There is something annoying about James Cameron proclaiming that he wouldn't want to have a gun in his house. "I don't know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple ofinator movies 30 years ago." He said that he cut about 10 minutes of the movie to focus on gunplay.
It's not lost on me that this is ironic. One of the main characters of the Avatar franchise is a man who loves a gun. Jake is aiming his rifle at the nearest target when the rest of the Na'vi reach for bows and arrows. The Na'vi raid a human train to steal a huge cache of guns. Couldn't they disrupt the shipment or destroy it? Nope, that's not true. They would love to have those guns. Jake told the Metkayina people that guns will wipe them out quickly. Jake has a fighting chance since he almost exclusively uses a gun during the whale battle. Maybe they shouldn't have been a huge symbol of power because of the way they were used.
Neteyami is the only other member of the Sully family who can use a gun and he died of a gunshot wound. The fact that it was a gun that killed him and not any other weapon is not part of the text. The morality of gun use is rarely questioned because the film is about a fantasy of war and guns are easy to understand.
This movie takes 192 minutes to watch. Is it true that you cut 10 minutes because they had guns? Was it necessary for you to sneak in another screening at the cinema? Maybe he should stop giving his characters gun fetishes if he really wants us to believe that he wouldn't make a movie with a gun obsession.
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