disneyboy20022 wrote:Siren wrote:I personally like James Cameron speaking a bit about the internet backlash. People comparing it to Thundercats, Smurfs, and Ferngully. And the criticism of the attack on war and big business. Kinda a very subtle "it was highly successful anyways, up yours" feel to it, lol.
Seems James forgot to mention Disney's Pocahoantas or he left that one out as well as Dances with Wolves
All in all it's a good movie and enjoyable, though I didn't see it in 3D. Mainly due to lack of money or the theater is too far away and to get gas for the car requires money which it didn't work out.....oh well life goes on
Actually, he did. He mentioned the basic story line is based on the early dealings between settlers and the natives. In a segment about dams being built in South America, he talked again about how the story of Avatar and what is going on RIGHT NOW, are interconnected.
People just see the love story and that's it. Its ripping off Pocahontas, but its so much more than a love story. I think James Cameron went through great lengths to try and show people they need to stop looking at the movie as just the story of Pocahontas and start seeing for what it is. Its about the modern world destroying the indigenous cultures. Jake and Neytiri's love is really, secondary. Whether or not they ever met, the war would have happened. And if they never fell in love, it was Jake's resilience and Eywa listening for his plea for help that is what turned the tide for them to win. But if you take out the love story, it would still make for a great war story. If you took out the war, and only had the love story, well I doubt it would have been quite as good a story.
I watched a documentary a few years ago and something like over 80% (maybe it was 90%) of languages and cultures have been lost. All because of modern encroachment into long standing cultures. In the special on the Avatar dvd, it showed up many tribes, who use to war with one another have come together for a tribal meeting to talk about how they can stop the dams from being built. They will lose their land, hunting grounds, everything. They have been offered to be moved to the towns and cities. In the past, when this is done, the people lose their way of life...instead of living off the land, they now need money to pay for rent, food, etc. Which means they must get jobs, which also means they must learn new languages and often times, this is how their languages and traditions are then lost. Generation after generation they lose a little more.
In the movie, neighboring tribes banded together. There is no telling if they previously warred with eachother or not, but looking at the worldwide history on Earth, its likely they did, since they needed the same resources. But they had a common enemy. If the humans took over one tribe, they'd take over another, and another. So they banded together to fight a common enemy.
Cameron is trying to get people away from the whole "its just a love story" and show people this is happening now, here on Earth, and few people know about it. History is repeating itself. We did it to African tribes, North American tribes, and to this day, we can't learn from past mistakes.
In the documentary, Cameron compared the modern world to a snake. When a snake catches its prey, is coils around it, every time the prey breaths, the snake squeezes harder, till the prey runs out of breath and suffocates.
One of the chiefs of the tribes replied, "We have a lot of breath."
The tribes are willing to have a war against those who will build the dam.
I think people need to watch that documentary and understand just what Avatar is really about.