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Linguistics professor Michal Brody has written a serious academic paper on how the 1996 Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny movie Space Jam closely mirrors Popol Vuh, the sacred Mayan text. OBVIOUSLY. (“Grad students are the worst.” — Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy.)
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How do the Quad City DJ’s fit into all of this?
choo-choo!
Does this mean in 2012 we’ll all be coaxed by Danny DeVito to play a game for our lives?
Did the Mayans also believe that they could fly? That they could touch the sky? That they could have sex with 13 year old girls and film it and get away with it?
don’t forget pee on them as well…
Only during the solstice
The Mayans did not need Toure to define teenage, they just knew
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Maybe it’s the prophecy of R&B singer Mya.
“2012 Is Like… Wo”
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called it!
Instead of “Invoking the Ancestors”, you should have called this “I only want to see you laughing in the Popol Vuh“. C+.
-Michael Brody’s thesis advisor
Also, I’ll save everyone the trouble of clicking through to the PDF: Yes, he was at UT Austin.
See, you all thought Marvin the Martian was a useless character. Turns out he is the realest cartoon. And the Mayan’s knew it.
Having Never Seen ‘space-jam’, nor read ‘popol vul’(poopal vulcan?), the professor
in question, may, perhaps, be over-thinking things a bit.
Looks like a poorly thought-out desperate cartoon to me.
You should see it. It will change your life if you’re seven like i was. But you should still see it.
Retrieve the head of your father, Hunahpu. Stealing Charles Barkley’s talent.
Tomato. Tomato.
Heh it took me a minute to realize that one of those should be pronounced toe-mah-toe and you weren’t just repeating yourself.
The Mayans envisioned Bugs Bunny early on, but their interpretation was way too highbrow.
No wonder I had Space Jam stickers adorning my walls, and a Space Jam book, and VHS. I felt the power.
I Am The Chosen One.
I don’t know I once performed an excerpt at a talent show so I was spreading the gospel, maybe that makes me the Mayan prophet
Well your name says it all. You even prophesied this post.
Spacejamprophet
i just wish it had been more similar. rather than stealing the talent of all the players, the morons (that was what they were called right?) just brutally and publicly remove their heads during a basketball game. kids have to learn about the senseless violence that is life sooner or later, right?
See: My username
See: My username
As a grad student I’d like to defend myself by saying I kinda liked that movie when I was 10.
No, wait, hang on, let me try this again.
How about the Mayan-based movie rankings? What is it, like…
1. Space Jam
2. Apocalypto
3. 2012?
Is that about right? What’d I miss?
Uh, I started writing a reply about how The Road to El Dorado and The Emperor’s New Groove should be added to the list as completely respectful representations of Mayan/Incan/Aztec culture, but I abandoned that idea as soon as I stumbled upon this link:
http://www.polyvore.com/dress_like_cartoons/collection?id=4596
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a grad student myself. That doesn’t stop me from admitting the obvious.
“I didn’t know Dan Aykroyd was in this picture!”
They should do a shot for shot remake with the same cast and same R Kelly soundtrack. Only this time, the toons easily run over the opposing “bad guy” team because Patrick Ewing and Charles Barkley are old farts now.
Fact: I totally worked at the library where the Popol Vuh lives (and also am friends with the guy who wrote that article – the one Gabe linked to, not the one about the Space Jam thing!)
Anyways, this is the cover of the Popol Vuh:
So now who’s laughing!
It’s a little weird that my Vgum existence has gotten so close to my actual existence.
Somethingsomething Billy Murray, destiny, Mayan prophecy,
help us win in the big galaxy game called life?
*and/or zombie invasions. (It’s probably in the fine print!)