....... The little girl was an oracle. Crazy but they knew of eclipses and manipulated people with what they didn't know. Jaguar paw had an edge which is why he dodged the arrows and sensed the refugees in the forest.
"ahora no se si quiero ir a Cancún" jaja esa es la.mejor frase de reacción sobre películas que he oido.
😂😂😂😂
Those ships were the coming of Hernan Cortes, Spanish conquistador.
Actually the first contact was made in the Francisco Hernández de Córdoba expedition in 1517, 2 years before Cortés arrival.
@@chepechapin5809 do you know of a good book to read relating more on the Aztec,Mayan civilization right before and after they were conquered?
Cortez faced the aztecs ,this was mayans,diferent people
@@claudiotepedino5753 Yeah but the movie purposely mixed Mayans with Aztecs to mix and match what makes it more interesting to audiences. There are a million examples but that's why the plot twist of the Conquistadors at the end was most definitely a plot twist since it wouldn't make historical sense. Europeans didn't encounter the Mayans as their era and civilization was a long, long, long time before any such thing.
@@Ese_Flaco619 “1491: The Americas Before Columbus”
“1421: The Year China Discovered America”
The chase scene with the black panther was 100% real. According to Mel Gibson, it was on a leash.
oh sh*t !! going to have to look that up
I was coming to mention that. They said that guy actually was able to sprint away from it.
@@alwaysdriveing .......because it was being held back with a leash.
The thing is in the part with the eclipse the priests knew it was going to happen, the Aztecs and Mayans had detailed observations and records of the movement of the moon. You can see the priest look back at the others like "Okay showtime" and then he looks back to the people like he was the one that made the sun return. It's all theater to keep the population in line.
When Cortes arrived he burned his ships so there was no return. He and his soldiers numbered about 300 and although they were out numbered 10,000 to 1 they were able to walk into the heart of that empire. Unbeknowst to them dressed in their black apparel, the Mayans thought the Spainards were a fulfilment of a prophecy of an earlier priest who was against human sacrifice was returning as he said he would. The Spainards were housed across the street from the pyramid watched and heard the human sacrifices as they happened. On the other side of the pyramid they could hear animals wailing because they knew their breakfast of human torsos would soon be coming to feed them.
It wasn’t that far of a gap . Every other tribe JOINED AGAINST THE MEXICA ALLIANCE . Had they not ….. Spaniards would’ve lost BADDDD . Disease helped too
@@yeabih5607yeah they would never can conquest almost an entire continent if they doesn't having a bunch of tribes "working" for them.
During the timeline of this movie the Spanish have been in the Americas for five years. The disease in the Mayan city was cause by their arrival. The city authorities sent out war parties into a flower war. To find human sacrifices to end the plague. The Mayans and Mexica could have easily defeated the Spanish if there were no European diseases involved.
One of the best movies I've ever watched 🔥✨️
I love history , what i can’t understand how people are so shocked by human behavior in todays world , when it’s all written down🧐, thanks for sharing😊👍✌️🇺🇸
This movie is extremely inaccurate
That's because they don't know. Nobody told them. Especially African Americans should know all this by heart because this is how they ended up in America and Europe. Their own people imprisoned them and sold them.
@amparocruz951 It blended Mesoamerican cultures and the time lines are off.
But, it's not inaccurate in its depiction of human brutality unto one another which can be found across all cultures and time periods.
It was not for fun or entertainment.
Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to pre-Columbian Mexico. Other Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Purépechas and Toltecs, and the Maya performed sacrifices as well. In the Aztec "Legend of the Five Suns", all the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind could live. Estimates of the number of sacrifices in relation to the population vary, however, it has been estimated that up to 250,000 people were sacrificed per year. This is equivalent to approximately one percent of the population.
This movie "Apocalypto" depicts Maya culture and the sacrificial ritual was an offering of nourishment to the gods and goddesses. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities, and the sacrifice of a living creature was a powerful blood offering. By extension, the sacrifice of human life was the ultimate offering of blood to the gods, and the most important Maya rituals culminated in human sacrifice. Generally, only high-status prisoners of war were sacrificed, and lower status captives were used for labor.
Not 1%- more like 40% of the population, or a bit more.
Remember.. the world's population was steadily at around 500K - 700K - for most of the time since the fall of Rome. before that, it was even lower.
So for about 1600 years, since Christ.... the entire world population steadily climbed from around 200K... to 700K(estimated of course), around the time of Cortez arrival in America.
This is due to low survival rates, low life expectancy(if you reached 40, you were an old, blessed and wise man), wars, famine, plague etc..
