I really like how Hans Zimmer and John Powell added a lot of South American instruments to their sound design. The music is fire, despite being quite old compared to many of their newer works.
Guys, fun fact. In ancient times, Mayans that play the ballgames in Mesoamerica when the person wins and the another person lose they get sacrificed by decapitation
0:59 That guy is gargling. He's just gargling. The others are flexing, yet he is just gargling What is he gargling? Why is he gargling??? Why can I not stop laughing????
"We need a miracle!" "No, we need to cheat!" Well... if someone say they are gods they must show a power beyonds any mortal could imagine. That's mean they cheating by default.
just to be a mesoamerican ball game nerd, although the ridiculously high hoop was a part of the game, it was only meant for miraculous plays once in a blue moon. it's assumed that for the most part the game was played like volleyball, but without a net. and with, uh, human sacrifices at the end.
You might have the Incas and the Aztecs mixed up - Human sacrifice in the Inca empire was very rare. The mayans did it a lot more often, and then the Aztecs were just balls-to-the-wall nuts about human sacrifice.
Louis Brasil Well they are making 2D animated series. One that has very high quality animation is Voltron Legendary Defender, which is made by people who worked on Avatar The Last Airbender.
Louis Brasil yeah, on the one hand, they have gold (This, Shrek 1 and 2, Spirit, Prince of Egypt, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda), on the other hand, PAINFUL, AGONIZING FAILURE (Shark Tale, Trolls, Home, Shrek Forever After)
Some woman yelling "That was a foul!" really makes this scene a lot less macabre than it actually is. As does that one guy doing something with his tongue when warming up.
Yeah, I mean like how everyone gasped when he said the word "sacrifice." Like, in real life the games involving sacrifice were special events, not extremely common-place. It seemed like all the characters assumed that this game was just for fun, so they were shocked when the whole sacrifice thing came up.
This is actually a game created by the Ancient Mayans to entertain themselves. They would get the ball on the side-wall's targets or in the hoop. If you lost, then you'd be a sacrifice to the Gods. 😨
Actually, it went both ways. If u won u were sacrificed, if u lost, u were sacrificed. It just depended on who was in charge of each game.... Sometimes they sacrificed the losing team, other times it was the winning team. It was better to not play at all, bcoz there was always the 50/50 chance ur team gets sacrificed.
To be sacrificed in this game was seen as a great honor, even by those who were to be sacrificed. By the way, they sacrificed the winners, not the losers.
At first yeah, but you know what they found out? Nobody likes to die. So the teams always played half heartedly hoping the other team won. Thus later on it was made that the losers were the ones put to death by sacrifice. Unsurprisingly this lead to a lot more competitive play.
I always imagined it was like: “The gods should not be playing ball like this!” Then he starts to walk away, leading everyone with him, “the gods are noble, they are almighty! They should not be playing with such common, unskilled players!” And Tulio starts to get nervous. “They need a stadium worthy to hold their greatness...” gets to where he is standing “...This is how the Gods should play ball!”
0:53 First I count 12, then he says there's 15, then it's reduced to 5.... Then 7 come back running, 8 stare down the ball, then 10 appear, lastly 6 are offered to be sacrificed. Feels like this is a code to something -_o
And it is referred to as "Pok ta tok", from the sound the rubber ball makes when it hits the ground. Mesoamericans would kill the losers (no; actually SACRIFICE), usually, so I'm glad not many games aren't like pok ta tok.
Wow, and today we used Tzekel-kan as an example of a typical shaman (well, actually, a mixture of shaman and priest types). We were learning the difference between the priests and the shamans (in the Religious Studies class)
MegaAnimazing You're right. Dreamworks is a studio. On the one hand, gold (This movie, Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda)! On the other hand, PAINFUL, AGONIZING FAILURE (Shark Tale, Home, Trolls, Shrek Forever After)!!!! See what I did there?
My friend and I actually created d&d caracters based on them Julia and Michelle mighty and powerful adventureres, I was Michelle and a bard and she was Julia and a rogue
I've actually been to one of these stadiums, and yes, thats pretty much exactly what it looked like *except for the colors, theyve been scraped off from ovr the years*
You know when I went to the ruins in Chichen-Itza there was a ball game arena much like this one and according to the tour guide there the rules were pretty much the same, the difference is that the winning team was sacrificed to their gods not the losing team
This scene is awesome but for the record, Pok A Tok is a Mayan sport. While the city of El Dorado is a Muiscan myth. Different Society and technically, different continents as well.
Hahaha. Looks like he also has a magic... cape? poncho? how to call that red thing covering his chest... anyway, he can store there books without any pockets
I would love to play this game. Also, why does tha game end when the shadow touches the line? Shouldn't it be until one team scores a certain amount of points, since the 2 score keepers only had a certain amount of gold bricks at hand?
I have an interesting theory for all of you that might clear up any confusion about how it could be possible that Miguel and Tulio would just so happen to wind up drifting aimlessly in a boat with essentially no hope for food or survival of any kind and then just wind up on the island where El Dorado is located. Also, I'm going to point out why the natives of El Dorado and Miguel and Tulio would be able to understand each other with seamless ease (due to the fact the natives unlikely spoke Spanish). Firstly, you guys must understand that even if Miguel and Tulio were con-men, they were con-men with favor from the divine. What I mean by this is that it could not have been coincidental that the island they would have unknowingly landed on would be the same island El Dorado is located, let alone be alive. Also, there is a term known as, "glossolalia", and it is the phenomenon commonly referred to as "speaking in tongues". Glossolalia is essentially a spiritual gift that allows people within a foreign land whom aren't capable of communicating with the native peoples' language of that land to do so with ease. In other words, whenever Miguel and Tulio are talking to, or listening to, any of the El Dorado natives they actually happen to be speaking the native language of El Dorado, even though they are not aware that they are doing it.
It is true in ancient Mesopotamia the players not only play for glory they play for their lives the losing team gets sacrificed while the winning team get gold my ancestors were weird yes I’m Mayan descendant In other writings it says they also sacrificed the winners
Sooo it took me about 12 times of watching this movie until I realised that their getting out of this situation completely foreshadows the ending of the movie: Tulio hurts Miguel (albeit unintentionally), they kinda work together to achieve their goal but it takes Miguel to save the day
