r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
He was actually the third actor cast for the role. The other two weren't fast enough.
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u/Zuparoebann Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
Or maybe with him it was a sex thing.
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u/Chrono-Helix Jul 26 '26
That’s cougars, not jaguars
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u/bossdaddee Jul 26 '26
Could've been a sex panther
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u/friblo_sv Jul 26 '26
It's illegal in 13 states
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u/Red_Number40 Jul 26 '26
Rar, rar, raaaarrrrr
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u/AntonChekov1 Jul 26 '26
60% of the time, it works every time
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u/Shambhala87 Jul 26 '26
It smells like Bigfoot’s dick….
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u/FuzzyTentacle Jul 26 '26
It smells like a dirty diaper filled with Indian food!
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u/CosmicWhorer Jul 26 '26
100% of actors can run faster than a sex panther, but only 60% of the time
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u/CheckYourStats Jul 26 '26
That doesn’t make any sense
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u/CosmicWhorer Jul 26 '26
Well... Let's go see if we can make this little kitty purr
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u/everynamecombined Jul 26 '26
actor unable to attend premier of movie due to "accident" on set while filming final scene for movie
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u/timsayscalmdown Jul 26 '26
a grinning Mel Gibson nudges the production assistant "lol check this shit out"
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u/Baby_ManBearPig Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
Casting Director was eventually arrested but the movie was great nonetheless
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u/TraditionAcademic968 Jul 26 '26
Looks like the jaguar caught up quick
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u/Mikestopheles Jul 26 '26
Jaguar > Human
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u/Sinreh Jul 26 '26
That's debatable. There are basically two schools of thought
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u/silverclovd Jul 26 '26
Bears, beets.. Battlestar Galactica
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u/dpero29 Jul 26 '26
What? Wait, what is this? WHAT IS GOING ON?
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u/Sinreh Jul 26 '26
MICHAEL!!
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u/perpetuumD Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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.8
u/rangolikesbeans Jul 26 '26
Jaguars are actually the fastest out of the True Big Cats
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u/fear_nothin Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
It’s a Jaaaag.
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u/CyanaMoss Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
This… is the most powerful Jaag…
……in the wuuurld.
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u/Fun_Trip_Travel Jul 26 '26
I missed the golden days of TG
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u/Voluptulouis Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
Speeeeeeed and... poooooweeerrrrr.
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u/Yorikor Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Some say he's a wild jungle cat we put into a white racing suit ...
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u/bthaanku Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
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
Edit spelling
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u/elveejay198 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 27 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
I did the same thing with District 9. I think the film was better without subtitles.
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u/TactlessTortoise Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
So did the Jaguar eat anyone once he caught up. Or did they sedate the Jaguar...
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u/Own_Policy8854 Jul 26 '26
They gave the actors sedatives, so once they got caught, the jaguar would fall asleep.
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u/redditcensorsshit Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
I met Rudy Youngblood back in 2015. Really cool guy.
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u/cornylamygilbert Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
Astonishing that this non-English movie came out of Hollywood. Absolutely fantastic movie.
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u/cornylamygilbert Jul 26 '26
And the most surprising aspect of this film is that it relied on Mel Gibson to make it
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u/VirginiaLuthier Jul 26 '26
I'm not a MG fan but that movie was incredible
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u/FiveOhFive91 Jul 26 '26
I watched it for the first time this week and I was blown away
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u/Fickle-Willingness80 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
The guy is crazy and all but damn he’s a talented actor and director.
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u/Nellion55 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
Just watched it again this week. Absolutely amazing. One of my all time faves.
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u/L181G Jul 26 '26
The visuals of the city and people during the sacrifices were amazing, especially when the eclipse began.
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u/frodoishobbit Jul 26 '26
It’s such an underrated movie. Kudos to MG for the casting, so immersive.
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u/antilocapraaa Jul 27 '26
Still racist trauma porn where MG couldn’t explain the difference between Aztecs and Mayans.
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u/EVILFLUFFMONSTER Jul 26 '26
That's just Anthony Keidis running to do another song about California.
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u/Neither_Cod_992 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
He said some racist and misogynistic shit when he was having a breakdown due to alcoholism.
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u/PaulBradley Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
Thank you. Been sober for 5 years now, keeping it up. Life is better that way.
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u/scarabic Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
"My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?"
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u/Drongo17 Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
You know you can't really run away from a Jaguar unless it's stuck in first...
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u/shapu Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
"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/burywmore Jul 26 '26
"The director" is Mel Gibson.
Apacalypto is a really good movie, by the way.
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u/AJ_Topp_Up Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
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 Jul 26 '26
“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/Blazeland_USA Jul 26 '26
Damn, now I have to watch that again. One of my faves back in the dvd days.
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u/Whycantwebefriends00 Jul 26 '26
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_ Jul 27 '26
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/Ok-Juggernaut-6051 Jul 27 '26
i read this as: "Mel Gibson tries to feed indigenous man to large cat"
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u/IronDwarf12vevo Jul 26 '26
Source? Because that sounds like a great way to never ever work in screen again
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u/Yeez25 Jul 27 '26
This is me running to the microwave to stop it before it hits zero and does those 3 loud ass beeps
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u/AssRobots Jul 27 '26
// 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 Jul 29 '26
I remember watching this movie on dvd not realising there was an option to turn subtitles on!
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u/GuildensternLives Jul 26 '26
The jaguar was on a tether, it's not like it was running loose.