Posted on 12/21/2009 2:17:36 PM PST by Bob017
Since I am a certified sci-fi geek and most science fiction movies are quite bad this habit unfortunately forces me to watch a large number of bad movies. It’s one of my little perversions. I have just watched the most expensive B-movie ever made, the US$ 237 million Avatar by director James Cameron, famous for having produced films such as The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens and Titanic. Briefly summed up I would say that while it is visually spectacular, as is everything Mr. Cameron makes, Avatar has to be one of the most anti-Western and especially anti-white Hollywood movies I have seen in a long time.
The hero is the U.S. Marine Jake Sully who has been sent to the planet-like moon Pandora because humans desire the mineral resources found of Pandora, which is inhabited by a race of tall, blue-skinned aliens, the Na’vi. They have a non-industrial civilization technologically inferior to ours but apparently spiritually richer and in perfect ecological harmony with the natural environment. The hero predictably falls in love with the native culture and connects with a native girl.
“Going native” is in itself not an original theme; it resembles Dances with Wolves, only with aliens instead of Sioux. Neither is the preference for pre-industrial civilization, which was after all shared by a good man such as Tolkien in his The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien had personally experienced the meaningless horrors of trench warfare during the First World War and this naturally affected his view of industrialized society. What is different about the movie Avatar is how it portrays whites as a bunch of raging monsters, something which Tolkien never did.
Basically, the white characters are portrayed as brutal, greedy and insensitive beasts who rape the environment and destroy other cultures with a smile in the search for profit. The main antagonist is the white Colonel Quaritch, a brute who hardly possesses a single positive character trait. The final climax of the movie is when he screams “How does it feel to betray your race?” to the protagonist while he is trying to murder him. Although a few of the white characters such as Jake Sully are portrayed in a more redeeming light this is only because they totally reject their own civilization and join the other team in the fight. In other words: the only good whites are the ones who utterly turn their backs on their own destructive and evil culture. As reviewer Armond White put it, “Avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.”
Of course, back in the real world whites are among the most self-critical and least ethnocentric people on Earth, and have been so for a long time. Whites are also disproportionately represented in the environmental movement whereas many “diverse” Third World peoples couldn’t care less about the environment. But why let the truth get in the way of making a good anti-white movie? The fact that quite a few among the predominantly white audience cheered for this movie shows that anti-white hatred and stereotypes have become so widespread and accepted that most people cannot even see it, least of all whites themselves.
Well, whoah, whoah. It’s more than naked cynicism prompting me to wait/ to avoid paying much to see this. It’s what James Cameron himself has crowed about the film’s (in)doctrinal intentions, echoed by Sigourney Weaver and numerous cheering lefty film reviewers.
I’m not going to shriek HOW DARE YOU SEE THIS MOVIE YOU RINO, or whatever, and it may be a fun flick / worth a bit of leftism, but it’s silly to dismiss the concerns about lefty preachiness in the movie when Cameron himself says it’s in there, on purpose. *shrug*
I found it entertaining and really have had it with taking such things so seriously. Paranoia reigns for some.
The first time I saw “Plan Nine From Outer Space” I was amused. If “Avatar” is made of the same stuff, I’m sure I’ll find it amusing.
Any buxom vampires in this flick?
ROFLOLOL
I agree with you 100%. I hadn't seen a 3D movie since way back in the 50's so I wanted to see one again. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed it for the fantasy that it is.
Did you ever see Alice in Wonderland? Or The Wizard of Oz?
Ever see Apocalypse Now? How about the Michael Moore movies?
We went to the movie to celebrate my husband’s birthday. He looked forward to seeing it, loved the 3-D.
I don't recall ever seeing Apocalypse Now. I did see the Michael Moore movie "Rodger and Me."
The most effective brainwashing is that which the person does not recognize as such. It comes from things that are just movies, just TV shows, just books, just fiction, just music...
How to talk to your kids about Avatar:
1. Sully’s opening remark that back on earth these Marines fought for freedom. (Back on earth it was mentioned that there had been a war in Venezuela)
2. The hero is a Marine who is looked down on by the so called “scientists” that believe only fully trained specialists can possibly understand the local culture as opposed to regular Joes.
3. The locals hunted and killed wild game unlike what the leftist vegans would have you believe is wrong.
4. The dragons that the locals used for flight had to be “broken” by wrestling them to the ground and making them supserviant to your thoughts. This training then put the animals into the service of the local people.
5. The locals knew they could not negotiate with evil. The only way to protect freedom was to fight.
6. Ownership of weapons was key to survival and, sadly, the reliance on outdated weapons systems led to the deaths of many of the locals.
7. Nowhere in the movie do the bad guys take time to pray whereas the locals are very spiritual and gather as a community to worship.
8. (some inventiveness on my part) The reason they were there to get an energy resource was because liberals had forbidden the development of local energy resources on earth.
Yep, its a lefty movie. But with some creativeness you can turn it around. After the movie my kids said they wanted to be marines and my daughter asked why environmentalists are so dumb to force us to travel so far for energy.
Good job! Great insight for your kids.
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