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...care to accept all this as a well-made adventure story, feel free to do so. But taken in Gibsonian context, it is clear that something more than sadism stirs the director's soul. For one thing, he wants us to see that late Maya civilization is analogous in his view to our own. It is given to worshipping false idols and values and, for all its military might, is rotting from within. Even the simple village, before it is destroyed, revels in irrelevant pleasure. What everyone needs is, well, a savior. And that's where Jaguar Paw comes...
Those--to use a Gibsonian film metaphor--Stations of the Cross will be familiar to anyone who has ever sold a literary property to Hollywood. The stories are legion, and they've happened to writers way more eminent than me. The Wall Street Journal also reported that the late western novelist Louis L'Amour wrote more than 100 books and that nearly 50 of them--50!--were sold to the movies. One novel that got the treatment was published under the title The Broken Gun. By the time it came out as a movie, it was called Cancel My Reservation...
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