LAPORAN AKHIR PRAKTIKUM LAB INTDAS
APOCALYPTO
While hunting
tapir in the
Mesoamerican jungle in the early 16th century, Jaguar Paw (
Rudy Youngblood), his father Flint Sky (
Morris Birdyellowhead), and their fellow tribesmen encounter a procession of traumatized refugees. Speaking in
Yucatec Maya,
the group's leader explains that their lands were ravaged, and asks for
permission to pass through the jungle. When Jaguar Paw and his
tribesmen return home, Flint Sky tells his son not to let the refugees'
fear infect him.
The next morning, after Jaguar Paw wakes from a nightmare involving
the refugee leader, he sees warriors entering the village and setting
the huts on fire. The raiders, led by Zero Wolf (
Raoul Trujillo), attack and subdue the villagers. Jaguar Paw slips out with his pregnant wife Seven (
Dalia Hernández)
and his little son Turtles Run, lowering them by vine into a deep
vertical cave, tying the vine off so they could climb out later. Jaguar
Paw then kills a raider and returns to help the village. He is
eventually subdued and an insane raider named Middle Eye (
Gerardo Taracena),
whom Jaguar Paw almost killed, slits Flint Sky's throat while the bound
Jaguar Paw can only watch. Before the raiders leave with their
prisoners, Snake Ink, one of the raider captains, notices Jaguar Paw
staring toward the cave. Suspicious of the tied off vine hanging into
the cave, he cuts it, trapping Seven and Turtles Run. Jaguar Paw and the
other captives are then led off into the jungle.
A short distance from the village they join another group of raiders
who have captured the refugees Jaguar Paw met the day before. Later,
Cocoa Leaf, a wounded captive tied to the same pole as Jaguar Paw nearly
tumbles off a cliff, but Jaguar Paw and the others are able to pull him
back up with incredible effort. Though Middle Eye, who is guarding
them, is impressed by this show of brute power, he kills Cocoa Leaf by
cutting him loose and pushing him off the cliff to taunt Jaguar Paw.
The raiding party march toward a
Mayan city, encountering razed forests and failed
maize crops, along with villages decimated by plague. A small girl dying of plague prophesies that a man running with a
jaguar
will bring the raiders to those who will scratch out the earth and end
their world. In the city's outskirts, where the prisoners come upon
slaves working in lime quarries, the female captives are sold as slaves
while the males are escorted to the top of a
step pyramid.
The high priest sacrifices several captives, including Jaguar Paw's
friend Curl Nose, by cutting out their beating hearts before beheading
them. When Jaguar Paw is about to be sacrificed, a
solar eclipse
(also prophesied by the girl) occurs. The high priest looks at the king
and the two share a knowing smile while the people below panic at the
phenomenon. The priest declares the
sun god Kukulkan
is satisfied with the sacrifices. He asks Kukulkan to let light return
to the world and the eclipse passes. The crowd cheers in amazement and
the priest orders that the remaining captives be led away and disposed
of.
Zero Wolf takes the captives to a
ball court.
The captives are released in pairs and forced to run the length of the
open space within the ball court, offering Zero Wolf's men some target
practice, with a cynical promise of freedom should they reach the end of
the field alive. Zero Wolf's son, Cut Rock, is sent to the end of the
field to "finish" any survivors. The raiders target the runners with
javelins,
arrows, and large stones. The first pair are Jaguar Paw's last living
friends, Smoke Frog and Blunted. Smoke Frog is struck by a heavy stone,
then finished off by Cut Rock while Blunted is impaled through the
stomach by a javelin.
Next up are Jaguar Paw and the refugee leader from the beginning.
Although they almost make it, the refugee leader is shot through the
head by an arrow and Jaguar Paw is shot through the side of his stomach
by an arrow. As Cut Rock approaches to finish Jaguar Paw, the
not-quite-dead Blunted trips Cut Rock to buy Jaguar Paw time. Cut Rock
gets up and savagely kills Blunted then turns to finish off Jaguar Paw,
but is stabbed through the neck with an arrowhead by Jaguar Paw, who
then stumbles away toward the jungle.
As Cut Rock bleeds out with Zero Wolf easing him into the next life, Jaguar Paw runs through a withered maize field and an open
mass grave
before finally reaching the jungle. The enraged Zero Wolf and his men
pursue Jaguar Paw into the jungle and back toward Jaguar Paw's home.
Along the way, one of the raiders is killed by a
black jaguar
angered by Jaguar Paw. Another raider is killed when a venomous snake
bites his neck. Eventually, after running all night, Jaguar Paw finds
himself caught between a high waterfall and his hunters and is forced to
jump. He survives and declares from the riverbank below that the
raiders are now in his homelands, echoing his father's challenge to the
refugees at the beginning of the film.
After listening to Jaguar Paw's challenge, Snake Ink says they should
climb down after Jaguar Paw but is stabbed by Zero Wolf for his
suggestion. Zero Wolf then commands that he and his men jump the falls
and in shock, they all jump as well. While most make it alive, one
smashes his head on the rocks below and is killed. The remaining men
swim to the shore and re-start their pursuit, but soon Jaguar Paw, now
camouflaged in mud, kills one raider with poison darts, only to
immediately confront Middle Eye, bludgeoning him to death with the Mayan
war club of the raider he just killed. However, much to Jaguar Paw's
worries, it begins raining heavily, with the cave where Jaguar Paw's
wife and son are trapped starting to flood. As he rushes to save his
family, Jaguar Paw is confronted by Zero Wolf and shot again with an
arrow. As Zero Wolf advances to finish Jaguar Paw he is impaled and
killed by a trap meant for hunting
tapir.
Following Zero Wolf's death, the two remaining raiders chase Jaguar
Paw out to a beach where, much to the surprise of all three of them,
they encounter
Spanish
ships anchored off the coast, with soldiers making their way ashore.
The amazement of the raiders allows Jaguar Paw to flee. He returns into
the forest to pull his wife and son out of the flooded pit where they
are hiding, and where Seven has just given birth to a healthy second
son. As the reunited family look out from the forest towards the Spanish
ships, Seven wonders if they should go to the strangers, but Jaguar Paw
tells his family to return with him to the forest. They head into the
Cast
 | Promotional poster |
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| Directed by |
Mel Gibson |
| Produced by |
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| Written by |
- Mel Gibson
- Farhad Safinia
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| Starring |
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| Music by |
James Horner |
| Cinematography |
Dean Semler |
| Editing by |
John Wright |
| Studio |
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| Distributed by |
Touchstone Pictures (US/Canada only) |
| Release date(s) |
December 8, 2006 (2006-12-08) |
| Running time |
140 minutes |
| Country |
United States |
| Language |
Mayan |
| Budget |
$40 million |
| Box office |
$120,654,337 |
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