The invention (or upgrade) of the Mechanical Lathe changed all of that and all our lives. It led to the Industrial Age, and the Industrial Age extended people's lives and more and more people moved from the farms and medieval land barons, into the cities.. where life was better, more secure, food was easier to come by, etc...
It was 100% for that . The elites KNEW THE ECLIPSE WAS COMING . Lol . They used it for control and ENTERTAINMENT FOR THEM . Lol
49:22 chills every time I hear his speech 👏🏾👏🏾
Facts!!!
Kinda was the end of their world. The arrival of Europeans was the beginning of the apocalypse for the Mesoamerican, North American & South American native civilisations. Really like your reactions, subscribed!
Yes damn white people, they were so nice to each other for the white men showed up
Technically it was the end of the world. The beginning of the end of the world as they knew it. It's such a great film. Great video. Subscribed!
I love how you guys watch movies. You're really absorbed into the world and imagining yourself in it. It made me appreciate the movie more.
This movie should've win the oscars
Most favorite reaction so far. I love this beautiful couple. Felt like I was watching this again for the time. Had me rolling when they added Chappelle. I'm jealous though...wish I had someone to watch movies with. Will watching more of their reactions
Thank you!!! 💗
As for the other prisoners that were waiting their turn to run the gauntlet, the moment the chiefson started running towards his son, some of the evil warriors turned around and started stabbing the prisoners, while others, we're shooting arrows and javelins. You'll notice they were delayed in catching up to the chieftain as he was seeing his son out.
Allegedly Motezuma the ruler of the Aztec empire at the time had a dream where the gods told him they needed sacrifices for the gods to return back to the Aztec empire. In the years leading up to the Spanish arriving it’s said that they sacrificed somewhere in the area of 250,000 per year but many people find that number hard to believe.
250,000 ÷ 365 = 685 bodies sacrifice every day for one year... I call that B.S. where in the 🌎 you're going to find people after one day of killing 685, then the next day and the day after that the same same thing etc.... people will start moving away far away
Half of the capital city was already dying of disease.
By the time of this, the Spanish had already arrived to America 5 years ago. The Aztec civilizations was being decimated by many diseases. So Moctezuma thought that increasing the number of human sacrifices, it could stop the diseases. However, it did not stop it, and furthermore, it caused that many other tribes were upset with the Aztecs and so they joined the Spanish against the Aztecs.
In Peru, it was similar. The emperor died suddenly due to the diseases, without having time to name a heir between their children. It caused a brutal civil war, that later the Spanish took advantage of the other tribes tired of this war and the incas more focused on this throne war than the diseases.
Every few years I come back to this movie! What a gem. Totally underrated. It was phenomenal in the movie theatre. I wish more reaction channels would react to it! Glad you were able to go into blind and loved your reaction to it!
That was a black jaguar
Panther=Jaguar..same thing.
@@godisluv-sw9hf it's like calling a cougar a panther...or a puma...is basically the same thing..👌but ok .don't start marching or anything 🖐️😀simmer down.thanks for the invitation to back to school.✌️😅
@@godisluv-sw9hf now I understand why guys are getting passports,thanks 😆👍
@@godisluv-sw9hf lol..how NOT stereotypical 🤡✊😂
A Jaguar is a Panther
Honestly everytime I watch this movie I feel bad for Cut Rock (The finisher) honestly I felt bad for him through the movie especially at his death. Mostly because through his screen time you can see him trying to win his fathers approval and small gestures of love between them (like when his father fixed his swollen eye and told him to be more careful) then when Cut Rock finally got his fathers knife (which symbolizes approval and love). Also when his father picked him to be a finisher it showed him that his father trusted him with such a job and you can see the excitement on his face. Sadly he dies because he was trying to impress his father and when his father sees his son die he holds him and goes on a road to revenge. I’m not sure if I’m the only one but I find these two some of the best characters in the movie and honestly I wish it had more screen time. I don’t really see Cut Rock as an antagonist honestly.
Yeah I thought the same, it’s very easy to judge when we are all seating in a couch in 2024 watching this one screen, I can’t imagine watching your son dying like that. I understand the father’s rage to kill Jaguar Paw.
They make sport out of killing other human beings but somehow you're able to sympathize with them. Sounds crazy to me.
@@tok1879 simple mind
You should watch more Mel Gibson films. such a great actor & director.
