Why People Hate Avatar: A Lesson In Lazy Commentary

I think the weakest aspect of the Avatar movies isn't that movie 2 was 30 minutes longer than it needed to be or that it would be nice if some of the characters had more depth. I think the weakest aspect of Avatar is the fact that it's engaging. in

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now it's okay for a story to have a political message absolutely A-Okay, but as we'll explore throughout this video essay, when you've set out to have messages in your story in the same way Avatar does That will be detrimental to the quality of your story, what takes us further down the rabbit hole is how when

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criticize these films they find it very difficult to pin down the reason why I've talked to so many

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over the years that

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s Avatar. movies, but when I asked them why most can't come up with a good explanation, ask them why they

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The Last Jedi or the recent Disney Live Action movies and they'll rattle off a bunch of well-considered reasons effortlessly, but for some reason.

Right with Avatar it's a lot harder for them to just challenge their stance and don't get me wrong as some people have very good reasons, some people are quick to criticize characters for having no depth whatsoever or will point out forced exposition or even hackneyed plotting. , if I hear one more person say it's basically Dances with Wolves in Space, I'm going to lose it, okay, but those are all fair criticisms, that said, although there's still a notable A rather fascinating dissonance between the degree of dislike the Avatar movies get and the average Joe's ability to verbalize why they don't like them that much is a very interesting anomaly in film criticism and it's weird stuff like this that I live for as a film critic and I'm far from being the first to notice this movie overload.

I recently made a video about why he thinks that is and his theory is that Avatar is basically the Nickelback of movies where people only hate Avatar because hating him is the most popular thing and that's why. People cannot explain their displeasure because it is not an honest opinion they arrived at on their own, but something they absorbed from others. I'll be frank, I couldn't disagree with him more on this one because, while that's surely the case for a handful of people, I think the real answer behind all of this, at least for most people, it's how when characters and movies say this in some way, Palpatine is back, you can point to that bad dialogue and say oh yeah, that's why the movie sucks or you can point to the slow pacing, the stilted acting, maybe even bad CGI, all of which are obvious things to point out as garbage, but when there's something rotten in a story's ideas, you can't identify them in the same way because they're usually very subtle. woven into the text and it's rare that the Creator makes a mistake and is foolish enough to explicitly say the film's message out loud.

What this means is that poorly handled ideas activate our subconscious and only our subconscious meaning leaves us thinking what a load of rubbish, but we cannot explain why because we have not consciously processed the issues, although this is circumstantial evidence, it alludes to the fact. that these films dropped the ball thematically and to realize what the sloppy

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is. that triggered so many people unconsciously, we need to look at the two main factions, the navi and those annoying human villains, the basic plot is how the navi live in paradise, where everything is fine, everyone lives in harmony with nature, until the human The corporation arrives with all its machines.

Golf and consumerism threaten the Navi lifestyle in the name of consuming all the natural resources in the area. The Navi are blatantly the good guys and the humans are blatantly the bad guys. It's a genius to realize that there are a lot of allegories here. The corporation is a substitute for human society. Society is going badly nowadays. We are separated from nature. We do not appreciate the beauty of the world around us. We are so focused on progress, consumerism and industry that we no longer care about nature. This can be clearly seen in how Parker and the cinema gained the big cheese in charge and endlessly belittles indigenous culture.

Those trees were sacred to the omotakai in a way that you can Don't imagine that you know what you throw a stick in the air around here is going to land on some sacred spin, for God's sake, that character's full name is Parker Selfridge, all you have to do is rearrange that last name a little and you become selfish. guy who is the embodiment of the toxicity of our modern capitalist culture today that the leader of this evil corporation is literally called selfish the comment made here isn't exactly subtle guys uh there was even a deleted scene in Avatar that showed Selfridge realizing mistaken his ways upon realizing how evil he and his company were after blowing up the tree of their home, he then decided to shut everything down until Quarrett took over, the pure evil of these greedy humans is in direct contrast to the pure good of The Navi and when I say they are purely good, that is not an exaggeration, as we meet Navi who is stubborn and slow to trust strangers like Natiri's brother or that shaman woman in movie 2, those Navi are eventually revealed to be good. people in the background, the only case I could see of them.

