On Jan 8, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> dredmond at efn.org wrote:
>> Hollywood has gone from "Planet of
>> the Apes", those post-Vietnam tales of impending Imperial
>> breakdown, to
>> "Planet of the BRICs", where the Na'vi are basically Brazilian
>> jaguars +
>> Russian bears + Indian tigers + Chinese dragons.
>>
>> -- DRR
>
> A little tortured, innit?
Not to mention a little uncritically admiring of predators just because of their novelty.
Doug