Misaimed Fandom/Film: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 90:
** There are agencies who do get it. They show it for exactly the right reasons. Whether or not the employees figure it out/take home the post-film speech in place of the movie's own, however...
* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'''s position on technology. It seems to be advocating responsible, low-impact technology use. Given its [[Anvilicious|general lack of subtlety]], a subset of viewers interpreted it as [[Science Is Bad|anti-technology]], instead of pointing out that it's the uses that matters while being more broadly anti-imperialist. Many pointed out the apparent [[Broken Aesop]] of a film that required oodles of technology to be anti-tech. In addition, there are the people who liked the marines despite their attempts at genocide, similar to the above examples for ''Jarhead'' and ''Apocalypse Now''.
** Some people consider that fifteen years of attempting peaceful contact and diplomacy, despite suffering attacks and raids the entire
** There's also that the Na'vi have more advanced technology than the humans, what with biological computers, direct neural interface, digital mind uploading, etc, etc. It was just all given to them for free by the planet. So idolizing them as 'low-tech existence' is completely missing the point.
* ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' is strongly remembered for [[John Travolta]]'s iconic disco dance sequence at the end. However, within the movie itself, it is strongly implied that Travolta and his partner are actually the LEAST impressive dancers in the competition, and the only reason they win over their black and Puerto Rican opponents is because the judges are racist.
** Travolta's character recognizes this and in disgust gives the trophy to the runner-up couple. It shatters his vision of himself and makes him want to move beyond the shallow lifestyle he built around disco. The movie is remembered for how glamorous it made disco look.
| |||