Avatar the movie - slandering our military.

Avatar is an action packed movie far into the future on a far away planet called Pandora, it uses 3D and computer generated scenes for a stunning picture. What is disturbing about this movie is the possibility that it may be an undeserved insult to the prestigious American Armed Forces.



First this movie uses subtle innuendo to hint that the American Marines are mercenaries that are killing innocent men, women and children to enhance the profits of a corporation. This is done in a very subtle way because no American flag is shown, but the hero of the movie wears a Marine T-shirt and in the beginning says "back home we were Marines, but here we're just hired guns", this may be excused as just the standard complaining done by most soldiers. But the fact that they are working for a corporation is spelled out very clearly by one of the actors by his saying "what matters here is quarterly porfits". Another hint that he is an American is when he makes his video report his home address is Ag, Georga in very fine print at the bottom left of the screen.



After establishing that the American soldiers are mercenaries, two very tragic events in American history are depicted; one is the American Indian wars, the second is the Viet Nam War.



The Indian Wars are hinted at by first establishing that what they are after is a special mineral that floats in the planet Pandoras atmoshpere and is supposed to be worth 20 million dollars a kilo. If you think of "Gold" in place of this floating rock in Pandoras atmosphere you can see the link here between Pandora and the "Gold Rush days" in the American Wild West, along with the land rush that was involved where native American people were killed when they got in the way of gold prospectors and Europeans after land. This theme is enhanced by the native people of Pandora wearing what looks like the native wear of American indigenous people. Also, their use of the bow and arrow as their main weapon, while fighting the Americans armed with guns also hints at the Indian Wars.



The War in Viet Nam is hinted at in some scenes, by what looks something like Hui helicopters (with two ...