Apocalypto (2006) Mel Gibson

Director: Mel Gibson | Writers: Mel Gibson & Farhad Safinia | Producers: Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, Sergio Miranda, Ned Dowd, Vicki Christianson | Cast: Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, Israel Contreras | Editor: John Wright | Cinematographers: Dean Semler, Mario Cardona, Daryn Okada | Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Format: DvdRip, Color, NTSC | Country: USA | Language: English, Yucatan (Maya)

Apocalypto is a 2006 epic film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Rudy Youngblood. Set in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula during the declining period of the Maya civilization, Apocalypto depicts the journey of a Mesoamerican tribesman who must escape human sacrifice and rescue his family after the capture and destruction of his village.
In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods. Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. An eclipse spares his life from the sacrifice and later he has to fight to survive and save his beloved family...

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Synopsis: The film begins with an onscreen quote from Will Durant: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
While hunting tapir in the Mesoamerican jungle, Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), his father Flint Sky (Morris Birdyellowhead), and their fellow tribesmen encounter a procession of traumatized and fearful refugees. The procession's leader explains that their lands have been ravaged, and asks for Flint Sky's permission to pass through the jungle. When Jaguar Paw and his tribesmen return to their village, Flint Sky tells his son not to let the procession's state of fear seep into him. At night, the tribe's elder tells the village a fable of man forever unable to fill his want, despite having been given the capabilities of all of the animals. The villagers follow the story with music and dance, leaving Jaguar Paw to ponder.
The next morning, Jaguar Paw wakes from a nightmare to see strangers enter the village and set the huts ablaze. The raiders, led by Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo), attack and subdue the villagers. Jaguar Paw slips out with his pregnant wife Seven (Dalia Hernández) and his little son Turtles Run, lowering them on a vine into a small cave (a chultun, shaped something like a well) to hide them. Jaguar Paw returns to the village to fight the raiders but is subdued with the rest of the tribe. A raider whom Jaguar Paw attacks and almost kills, the vicious Middle Eye (Gerardo Taracena), slits Flint Sky's throat while Jaguar Paw helplessly watches.
Before the raiders leave the village with their prisoners, one suspicious raider severs the vine leading into the ground cave, trapping Jaguar Paw's wife and son within. The raiders and their captives trek toward the Maya city, encountering razed forests, failed maize crops, slaves producing plaster, and the sick and dying. A small diseased girl prophesies that a man bringing the jaguar will bring the raiders to those who will scratch out the earth and end their world. In the city's outskirts, the female captives are sold as slaves and the males are escorted to the top of a step pyramid. The high priest sacrifices several captives by decapitating them after pulling out their beating hearts. When Jaguar Paw is about to be sacrificed, a solar eclipse stays the priest's hand. He looks at the king, sitting nearby, and the two share a smile while the uneducated commoners below panic at the phenomenon. The priest declares the sun god Kukulkan is satisfied with the sacrifices. To trick the crowd into believing he has great power, he asks Kukulkan to let light return to the world just as he knows the eclipse will pass. The crowd cheers in amazement as the priest orders that the remaining captives be disposed of.
Zero Wolf takes the villagers to an amphitheater. The captives are released in pairs and forced to run the length of the open space within the amphitheater to give Zero Wolf's men target practice, with a cynical promise of freedom, should they reach the end of the field alive. However, Cut Rock is sent to the end of the field to "dispose of" any survivors. The raiders target them with javelins, arrows, and slingstones as they run. Jaguar Paw is struck by an arrow through the abdomen but reaches the end of the field and breaks off the front portion of the shaft containing the arrowhead. As Zero Wolf's son, Cut Rock, approaches to finish him off with an obsidian blade, Jaguar Paw shoves the broken arrow into Cut Rock's throat. As Cut Rock bleeds out with Zero Wolf easing him into the next life, Jaguar Paw escapes through a withered maize field and an open mass grave. The enraged Zero Wolf and his raiders pursue Jaguar Paw into the jungle and back toward Jaguar Paw's home. Along the way, one of the raiders is killed by a black jaguar that has been disturbed by Jaguar Paw. As he flees, Jaguar Paw jumps over a high waterfall and survives, declaring from the riverbank below that the raiders are now in his homelands.
Zero Wolf's raiders fall to both the forest's elements and Jaguar Paw's traps. A heavy rain sets in, which begins to flood the ground cave in which Jaguar Paw's wife and son are still trapped. Jaguar Paw bludgeons Middle Eye in hand-to-hand combat and kills Zero Wolf by leading him into a trap meant for hunting tapir. He is chased by two remaining raiders out to a beach where they encounter the fourth expedition of Christopher Columbus making their way ashore in boats. The amazement of the raiders allows Jaguar Paw to flee. He returns into the forest to pull his wife and son out of the flooded pit where they are hiding around the time when Seven gives birth to a child. He returns in time to save the family, and sees that his wife has given birth to a healthy second son. As the family walks near the coastline, Jaguar Paw's wife asks what the strange objects near the shore are. Jaguar Paw responds only that "they bring men". Jaguar Paw and his family go deeper into the forest, "to seek a new beginning", leaving the Spanish who are anchored in ships off the beach.