Navi does something that you could argue is absolutely evil is when those kids leave Jake's son abandoned in the middle of the ocean, even then Jake's son manages to reconcile with all of them later, meanwhile, everyone in The Human Side is one Bad person. Courage for the guy whose name is literally Mr. Selfish, for the general who tortures teenagers while interrogating them, for the ship captain who finds great joy in killing sentient whales, for the biologist who hates himself for working alongside these evil monsters and knows deep down that he has sold out. his soul to the devil that's why I drink from the people of the human faction who weren't evil, like Grace or her scientist or this female pilot, they all defect when they realize how evil this faction is, how evil it is.

The allegory of Today's Society is this, this is what the movies say. Modern culture has become too detached from our natural world and is therefore twisted and wrong. The right way to live is to be like the primitive locals who are very in tune with nature. and thus live in harmony if only we by observing can be like Jake, give up our modern customs. Throw away our computers and phones, stop wondering how we can exploit what nature has to offer us and focus more on being one with nature as the navigation in which we will live. lives richer for it.

I'm struggling to think of the reasons why that is an inherently bad thought because there's nothing wrong with someone wanting to appreciate the natural world around them, so that being the case, I'm fully aware that this is a good message. for anyone. story to tell I can't help but wonder why I still feel this uneasiness in my gut whenever I think about the messages in these films, as if something about this whole ordeal has always felt wrong in some abstract way, but never could. Understand why how it can be wrong because the idea that we should be more in tune with nature is actually totally valid.

It was while watching Avatar 2 that everything clicked for me as to why this was all the way it was when we were watching that. scene with the whale hand, you know, where the captain is happily and maniacally villainous at the thought of killing this beautiful sentient creature and then we have the sad music playing, the baby whale mourns its dead mother, that's when It finally clicks for me, oh. My goodness, the reason these two films seem so ideologically absurd is not because of the ideas that are explored, but because of the way they are explored on a personal level.

I see a lot of value in the idea Cameron is selling because there is incredible wisdom there. What can be found in our past is not only in how our ancestors were wise in ways that we currently are not as a society; many would say that the ancient Greeks, although less technologically advanced, were a wiser society than today; There is also very convincing evidence. It must be noted that, as a modern society, we have lost touch with nature, like many of us, when we hear that another coral reef has just bleached or that 1,000 more species have become extinct simply to react with apathy and it is quite depressing that it is so beautiful.

Parts of our world are just dying and people don't really give a damn, in theory the message of the Avatar movies should have been very well received, but it wasn't because Cameron couldn't have explored this idea more lazily. that shows. The Navi, let's be honest, represent our human ancestors from thousands of years ago as literally perfect and as we all know, our ancient ancestors were exactly like the Navi, harmonious, virtuous and morally superior to present a society in all aspects. The Aztecs, for example, everyone loves the Aztecs, they lived in harmony with the rainforest, they had wonderful art, they had these beautiful buildings and wait, wait, what is that?

The Aztecs were also an expansionist empire that engaged in slavery and routinely kidnapped people from rival tribes and then murdered them. in gruesome rituals to appease their gods, my God, Jesus Christ. I'm sure the Aztecs were right because surely at least most of our ancestors were exactly like the Navi, peaceful and loving because they were very in tune with nature. Let's look at the United States first. was colonized with all those natives and all those bison. Ah look, a truly peaceful and harmonious utopian society where all the indigenous people loved each other singing Kumbaya until the cows came home.

Oh, that's just lovely. Let me open this history textbook. here to verify that and oh no oh no oh no, wait what many of the Native American tribes long before the settlers arrived would routinely attack other native tribes during which well they would do this and the rules of the Indian list of the plains of which the Comanches gained that if you were captured as a grown man, they would kill you, they would torture you to death, either quickly or slowly, depending on how much time they had, if you were a baby, they would kill you, they couldn't deal with the baby, if they were nomads and They were on their horse and were probably escaping from whatever attack they had just made.

