Tuesday April13, 2010
I have always loved watching the Hollywood elitist take up their cause celeb and regularly making themselves look silly and hypocritical doing so.
Here is but the latest example from IHTM
James Cameron goes to the Amazon,
bores the hell out of natives
Hollywood writer-producer-director-conspicuous consumer James Cameron is starting to believe his own bullshit. After creating Avatar, he’s become a born again environmentalist. The New York Times dutifully traipsed after Cameron on an Avatar-ish adventure to Brazil, where the director dappled himself with facepaint and spoke like a character from one of his films.
The New York Times reports on the hypocritical hype:
“The snake kills by squeezing very slowly,” Mr. Cameron said to more than 70 indigenous people, some holding spears and bows and arrows, under a tree here along the Xingu River. “This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be,” he added.
As if to underscore the point, seconds later a poisonous green snake fell out of a tree, just feet from where Mr. Cameron’s wife sat on a log. Screams rang out. Villagers scattered. The snake was killed. Then indigenous leaders set off on a dance of appreciation, ending at the boat that took Mr. Cameron away. All the while, Mr. Cameron danced haltingly, shaking a spear, a chief’s feathery yellow and white headdress atop his head.
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The boat pulled away and Cameron waved
goodbye to his newfound forest friends.
“Can you believe that crazy American woman was
afraid of a snake,” one native laughed as he waved adieu.
“By the way, you owe me five bucks. I told you I could
convince that moron to paint his face.”
afraid of a snake,” one native laughed as he waved adieu.
“By the way, you owe me five bucks. I told you I could
convince that moron to paint his face.”
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