But [Robinne Lee] said the film, which so far has the second-highest worldwide box-office gross ever, still reminded her of Hollywood's "Pocahontas" story — "the Indian woman leads the white man into the wilderness, and he learns the way of the people and becomes the savior."
"It's really upsetting in many ways," said Lee, who is black with Jamaican and Chinese ancestry. "It would be nice if we could save ourselves."
Oh right. So there is a movie exploiting one of the oldest theme ever, and just because now everything is about PC (politically correct), it's becoming upsetting? The Na'Vi are a small tribe, deeply connected with nature, they have accomplished all that mankind could accomplish in probably 2000 more years, and they are peaceful. They chose harmony over technology, they chose to NOT rule nature, they are powerless against pure destructive power and pure human cruelty first because they don't know the concept, and second because they haven't been shipped the handling book. What the hell is wrong with a dude from outside deciding to show them how to do it?
You sir, do not seem to travel a lot, come over my place and I'll show you some real chunks of cultural shock. You won't believe it (I love it).
Here is another nauseating comment (in here):
As Left-wing conceits go, this one surely tops all the others: the ethnic Na’vi, the film suggests, need the white man to save them because, as a less developed race, they lack the intelligence and fortitude to overcome their adversaries by themselves. The poor helpless natives, in other words, must rely on the principled white man to lead them out of danger.
What a triumph of PC, what a triumph for blindness and self disgust! Yes the Na'Vi are a less developped race, lacking intelligence and fortitude, of course they are, but only if you chose to see them like that! So they don't have iPhones and bulldozers, they don't have machine-guns, they don't have the Bomb... they are inferior, right? Oh right, they don't seem to ever get sick, they can communicate with mostly everything (so long, facebook) even with the dead, they are happy and they are tough, but it doesn't seem to count.
They rely on the white man? I thought they relied on the only dude who knew about the other dudes plans to obliterate their home. I could be wrong, yes, maybe in the movie I've missed the scene where someone says "Oh yes we need to believe him because you know, he's white".
Or are you just regretting all the blood our ancestors have shed in the name of civilization and don't wanna be reminded anymore?
Let's play a game. Let's change the hero, replace him by, say, Will Smith. Does it change anything? I don't think so, the Na'Vi are still blue. Ok, let's spice it up, let's put some Na'Vi on the human side, and give them all guns and ipods. And let the Na'Vi build a Death Star to eliminate the human invaders and smite them to smitereens.
Oh...wait...It's not the same...MOVIE anymore.
What would you chose to represent harmony and peace with nature? I'd chose a tribe in the forest over a gang of armed rebels. Sorry, I'm racist, I would love to live like them, get rid of all the techno crap all around me and talk to my horse the way they do. Forgive me.
And the best for the end, here
Ok, Jake you still have your legs! You can't do shit with them, but at least, you know, you still have them, and boy, to turn you in a monster killing machine in a battlefield, that's such an asset! And I'm sure you're happy to still have them even if later on you'll go as far as switching bodies to get rid of the dead weight.
…Commander Quaritch (leader of the mission) says to Jake, “you’re going to get your real legs back”…Yet this piece of dialogue overlooks a fact that’s glaringly obvious: Jake still has his legs! Yes, he has a disability, but what’s the problem with his legs and/or wheelchair? The commander is implying that there is something not just physically, but morally, wrong with Jake’s disabled legs and wheelchair use: it is unacceptable in the military for a soldier to be disabled and, moreover, to show it.
"Some people," the patent application observes, "have taken it upon themselves to remove the sensor from the special pocket of the [iPod-linked] Nike+ shoe and place it at inappropriate locations (shoelaces, for example) or place it on non-Nike+ model shoes."It seems that they really consider getting half the planet against them.