They couldn't deal with babies. A teenager or young woman would possibly be killed but probably turned into some kind of slave. Oh yes, the epitome of virtue. Now many native tribes around the world engage in horrible behavior like the one I just described, so why doesn't James Cameron get the Navi to commit any of those acts and some go on to say well, that's the tone of the movie ? There really can't be any dark tricks in the movie, but that doesn't work when you think about it for more than five seconds because the movie has attacks on innocent impulses, genocide and torture of captives, humans do it, it's humans who participate.

In all the horrible, disgusting war crimes, in all likelihood this is what was going through Cameron's head when he was making these movies, oh man, some of these ancient tribes did things that were absolutely horrible. I should somehow weave this into my story, perhaps without describing these unpleasant acts. on the screen I have to keep that PG running after all, but hinting at them and having a strong subtext that the navi are people capable of committing atrocities just as much as humans oh oh oh no, that's true, I want to convince my old audience of that this way of life is the ideal they should strive for, therefore I will not represent them as having slavery, which was very common in many ancient civilizations.

I won't show them having human sacrifices or in this case Navi, nor will I show them torturing the prisoners they captured. what commonly happened around the world thousands of years ago because it could undermine the political message I'm selling. I would never dare to represent those cultures as they were in the real world because if I represented things as they existed in reality, that might instead undermine my agenda. I will give a hyper-romanticized description of these cultures. I want to excessively prop up and demonize the things I want to tear down. I will examine the things I want to criticize and I will examine the things I want to criticize.

Praise, basically, the actual messages being spread in these films are irrelevant here, what I'm criticizing precisely are the methods through which Cameron conveys those messages and how deeply problematic said methods are and I imagine some people are commenting on this moment, well, it's on Escapist. fantasy, it's unfairjudging the message of a story with this level of scrutiny when it's a non-serious story based on escapism, sorry, but no, you can't have your cake and eat it either, you can't expose quite charged political themes. messages like these, as a Creator, then Retire, hiding behind the protection of saying that because my film has escapist elements, you are strictly prohibited from criticizing the political aspects of my work and therefore I have achieved every artist's dream .

I have become immune to criticism. making a movie that addresses serious ideas and treats them seriously by giving them proper exploration or making a movie that doesn't address those ideas, it's really that simple, like you want to make a movie like Dungeons and Dragons that has nothing to say. Knock yourself out politically, do it, but the moment you add loaded political ideas like consumerism and capitalism and all that, it's your duty as a writer to give them an honest exploration and certainly not a biased exploration where you only describe the things that reinforce your personal beliefs while ignoring evidence and arguments that could undermine them.

Lord knows Cameron did that with these movies, and more importantly, to drive home why this is such a problematic way of exploring ideas in fiction, we need to create a table. Let's have two columns, one for the old Navi way and another for the modern human form, then two rows, one of the reasons why it is good, the other reasons why it is bad, if we plot the points that the movies present, it would look like this, Cameron totally fails to consider it. What could potentially be good about our modern technology-driven way of life and he fails to take into account what could potentially be bad about the indigenous way of life.

What you're seeing on screen is the Avatar franchise's method of exploring its core ideas in a nutshell. and that's why I think so many people are so subconsciously turned off by this franchise, why so many people don't like it but have a hard time understanding why, quite simply, what you're seeing on the screen isn't just bad writing, it's abysmal. writing it is genuinely atrocious writing and if anyone disagrees with me here I will fight you in the comments, I will die on this hill because in a well written story the ideas explored don't look like this, they look like this with the four sections. on the table explored in depth here is a great example of what is problematic about these two films.

Let's see the scene in the water path when Kiri has a seizure and almost dies, then there is a confrontation with the human scientists and the navi shaman that the humans try to use their various medical technologies and medicines, but it just doesn't work, then the woman appears shaman and tells them to step aside, silly humans with their silly medical machines, then he does some witchcraft, blows air into her belly and she suddenly wakes up from her serious state. medical condition good as new there is something about that rhythm that made me squirm in my seat when I was watching it but I only understood why it did so while writing this essay it doesn't register at the time because we are immersed in the film but when you properly analyze what The story goes here, it's starting to sound so stupid that obviously these natives know the nature of medicine better than these advanced humans with all their science and technology and hundreds of years of conducting double blind randomized controlled trials.