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11:15 i cant speak for the mayans. But for the aztecs the lip plug was a sign that you were a warrior and had taken captives. Although im sure in this movie they were just used to make them seem more "tribal"
I just wanna start by saying they was ACTING talk about a man’s drive to protect his family it was a tragic/beautiful movie. I love how this movie was shot, a peak into the culture, and the story was very interesting. I hate when the dad dies on some petty shyt but my boy got his revenge on them, also the whole sacrifice thing something some cultures actually did.
The acting was phenomenal !!!!it felt like we were really there
58:54 😂😂 “Christopher Columbus type 🥷”😭
Funny as hell😂
when she said '' I don't like this mathafaka '' I laughed so loud because I guarantee you all those including myself, all said the same thing at the same time😂 that actor did a superb job imo
27:28 The water from the rain is not salty though, so they wouldn't float as easily in it. They would have to keep swimming to stay in the surface for hours and hours until the water reached the top of the hole, if it does.
did not know that! thanks!!
Christopher Columbus type 🥷's….🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
This movie has always been in my top 5 fav movies of all time. I think the part that resonates the most is when jaguar paw emerges from the mud and realized he needs to stop fearing and running and actually face it head on! Love the gems and messages of this movie
I love this movie and it’s definitely a classic to movie connoisseurs like myself
43:48 "Please become friends with it" LMAO
Great reaction y'all definitely worth a follow 😊
Thank you 🙌
" I don't know if I want to go to Cancun" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is my favorite movie and you'll have the best reaction I'm only halfway through y'all's reaction but you sound like me brethren.
Loved this film! Great reaction!
Thank you!!!Reallt good movie!
i know im late to this video but if you guys want to be able to hear each other better while wearing headphones specifically, you could get a set of open-back headphones. The back side has perforations to allow sound to escape allowing for a larger sound stage
Fye ass reaction yeah this movie goated my cousin put me on this one of his favorites and became one of my favorites this jawn was shot beautifully my favorite part was when he got let go and immediately start hitting zig zag routes that was some real shit lol keep doing y’all thug thizzle y’all fun and entertaining as hell to watch 🫡💯🔥
A genuine Native American movie, that telescopes the historical periods to make it watchable. We were all hunters once.
This movie is unbelievably inaccurate
its bad history but its entertaining, wish it was more accurate though, but i guess it wouldn't look as brutal and exaggerated.
@@enneRE Native Americans, particularly the Aztecs, are such nice people ;-)
@@williambranch4283Most people don't know that Aztecs are/were Native Americans. I'm happy that ya'll got it.
The brutality was hard to watch but I liked the authenticity and Jaguar Paw triumphed in the end because of his love of family.
The beginning of the movie we read that no civilization can be destroyed from the outside unless it was already broken from the inside
I never get nightmares from movies but when my wife and I watched this we both had nightmares…me for 2 nights. A year or so later it popped up on tv about halfway through and I put it on just to have something on and my wife said “hell no!”
In the end, our hero and wifey went into the forest to build a new life. They survived. The others, once exposed to Old World disease, would die. Conservative estimates say that 90% of all the American Natives died of disease brought by the initial contact.
Yes sir found y’all’s channel today had to subscribe great reaction 👍💙
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying it !!
I loved watching this film over the years. I just wish! I just wish there was a scene where Jaguar Paw and his partner run into the children who were abandoned at their ravaged village at the end of the film.
The attacking tribe are Aztecs. They were strictly a warrior culture. Much like the Spartans. Raised from childhood to be warriors. They would try not to kill the captives. They would disable them and bring them back to their city for slaves and sacrifices. The more captives they brought back alive the more status they had in the warriors group. Montezuma used the warriors to hunt other tribes down and bring them under submission. Until the Spanish showed up. Montezuma's mistake is he offered them gold in the hopes that if the Spanish were Gods it would placate them and cause no harm and the Spanish would go away. He didn't understand the Spanish greed.
No in this movie they are Mayas they were brutaali also those graves have been found. I have this movie director's cut DVD so I know.
@chiasanzes9770 it’s a fictional people, played and speaking Yucatec Maya but entirely based on Aztec. That’s Aztec clothing, accessories and head dress. Aztec religion, Aztec sports, towers snd infrastructure. The sacrifice ritual is historically accurate, and Aztec.
@@chiasanzes9770 You are correct. It is the Mayans, not the Aztecs. The Aztecs came from northern Mexico, which this movie is clearly not depicting. I saw Gibson interviewed about this movie and he made that point crystal clear, that it is Mayan culture and the language they are speaking is a Mayan dialect.
