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05 March
2006
Mel Gibson To
Talk In Maya At Oscars
Mel
Gibson will give the Oscars audience a
preview of the ancient language spoken in
his forthcoming movie Apocalypto.
Gibson
said he would speak Maya when he appeared
at the Kodak Theatre in Los
Angeles.
"I
wanted to shake up the stale
action-adventure genre so we almost had to
come up with something utterly different
like this," he said.
His last
film, The
Passion of the
Christ,
was in Latin and Aramaic.
Apocalypto,
set 3,000 years ago in central America,
features dialogue spoken in an obscure
Mayan dialect.
Gibson,
who will not act in the film, has said
Apocalypto will focus on the life of a
Mayan man, touching on "civilisations and
what undermines them".
Set
before the conquest of Central America by
Europeans, Gibson says the film will shun
"European faces" to preserve
authenticity.
The film
is Gibson's first as a director since
2004's The Passion of the Christ, which
detailed the last 12 hours in the life of
Jesus Christ leading up to a brutal
depiction of his crucifixion.
The
Passion took more than $600m
(£337.5m) worldwide despite being
filmed in the Aramaic dialogue.
Like The
Passion, Apocalypto is expected to be
distributed with English
subtitles.
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