"It is like... like my dream come true," he told the journalists afterward, "I always knew that the American shaitan imperialists are bad, but that bad? I mean, watch these poor Na'vi - just like we and our oil, they are protecting their Unobtanium from the Big Satan"."Wow, dude!", were the first words issued by Mahmoud the Mad after viewing the movie.
"Uranium? Enrichment? What are you talking about? I am into movies now. The next movie that infidel Cameron will make is going to be under my personal supervision, and see if two of us can't shear these capitalist sheep for $10B! Who needs uranium?" via simplyjews.blogspot.com
But the film's success in China has yielded controversy. In late January, authorities from the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television pulled the 2-D version of the movie from theaters to make way for Chinese-made biopic Confucius, starring Hong Kong movie darling Chow Yun-Fat.Chinese audiences have flocked to theaters to witness the spectacle that is James Cameron's Avatar. Some have reportedly paid $100 for a ticket and waited in serpentine lines for hours. Its immense popularity has even prompted a local official to rename a part of the famous Yellow Mountains after the floating "Hallelujah Mountains" in the movie.
China's pursuit of hyper urbanization has uprooted city residents from their homes, often without compensation and sometimes just a piddling sum, so new and luxurious high rises can be planted. Often in cahoots with developers, the chengguan pockets kickbacks and summons the police or other henchmen to do the dirty work of people removal. In the blogosphere, commentators immediately recognized the Pandoran Na'vis as victims of involuntary eviction, and the army that descended upon their tree home a cadre of chengguan. Emblematic of the remorseless attitude of these petty officials with outsized power is an incident involving an old man threatening to jump off the roof if he was forcibly removed. To which the chengguan quipped, "Go straight to the top floor. Don't choose the first or second." That quote went viral and was selected by China Daily as one of the top 10 quotes of 2009.It is just a stupid movie!
