阿凡达Avatar与人类学
| offered a chance to learn the ways of the Na’vi and who goes “native.” The use of avatars to do ethnographic research is interesting enough, but what really makes this notable is the fact that he’s doing it for the military. In fact, his triple loyalties: to his military/corporate bosses, to the scientists, and to the Na’vi themselves, are a central source of tension in the film. As Bill Guinee noted on Twitter, it is hard not to see this as a commentary on HTS. [UPDATE: Just after I posted this, I came across the latest David Price Counterpunch article…on Avatar and HTS.]
但该片的剧本太没劲，其实它啥也没评论，有的只是3D效果。 These days, advancements in movie technology are inevitably accompanied by retreat in other areas, as filmmakers become so tied up in digital brushstrokes that they forget the painting. George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels are the classic example of a director stranding actors in green-screen wonderlands, and Peter Jackson turned a delicate literary device in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones into a distractingly splashy celestial waystation. Over the years, James Cameron has fared better than most in wedding cutting-edge special effects with strong, meat-and-potatoes genre storytelling, but Avatar, his supremely goofy science-fiction/action spectacular, finds him lost in a $250 million aquamarine light show. As the film’s technical marvels grow commonplace, it will look like a clunky old theme-park attraction, a Captain EO for our time. Avatar opens with images of zero-gravity life that really do seem like something new, with astonishing depth and color that further the recent advances in 3-D. Then the banality kicks in, as Cameron introduces the cartoon world of Pandora, a lush foreign planet where humans have come in search of a precious resource called “Unobtainium.” Pandora’s indigenous peoples, the blue-skinned, peace-loving Na’vi, are naturally suspicious of these alien invaders, so the humans try to infiltrate their population with “Avatars”—genetically engineered bodies that look like Na’vi but are controlled by plugged-in users. Sam Worthington stars as one of those users, a paraplegic veteran who comes to respect the Na’vi culture and question the mission. Look past the New Age beauty of Cameron’s Pandora—and whenever the camera swoops through its verdant, psychedelic wonders, that isn’t easy to do—and Avatar is a weak patchwork of his other films: the leaden voiceover from Terminator 2 here, the military/civilian conflict from Aliens there, even a Jack-and-Rose-style forbidden love story cued to adult-contempo soundtrack. And if that weren’t enough, Cameron tacks on ham-handed environmental messages and a one-size-fits-all anti-war metaphor that references Native Americans, Vietnam, and the current oil-fueled quagmires. In the past, charismatic actors (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sigourney Weaver, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet) have usually covered for Cameron’s weaknesses as a screenwriter, but Worthington can do nothing to animate his stock warrior. On a story level, Cameron has invested the bare minimum necessary to call Avatar into existence, and while there’s no doubting his meticulousness, the film is more demo than drama. 战场上的人类学家用阿凡达做人类学研究很有趣，但真正值得注意的是他是为军队工作。如 Bill Guinee所说，很难不把它看成是对美军人类学家小组的评论。 （美军为了提高部队的IQ，征召人类学家和其他社会科学家入伍。http://sinaurl.cn/ha3qX） via 贝小戎 2009-12-18 | 战场上的人类学家 美国人类学协会和美国安全与情报界发布了其关于美军HTS的最终报告，近70页 时代周刊：人类学家该不该参战？ Should Anthropologists Go to War? “人类学家传统上被认为是勤奋刻苦的学者，在采访部落长老时真诚地做田野笔记，或在大学教室里讲解复杂的地方宗族体系。但如果五角大楼能为所欲为的话，更多的人类学家会脱下他们的粗花呢服装，换上军装，离开讲堂上前线。过去两年里，美军为了提高部队的IQ，已经征召了人类学家和其他社会科学家入伍。但12月8日美国人类学学会发布了一个报告，反对这一项目，认为无论在理念还是应用上，它都不是人类学合法的职业实践。” 阿凡达的导演肯定学过人类学z2010-01-20 作者不详 阿凡达的画面真的太棒了，绝对超过2012。完全塑造了一个童话世界，虽然整个情节充斥着杀戮和战斗，但是清新秀丽的潘多拉世界还是如梦幻般醉人的。灵魂树晶莹剔透的纸条随风轻舞，悬浮于空的“天柱山”巍峨挺拔，如水母般轻盈的灵魂树种蒲公英似的飘浮，魅影骑士的座骑形如火凤凰动如战斗机，俯冲下的感觉让我想起了“太阳神翼”，女主角Neytiri脖子上的饰品每次都不一样，图腾崇拜的场景渲染得也很不错。 故事的主题让我联想到西方资本主义对古老文明的入侵，贪婪而自私的人类总想扩大自己的领域，妄图以自己先进的科技来占有一切，而且妄自尊大的他们藐视自然、轻视其他人类（或者非人类）文明，最终证明他们无论如何也不可能胜利的，这是从道义上决定。无所畏惧，是一件可怕的事情。古老文明的存在本身就是一个值得尊敬的事情，任何妄图把自己的文明强加于其他文明的想法都是错误的。这个世界是平等的，这个星球是平等的，任何文明就像是指向同一个球心的光束，是向外发射的，每束光都是独一无二不可取代的。技术的先进只能代表科技文明的兴盛，而文明作为一种文化形态，是不具有可比性的，是没有先进和落后之分的。潘多拉星球上的部落都有着自己的一套生活信仰，他们有着自己敬畏的神灵，有着自己的生活方式，他们的文明形态是无可取代的。 这部电影让我想起朱炳祥老师给我们上人类学课时的情景，他所讲的人类学的主旨就在于尊重、平等。任何一个当代 |
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