It's too bad, however, that the filmmakers didn't turn their brains *on* when they were making the damn thing. Yes! I sometimes wonder if all the time and energy that special effects requires means that filmmakers stop thinking about the other aspects of movies.
What does it say about our currently 'accepted' views of the Other (and the supposedly enlightened views of Hollywood)? What's fascinating - and disturbing - is how little discussion I've seen about this. I did some reading of various reviews, and salon.com was one of the few places to mention the issue (The cannibals (a group of war-painted, vociferously un-p.c. savages, who rush at us, for better or worse, straight out of old Hollywood)) but in the context of a section on "wonderful visuals". There does just seem to be an acceptance that this is how the Calinago should be represented.
Oh, but it would have been too *confusing* for the masses. /sarcasm heeee! Sometimes I feel people aren't given enough credit, but then I look at a movie like this - which is good in many ways - and am convinced that people (ie. the filmmakers) are given too much credit.
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Yes! I sometimes wonder if all the time and energy that special effects requires means that filmmakers stop thinking about the other aspects of movies.
What does it say about our currently 'accepted' views of the Other (and the supposedly enlightened views of Hollywood)?
What's fascinating - and disturbing - is how little discussion I've seen about this. I did some reading of various reviews, and salon.com was one of the few places to mention the issue (The cannibals (a group of war-painted, vociferously un-p.c. savages, who rush at us, for better or worse, straight out of old Hollywood)) but in the context of a section on "wonderful visuals". There does just seem to be an acceptance that this is how the Calinago should be represented.
Oh, but it would have been too *confusing* for the masses. /sarcasm
heeee! Sometimes I feel people aren't given enough credit, but then I look at a movie like this - which is good in many ways - and am convinced that people (ie. the filmmakers) are given too much credit.