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tarheel91 on 29 December 2009
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Khuutra said:
TheRealMafoo said:
To the Na'Vi, the world was them. There were connected to it in a way humans can not understand.
They were not fighting for some chunk of land, or a tree. They were fighting for themselves. It's like if your chained to a table, and a saw is coming down on your arm, even if you have no chance to save it, your going to fight against the restraints until your arm is cut off.
The part of the movie I found to be stupid, is the fact that the 'company' used force at all. The least profitable way to achieve a goal, is through military. They would have tried many other ways first.
Also, with so much mineral on the planet worth so much money, they would have harvested the areas where it's easy to get to for hundreds of years before they invaded that location.
It's just an example of hollywood portraying corporate america as evil. Not only an inaccurate message to send, it's a sad commentary on where we are in the world that succeeding in business is somehow become a bad thing.

To the Na'Vi, the world was them. There were connected to it in a way humans can not understand.

They were not fighting for some chunk of land, or a tree. They were fighting for themselves. It's like if your chained to a table, and a saw is coming down on your arm, even if you have no chance to save it, your going to fight against the restraints until your arm is cut off.

The part of the movie I found to be stupid, is the fact that the 'company' used force at all. The least profitable way to achieve a goal, is through military. They would have tried many other ways first.

Also, with so much mineral on the planet worth so much money, they would have harvested the areas where it's easy to get to for hundreds of years before they invaded that location.

It's just an example of hollywood portraying corporate america as evil. Not only an inaccurate message to send, it's a sad commentary on where we are in the world that succeeding in business has somehow become a bad thing.

So have you never heard of the West India company? Because that's basically what this was

And the humans had been there for a quarter century already

Edit: To clarify, it's mentioned in the script and the source book that the company wanted to exploit the Na'vi as a source of cheap labor... at first.

Point being that it's about colonialism more than corporations, though the part that corporations play in colonialism is (rightfully) ragged on.

Just to add onto what Khuutra said, any history class on empirialism will show how driving a force coporations were in the expansion.  How do you think explorers (and thus, conquerors) were financed?  Hint: It wasn't only through royalty.  This remains true from the early exploration of the 1500s to the exploitation of Africa and India in the 1800s.

Also, about their focus on Hometree, it was stated early on in the movie the tree was on top of the largest unobtanium deposit within 100 clicks (presumably miles).  It took them 3 months during the movie (and who knows how long beforehand) to reach Hometree.  Going anywhere else would have taken much longer.