-By Warner Todd Huston
Channel 2 News is reporting that Eleventh Ward Alderman James Balcer is railing against the new movie Avatar because it portrays U.S. Marines as murderous villains.
Bachler is a decorated Marine that served in Vietnam and is outraged how the Corps is treated in James Cameron’s film.
Balcer says the film makes Marines “look like lunatics.” In reality, he said, “We are a good, generous country that helps people.”
Of course Ald. Balcer is right. This movie is a technical wonder, certainly. But the story line could have been written by a 10-year-old from Berkeley. It is blatantly anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-Marine, and anti-military. In fact, it is anti-human. Worse it is based on the simple minded “White man saves the natives” storyline where a white guy discovers the simple, noble natives and turns himself into one of them then turns around to oppose his own people in order to “save” the natives.
This story has been done a thousand times and been done better. Dances With Wolves is that story, the Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai is that story, to a degree Lawrence of Arabia is that story and all were done better than Avatar.
So good for Ald. Balcer.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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