To fully appreciate the absurdity of the statements uttered by “Avatar’s” writer/director James Cameron in defense of his film the other night, you have to get a feel for the setting. The Q&A took place during an industry screening of “Avatar.” That means an exclusive audience packed with fellow frat boys, sorority girls and a gaggle of suck up pledges. Trust me, there have been Ku Klux Klan meetings with more ideological diversity. Better still, this was an industry screening at the ArcLight Theatre, and for those of you fortunate enough not to be familiar with Los Angeles — that means this was a frat party at THE frat house.
Welcome to Inside-Inside-Inside Hollywood, where James Cameron is Doug Niedermeyer, the Big Man on Campus:
“Avatar” director James Cameron responded to right-wing critics of his blockbuster hit movie on Tuesday night, saying that “as an artist, I felt a need to say something about what I saw around me.” …But he rejected comments by critics that the film is un-American even if it is an allegory for American military forays.
“I’ve heard people say this film is un-American, while part of being an American is having the freedom to have dissenting ideas,” Cameron said, prompting loud applause from a capacity crowd at the ArcLight Hollywood.
“This movie reflects that we are living through war,” Cameron added. “There are boots on the ground, troops who I personally believe were sent there under false pretenses, so I hope this will be part of opening our eyes.”
Okay, let’s grant Cameron this: Everyone’s entitled to his own definition of what is and is not anti-American. You can set the bar wherever you want. Why? Because thanks to the military Cameron smeared in his blockbuster where around the world, and maybe for the first time, audiences are wildly cheering the death of American Marines (NOTE to leftist hair-splitters: former Marines), this is a free country. As far as my personal definition of anti-Amer– wait. What? What did Cameron say…?
What is this supposed to mean?
“I’ve heard people say this film is un-American, while part of being an American is having the freedom to have dissenting ideas,” Cameron said, prompting loud applause from a capacity crowd at the ArcLight Hollywood.
Of course the audience applauded. Someone went after conservatives during an industry screening at the ArcLight. That’s the kind of environment where you could get a standing ovation while holding a puppy under water as long as you’re sticking it to the right. But what does this nonsense mean?
“…part of being an American is having the freedom to have dissenting ideas.”
Who asked for Cameron’s birth certificate? No one’s claiming he’s not an American. The argument is that his film is stridently anti-American and savagely anti-military. But does he answer those charges? Does he explain away his artistic decision to have genocide-happy U.S. Marines (NOTE for leftist hair-splitters: former Marines) on behalf of an American corporation (come on Cameron apologists, it’s not like “Avatar” had a rainbow coalition of evildoers. I didn’t even hear an Australian accent) commit a terrorist atrocity against innocents?
But it’s worse than that…
These Marines are in uniform and you leftist hair-splitters who excuse Cameron’s trashing of our best and brightest because one line of exposition tells us they’re former Marines, had best remember that Quaritch, the top genocide-happy psycho, is referred to throughout the film as “Colonel” — and not because he’s selling chicken.
And what does this Colonel in military uniform do? To explain his imperialistic mission statement he quotes an American President (“pre-emptive war,” etc…) and then orders all-too eager U.S. Marines to commit a terrorist attack on innocents.
And what does Cameron do? What are his deliberate “artistic” choices? He has Our Guys commit a 9/11. The falling of the Na’Vi Home Tree is deliberately filmed, staged and choreographed to look like September 11th on that fateful day. And in one thudding piece of spell-breaking exposition we’re told it’s “shock and awe.”
Cameron’s not having Psycho-Colonel quote Hitler or Stalin because his not-so thinly disguised allegory has nothing to do with some foreign leader. He’s not even quoting Robert E. Lee or Lyndon Johnson because “Avatar” has nothing to do with some long ago American war. Cameron had the entire universe of his imagination from which to find his terrorist evildoers, but his “artistic” choice came down to present-day America — an American company (I saw no one wearing kilts or turbans and heard only American dialects), the American military, American foreign policy, and the quoting of an American president.
Bush Quotes = War on Terror
Home Tree = The World Trade Center
And now we know those “militia” working class mineworkers = redblooded redneck NRA supporters
And we sure as hell know that 2+2 = anti-American.
Criticizing America is not anti-American. But making up lies…
Using the most powerful propaganda device ever created, Cameron spent $500 million to tell a world — that is right now cheering the death of American soldiers (in groovy 3D!) — that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — which we are presently fighting, by the way — represent America committing a 9/11 in those countries to steal their natural resources.
Nevermind that the same military Cameron smears sacrificed, bled, and died to liberate 50 million people they’ve never met; nevermind that We The People spent hundreds of billions to accomplish this liberation and have asked for nothing in return other than friendship. Facts mean nothing to Hollywoodists. It’s all about their unholy endgame.
And how many moons orbit the planet where making a film that trashes America qualifies you as some kind of dissenter with “dissenting ideas”?
Trashing America on film … in Hollywood is the very definition of conformity. Trashing America is also a form of penance for cliched, pedantic, predictable storytelling — a way to get absolution from sympathetic Leftist critics — a way to get your cliched, pedantic, predictable screenplay nominated as one of the five best of the year.
Drive onto the 20th Century-Fox lot in a minivan with a Sarah Palin bumper sticker and then talk to me about dissent, Niedermeyer.
One last point…
“There are boots on the ground, troops who I personally believe were sent there under false pretenses[.]”
Translation…
“There are boots on the ground, troops sent there under false pretenses so I thought I’d smear them as bloodthirsty terrorists.”
We already know how much the military appreciates Mr. Cameron’s support … because they have told us so.
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