Who cares if these Navi haven't discovered that bacteria is a thing that exists yet? Who cares if these scientists have sophisticated medical equipment and access to hundreds of thousands of scientific research articles? His methods are nothing compared to this shaman's masterful air blowing technique. in your navel imagine this shaman walking into a modern hospital, imagine it, it would look like this, look at you, dumb humans with your dialysis machines, says the navi, everyone knows that the real cure for kidney failure is to swim to the bottom of the Killer ocean puffer fish then presents it as a sacrifice to the blood of God.

These films are so convinced of their own ideology that they are unable to confess the idea that sometimes, perhaps, in some specific situations, modern society could be better at things than the ancient one. Society, this franchise is fascinating, it's absolutely fascinating, it really is because when great writers had to explore ideas, they give the devil his Jew, they have the ability to put aside their personal prejudices and act as devil's advocate in their own point, the Creator will consider why everything. They personally think it's great it's actually pretty bad and they'll consider why everything they hate is actually pretty good and all that careful, unbiased thinking will make its way into the story where the audience won't get a piece of propaganda, they'll get a wealth. a thought-provoking exploration of the true dynamics between these two themes rather than a boring binary exploration so superficial to call it an exploration would be an act of generosity.

I'm looking at you Avatar when I say that true great writers, true great writers, have the courage to romanticize the things they hate and demonize the things they love Avatar is just the strangest franchise, there are so many things in it that are honestly great, but many others like this that are truly surprising, this extends to the film. Exposition, they have some fantastic moments that are the epitome of the show, don't say it, then other moments that are ridiculously bad, like that awful Unobtainium line. I've wanted to talk about this for a while, but while it's a fascinating topic, it's not within the scope of this video and it's not the type of video that does well on YouTube, but I'm happy to say that I just made that video on how to write an excellent exposition where I analyze good and bad examples, from Avatar to Joker and Revenge. of the Sith and why Darth plagues us.

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Those who sign up for Nebula using my link are doing everything. That's possible, so thank you very much if you've done it, but anyway back to Avatar and how problematic his message is. There's something important to say here about how he handles the theme of consumerism in movies. The GDR, the human faction, is a company that is searching. make as much money as possible by ruining the environment in the name of profit, that's the only reason, whether in Pandora, as Mr. Selfish himself says, that's the only reason to ruin the environment in the name of profit , now there is a compelling point to be made that some companies around the world like Nestlé, for example, exploit regions in the name of profits;

It's true, a lot has happened throughout human history and if the films had been purely a critique of the most toxic enterprises of capitalism, that could have been a really viable approach as James Cameron has already done in his filmography with aliens in that movie we see that weyland's yutani is such a slimy corporation that they are happy to send innocent civilians to their deaths in the name of acquiring the xenomorph for research purposes and making a considerable profit and That movie, despite having comments politicians, is one of the most beloved science fiction classics in all of human history.

I think it's easily the best military sci-fi movie ever released, as if Avatar had dealt with the same kind of issue that could have happened. Great, the problem is that the movies get very shady here and instead of just criticizing the toxicity of these types of companies, they expand on the topic of consumerism in general. There are many examples that demonstrate this. Take the moment when they play Jake's diary. and seals the fact that negotiating with the Navi is impossible. They're not going to make a deal. Light beer. Jeans. There is nothing we have that they want.

I have to tell James Cameron that you crossed the line, frankly. I don't know what Jake is talking about because I imagine the Navi would love the idea of ​​having antibiotics and other medical miracles that prevent painful deaths. Imagine the improvement in infant mortality the Navi would have if they had access to modern human medical technology, but that's okay. just ignore that fact in the same way Cameron did because it's inconvenient to the broader message he wants to send. Let's look at consumerism in general. Now I will freely admit that the next part is easily the most tenuous part of this entire essay and is one based not on anything objective but on my subjective perception of what the issues are, feel free to ignore everything I say below if you don't you agree with my interpretation, but my interpretation is that the film is there to say something much broader here than the human.

