Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Lessons I Learned from Avatar

*The military and the corporate world are uniformly bad.
*You shouldn't judge tribal blue people with cornrows who wear feather headresses and loincloths. They are unique and purely from the director's imagination.
*James Cameron is so brilliant to smush 9/11, the Iraq war, the plight of Native Americans, slavery, Afghanistan (floating mountains we can't navigate--oooh!), the Israeli/Palestinian conflict into one symbolic broohaha. Everyone can relate!
*If you rape a bird, it will take you where you want to go
*No training = immediate employment, especially if you have connections
*If you throw yourself on the biggest red bird, people will accept you--which is much like having a nice car in California.
*On Pandora, everyone is long, lean, and blue (and plays basketball, but you should expect this of tall blue people). Stop obesity now!
*When jellyfish land on your arms, you are Jesus.
*(Peekaboo) "I see you" = "You complete me"
*Ewah = Yahweh
*Sam Worthington = pretty good as a leading boy/man and mostly rose above the bad dialogue he was given
*Sigourney Weaver, Priceless

Even though Dish found this a mind-numbing snoozefest and insulting to the intelligence, James Cameron writes fabulous female characters and presents some sparkly neon images one might appreciate more if one were wasted (which one wasn't last night).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you. More excellent analysis.

Anonymous said...

That was insightful. Hadn't caught the anagram on the tetragram. Dish is also a brilliant exegete!!!

John Haracopos said...

I agree completely, yet I leaned back to enjoy the ride and had a great time!
What I loved the most was getting to see "The American, War Mongering, Republican Machine" get their asses beat!!