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@JoshuaJLS83 @franzialover @BODY_W0_WHORGAN You’ve moved from “most realistic depiction ever” to complaining that a woman was competent in a sci-fi movie. That has nothing to do with the criticism of Apocalypto.

@SabritasXfa @franzialover @BODY_W0_WHORGAN If jaguars paw was a woman and saving her pregnant husband it would have more closely lined up to Preys gender accuracy

Insane for Mel Gibson to make like this INCREDIBLY racist movie for like 99% of it only to sort of pull the rug and be like 'yeah what comes immediately after this is so much fucking worse' with one shot

@baltibirds20 @JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Yes… what they chose to focus on is exactly the point. Selective portrayal shapes perception. That’s the criticism.

@SabritasXfa @JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Nothing about this really talks on any inaccuracies, but what they chose to focus on. The movie wasnt about art or science achievements, it was about ones struggle to simply survive. So try again

@JoshuaJLS83 @franzialover @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Kinda proving my point here. You think Indigenous representation is more “realistic” when it focuses heavily on torture/savagery. That’s exactly the criticism people have of Apocalypto.

I criticized the waste of Comanche culture that could have been utilized in this movie. Perhaps the predator watching a Comanche raid and the hideous tortures inflicted on the survivors would help us frame a predator vs predator outlook, deepening the meaning of the movie. It could easily have become a lesson on human (not just native) savagery. This is the angle of predator we should think on some more.

@one_guy_j @JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Except Roman gladiator movies usually aren’t treated as one of the only mainstream depictions of an existing marginalized Indigenous civilization. Context matters.

@SabritasXfa @JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Yeah. A movie about Roman gladiators doesn't make mention of Roman feats of science, art, or engineering either. Then there's second guy. Where is there any rescue in the movie? Both criticisms are garbage, one is fake.

@JoshuaJLS83 @franzialover @BODY_W0_WHORGAN “Woman protagonist = not a Comanche movie” is a pretty ridiculous argument lmao. The film still put more effort into representing Comanche culture accurately than Apocalypto did with the Maya.

@SabritasXfa @franzialover @BODY_W0_WHORGAN You said accurate. Remove the predator and put in a white man and you still have a girl power movie, not a Comanche movie.

@JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Then why are you using Apocalypto as “the most realistic depiction” while defending its historical inaccuracies with “it’s just a movie”? You can’t have it both ways lol

@SabritasXfa @BODY_W0_WHORGAN You just said Prey. Now I know you’re not serious. How does reading our own perceptions of modern feminism play into a culture that was probably the most savage and male centric of all the northern tribes? Dances with wolves was hippy nonsense.

@franzialover @JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN “It’s a movie” isn’t the point. One is fantasy, the other claims realism about a real Indigenous civilization. That’s why it gets criticized.

@SabritasXfa @JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN It's a movie. Pirates of the Carribean is also not historically accurate.

@JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Also,the lack of Maya movies doesn’t prove Apocalypto is accurate. It just means one distorted depiction carries more weight because audiences have little else to compare it to.

@SabritasXfa @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Name another and remember we are talking about hollywood

@RealAgustinLepo @JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN You’re arguing against a point nobody made. Nobody said “don’t show violence.” The issue is the movie exaggerates brutality and reduces a real civilization to “savage and collapsing” while ignoring everything else about them. “It’s fiction” doesn’t make that immune to criticism.

@SabritasXfa @JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN So, the image in a nutshell: "You didn't show art or culture! there's a lot of inaccuracies but we won't tell them tho" where's the inaccuracy then? It's not a documentary why the fuck would they need to put daisies to sacrifice rituals?

@JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Sir, come on now

@SabritasXfa @BODY_W0_WHORGAN I didn’t say it was perfect but tell me one better.

@JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Hmm, that doesn’t invalidate the racist glamorization of the movie. Two things can be true at once. Yes u can enjoy the movie for what it is, but don’t go calling it “the most realistic” depiction of all time of these people

@SabritasXfa @BODY_W0_WHORGAN The hero was just a country boy and that’s how many people viewed it.

@JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN I’m not going to post every historical scholar who provided input on the inaccuracies, I just posted a snippet of why it’s perceived as racist. Also kind of…most indigenous people appreciated the use of maya, but mixed bc at same time their painted as backwards monsters

@SabritasXfa @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Two people said something about a movie really doesn’t move me. Many more folks from that area thought it was awesome and the first time they had been taken seriously

@JoshuaJLS83 @BODY_W0_WHORGAN Lots of inaccuracies in the movie actually (like the nature and frequency of sacrifices for ex)….This movie meshed in so many other cultures and time periods together, just to glamorize and push the “savage” image, while ignoring other feats of this civilization at the time.

@BODY_W0_WHORGAN Nothing racist about this movie, in fact, it’s probably the most realistic and immersive depiction of American tribes in cinematic history.

@KawazoeKun @BroWire_ Bruh u wild if u think throwing a temper tantrum and destroying the whole cake was “fair”

@BroWire_ Fair on the man tbh, she literally put both her hands ALL OVER IT in the beginning, then crashes out when he touches it with one finger, naw red flag is her. Fuck that bitch.

She saw the red flag and immediately waved goodbye

Felt the sun and immediately felt great, I’m literally a flower

my only closure is knowing i had good intentions and a pure heart

@1ssve Also, when it DOES open in the app and it just bring you to the homepage or whatever and not the link you were trying to see in the first place 😭

If you have an “open in app” option it better TAKE ME TO THE APP AND NOT THE APP STORE!!!!

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I just think it’s interesting you would speak to an REI Co-op Rewards Member this way