The way of exploiting nature in an unsustainable way is fundamentally wrong and the right way to live is to be like the Navi, wanting nothing, living in pure harmony with the nature around us. Reading between the lines, that really seems to be one of the morals of the movies. they are pushing and this was a very neglected idea because it fails to capture the true nature of life in modern society. Cameron is a jerk. Handle the eternal garbage on this topic because most of what we are doing is harming our planet. today it's not because we're greedy and don't care about nature like the GDR seems to do, but because it's a sad necessity, sure you can point to oil spills and say they're bad, that's more or less what Cameron says in vague terms, just stop blowing up. the world around us stops harming the environment job done problem solved Bob's Your Uncle couldn't be simpler, but what Cameron doesn't address is the crucial counterargument of what the alternative is because we simply need oil for our society to function and that's what it will be like to decompose without it, it's very easy to say just don't do anything unpleasant in an environment when you don't even address the question of how that would change society if we suddenly stopped doing that, it's easy to say just ban coal altogether.

Like in the world, no one will be able to burn coal again, but the problem is that yes, coal is terrible for our atmosphere, it is horrible, but many countries are not that rich and they need to burn coal, otherwise they will not have electricity or heat . the GDR is an allegory for today's society and our horrible consumerist tendencies are basically greedy capitalists who want money and nothing else, but that's not how the world really is. I admit again, the basis of this little part of the argument is a bit of a permit. I'm assuming here that this was all intentional on Cameron's part, so take it with a pinch of salt, but I would argue that he has oversimplified the extremely complex and nuanced topic of consumerism to be just about greed and all we have.

What you have to do is just not be greedy and everything will be fine and this is part of why the message of the movie does not reach and does not leave any kind of impact on us because it fails to capture the reality of the situation of being alive in The 21st century. don't believe me right, here is a suggestion for a solution and let's see how well it works, let's make unobtainium a vital resource that humans need to not only want, but need, instead of being this fancy superconductor that is sold at a high price, what if I rewrote it so that unobtainium is a material that the Earth desperately needs because it solves a catastrophe caused by our unsustainable treatment of our planet, maybe prevents an Ice Age due to our CO2 emissions or such maybe miraculouslygood at capturing carbon from our air o It is a crucial ingredient for fusion, an environmentally friendly energy source and fusion cannot be done at scale without this miracle metal.

If you ask me, such a change makes the allegory work much better. Humans are no longer monstrously greedy monsters, but are doing everything. they are out of pure necessity, which is exactly what happens in most of the real world. Cameron ignores this fundamental truth on the subject of consumerism, so if we were to implement this truth in Avatar, if we had it, the GDR would no longer be just an evil, soulless corporation, but instead a task force created by the UN who was given a blank check and who needs to extract everything that can't be obtained because the Earth will fall apart in total ecological collapse without it and then when Mr.

Selfish arrives, he will no longer be xenophobic and villainous in In terms of hating the Navi, ignoring them as filthy savages, he is instead a sympathetic villain because he respects the Navi, believes there is actually something quite admirable about them, but has a family that is dying on Earth just like the Navi. everyone else's family and he's exploding. Pandora and plunder his resources because he must, otherwise how else will he ensure the safety of his loved ones? Yes, killing these natives is tragic, says Selfridge, but unfortunately it must now be done otherwise, all humans would be victims of an unpleasant circumstance.

Society has pushed them into a position where they have no choice but to be harmful to the environment because they can't survive any other way, which is exactly what it is in the real world now, when you look at Quarreich, it's no longer a man of pure evil. instead he's a man who is totally committed to the idea of ​​killing the Navi for the good of his species and by simply changing the context of the GDR, Courage is now a much more complex character even though we haven't literally changed nothing about his dialogue or his decisions, he is just a man willing to do whatever it takes to save his species, oh my god, if they had done that, the Avatar movies would have become so provocative, so intriguing, so shocking in terms of the ideas they contain.

