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Sunday, March 05, 2006
Crazy Mel at it again
Tune in for Oscar history tonight: Mel Gibson speaking the Maya language. From Time Magazine:
His last film, The Passion of the Christ, was spoken entirely in the dead languages of Latin and Aramaic. Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sunday’s Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue: Maya. That's the sole language of Apocalypto, the adventure epic set in Pre-Columbian Mexico that Gibson is currently shooting on the edge of southern Mexico's rainforests, in the state of Veracruz. ""I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre," Gibson told TIME, which was given an exclusive peek at the filming for a story to appear in a forthcoming issue. "So I think we almost had to come up with something utterly different like this."
(via Eric at blogcritics.org)
Posted by Will at March 5, 2006 05:29 PM in In the News