@@afternoondelight-i7hnope
@@afternoondelight-i7hthis music is so fucking inaccurate it’s hilarious lmao
This is during the end of the Mayan empire Pizarro was in Colombia and Panama and Cortez in Mexico, those 2 were actually blood cousins and some of the most notorious conquistadors. They were praising Kukulkan the Sun God with the hopes that he will lift his displeasure of them and allow their crops to grow. In turn they unleashed their Hunters to bring them human sacrifices to the misfortune of Jaguar Paws tribe.
One of the best movies show pure will to survive against all odds!
It was Hernan Cortes crew who arrived to Mexico, he was from Spain(Extremadura) and the ships where located first spanish naval base of Cuba, and they spread from there.
when people say "this is stolen land" they fail to realize, native people (no matter what continent) stole land, enslaved, and warred with each other before the first Europeans set foot in the Americas. it wasnt a peaceful commune where everyone sang kumbaya by a campfire every night.
You cannot gloss over the elimination of two continents worth of people. "They fought too," just doesn't cut it.
@@laurencaulton103 this has always been a part of human history.
Only thing that changes are the people and borders. We still do this to each other. Dont be so naive.
Yep. It is the history of the world. Not just the Americas.@@BLaCkKsHeEp
Disgusting. People had concentration camps before as well. That doesn’t make it any less despicable🤦♂️
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 it doesn't, but its always been a part of human history. So we cant call out one group of people while turning a blind eye to the other simply because they aren't "white" or w/e
I laughed when you said “good thing the kid’s not hard headed” during the hiding scene bc my niece was that type. She’d be like WHY and made sure we were caught 😂😂
This was like this all around the world everywhere at one time or another. People torturing and enslaving and killing people who had less. I always thank god I live in todays time.
I know that a lot of people don’t like this movie because they don’t like Gibson or the “historical inaccuracies,” but I always thought it was an incredible and artistic film. I really dig how it shows the tribes acting like HUMANS, playing pranks on each other, laughing, and telling jokes. There is no denying that this type of brutality is also no exaggeration in the history of this world. People should be aware of it.
That reveal at the end. The end of their world.
And the start of Mexicans
Stop with the missinformation and following agendas mate.
The editing is HIlARIOUS and perfect timing. And your split-screens are actually about better than 90% of the reviewers we watch, really good content you folks have put together. peace-Detroit
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Those were Aztecs hunting Mayans and surrounding tribes because Aztecs were the only head hunters cutting people’s heads and feeding the sun blood
"Almost" is what he called him when they first invaded them. Because Jaguar paw almost killed him. So he said it again when he hit him with that stick...it wasn't almost anymore and he knew that. So he said it again!!
When you look at human behavior vs our closest relatives (chimps and bonobos) one big difference is in reactive vs proactive violence. Chimps and bonobos are way more reactively violent, meaning they have short tempers and fight reactively over sudden, petty sh*t. Humans are characterized by proactive violence, e.g., planned raids, wars, surprise attacks.
Chimps will go on raids as well. It’s pretty well documented. They’ve even been known to cannibalize, though it’s not very common.
Yall are the real example of people who wouldn’t survive without technology and wouldn’t be able to survive in a apocalyptic scenario
I'm lived in Venezuelan rain forest amazone , there tribes still making tribal wars same in Brazil , in asia Also i believe ...
Some indian native americans wiped out other weak tribes in tribal wars for territory and women...
In África tutsis tribe and hutus tribe make tribal wars even today,but with russian weapons ...
I was the same heard the title and thought it was a movie I wouldn't be into. It's a very good movie, especially the Conquistadors at the end. Yall should check out this movie called The Drop it's another one I didn't think I'd be into now it's one of my favorites. Bout a bartender named Bob and a dog named Rocco. Yall will like it. Awesome show 👏 Keep up the terrific work 👌 👏 👍 😀
Another vote for 'The Drop'. Good shout.
Different ages,just like marvel movies only the power of the mind
As a Mexican I´m glad you guys are watching this. Really good freaking movie. You can say whatever u want about Mel but the guy knows how to write shit.
Also, the depiction of the culture and the traditions it´s also on point. Not to mention that facepalm you can feel that after all that trouble and fights, you see Spaniard ships arriving to your country lol... we all know what happened after it.
My dawg said a bad batch of cocaine 😂😂😂
This move is amazing 🤩 good reaction
Thank you!!
@@Dai.NatreactsNo problem
🔷✊🏼🤣@16:25 I enjoyed your full answer to her question 😂😂😂😂I’m in stitches Vato
I fucks with yall heavy! Normally movie reactors are corny but yall tough. Keep putting heat out!
