It's 4:15AM on a Wednesday morning, and THIS is what pops into my head.
In the movie Apocolypto, the Mel Gibson film about small native villages in Classic Latin America being ravaged by the larger Mayan city-state, there's a scenario where Jaguar Paw's wife and son are trapped in the bottom of a large hole.
This hole is... ohhh... 25' deep, and they have no way of getting out. Fine.
Half way into the movie we get some foreshadowing that rain is going to be coming, and Jaguar Paw prays to the Gods that the rain wont start yet for fear of his wife and child drowning.
It eventually does begin to downpour, and soon the hole because to fill with water, putting the 2 lives in danger.
This makes sense... at first.
Do people not float in 1,100AD? How hard is it to keep yourself afloat when you're next to the wall of the pool...
I mean if anything you would WANT it to rain, to offer your wife and child a way out, right?
There's even a scene where the kid is sitting on his mom's head and the mom is underwater, looking for some higher ground to stand on. Wait a second lady, just put the kid next to you and float up together!
People floated in the 1950's... so I'm pretty sure than means that people were just as buoyant during the 800-1,200's. But that's just me.
Sure this film has some strange flaws, like the fact that the first Spanish arrival to Central America was 300 years AFTER the last Mayan city was abandoned, but hey it's Hollywood.
It's like the whole water vapor and the aliens from Signs thing. They can't deal with water, well what about fog? What about all of the natural vapor in our air...
It's from Casino yeah, yeah, but look at 16 seconds into the clip.
If I could find a still-frame I would.
This is me going off on a tangent though, I like the idea of questioning a movie's entire premise, so stay tuned.
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