9:09 PM |
Well if this is the excitement from a movie that uses our Aotearoa
language as a guideline for the Narvi people's lingo
just check out what is being installed for the upcoming panther movie
which is ACTUALLY a TRUE story on a similar
struggle of the Narvi people... And its actors are BROWN, not
Blue !!!!!
On Jan 30, 10:31 am, Aaron Taouma <aaron.taou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All Right!!
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:47 AM, pima news <pima.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Avatar - also known as indigenous issues 101 By KARLO MILA - The Dominion
> > Post
> > Last updated 08:06 29/01/2010
>
> >http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/3273257/Avatar-also-know...
>
> > OPINION: This week James Cameron's movie Avatar has become the
> > highest-grossing movie of all time. The movie has allegedly killed a man in
> > Taiwan who died from "over-excitement". It has spawned depression en masse
> > among viewers, paralysed by the fact that they're stuck on the disconnected
> > and dying planet. Unfortunately, Pandora, Cameron's moon, is only in
> > theatres.
>
> > China has banned it from more than a thousand screens at the urging of
> > propaganda officials worried about its influence.
>
> > Cameron's moving metaphor has opened a number of Pandora's boxes, in
> > particular, highlighting the plight of displaced and indigenous people.
> > While Avatar is described as sci-fi or futuristic, it didn't feel to me like
> > anything lost in space. Rather, it told a story as old as our hills, not one
> > often sung from the treetops, but the one buried deeper beneath our green
> > pastures.
>
> > A friend of mine who works in development in the Pacific described Avatar
> > ultimately as outreach. It is indigenous issues 101 for mainstream in 3D
> > technicolour. This is what happens when different world views and ways of
> > knowing collide. Popcorn is optional.
>
> > Cameron has admitted that he modelled the indigenous alien-speak of Avatar
> > on te reo Maori. The Avatar linguist (who appears to have Klingon
> > aspirations) laid claim to the syntax and grammar but admitted that Cameron
> > chose the first 30 words.
>
> > The linguistic remix of syntax and sounds in Avatar has nothing on the
> > whirling pastiche of indigenous and native images, from the whooping,
> > war-crying Last of the Mohicans (blueskins not redskins) saddled up with
> > dragons between their legs, to the chiefly Lion Kings and purring feline
> > queens sourced straight back to the Circle of Life.
>
> > There's the Naomi Campbell- esque Pocahontas princess in her own shade of
> > indigo, complete with bare breasts, beads and strategic nipple-slips (some
> > poor sod on the internet counted 26 times).
>
> > There's the flash of the Braveheart blue-face, mini dreadlocks and war
> > plaits flying in the heat of battle.
>
> > Yes, it all feels very familiar, but in a lovely alien kind of way. Far
> > from being fantasy about fantasy, Avatar is the native blue movie par
> > excellence.
>
> > Throw in G.I. Joe, Top Gun, Star Wars, Ramboesque hand grenading and
> > knife-wielding Transformers. Add lush, seductive scenery so surreal you can
> > reach out and touch it - and you can see why you've got a blockbuster on
> > your hands. Yes, Avatar relies heavily on a rehash of familiar archetypes
> > and worn formulas. But one only has to watch a Sir Peter Jackson film to see
> > how Hollywood usually does ooga-booga.
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> > It's the familiar fail of Russian ice-skaters in brown body tights, leaves
> > and loin cloths. It is ill- conceived mumbo-jumbo served up on ice. It is
> > zeroes all round on the placards. Cameron said: "I try to live with honour,
> > even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time." Not a bad
> > approach to life if you can afford it. And if you can't, a little love and
> > respect go a long way.
>
> > * * *
>
> > After watching Avatar, we went to Te Papa and saw the long-term exhibition
> > Blood, Earth, Fire. Like Avatar, it invokes the extended metaphor of an
> > "alien" species. We played the interactive Survivor computer game: You are
> > an alien. You're going to live on a new planet. You can choose species to
> > take with you for food. You travel via rocket to a new planet (shaped
> > exactly like New Zealand). Notably, many species you may have selected, such
> > as the Choc Bar Vine, end up being rabid, noxious and disastrous to the
> > environment.
>
> > The exhibition documents the colonial "delight of burning" virgin forest
> > into pastures. The before and after maps of deforestation communicate
> > strong, cartographic messages of waning green.
>
> > I listened to the lament for lost species and pondered the Pandora
> > depression pandemic. As the te reo echoed over the frail bones of the long
> > extinct huia bird, I meditated on why, when writing Avatar, Cameron, "maybe
> > had some Maori in his ear".
>
> > It is a credit to us, that at the Museum of New Zealand we are not afraid
> > to open our own Pandora's boxes. The stories we tell about ourselves are
> > becoming less one- dimensional. Like Avatar, I think they are much more
> > compelling, reflective and honest than many of the ooga-booga narratives
> > that preceded them.
> > Next Opinion story:
>
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