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Re:Archaeologists Discover Lost Civilization in Guatemala by thaumasiotes on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:11AM (#34146905)
> The movie uses a modern Mayan language for dialogue, uses Maya actors and depicts a religion still practiced today. Moreover, practitioners of that religion were being actively killed for their practice only a decade prior. The analogy with nazis and europeans seems pretty different to me.

Raiders of the Lost Ark uses a modern European language for dialogue, uses white actors, and depicts a religion still practiced today.

What are the differences you were going for?

Re:Archaeologists Discover Lost Civilization in Guatemala by AlotOfReading on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:37AM (#34147441)
Maybe you can refresh my memory? The ark in raiders was a macguffin. The only overtly religious character I remember was the imam. If you mean temple of doom with the Kali cult, that's closer except for one important detail. Other movies are careful to mentally distance depictions by having cults be underground or otherwise abnormal and isolated. Think midsommar, wicker man, etc.

The narrative of apocalypto is literally the mainstream Maya priests kidnapping and torturing people to sacrifice them before the protagonist is saved by the distraction of Spaniards arriving. I would consider the same thing with Christianity swapped a bit distasteful as well, but I can't think of any movies like that. Handmaid's tale would count, but that's a deliberate critique rather than unintentional stereotyping.

Re:Archaeologists Discover Lost Civilization in Guatemala by pc2g4d on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:24AM (#34159119)
The Pit and the Pendulum?