AVATAR'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
and/or www.mantra.com/jai
The SP Sula Review
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Aaah Avatar. The epic saga of evil colonialists savaging the peaceful
indigenous inhabitants of...oh hell, does it really matter? It's
white Americans and we should all feel guilty for the brutality
wrought upon the Native Americans, Mexicans, and/or slaves. And yes,
this includes all white people, even if your ancestors were not here
during any of those periods. You're guilty no matter what. You're
white. You're automatically a bigot.
Or if you don't like the racist approach, you can go with the
plundering nature theme. That works just as well. The earth is
warming after all. Or is it cooling? That's right, it's cooling.
Wait. Can I use a lifeline for that one? Because honestly, I think
that's a trick question. Uh, you know what, I'm gonna go with the
earth is...spinning?
The problem is, it's all about as real as that stick figure you're
looking at.
I'm going to tell you a secret. A truth that James Cameron may come
to regret having unleashed into the world. But a truth nonetheless.
The secret? This film is not Dances with Wolves in space and the
imperialistic thematic underpinning is just window dressing; a hoax
to distract you from what this film really is.
While perusing review sites online, I found something astonishingly
disturbing. Cameron spent 17 million dollars on one single aspect of
the film. No, it wasn't creating Pandora. No, it wasn't designing all
of the military technology. 17 million dollars was spent on
developing his alien's breasts. Now why would the man spend the
budget of a small city's government on the non-mammary glands of a
glorified CGI muppet? Because in his own words:
"These breasts, they need to make every 13-to-17-year-old kid who
buys a ticket to this thing want to run home, still chubbed up from
having them bounce around his zit-pocked face for two hours in three
glorious dimensions, and touch himself with furious abandon. Then
come back the next day for another go-around." (Playboy Interview,
Nov 2009) [1]
And that, my friends, is what this movie was really about. Selling
sex to children.
To put it bluntly: Cameron wants your male child to spend the entire
film becoming aroused, go home with an erection, masturbate and then
come back to the theater and spend your money on another ticket so
that he can have another "go-around". Cameron was banking on these
sex organs to bring in repeat business. Does Cameron seriously intend
to turn theaters into the equivalent of under-aged strip joints? That
may be pushing it a little, but even he would tell you that 17
million was a small price to pay, considering this film has already
made 2 billion. Much of it, the very repeat business from the
children he spoke of and the result of his 17 million dollar
investment.
Now, I know what some are thinking. I'm taking this quote out of
context (if that's possible). I'm twisting this whole situation so it
will fit into some convoluted narrative. Unfortunately, I'm not. In
this part of the interview, he openly admitted to giving his
imaginary aliens human sex organs, [2] ones that serve no legitimate
biological function. His sole purpose for doing this was titillation.
This, along with other wanton sexist declarations have become quite a
controversy across the web. Not to mention, there was the notorious
sex scene which was edited out. Cameron readily confessed he did this
so he wouldn't lose his PG-13 rating and that under-aged crowd he was
so ardently targeting. However, if this film was intended to be kid-
friendly, why was a sex scene [3] written into the script in the
first place? Unless he had planned to market sex to kids from the
very beginning.
Avatar wasn't about slavery or Native Americans or the earth or
anything noble. It was about using those things as cover so that
James Cameron could make money off of the sexual arousal of children.
This is at best patently grotesque and at worst depraved and
perverse. When looking at this objectively, one must consider that
Cameron does, in fact, believe in the message of the film. And that,
perhaps, he took a horribly wrong turn in the selling of it. But, in
weighing the cavalier manner of his admissions, the calculation of
spending such an obscene amount of money for something so arbitrary,
and the intricate planning of sexual content, I concluded this was no
"wrong turn". I truly believe this man fully intended to do what he
did, because he saw a profit in doing so. I believe he didn't
consider that it was abusive because he is completely removed from
the accepted psychology that children are not, in fact, sexual
objects. And I believe that if confronted about his statements, he
will either lie, or simply won't care.
Now, it's not that I'm naive or that I haven't noticed our children
are being targeted by these people in so many ways. But I have
nephews and I suppose this one hit home. Hard. I see men like James
Cameron and Roman Polanski profiting, while our children are
sexualized. Hollywood rails about global warming, while under the
table, they're hooks sink even deeper into our kids. And we still
haven't been able to change the dialog to a subject that actually
matters; like child trafficking or sexual predators. Of course, our
children don't actually rate concern in Hollywood unless a director
can make a buck off them.
Maybe if parents started demanding refunds for their children's
tickets to this film, Hollywood might get the message. Although, I'm
guessing they will only raise their proverbial middle finger at us
and give Cameron the Oscar. After all, they did it for Polanski.
Beth Haper
Editor
Posted by The SP Sula Review on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
[1] http://www.movieline.com/2009/11/movieline-explores-james-camerons-exhaustive-search-for-the-perfect-alien-breasts.php
[2] http://www.globalshift.org/2009/12/dances-with-discrimination-on-avatar-racism-misogyny-and-disabled-prejudice/
[3] http://gawker.com/5445955/if-avatars-sex-scene-was-cut-for-its-pg+13-then-tendril-sex-is-as-obscene-as-the-penis-kind
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Om Shanti
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> [2] http://www.globalshift.org/2009/12/dances-with-discrimination-on-avat...
> [3] http://gawker.com/5445955/if-avatars-sex-scene-was-cut-for-its-pg+13-...
>
> More at:http://thespsulareview.blogspot.com/2010/02/avatars-dirty-little-secr...
I disagree Avatar did not do these things, but other movies do.
and/or www.mantra.com/jai
that Cameron says Avatar targets for those things.
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
In article <7ecd7a91-b621-48f4...@g26g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
LIBERATOR <noge...@linuxmail.org> posted:
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> I disagree Avatar did not do these things, but other movies do.
> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
> > [1] =A0http://www.movieline.com/2009/11/movieline-explores-james-camerons=
> -ex...
> > [2] =A0http://www.globalshift.org/2009/12/dances-with-discrimination-on-a=
> vat...
> > [3] =A0http://gawker.com/5445955/if-avatars-sex-scene-was-cut-for-its-pg+=
> 13-...
> >
> > More at:http://thespsulareview.blogspot.com/2010/02/avatars-dirty-little-=
> secr...
> >
> > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> > Om Shanti
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