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Is Avatar (the movie) looks good or terrible?
12/25/2009 09:45:00 pm
The film "Avatar" by director James Cameron is waiting for more people, bringing lots of praise when he premiered in London, Friday morning, WIT, which among others called it a wonderful film.The epic story of 3D (three dimensional) film director's best-selling 1997 "Titanic" This is one of the most expensive movie ever made and marketed, with the funds spent 400 million dollars. This film will be played simultaneously across the world next week and stamped U.S. cinemas on 18 December.
UK's best-selling tabloid, The Sun, called the "Avatar" as the most fascinating films of this decade. "The scene at the end of the war half-length 20 minute truly amazing."
Empire magazine gave a full five stars to this movie, as she called it as a "working with a huge reward," for which new technologies have been easier for the director create.
Avatar the movie is practically fantastic. Imagine, director James Cameron's Avatar has worked on the idea since 1994. At that time, he is constrained visual effects if desperate refine this movie.
This Canadian director was willing to wait a dozen years to realize his dreams through this film Avatar. In 1997, Cameron made Titanic success. Now 12 years later he launched the technology-laden Avatar movie. No high-tech film with good story after the trilogy The Lord of the Ring by Peter Jackson.
Imagination is depicted in the film Avatar is so vast seemed endless. Cameron seems to want to bring in viewers like Pandora. The film, reportedly spent up to Rp 2.5 trillion, this is a very worthwhile to watch. Some observers and critics believe this film became a big movie and will be remembered for all time.
Besides this film also contains a moral message that is very consistent with what is happening in our world increasingly devastated by our own hands.
So what about you?? Agree or disagree?
Does 'Avatar' Contain Hidden Messages?
12/25/2009 09:17:00 pm
Since it opened last week, James Cameron's much-anticipated film "Avatar" has won praise from movie critics and been a juggernautat the box office. But some who have seen the film say that it contains hidden messages that are anti-war, pro-environment, and perhaps even racist.
For the benefit of those who haven't seen the film, a little nonspoiler background might be useful. The story is set in the year 2154 when Earth's inhabitants, having used up most of their natural resources through decades of living in excess, plan to use military force to conquer Pandora, a moon roughly the same size as Earth. Pandora, inhabited by a wise, peaceful, and nature-respecting people with blue skin called the Na'vi, is rich in a resource that the people of Earth desperately need.
The earthlings send in a crew of special-forces mercenaries armed with guns, bombs, and other sophisticated weaponry to attack and conquer the Na'vi (who some think resemble American Indians and Africans), despite the fact that they represent no direct threat to the inhabitants of Earth. Since humans can't breathe in Pandora's atmosphere, the military employs mind-controlled avatars that resemble the Na'vi in every way to venture out from their landing craft and explore the landscape. Sympathizing with the Na'vi after becoming acquainted with them and their customs, one of the human-controlled avatars becomes a turncoat and helps lead the people of Pandora in the defense of their homeland.
Are you beginning to get a sense of why some viewers noticed what they believe are underlying messages in the film?
Some prominent members of the media who screened the film certainly took note. In a glowing review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert noted that "Avatar" "has a flat-out Green and anti-war message" that is "predestined to launch a cult." Meanwhile Ben Hoyle, writing in the Times of London, noted that the film "contains heavy implicit criticism of America's conduct in the War on Terror." Further, Will Heaven of the Daily Telegraph said that the plot line involving people of color who wear "tribal" jewelry while sporting dreadlocked hair, being saved by a noble white man gave the film a "racist subtext" that he found "nauseatingly patronising."
But are these hidden messages really all that hidden? James Cameron himself hasn't been shy in publicly proclaiming the fact that he's an environmental activist who believes that humans and "industrial society" are "causing a global climate change" and "destroying species faster than we can classify them." In a recent interview with PBS' Tavis Smiley, Cameron admitted that he made "obvious" references in the film to Iraq, Vietnam and the American colonial period to emphasize the fact that humans have a "terrible history" of "entitlement" in which we "take what we need" from nature and indigenous peoples "and don't give back."
Further, one of the film's stars Stephen Lang told CNN that he is "not surprised at all" that some people have taken note of the film's political messages, mainly because the central theme of humans "destroying" a "pristine world" out of "blindness and greed" is so "overt."
Despite the obvious political undertones in "Avatar," at least one right-leaning critic doesn't think people who disagree with the film's ideology should totally dismiss it. In his review on the website Hot Air, Ed Morrissey writes, "Conservatives have more or less primed themselves to hate this film because of the presumed anti-war politics of the movie. It's there -- in fact, it's unmistakable -- but it's not as bad as one might presume." He goes on to note that "Avatar" is "entertaining" though "hardly a deep intellectual exercise."
So what do you think? are you agree with that??
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