About 6 hours into the original film, remember asking yourself, “Could this be any more anti-American?”
Ask a stupid question.
From an interview with director James Cameron discussing the new scenes added to tomorrow’s Avatar special edition re-release:
A scene Cameron calls “the drums of war,” which he hopes will clarify why the humans choose to wipe out the Na’vi. He compared it to America’s decision to invade Iraq. “We had to provoke Saddam to do something stupid, and it’s like that with the humans invading Pandora,” he said. “I felt when I was writing it that the Na’vi had to counter-react and do something that is called an atrocity that gave [humans] the moral right to go in and destroy and displace them. The additional footage is pretty short, but it fulfills that purpose.”
Apparently the DVD release will feature an even longer cut of the film. Who knows what will be in that version. Can you waterboard smurfs?
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