I LOVED AVATAR.
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sarrenMostly for the world building and the special effects and the characters. I thought the plot was ordinary and the fighting scenes interested me not at all.
- About Sam Worthington’s famously dodgy American accent – I don’t know the actor and completely did not notice he wasn’t American, and I can totally be counted on to mock people’s accents. FTIW.
- I think a whole lot less people would be complaining about the film being racist and about the ‘white messiah saving the primitives’ if they’d thought to cast a non-white actor in the main role. Or the lead scientist role. Or even a couple of the other roles (though not just the baddies FFS, like we haven’t seen THAT before). Though I have been assured that Michelle Rodriguez being Latino totally counts. And there was that guy with frizzy hair and two lines who probably isn’t Caucasian.
- The only thing that I didn’t like about the film was the scene where he bonds with his flying creature. The girl had told him that he would be ‘chosen’ by the one that ‘tries to kill him’. You know, if I thought someone was about to use mind control to take my free will away from me I’d try to kill them too. And the bonding scene where the creature fought him until he connected with it and then its eyes dilated and it went limp made me feel sick and uncomfortable. *AFTER* the film I was able to think about it in terms of the whole ecosystem/connectedness thing. Someone I was talking to commented:
I looked at it from the point of view of most of the flying creatures flew off, just not interested in him, the choosing was more along the lines of the creature doing the whole "you are interesting and I think that I want to join with you but you have to be strong enough to be worthy of me, if I can kill you then you are not worthy because I will only ever bond with one person and you had better be worth it". Then you get the whole bond thing happening which is a lot more powerful because it is a once in a life time event so to speak.
Which, okay, I get that, but now I feel sorry for the creature because it gave itself to him and he promptly REPLACED IT WITH A SHINIER MODEL. Does the creature go back to its old life, having lost this magical connection, or does it just hang around waiting for attention?
I AM SAD FOR THE FLYING CREATURE.
- About Sam Worthington’s famously dodgy American accent – I don’t know the actor and completely did not notice he wasn’t American, and I can totally be counted on to mock people’s accents. FTIW.
- I think a whole lot less people would be complaining about the film being racist and about the ‘white messiah saving the primitives’ if they’d thought to cast a non-white actor in the main role. Or the lead scientist role. Or even a couple of the other roles (though not just the baddies FFS, like we haven’t seen THAT before). Though I have been assured that Michelle Rodriguez being Latino totally counts. And there was that guy with frizzy hair and two lines who probably isn’t Caucasian.
- The only thing that I didn’t like about the film was the scene where he bonds with his flying creature. The girl had told him that he would be ‘chosen’ by the one that ‘tries to kill him’. You know, if I thought someone was about to use mind control to take my free will away from me I’d try to kill them too. And the bonding scene where the creature fought him until he connected with it and then its eyes dilated and it went limp made me feel sick and uncomfortable. *AFTER* the film I was able to think about it in terms of the whole ecosystem/connectedness thing. Someone I was talking to commented:
I looked at it from the point of view of most of the flying creatures flew off, just not interested in him, the choosing was more along the lines of the creature doing the whole "you are interesting and I think that I want to join with you but you have to be strong enough to be worthy of me, if I can kill you then you are not worthy because I will only ever bond with one person and you had better be worth it". Then you get the whole bond thing happening which is a lot more powerful because it is a once in a life time event so to speak.
Which, okay, I get that, but now I feel sorry for the creature because it gave itself to him and he promptly REPLACED IT WITH A SHINIER MODEL. Does the creature go back to its old life, having lost this magical connection, or does it just hang around waiting for attention?
I AM SAD FOR THE FLYING CREATURE.
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Date: 2010-02-02 06:35 am (UTC)Now I'm worried about the shiny one!
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Date: 2010-04-17 08:02 am (UTC)Did not like the story at all, only the world. I thought they could easily have made the story better by making the People less willing to take Jake in and teach him everything with hardly any debate, and by showing him more conflicted at killing his former colleagues.
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Date: 2010-04-18 02:41 pm (UTC)