Re: James Cameron's work might be Racist?
Originally posted by Nemesis X
Read the shocking news here!Do you know that old Hollywood cliche where a white guy is the hero of a native race? Well that's happening here in James Cameron's Avatar and some people aren't taking kindly to that.
Like the Titanic, people are sinking low to a new level into ridiculousness.
Movies that had white men leading natives into victory are Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai, and Broken Arrow. I don't think people have had an issue with those movies before but when they see a white man leading the giant smurfs to victory against the humans and their spaceships and giant robots, those people knew they have had enough.
I know we need to get the racism nonsense away from the videogames but is it really necessary for the movies to be next on the hit list?
Avatar Destroys Star Wars!
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-01-17-box-office_N.htm?csp=34
Oooohhhh!!!!!
Batsy is next!
Originally posted by WickedDynamite
Avatar Destroys Star Wars!http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-01-17-box-office_N.htm?csp=34
Oooohhhh!!!!!
Batsy is next!
I hope they are taking inflation and ticket prise differences into consideration when calculating that.
Originally posted by WickedDynamite
Avatar Destroys Star Wars!http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-01-17-box-office_N.htm?csp=34
Oooohhhh!!!!!
Batsy is next!
Think again. After adjusting Avatar is only #34
Originally posted by -Pr-
no they weren't. no they didn't.
You know what I think you're wrong.
http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConJmrBookReview.180/outputRegister/lowhtml
People are at the heart of Rodgers’s work. Painstaking research, excellent synthesis of a wide-range of disparate sources and penetrating analysis have combined to yield some extraordinary facts about the sorts of people who were involved in the slaving economies. There is the example of the Latouches of Rathfarnham near Dublin, who were plantation owners in Jamaica with multiple representations in Irish House of Commons. Or the aforementioned Richard Hare, who paid more than £6000 per annum in customs duties. The book also provides fresh angles on the careers of some better-known figures, situating them within the structure of the book’s analysis. For example, Olaudah Equiano’s biography is set in the Irish context of slavery (and vice versa) as Rodgers explores his time on Montserrat. Similarly, what is one to make of the raft of Anglo-Irish gentry who clamoured for preferment and the Gubernatorial residence in Jamaica? The Earl of Moira tried and failed to be appointed. The Earl of Belmore held the office during the so-called Baptist War of 1831-2, one of the largest slave rebellions in the Americas, in which over 60,000 enslaved may have taken part, leaving 14 Europeans and 207 enslaved Africans dead. It resulted in the trial of 626 and the execution of 312 enslaved and, ultimately, precipitated the British Parliamentary ending of slavery itself only a few years later. Presiding over that very move from slavery to emancipation was the Marquis of Sligo. But, yet, even as he is associated with the emancipation of the enslaved in Jamaica, he too had an interest in the slave-holding system that he was charged with dismantling. The Browne family had acquired plantations in 1752 through marriage to Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Denis Kelly of Lisaduff, County Galway, and chief Justice of Jamaica. This financial shot in the arm initiated the upward ascent of the Brownes from mere Viscounts to Earls of Altamount and subsequently to Marquises of Sligo, living in a distinguished Neo-classical home, designed by Richard Cassels, on the shores of Clew Bay. It was in this context that the Marquis of Sligo claimed compensation for 286 slaves, receiving £5,526-9-1.
http://www.reform.org/TheReformMovement_files/article_files/articles/empire.htm
The armed services provided a still more important Imperial outlet for Irishmen of all religions and classes. For Irish as for Scottish university graduates, openings in the Indian army offered them ‘a stake in defending national, that is to say British, interests’.22 Protestant Ireland was over-represented among officers in the Bengal army between 1758 and 1834,23 as also in the British army.
Both Roberts and Beresford chose Irish as well as colonial designations when accepting peerages; but in other cases, Irish birth was incidental or even embarrassing to the heroes of Britain’s colonial wars.
Originally posted by -Pr-
one or two deserting b*stards does not constitute "the irish".
Doesn't seem like one or two people to me.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Think again. After adjusting Avatar is only #34
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Originally posted by WickedDynamite
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No one denies that, it's just pointless.
Originally posted by WickedDynamite
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So if we ignore the effects of inflation and don't look at foreign market Avatar is in the top five. Isn't that sort of like saying everything is green so long as we ignore everything that isn't green?