Mel Gibson's new Maya epic Apocalypto already has them reaching for their jagged obsidian knives: "Activists are angered by the depiction of their ancestors as a savage race with a penchant for spear-hurling and human sacrifice."
Hilarious...I'd like to meet the person on this planet who can honestly claim that his or her ancestors didn't go in for a bit of spear-hurling (and before that, rock chucking).
As for the human sacrifices, Gibson didn't paint these murals did he?
I suppose he now has such a reputation for being racist and offensive that anything he does is assumed to be warped by his worldview.
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There's a little bit more to this story doing the rounds in the press...
http://gsn.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2006/12/3/2545802.html
I'd be interested to hear what you think :-)
Patrick
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