Am I the only one who finds it ironic that countless westerns and movies about colonial America depict the savage American Indians as bloodthirsty killers and the helpless colonists/farmers/townspeople as nothing more than simpletons trying to extract a meager living, and the white male who rescues the colonists/farmers/townspeople from the natives (usually by killing a lot of them) as a hero, but the move Avatar instead paints the colonists as bloodthirsty killers and the natives as graceful, zen creatures that only want to live in peace...yet they need a white male hero type to "save" them?
When are we going to make a movie where the battle between tech-savvy, disease-resistant cultures and low-tech, disease-susceptible cultures is accurately depicted as one-sided and vile?
Thursday, 12 November 2009
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