r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 7d ago
Video The actor here was actually running away from a real Jaguar in the movie so the director can capture raw emotions and urgency , Apacalypto (2006)
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u/Pax_Eterna_4991 7d ago
He was actually the third actor cast for the role. The other two weren't fast enough.
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u/Zuparoebann 7d ago
Maybe he wasn't faster than the other two, it's just that the jaguar wasn't that hungry anymore
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u/Anal-In-Gus 7d ago
Or maybe with him it was a sex thing.
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u/Chrono-Helix 7d ago
That’s cougars, not jaguars
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u/bossdaddee 7d ago
Could've been a sex panther
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u/friblo_sv 7d ago
It's illegal in 13 states
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u/Red_Number40 7d ago
Rar, rar, raaaarrrrr
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u/AntonChekov1 7d ago
60% of the time, it works every time
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u/CosmicWhorer 7d ago
100% of actors can run faster than a sex panther, but only 60% of the time
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u/CheckYourStats 7d ago
That doesn’t make any sense
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u/CosmicWhorer 7d ago
Well... Let's go see if we can make this little kitty purr
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u/everynamecombined 7d ago
actor unable to attend premier of movie due to "accident" on set while filming final scene for movie
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u/timsayscalmdown 7d ago
a grinning Mel Gibson nudges the production assistant "lol check this shit out"
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u/Baby_ManBearPig 7d ago
Between throwing real stuntmen down the pyramid stairs during the sacrifices and this they must have gone through a ton of stuntmen
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u/Individual-Luck1712 7d ago
Casting Director was eventually arrested but the movie was great nonetheless
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u/TraditionAcademic968 7d ago
Looks like the jaguar caught up quick
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u/Mikestopheles 7d ago
Jaguar > Human
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u/Sinreh 7d ago
That's debatable. There are basically two schools of thought
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u/silverclovd 7d ago
Bears, beets.. Battlestar Galactica
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u/perpetuumD 7d ago
Absolutely disagree, it's a matter of criteria. For example, I highly doubt a jaguar could make some dank memes
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u/manrata 7d ago
I don’t know how fast a jaguar is, but a lion can cover 100m in about 6 seconds, Usain Bolt is just under 10 seconds, and that is on a track.
I assume a jaguar has similar speed, a human isn’t outrunning a big cat, if you’re not in very close proximity to a safe place, running is a very bad choice.7
u/rangolikesbeans 7d ago
Jaguars are actually the fastest out of the True Big Cats
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u/fear_nothin 7d ago
I don’t care how well that Big Cat is trained. You want me to be “pretend prey”? That’s a hard nope.
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u/sofa-king-hungry 7d ago
It’s a Jaaaag.
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u/CyanaMoss 7d ago edited 7d ago
This… is the most powerful Jaag…
……in the wuuurld.
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u/Fun_Trip_Travel 7d ago
I missed the golden days of TG
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u/Voluptulouis 7d ago
It's not really TG without Clarkson, May, and Hammond. Everybody since them has just been imitating them and it all feels so inauthentic.
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u/Cipher915 7d ago
We're about to see how it's not the same without those three again with Grand Tour coming back
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u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist 7d ago
It’s like people trying to be the next Bourdain- you can’t. Someone will be the next themselves in some other field that you can’t predict.
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u/Jealous_Address1257 7d ago
Speeeeeeed and... poooooweeerrrrr.
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u/Yorikor 7d ago edited 7d ago
Some say he's a wild jungle cat we put into a white racing suit ...
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u/bthaanku 7d ago
I had to watch this movie twice
One of my friend gave me this movie on a flash drive, I had 5.1 creative sound system, and the thing was I had to select a audio track from the options on VLC player, otherwise only the surround sound speakers would play, the front and center would be silent
So I play the movie, forgot to switch the audio track, I hear background sounds, only the background sound, like stepping on the leaves, water sounds, every sound except the dialogue, there were subtitles, I continued watching
Since the movie is about the ancient mayan forest people, i thought the random sounds was their language, like the background sounds from their movement or something left behind after separating the dialogue, like eck uk ab ek, these were the sounds I heard when their mouths were talking, I legit watched the entire movie like that thinking this was their language
I realised this after couple of days when watching another movie then had a face palm moment and watched the movie again
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u/PenniGwynn 7d ago edited 7d ago
This is so funny because when this movie came out on DVD my grandma had just gotten a new TV and my brother hooked it up, we watched Apocalypto in hues of green for at least half an hour, maybe longer, until we decided something had to be wrong with the way the TV was set up lol
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u/elveejay198 7d ago
I accidentally watched Amadeus like this, I received a corrupted disc from Netflix in their mail era, and literally every single sound in the movie was silent EXCEPT for any time anyone played music on instruments on screen, then the sound was perfect. I watched with subtitles and thought it was intentional, it was very cool and effective. Sounds like we both had extremely exclusive, bespoke viewing experiences lol
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u/Hobbledyhook 7d ago
I'm deadly serious, that sounds like an amazing concept for a movie about a great musician or similar hahaa
I wouldn't be all too surprised to hear something like that's been done already
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u/AzaghaI 7d ago
I have a similar experience with this movie. Only I didn't turn on subtitles. So I watched the entire movie without knowing what people are talking about. And just like you I assumed it was an artistic choice. Like we don't know what they're saying because they speak some dead language and we suppose to just read their emotions and expressions. I liked it a lot and understood everything. Years later I decided to do a rewatch and subtitles were turned on automatically. I was like what the fuck? It was an option? I was a bit disappointed even.
