--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> wrote:
> >
> > "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO
>
> Funny. Thanks.
>
> It reminds me of the progressive liberal feminist
> criticism of Cameron's first film, "The Terminator."
> Confronted with arguably the strongest female char-
> acter they'd ever seen on film, their "take" was
> that Cameron had imagined Sarah Connor as nothing
> more than the "brood mare" for John Connor, the
> "real" savior of mankind.
>
> Sometimes there just isn't enough spit to get the
> taste out of your mouth.
>
I must agree.
And the following exerpt conjures up the most spit:
"When Jake swoops down from above astride the red Toruk, he becomes not just a
mythical hero, he becomes the white messiah, and now he wants Tsu'Tey, whose
character is voiced by the black actor Laz Alonso, to submit to him as leader
of the Na'vi and even to translate for him as he addresses the new king's
people and revs them up for war against the humans.
"The emasculation of the black man here cannot be more obvious."
Uh, yeah, the only one pointing out that the voice used was of a black man's
was the author of this piece. I had no idea that the voice "was black"
(perhaps Harry Reid would have noticed, but I didn't!).
Seems to me I remember some similar tripe being postulated about James Earl
Jones being the voice of Darth Vader. Of course, the fact that Jones then
became the voice -- heard by hundreds of millions throughout the world on a
daily basis -- of CNN ("This is CNN") perhaps curtailed that bit of BS.