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i saw apocalypto when i was a kid, this movie was and remains etched in my brain forever.
Bro u funny . Love ur reaction 🙌🏾
Thank you ❤
Lol ya’ll reaction was hilariously good. Just subscribed notifications bell on!!!
Those were the Spanish at the end, the bad tribe ends up getting destroyed by the Spanish I believe.
"He was a finisher alright, he got finished" lmaoooo literally 😂😂😂😂
The film is about the Aztec civilizations that lived in Mexico. The great tenochtitlan. It talks about how sacrifices were made to the gods and at the end of the film we see how the Spanish supposedly arrived to conquer the tribes. In fact the movie was filmed in Veracruz, México 🇲🇽
My suggestion would be that you do a little research on the movies so that you have some context and can better understand the plot.❤
Wrong. This film depicted the Mayans. Not Aztecs. Two completely different societies.
Crazy thing is that we watch this when I was at 6th grade on elementary, we had some cool teachers that year
its called a labret Piercing is what they have under the bottom lip
In the Aztec tradition, they believed one of their Gods gave his heart to start the Sun or ignite it, so they believed cutting out the sacrificed hearts and burning them was helping to keep the sun going. Idk about Mayans though, might be the same since they're sister civilizations.
Ur editing is so funny guys
Thank you 😂
Never considered this movie that I’ve watched more than a dozen times as a horror but after y’all said it, it pretty much is. But it was reality at one point
Is a Maya's story, on how the Aztecs (Original Mexicans) kill peaceful groups of natives. The other enemy are the Spaniards, coming to the Americas and committing genocide. The Mayas and the Aztecs two different civilizations.
Wtf they were not Aztecs. They were Mayan have you ever read a book on pre Spanish America. I highly doubt you have!!!
Mayans lived in city states it was not an empire!!!
I don't need to read a book, I'm from Guatemala and i'm also Mayan. Mayan civilization extended from south Mexico to Honduras.
@@Nathaniel64 enserio vienes a decirle eso cuando estás hablando en ingles, nosotros somos mexicanos, y conocemos nuestra historia
@@Nathaniel64are you stupid?
Btw what music did you use at 54:33 I recognize it I just can’t place it. What movie was that from?? So familiar….
That is the music from the matrix revolutions!! Neo vs agent Smith final fight scene
Thanks I realized it right after I wrote the comment. 😂 it just clicked 😂 awesome reaction.
@@bigmikem1578 good ear!! Thank you glad you enjoyed
About to be a roller coaster
Check out the movie with director commentary. Mel Gibson and the director comment through the entire movie. They discuss the history of Mayan culture, actors, and challenges on the set. It’s caulk full of interesting tidbits. Some of the most memorable things I remember was that the seemingly dumbest looking guy on the set was a genius, the lead actor was really a fast runner, Mel challenged the fastest actor the set, and that boar’s leg was real and it stank to high heaven. The carried it around for days. Glad you both enjoyed it.
As an Indigenous Native American from a Federally Recognized Tribe in N. California. I bought this movie because MEL GIBSON is an EPIC DIRECTOR. This was amazing to see with you both. I can feel the emotion when they see the ships ..yes it was Freakin’ Christopher Columbus!! 🤦🏻♀️🙏🏽. Excellent Choice.
I think it was Cortes.. didn’t he ‘discover’ Mexico?
@@wichitadisciple9874He discovered it for the rest of the world.
That was actually a black Jaguar, not a panther. Jaguars are more stocky in the way they are built and are found in Central America in addition to North and South America.
It is the end of their world
OHHHHHH 🤯
The conquistadors actually helped many of the 'lower' tribes in their plight against the 'higher' tribes that enslaved them. This is true in both the Western and Eastern hemispheres. History has twisted the role of Europeans when they discovered this land. Both the indigenous and the Europeans suffered diseases that they physically didn't have defenses against and it caused a lot of death. Slavery also existed long before the white man ever crossed the oceans. It was always neighboring tribes that took other tribes as slaves and sacrifices to either use, sell or kill. What is really interesting is that it was the Europeans that put an end to the oppression of the lower tribes and eventually ended the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
We learned this kind of information in schools 50 years ago, but the public school system has removed a lot of worldly knowledge to make room for less useful and often backwards 'education'. Rather than our histories and actual real-world knowledge, we have opted to fill the classrooms with gender and 'social justice' issues. Younger people have been left abandoned as far as access to actual history as political winds have sought to divide us and make enemies of the truths that would keep us united.
The powers that be are гасisт against 🤍 pеорle. Idk why but its why our education system is so 💩