I'm exploring and that's just meme.using feel free to ignore everything I just said if you don't agree with my interpretation of the cameras intentions here oh but back to being more grounded what I find most insidious about of the Avatar movies is that they aren't really movies like Dungeons and Dragons or they're just pointless. fun because the film has a political message it wants to send, but it's not a film like everything everywhere while it sincerely wrestles with the material by providing deep, honest and provocative explorations of the ideas presented, it's this strange Frankenstein between the two .

Pretending to be Dungeons and Dragons, it masquerades as How I Spin Your Brain with a Popcorn Movie, meanwhile it has a ton of political messages that it tries to very sneakily indoctrinate you into, and on top of that, there's almost an arrogance behind this franchise. because Cameron is very confident. you're right, you're so absolutely sure that your message is the right message that the movies never stop to seriously consider whether that message is actually right or not, why should I play devil's advocate on my own point when it's so obviously blatantly makes the right point that it is a thought that has paved the way to hell for millions of people throughout history and it is problematic for an artist to have it while injecting ideas into their story, to say the least, there is a reason why Avatar puts so many people off, but it's not.

It's hard to pinpoint why that is because on some level of their subconscious the audience knows that the Avatar movies are manipulating them, that the movies are propaganda, and I know that's a very loaded term that's not used. lightly, so let's Google the definition of To verify that statement, according to Google, the term means information especially of a biased or misleading nature used to promote a political cause or point of view. Okay, let's see what the movie looks like. Avatar promotes a political cause. That's a check. And, more importantly, are you misleading people by intentionally ignoring all possible counterarguments that could undermine that political message, as we have just firmly established?

I hate to say it, I hate to say it, but the movie Avatar was literally propaganda that fits the technical definition of If you ask me, the term art and propaganda are two sides of the same coin and there is a crucial difference that separates them. Art makes the audience think. Propaganda thinks for the audience. I know this sounds contradictory, but with a great story with a great piece of art, it's actually okay if the creator sets an agenda, much of what modern film critics are babbling about how politics has no place in Hollywood, politics should never find their way into our movies, that's just plain rubbish to me, look at 1984, one of the best dystopian novels ever written, in fact just look at the dystopian genre in general, it's impossible to make a dystopian story that's not extremely political in some nature, look at the animal farm, it's a fascinating deconstruction. of Communism is a very political book or, for another pop culture example, look at Revenge of the Sith and how it describes how democracies fall into dictatorships, very political.

Animal Farm openly said that communism was bad, it had a very strong agenda, but it is still widely considered to be a great work of art, you can't get more political than that, what I would say is that it's okay to set a political agenda while You write your story, but fundamentally, what you must do like any good student in an exam is show your work, the writer must fully explore every aspect of his argument, all the points in favor and, fundamentally, all the points against, and if in the end the conclusion of this exploration is a political message, that person nonetheless just created a great work of art because they did. due diligence on him as a creator, there is a golden rule: commentary in stories, I think, because how can you, as a writer, know if what you are proposing to say is really the truth or not? and even assuming it is, how do you convince the audience that? is the truth there is only one way to do it: you make your story a critique of the very idea you are trying to say you do everything you can to bombard and belittle your precious ideas you put yourself in the headspace of your enemy ideology then use every dirty trick you can think of to refute your own ideas, and if at the end of all that the idea still stands, you've done a truly excellent job of political commentary that has provided wonderful food for thought to your audience. and, more importantly, if after playing devil's advocate for your own point, you actually refute it, you are undermining your own political views, you haven't just complained.

Having learned something new, you've still made a great work of art because you're exploring the idea in an honest way, you've still created fascinating food for thought for your audience because you're playing with the idea that great art sets out to reveal the truth, whatever that truth is, don't be the cowardly artist, which means cowardly. You are afraid to expose your precious ideas to arguments and facts that might refute them because if the idea you want to spread doesn't survive when exposed to the truth, then it was obviously never an idea; Getting it out there in the first place is your job as a writer to do the exact opposite of what James Cameron did with Avatar, the more you avoid the Avatar way of doing things, the more fascinating and impactful your stories become.

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