Fällt einem doch minütlich während des Filmes ein xD
Macht ihn aber nicht schlechter. Ich mein, der Film überlebt das man nach den ersten 10 min 90% der Handlung exakt vorhersagen kann und ist dabei immernoch ein geniales Stück... BlueRay ^^

Irgendwo anders habe ich einen Vergleich gelesen zwischen "Avatar" und "Winnetou I", der auch frappierend gut funktioniert hat... Aber so simpel und oft gesehen die Storyline ist, sie funktioniert eben doch irgendwie.

Man könnte sie in ähnlicher Weise auch auf Last Samurai legen ^^

So oder so, Avatar ist auf Platz 2 der am meisten Geld einspielenden Filme gelandet. Vor ihm nur noch Titanic. Von James Cameron ^^

Ach, James Cameron? Muss ich schon mal irgendwo gehört haben den Namen...

Und hier nochmals was zu "Avatar" und seiner simplen Story (english required, I'm afraid):


The New York Times
January 8, 2010

The Messiah Complex
By DAVID BROOKS

Readers intending to watch the movie “Avatar” should know that major events in the plot are revealed.

Every age produces its own sort of fables, and our age seems to have produced The White Messiah fable.

This is the oft-repeated story about a manly young adventurer who goes into the wilderness in search of thrills and profit. But, once there, he meets the native people and finds that they are noble and spiritual and pure. And so he emerges as their Messiah, leading them on a righteous crusade against his own rotten civilization.

Avid moviegoers will remember “A Man Called Horse,” which began to establish the pattern, and “At Play in the Fields of the Lord.” More people will have seen “Dances With Wolves” or “The Last Samurai.”

Kids have been given their own pure versions of the fable, like “Pocahontas” and “FernGully.”

It’s a pretty serviceable formula. Once a director selects the White Messiah fable, he or she doesn’t have to waste time explaining the plot because everybody knows roughly what’s going to happen.

The formula also gives movies a little socially conscious allure. Audiences like it because it is so environmentally sensitive. Academy Award voters like it because it is so multiculturally aware. Critics like it because the formula inevitably involves the loincloth-clad good guys sticking it to the military-industrial complex.

Yet of all the directors who have used versions of the White Messiah formula over the years, no one has done so with as much exuberance as James Cameron in “Avatar.”

“Avatar” is a racial fantasy par excellence. The hero is a white former Marine who is adrift in his civilization. He ends up working with a giant corporation and flies through space to help plunder the environment of a pristine planet and displace its peace-loving natives.

The peace-loving natives — compiled from a mélange of Native American, African, Vietnamese, Iraqi and other cultural fragments — are like the peace-loving natives you’ve seen in a hundred other movies. They’re tall, muscular and admirably slender. They walk around nearly naked. They are phenomenal athletes and pretty good singers and dancers.

The white guy notices that the peace-loving natives are much cooler than the greedy corporate tools and the bloodthirsty U.S. military types he came over with. He goes to live with the natives, and, in short order, he’s the most awesome member of their tribe. He has sex with their hottest babe. He learns to jump through the jungle and ride horses. It turns out that he’s even got more guts and athletic prowess than they do. He flies the big red bird that no one in generations has been able to master.

Along the way, he has his consciousness raised. The peace-loving natives are at one with nature, and even have a fiber-optic cable sticking out of their bodies that they can plug into horses and trees, which is like Horse Whispering without the wireless technology. Because they are not corrupted by things like literacy, cellphones and blockbuster movies, they have deep and tranquil souls.

The natives help the white guy discover that he, too, has a deep and tranquil soul.

The natives have hot bodies and perfect ecological sensibilities, but they are natural creatures, not history-making ones. When the military-industrial complex comes in to strip mine their homes, they need a White Messiah to lead and inspire the defense.

Our hero leaps in, with the help of a pack of dinosaurs summoned by Mother Earth. As he and his fellow freedom fighters kill wave after wave of Marines or former Marines or whatever they are, he achieves the ultimate prize: He is accepted by the natives and can spend the rest of his life in their excellent culture.

Cameron’s handling of the White Messiah fable is not the reason “Avatar” is such a huge global hit. As John Podhoretz wrote in The Weekly Standard, “Cameron has simply used these familiar bromides as shorthand to give his special-effects spectacular some resonance.” The plotline gives global audiences a chance to see American troops get killed. It offers useful hooks on which McDonald’s and other corporations can hang their tie-in campaigns.

Still, would it be totally annoying to point out that the whole White Messiah fable, especially as Cameron applies it, is kind of offensive?

It rests on the stereotype that white people are rationalist and technocratic while colonial victims are spiritual and athletic. It rests on the assumption that nonwhites need the White Messiah to lead their crusades. It rests on the assumption that illiteracy is the path to grace. It also creates a sort of two-edged cultural imperialism. Natives can either have their history shaped by cruel imperialists or benevolent ones, but either way, they are going to be supporting actors in our journey to self-admiration.

It’s just escapism, obviously, but benevolent romanticism can be just as condescending as the malevolent kind — even when you surround it with pop-up ferns and floating mountains.

Boah, Hilfe ich bin gerade voll im Fangirlymodus. *quietsch* und weil es ja noch nicht kalt genug ist, gehen wir jetzt Eis essen.

Was fangrilst du denn? ^^

Samu *O* und Heiji und Shinichi... und... der komische Sohn des Poliziepräsidenten.. und ich hör jetzt lieber damit auf... *räusper*

Ich werd die Woche wohl ohne Internet und nicht daheim sein. Aber bis dahin ist vllt was in der WG im Gange, Peter ist solange... hm
.. auf m Klo.

h.e.l.

Ich muss euch bzw. Bobby leider noch weiter wegen meines anstehenden Posts vertrösten. Bei mir stehen im Februar die ersten Klausuren an, unter anderem Statistik... ich renne hier im Moment ein bisschen wie ein kopfloses Huhn herum, weil ich gar nicht weiß, was ich wieviel lernen soll. Noch dazu wird mein Bruder nächsten Monat 18 und da gibt es auch noch jede Menge vorzubereiten, also... kann noch was dauern, bis ich Zeit und Geisteskraft für einen Post habe. Sorry...

Ähm, ja, ich sitze im Mom noch an der Uni und werde hier auch bis 18:00Uhr festhängen, also wenn Sam vor mir antworten will, kann er das gerne tun. Werd versuchen, heute Abend dann zu posten, aber versprechen kann ich nichts, muss nämlich auch noch zwei Fallbeispiele aufarbeiten und irgendwie hat Tris heute Geburtstag, was auch noch zu 'ner spontanen Aktion führen könnte. Hoffentlich nicht, immerhin muss ich morgen wieder früh raus... die Woche ist der Horror. Aber nächste wirds wieder besser, auch wenn dann die Prüfung bald vor der Tür steht, sind wenigstens die Nachmittage dann ab 3 Uhr frei... Dickes Sorry, Leute, aber ich denk ganz fest an euch. <333

@Pyro: Oh well... ich werds überleben. Sieh zu, dass du ein paar gute Noten kriegst (brrrrr Statistik...).

Ich geb mir Mühe... ^^
Übrigens habe ich seit gestern Ubuntu, weil Windows irgendwie zu doof war, unser Wlan zu finden xD