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In the scene where Jaguar Paw runs into the corn field, his whole body is painted blue, but when he falls into the pit of dead natives, his body is only sparsely painted blue in the front. In the next scene where he is running through the jungle, his whole body is painted blue again. See more...

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Apocalypto (2006) - 11 corrections

Directed by Mel Gibson (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

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Entry When prisoners are taken to the sacrifice temple, Jaguar Paw's friend says something about getting revenge in Hell. Hell is a Christian concept, thus there is no way Indians could have used it at that time, before the Spanish Conquest. [It says Hell in the ENGLISH subtitles because the subtitles are supposed to help ENGLISH speakers to understand the movie. If the subtitles had said the Mayan equivalent of Hell, ENGLISH speakers would not have known what it meant.]
Corrected by Blibbetyblip
Entry Even though the entire tribe was taken captive at the beginning of the film, when Jaguar Paw returns home he is able to kill the bad guy using the trap that killed the wild boar in the beginning. In the interest of safely, it is unlikely that such a dangerous trap would be left set all the time, and the men of the tribe were not out hunting at the time of their capture. Further, it is doubtful that one man would be able to set such a trap by himself, especially in the amount of time shown, so it is unlikely that Jaguar Paw found the trap sprung and set it up all by himself. [Since OSHA didn't exist at this time, I don't think they were too worried about "safety on the job." They were probably more concerned with catching enough food to survive. They'd leave the traps set to increase their chances of catching more tapir. The hunters knew where the traps were and what the catches looked like; their chances of getting hurt were pretty low.]
Corrected by Phixius
Entry The journey of captured people and the war party, brings them on the right side of a river (looking downstream), and they proceed crossing it from right to left. Later, on his journey back home, Jaguar Paw jumps into a waterfall and swims out on the opposite bank again crossing this river from right to left, and yet soon we learn that he is back in his neck of the woods, despite the fact that he crossed two rivers. [Rivers can divide up and rejoin themselves. Jaguar Paw took a much different route home than the one he left by. It's a big jungle.]
Corrected by Phixius
Entry After Jaguar Paw is captured and tied up by the raiders, he looks over towards the hole and the man he killed. When a guard goes over to check the man, you can see that the "dead" man is very obviously breathing. [So Jaguar Paw didn't kill him outright, he just knocked him unconscious. If the man isn't dead yet, he is certainly in the process of dying.]
Corrected by Phixius
Entry When the baby is being born in the water it doesn't cough or choke afterwards. [The baby has been breathing fluid for 9 months in the womb. It's used to it. Only when the baby begins respiration for a length of time does it begin to choke on water.]
Entry When the jaguar is killed, the head of the dead animal is on top of the body of the Mayan warrior it had previously mangled. In the following wide shot the animal is several meters away from its prey. [Between seeing the jaguar's head on the warrior and the overhead shot, there is a shot of the other warriors dragging something - dragging the jaguar off the dead guy.]
Entry Jaguar Paw, apparently severely wounded by an arrow wound to the abdomen, manages to run all night without tiring and to keep ahead of a group of uninjured professional warriors. This seems highly unlikely. [Unlikely, but not impossible. Adrenalin can do amazing things to people. Besides, pretty much any movie in existence requires some suspension of disbelief in order for it to be an interesting movie. I have never yet seen people burst out into song, and a choreographed dance number spontaneously, like in all the musicals ever made.]
Entry Given they seem to be so close (it takes him less than two days to get home) and so aggressive, it seems unlikely that Jaguar Paw's people have no knowledge of the existence of the Mayan city. [Two days is a big distance to ancient civilizations. They were not nomadic, and did not go far from their home village for hunting, gathering and farming. Before the New World was "discovered" even sailors thought the world ended at the horizon, yet they could have sailed from Europe to North America in a matter of a couple of weeks. Even today, I know people who have never been to Disneyland, even though they live only 20 minutes drive away in the Greater LA area. Some tribes in the Amazon were not discovered until the 20th century, even though there were metropolises within a 3 or 4 day hike through the jungle. Distance makes a big difference if a person or tribe has no need or inclination to explore.]
Entry When they are sacrificing the captives, they tear out the beating heart of the person. They then hold it up, and the person watches in horror as his own heart is beating. If you ripped out a beating heart, the person's blood pressure would drop to zero right away, and they would black out. [Absolutely wrong. A person who loses all cardiac function instantaneously (say, by having their heart removed, which will do it, every time) will die of cerebral anoxia as the blood circulation and therefore the oxygen supply to the brain fails. Between the removal of the heart and total loss of consciousness the brain will operate on its own stored oxygen reserves, typically allowing fifty to sixty seconds of activity in a resting adult - or in this case, one tied to a sacrificial altar.]
Entry When Jaguar Paw's wife gives birth, the baby comes out crying. [I was born crying. Not a mistake.]
Entry When Jaguar Paw returns to the hole where his wife is hiding, where'd the dead guy go? [The dead guy was taken by the monkeys seen earlier fighting for the corpse.]

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