Avatar attracts racisim claims.

**RamesesII** · 01-13-2010, 06:00 AM

I read a news article accusing the new movie Avatar to be racist, said by critics by portraying a white man coming to lead a community of primitive non white people.

One journalist goes on to says that it stereotypes white people to be 'rationalist' and 'technocratic' while colonial victims are 'spiritual' and 'athletic'

Director James Cameron counters by commenting

"Avatar asks us to open our eyes and truly see others, respecting them even though they are different, in the hope that we may find a way to prevent conflict and live more harmoniously on this world".

As well as that it has been reported that many people have felt depressed and suicidal after seeing it because they have to go back to the real world and never ever imagining a world such as Pandora.

I think this is pathetic personally besides which it isn't the first movie of its kind why is it only this movie that has supposedly made people feel this way and forgetting one thing ITS A MOVIE! movies are made to entertain the viewer and entertain only.

And this is coming from a Fantasy hardcore guy like me yeah I love that sort of stuff but I suppose I have made myself immune by all the fantasy books that I read as well as the games and anime.

I also find that this may touch base with Sinister's theory of hyper reality we are so hard pressed on leaving the reality behind that we do end up forgetting the reality and make our real lives so susceptible to fantasy and try to replicate it within our surroundings that we loose sight of what is real and what is hyper real, correct me if I have gone astray.

**Furore** · 01-13-2010, 06:24 AM

Avatar was totally racist. Except in reality, the white people had a flawless victory and several brutalities...

Sub Zero wins?

**Chaos_Weapon** · 01-13-2010, 08:34 AM

Ok...ummmm...not getting the point of this...
Avatar was a movie based on how some things are different in 2 ways:
1. How the government wants to take it over because its they want to Americanize it and they believe they can do whatever they want.
2. How different they are and what you can learn from them and their ways of living.

Basically the movie is promoting the quote "Never judge a book by its cover."
Not to mention in inspires love between to species (Keyword: Species) not races.
And you are correct about the suicidal thing...lol.
I felt so overwhelm about Pandora that I couldn't stop thinking about it, until I drew my own ubber looking Avatar myself.
Racist, no. Alienation, yes.

**Calvan** · 01-14-2010, 01:07 PM

What else is new?
Well racisim is a major plot point anyway.

**smurphy** · 01-14-2010, 01:28 PM

Well that racism remark was just about as feeble as spike lee calling clint eastwood and flags of our fathers racist for not having any black people in it. Which was historically accurate on eastwoods part. Avatar is the opposite of racist. The protagonists admiration and eventual joining with the natives against the belligerants says as much.

**Clint** · 02-07-2010, 03:25 PM

That doesn't make sense. First and foremost, the main character of Avatar was a minority himself. He was a cripple. Who cares what color his skin was? If he was a black cripple, it'd still be a racist movie, because making a black man portray a cripple is a hate crime.

**Alpha** · 02-08-2010, 04:21 PM

The thing about this movie is that it reveres the story of 17th, 18th and 19th colonialism. If you think 'black man wins' is racist, then so is 'white man wins' - that is, the history of colonialism.

Seriously, read some Frantz Fanon.

**loaf** · 02-08-2010, 04:38 PM

Avatar is just a futuristic Pocahontas set on some planet.

Good movie, and I can see why people can see it as a racist thing just because of how humans treated the Na'vi (or whatever their name was).

I'm surprised that Avatar got complains about it then District 9. District 9 made me hate my own race even more then Avatar.

**midgetbob** · 02-09-2010, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by Loaf

Avatar is just a futuristic Pocahontas set on some planet.

Good movie, and I can see why people can see it as a racist thing just because of how humans treated the Na'vi (or whatever their name was).

I'm surprised that Avatar got complains about it then District 9. District 9 made me hate my own race even more then Avatar.

I don't think people understood District 9 for the message it was trying to put out.

Avatar was easy... just a "computer cartoon" of sorts with lots of cgi. Same thing happened to star wars. anything that's that popular (Avatar has been #1 for 8 weeks now) is going to draw people out of the woodwork to complain about it.