Movies Featuring the Native Peoples of Central & South America
As before, it looks like a great resource on the subject.
The site has a list of Top 10 films that includes Apocalypto, The Mission, and The Emerald Forest. In a poll on Facebook, fans overwhelming said they liked Apocalypto the best of these three movies. Probably because it's about 20 years newer than the others.
Long-time readers know what I think of the racist and stereotypical Apocalypto. I still have no plans to see it. I voted for Emerald Forest as the best.
For more on the subject, see The Best Indian Movies.
Below: The super-scary, phony-baloney Maya culture in Apocalypto.
Audiences love gore. Bonus points if the sacrifice is to Quetzalcoatl. While normally it is fun to tell a vegetarian she just ate chicken, it's a bit different to sacrifice people to the one Aztec god who didn't demand human sacrifices.
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