Mel Gibson is being criticized for his portrayal of indigenous Guatemalans in his new movie Apocalypto. From Hollywood.com:
Lucio Yaxon, who works to help the 50 percent of Guatamalans descending from the Maya, says, "The director is saying the Mayans are savages."Ignacio Ochoa, director of the Nahual Foundation that promotes Mayan culture, adds, "Gibson replays... an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans and thus they deserved, in fact, needed, rescue."
Mel Gibson responded by yelling "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?" HAHAHA! That never gets old.
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