Dances With Wolves...In Space!

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2010)

Was that how the pitch meeting for Avatar started? You have to admit, there are parallels, in story and in theme, with the 1990 successful-in-every-possible-way Kevin Costner film. A soldier joins the ranks of an oppressed culture and becomes one of them. Eventually he is fighting against the society he swore to protect.
Seems to me that in the look, the culture, even language he gives to the Na'vi, James Cameron wants them remind you of native Americans. I thought as I watched it, how could the American military be so cold as to force people off of their land out of greed? Ah but we did do it. Avatar is meant to symbolize what happened to America's aboriginal people.