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Racist, harmful, dishonest? In the U.S., price of success, Cameron became a target.

“Envy is a passion shy and ashamed that we dare not confess,” said La Rochefoucauld. In Hollywood, we practice a different kind of maxims: James Cameron is being sorely making experience. Avatar is more successful, it is a phenomenon with $ 1.14 billion collected at the box office in just three weeks of operation, it is now the second most profitable film in cinema history . Need we recall that the film’s most profitable Titanic (1.8 billion dollars), was also directed by Cameron? Too much for one man.

In the United States, attacks rained down almost as severely as the sacred tree of Na’vis. The fire left smoke leagues, who awarded the label “black lung” in this movie blue and green. The vine Sigourney Weaver smokes like a firefighter and, worse, in places non-smokers. “It’s like if you spilled plutonium into a tank of water, they were told New York Times. Laughable? It is the United States, and we really do not mess with nicotine. Avatar Would it also a movie racist? It is the thesis supported by a host of blogs, listed by the Boston Globe which are not only in Avatar a film about “white guilt”, but in its argument (a white man who invites himself among colored people and becomes their leader), a form of colonialism. The glorification of pure-bred Na’vis, connected to nature, would be a prejudice of white higher raptures, as in the time of Rousseau, on the virtues of noble savages. Ethnocentrism Horrible! The surname given to the protagonist, Jake Sully, would not fortuitous: in English, Sully means “unclean”. In the world of Avatar The dirty white, with Jake communion with the nature of Navi’s, would find an original purity. Biased …

As for the nationalists and néoconversateurs, we did not appreciate at all in the film, the colonel’s speech and the savagery of its bombing in retrospect seem to justify violence against the United States during September 11. Through images (the sacred tree of Na’vis destroyed by the U.S. military as the Twin Towers), the United States are also subject to nature a 11-September. The anger of the “neocons” probably does not subside when they learn that Cameron has bought the rights to a book Japanese Last Train to Hiroshima , Told from the point of view nippon (Na’vis ?)… the atomic bombing by the Americans.

But it’s Anne Thompson High Priestess of the magazine Variety Bible film in Hollywood, which has triggered the most poisoned arrow: the accusation of plagiarism. While critics around the world agreed to recognize the revolutionary dimension of Avatar Which, technologically, tipped the 7th art in a new era, so here it is taxed with a debt too heavy with respect to the past. Certainly, Avatar looks like a mixture of Pocahontas Of Dances with wolves and Last Samurai But James Cameron himself, in an interview (1), it was not no secret: “That’s what I told people the studio if you take Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, The Adventures of Zak and Crysta in the rainforest Fern Gully ” and you mix everything into a shaker, you get Avatar . But, taking the allegations in Internet courses, Anne Thompson now accuses of having plagiarized a novel of 1957, Call Me Joe Of the American Poul Anderson: There is indeed matter of Jupiter, planet stale air and inhospitable to men who send chimeras, the “Joes”. A book whose hero, deprived of the use of her legs, saw its movements controlled by men …

Cameron attacked?

The director says no recollection of this novel: he says he checked if his script was not in common with other stories: “But you can not go beyond fifty years,” he claimed . These charges relay other suspicions: many sites had noticed the similarities with visual Delgo , An animated film that was the big flop of 2008: its producers are considering attacking Cameron to justice. Surfing on the wave of commonalities, The New York Entertainment has compiled a list of ten films that Avatar looks like: Final Fantasy , Dungeons & Dragons , King Kong , District 9 , Star Wars 2 … The innovative Avatar is therefore a sad and poor set of avatars? Let reason the kill has not yet come to the lefty Canadian Amateur apnea, which, September 11, 2001, when all America was trembling, had gone diving, and that has always disturbed the mundillo 7th art by his hard-line and his refusal to compromise. At the time of Titanic , Ruinous to the filming, the All-Hollywood he had already fallen over, hoping his fall. Then, when for the second time in history, it becomes the “king of the world”.