re: Apocalypto appreciation thread (Mel Gibson spinoff)

This movie is a remake of The Naked Prey, staring Cornel Wilde.

Set in Africa but is based on a real story. Too costly to film using the real story the location was changed to Africa.

Now the real story:

In October 1808 fur trapper John Colter set out with another trapper, John Potts, on a trapping expedition. Foolishly, they returned to the Three Forks area in Montana, where they were able to amass almost a ton of furs. However, at Jefferson Fork they were attacked by Blackfoot Indians, who shot and killed Potts and took the furs. Colter was captured and given a chance to live. He was stripped naked and given a 30-second head start to run for his life. He outran all of the Indians except for one. When they were the only two left, Colter turned on his pursuer and in the ensuing fight took the Indian's spear and killed him with it. Colter ran for five miles across a rocky plain between the Jefferson and Madison Forks. Once he reached the Madison River, he dove under a mass of logs and beaver lodges and hid in an air pocket in the icy water until nightfall. He floated six miles downstream and climbed up a sheer cliff. He walked, still without any clothes, the 250 miles to Fort Raymond, where he arrived after 11 days.

Apocalypto was such an odd Nathan Fielder episode

Mel is a freaking hero. Has called out the Pedo-Hollywood-Funders complex.

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I didn’t want the movie to end after the last scene.

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Me too.

Even though the end scene is about 1000 years in the future historically...who cares? You can condense history to tell the story of the Americas.

Gibson could've given us the Part 2 Spanish Conquistadors in the same movie and I wouldn't have cared that it was 4 hours long.

John Colter is undoubtedly one of the biggest badasses to ever live.