James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Slams America
by Big Hollywood
From The Hollywood Reporter’s interview with “Avatar” Director James Cameron at San Diego Comic-Con 2009:
THR: You’ve mentioned this ["Avatar"] is a parable.
Cameron: Really what this film ultimately does is hold a mirror to our own blighted history, where we have a culturally advanced civilization supplanting more “primitive” civilizations. Some of these civilizations and cultures have a lot more wisdom than we’ve shown. We just have bigger guns. We have ships that can cross oceans, we have horses and armor. And this country we’re in now was taken from its indigenous owners. And it’s kind of owning up to our own human history.
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