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kateelliottOkay, I haven't seen it yet, although I may or may not, mostly depending on if I can ever find time.
Anyway, Twin A and Daughter went to see it for a second time, this time in 3-D (first time in 2-D). Twin A, on returning, announced, "After seeing this a second time, Mom, I feel I can be pretty sure in saying that you will not like it." (due, he meant, to high cliche quotient in the script as well as the noble savage motif)
What I did find was an interesting discussion by anthropologists, from the always interesting blog Savage Minds.
One of the more interesting stories that fall into the Dude Going Over is the story of Gonzalo Guerrero--Spanish sailor is shipwrecked, captured by a local Yucatec Maya group, eventually marries a chief's daughter and becomes part of the tribe and fights against the Spanish; his sons fight the Spanish, too). But the big difference with the story of Gonzalo Guerrero is that the Maya are not noble savages. They are people, with a civilization, with points of similarity and dissimilarity to other cultures, with their own wars and disputes, their own sense of humor and ways of doing things, upsides and downsides (and of course the Classic Maya civilization, further south, collapsed for various reasons one of which may be ecological mismanagement some hundreds of years earlier). They're not "better than us" or "worse than us." That's what I get tired of (a point, I might add, apropos of nothing in regard to the film, which I have not seen).
Anyway, Twin A and Daughter went to see it for a second time, this time in 3-D (first time in 2-D). Twin A, on returning, announced, "After seeing this a second time, Mom, I feel I can be pretty sure in saying that you will not like it." (due, he meant, to high cliche quotient in the script as well as the noble savage motif)
What I did find was an interesting discussion by anthropologists, from the always interesting blog Savage Minds.
One of the more interesting stories that fall into the Dude Going Over is the story of Gonzalo Guerrero--Spanish sailor is shipwrecked, captured by a local Yucatec Maya group, eventually marries a chief's daughter and becomes part of the tribe and fights against the Spanish; his sons fight the Spanish, too). But the big difference with the story of Gonzalo Guerrero is that the Maya are not noble savages. They are people, with a civilization, with points of similarity and dissimilarity to other cultures, with their own wars and disputes, their own sense of humor and ways of doing things, upsides and downsides (and of course the Classic Maya civilization, further south, collapsed for various reasons one of which may be ecological mismanagement some hundreds of years earlier). They're not "better than us" or "worse than us." That's what I get tired of (a point, I might add, apropos of nothing in regard to the film, which I have not seen).