Gibson kept what worked from Passion – the subtitles, the brutality, the feverish visuals – and disposed of all the distasteful religious hectoring. However, it's less a remake than a refinement.
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Photograph: Everett/Rex Featureīeing a film about the dying throes of a historical era, full of gratuitous gore and performed in a dead language, it'd be easy to simply write off Apocalypto as The Passion of the Christ in the Jungle. 'He will go on taking and taking, until one day the world will say, "I am no more and I have nothing left to give"' - Story Teller There's a very real chance that Apocalypto will be the last thing that Mel Gibson ever directs, so the least we can do is strip away all the horrible context and see if the last eight years have been kind to it. His downfall – starting with the ugly drink-driving arrest six months before Apocalypto's release – has been so messy and public that his stock has all but completely vanished. Except himself.Įight years later and Gibson's been reduced to making brief, stunt-cast cameos in god-awful action films that nobody will remember. He'd discovered a new way of making and distributing films, and he no longer had to answer to anybody. Apocalypto should have been the gold-plated consolidation of all Mel Gibson's talents. Braveheart had proved that he could make Oscar-winning films, and The Passion of the Christ proved that he no longer needed Hollywood – his self-financed, subtitled, shockingly violent religious film was turned down by all the studios and yet somehow still ended up making over half a billion dollars. Apocalypto was supposed to be his lap of honour as a director. It's hard to read that quote without automatically applying it to Mel Gibson's career. 'A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within' - Title card
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