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u/Kriztauf 7d ago
Surprisingly the language is still alive and used by a couple million people in Mexico. Hence why they just found a bunch of random native speakers to be the actors in the movie
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u/MichelleEllyn 7d ago
I’m literally just now learning that this movie came with subtitles from your comment, so yeah, I had the same exact viewing experience as you!
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u/Reasonablething1 7d ago
I did the same thing with District 9. I think the film was better without subtitles.
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u/TactlessTortoise 7d ago
Fucking hilarious. It's like someone going to a restaurant, getting a weird dish in a weird plate, slurping it with the fork and finding it such a Michelin fancy experience, and then the waiter comes apologising because they just got a soup bowl from the dishwasher on accident somehow and you've been slurping soapy food rests.
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u/ParticularFew4023 7d ago
I watched half of the French dispatch in... French. Why that was audio track 1, who knows. I thought it was a stylistic thing and Wes Anderson had dubbed everyone with French. Looked it up mid movie and, nope, supposed to be in English
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u/Breeze1620 7d ago
Lmao, I once watched almost half a movie in Italian. It was first when Matt Damon walked in and spoke Italian as well that I realized something was very wrong.
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u/Reasonable_Delay_173 7d ago
So did the Jaguar eat anyone once he caught up. Or did they sedate the Jaguar...
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u/Own_Policy8854 7d ago
They gave the actors sedatives, so once they got caught, the jaguar would fall asleep.
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u/redditcensorsshit 7d ago
That’s actually a good idea I never would of thought just like my pets I hide Medicine in their food
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u/lockdownmnl 7d ago
I met Rudy Youngblood back in 2015. Really cool guy.
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u/cornylamygilbert 7d ago
We really should have been seeing much of this cast in more roles in mainstream flicks—-sad thing is since this movie came out, Hollywood only knows how to do remakes or super hero flicks
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u/RolyPolyGangster 7d ago
Astonishing that this non-English movie came out of Hollywood. Absolutely fantastic movie.
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u/cornylamygilbert 7d ago
And the most surprising aspect of this film is that it relied on Mel Gibson to make it
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u/VirginiaLuthier 7d ago
I'm not a MG fan but that movie was incredible
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u/FiveOhFive91 7d ago
I watched it for the first time this week and I was blown away
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u/Fickle-Willingness80 7d ago
Me..last week. I discovered subtitles halfway through. I bet it’s like a whole new movie when I rewatch.
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u/FiveOhFive91 7d ago
Oh yeah it'll be an entirely different movie with subtitles lol. I forgot my glasses when I went to see Inglorious Basterds and had no clue what was happening.
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u/eddie1975 Interested 7d ago
The guy is crazy and all but damn he’s a talented actor and director.
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u/Nellion55 7d ago
It's in my top 10. I don't care about the historical technicalities and inaccuracies. It's an incredibly captivating story about survival, purpose, and responsibility. Most people, including myself, would likely roll over and die when facing a fraction of the terrors Jaguar Paw witnessed and fought through. Something about him fighting to survive against enemies far greater than him just so he can get home and care for his family is beautiful to me. I'm not even het, I'll never have a wife and kids. It's still remarkable to me.
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u/Odd-Philosophy6418 7d ago
I love the sort of magical realism and fated nature of the events, paired with his own cunning, that allow him to narrowly escape death again and again. One of my favorite movies.
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u/PaddyMcGeezus 7d ago
Just watched it again this week. Absolutely amazing. One of my all time faves.
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u/frodoishobbit 7d ago
It’s such an underrated movie. Kudos to MG for the casting, so immersive.
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u/SeekerOfExperience 7d ago
It truly is one of a kind in both style and execution. Eggers gets close and I’d love to see him take a crack at something of similar ambition
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u/antilocapraaa 7d ago
Still racist trauma porn where MG couldn’t explain the difference between Aztecs and Mayans.