Awards
Apocalypto has been recognized with numerous awards and nominations. For his role as producer and director of the film, Mel Gibson was given the Trustee Award by the First Americans in the Arts organization. Gibson was also awarded the Latino Business Association's Chairman's Visionary Award for his work on Apocalypto on November 2, 2006, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California. At the ceremony, Gibson had said that the film was a "badge of honor for the Latino community." Gibson also stated that Apocalypto would help dismiss the notion that "history only began with Europeans.”

Won
* Central Ohio Film Critics Association- COFCA Award for Best Cinematography (2007) - Dean Semler
* Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - DFWFCA Award for Best Cinematography (2006) - Dean Semler
* First Americans in the Arts - FAITA Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor (2007) - Rudy Youngblood
* First Americans in the Arts - FAITA Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor (Supporting) (2007) - Morris Birdyellowhead
* Imagen Foundation - Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actor (2007) - Gerardo Taracena
* Imagen Foundation - Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress (2007) - Dalia Hernandez
* Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA - Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing for Music in a Feature Film (2007) - Dick Bernstein (music editor), Jim Henrikson (music editor)
* Phoenix Film Critics Society - PFCS Award for Best Cinematography (2006) - Dean Semler

Nominated
* Academy Awards, USA - Oscar for Best Achievement in Makeup (2007) - Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano
* Academy Awards, USA - Oscar for Best Achievement in Sound Editing (2007) - Sean McCormack, Kami Asgar
* Academy Awards, USA - Oscar for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing (2007) - Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Fernando Cámara
* Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Saturn Award for Best Direction (2007) - Mel Gibson
* Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Saturn Award for Best International Film (2007)
* American Society of Cinematographers, USA - ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases (2007) - Dean Semler
* BAFTA Awards- BAFTA Film Award for Best Film not in the English Language (2007) - Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey
* Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - BFCA Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2007)
* Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - CFCA Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2006)
* Golden Globes, USA - Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film (2007)
* Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards - Key Art Award for Best Action-Adventure Poster (2006)
* Imagen Foundation - Imagen Award for Best Picture (2007)
* Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA - Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in a Feature Film: Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement (2007) - Sean McCormack (supervising sound editor), Kami Asgar (supervising sound editor), Scott G.G. Haller (supervising dialogue editor), Jessica Gallavan (supervising ADR editor), Lisa J. Levine (supervising ADR editor), Linda Folk (supervising ADR editor)
* Online Film Critics Society Awards - OFCS Award for Best Cinematography (2007) - Dean Semler
* Satellite Awards - Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language (2006)
* St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards - Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2006)

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