Is Avatar an Anti-American Movie?

[ianjose]

Anti-American movies are much beloved by the critics and might even get Oscar nominations, but they're poison at the box office.

James Cameron has said that his movie is a criticism of American policy in the War on Terror. There is even use of the term "shock and awe" to decribe an attack on the village of the blue skinned Na'vi, who apparantly have no vices.

The parallel is not appropriate, unless the Na'vi are flying spaceships into Earth cities and destroying them. In Avatar, the evil human megacorporation (Americans) are plundering the planet for energy resources. This works for liberals who believe that the war in Iraq was about oil, but the majority of Americans don't believe that.

If I was Cameron, I would have altered the story somewhat to make it more palatable to American audiences. Make the bad guys French, Germans and Russians and have them making supporting a Na'vi dictator who brutalizes his people in return for oil contracts. Then portray the Americans liberating the Na'vi and throwing the French, Germans and Russians out.

While this might not make the critics happy, the American people would like a movie that makes their own soldiers heroes rather than a movie that portrays American soldiers as villianous pawns of evil megacorporations.

I predict this movie will break even, but not reach the success of James Cameron's previous movies.

[Loopah]

Spambot I applaud you. This thread delivers.

Avatar breaking even. LOL.

Liberating the Na'vi from French, German, and Russian forces. LOL.

[Kangaroo_Symphony]

lol... spam worth reading

[Cel]

It's like Fox News' propaganda department's sunday funnies page!

[Fuller]

That movie really shows people's attitude towards other in cases when they feel they're stronger and the really-really need something they don't have...

[Cybsled]

Clearly a technologically superior power has never tried to subjugate a technologically inferior power just to lay claim to their resources prior to America in the entire history of the planet!!!11!!

[kane]

you can read into alot of things but one thing it shows is int he future the american's are still ontop when it comes to large organisations