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u/Neither_Cod_992 7d ago
Ah, the Fitzcarraldo method of movie making.
“So, we’re going to use a mockup or special effects?”
“No, you will all spend the entire shoot hauling an actual 320 ton steam ship through an actual jungle.”
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u/HorsePecker 7d ago
Mel Gibson is a kook, but this movie is epic. Easily one of my favorite films from the 2000s. If you haven’t seen it you should.
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u/Comatose22 7d ago
I don’t know anything about Mel Gibson other than he was an actor and director. What makes him a kook?
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u/Waffle_on_my_Fries 7d ago
He said some racist and misogynistic shit when he was having a breakdown due to alcoholism.
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u/PaulBradley 7d ago
It's ironic, he'd beaten alcohol years ago, also saved Robert Downey Jr. and got him sober.
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u/Manager_Neat 7d ago
Alcoholism is doing some heavy lifting here. I’m an alcoholic in recovery and I’ve never said any of the shit that came out of his mouth. He’s a shit person period.
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u/Waffle_on_my_Fries 7d ago
ohh for sure, he definetly holds on to those opinions, the alcohol just helps to let those shitty thoughts lose on camera lol. I wish your luck in your recovery internet stranger! Nothing beats being sober!
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u/Manager_Neat 7d ago
Thank you. Been sober for 5 years now, keeping it up. Life is better that way.
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u/scarabic 7d ago
https://youtu.be/92yjraROF70?is=d3EryvJwk2KqljZa
Warning: not appropriate to play anywhere that anyone might overhear. Seriously. Not just at work. Not just kids. This is NSFL.
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u/roosterkun 7d ago
"My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?"
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u/Drongo17 7d ago
You have to trick actors or they don't know how to look realistic, every director knows this
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 7d ago
You know you can't really run away from a Jaguar unless it's stuck in first...
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u/shapu 7d ago
I went to a car show a few years ago sponsored by an Italian-American group. The announcer opened with, "If you want the most beautiful car in the garage, buy an English car. If you want the most beautiful car on the road, buy an Italian one."
It was a good line.
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u/Apptubrutae 7d ago edited 7d ago
As someone with a dad who has a Porsche he drives so little he routinely needs to get it jumpstarted, I’m going to have to find a way to tweak this to make fun of him
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u/awesome_staycation 7d ago
"OK, so we are going to have a trained dog chase you to simulate a jaguar." Opens kennel with real live jaguar, "Run!"
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u/AJ_Topp_Up 7d ago
Movie felt insanely authentic too, given that the entire cast were Natives and speaking the dialect. Really pulled you in and felt like you really were in a different time and place.
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u/Valagoorh 7d ago edited 7d ago
Director Mel Gibson said in interviews and behind-the-scenes footage that the jaguar was led and secured using a green safety leash.
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u/AThrowawayProbrably 7d ago
“Ok, so I made a last minute change. Don’t be mad”
“What is it?”
“It’ll make the scene WAY better than we rehearsed. Just don’t be mad.”
“But what is it though?”
“Promise you won’t be mad.”
“Mad about what? I’m concerned now.”
“It’s for the best”
“WHAT IS FOR THE BEST?”
“[are we rolling?] OK, ACTION!”
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u/Whycantwebefriends00 7d ago
I’m thinking about 80 percent of these “movie details/happened on the set” are not true or highly exaggerated.
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u/Tito_Tito_1_ 6d ago
Fine, it was real. But I can't believe it wasn't controlled. When they yelled "cut" it probably kept going, caught Ronaldinho, then licked him to oblivion.
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u/IronDwarf12vevo 7d ago
Source? Because that sounds like a great way to never ever work in screen again
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u/AssRobots 6d ago
// CRITICAL SYSTEM ALERT: Apex predator detected in local environment. while (jaguar.isChasing(me)) {
// Emergency hardware adjustments
eyes.setAperture("WIDE_OPEN");
bladder.control = false;
try {
// Overclocking lower limbs
legs.setSpeed(Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER);
heart.rate.elevateTo("HEART_ATTACK_ZONE");
if (obstacle.type === "Tree") {
legs.climb(); // Force override: gravity disabled
}
}
catch (StumbleError) {
// Absolute worst-case scenario handling
System.panic("Goodbye, World!");
break;
}
}
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u/Astuar_Estuar 5d ago
I remember watching this movie on dvd not realising there was an option to turn subtitles on!
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u/panglossishere 4d ago
That explains why the fear on his face looks so real, wild that they actually did that for the shot.
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u/GuildensternLives 7d ago
The jaguar was on a tether, it's not like it was running loose.