Ignorant Americans

The scene that I chose to analyze was one of the earlier scenes where the biologist Grace states the line "one idiot with a gun is enough" as they land on the Pandora Forest and set foot. This not argues the common mentality of how American Troops/Soldiers/Army are so negatively viewed, but are also always known as the "idiots" and people who just shoot anything that "harms" them or will put an end to anything "dangerous" or remotely "threatening",and that's also argued later in the scene, when Mr. Sully is messing around and approached by a huge animal and approaches to shoot the beast before Grace tells him not to. Not only does it argues the ignorant and negative perspective of American Troops "shooting at whatever stands in their way" but also argues that whatever is native and/or different to someone, it is considered "dangerous"until further investigating what this "different" creature or culture actually is. Later on in the movie this continues into the scenes we looked at during class where the forest is always portrayed as this dangerous place, until he looks further into the beauty of Pandora, after he actually takes the time to acknowledge the place. Not only that, the moment that this occurs and he decides to acknowledge and thank the savior of saving his life and appreciating the deaths of the "dog-like beasts," this also argues how inhumane and how un-compassionate non-natives can be. Sully doesn't realize his wronging/faults until after she states "This did not need to happen, they did not have to die, this is your fault." This scene sets up the perspective of just how careless and self-centered Americans can be, and are perceived as of having the mentality that killing saves all and killing something(the beastly dogs) doesn't matter so long as one survives from it (Sully).