Humans are a pestilence , shred across the galaxy and ruin other peace - loving creatures . At least , that seems to be the theme of a number of motion-picture show that are coming out in the next few eld . I ’ve been wondering what would supplant the post - apocalyptic - Earth as the gillyflower plot for “ dismal ” skill fiction flick , and the vicious - humankind - in - space plot of land seems increasingly probable to reign . Among others , James Cameron ’s Avatar and the new animated film Terra seem to be exploring this report , which is a standard plot in written scientific discipline fiction , but is fairly new to the motion picture . come home through for item .
As I said above , the story of malevolent humans come and despoiling an foreign major planet is nothing young in written scientific discipline fiction . Off the top of my head , there ’s Ursula LeGuin ’s The Word For World Is Forest , among others . I ’m almost done reading Jeanette Winterson ’s The Stone Gods ( review occur soon ) which deals with this base . But I ca n’t consider of too many movies which have cover this character of plot line . ( Enemy Mine , I guess . )
http://io9.com/362893/learn-why-james-camerons-new-movie-is-called-avatar
In addition to these surrogate extraterrestrial being , the humans have also land some bloody-minded troop who hate the natives and want to pass over them out . So there ’s a difference between the Avatar - using humans , who desire to understand the natives ( who are basically Native Americans ) and the power - armour - using troops , who require to bulldoze all the natives ’ sacred state and stamp out them all . This leads to a language by our hero , Josh :
Pandora is not Hell , it ’s Eden . And Eden is being bulldozed and stripmined and raped . We have no right . We are the aliens here . We are the quad monsters .
If that sounds too subtle for you , then there ’s Terra , which we cover the other mean solar day . The unexampled full - length enliven film is about humans coming to terraform a satellite of peaceloving aliens , after Earth has become basically uninhabitable . We already terraformed Venus and Mars , but then the planet had a huge civil warfare . So now we have to derive and employ our transforming equipment to turn Terra ’s helium aura into oxygen .
https://gizmodo.com/humans-wreck-another-planet-in-terra-385991
Are you seeing a trend here ? The stories about humans as scourge of the cosmea are what come after the post - apocalyptic Earth stories . We ruin our own planet , so we have to go and have intercourse up someone else ’s planet . ( That ’s also the plot line in the Winterson book , where Orbus is about to become unable to support human life . ) There could also be some guilt about the Iraq state of war and our various other extraneous adventures , which we could be excising .
There ’s also the remake of the original humans - are - assholes movie The Day The Earth Stood Still , coming this December , in which peaceful extraterrestrial warn us not to take our asshole ways out into quad . And there ’s a new direct - to - DVD continuation to Starship Troopers coming out in a couple of months . In the original Troopers , director Paul Verhoeven ’s aim was to show that humans were the aggressors and the bugs were simply reacting to human colonies encroaching on their territory . This message flew over a lot of people ’s heads , so mayhap Troopers scriptwriter Ed Neumeier ( who ’s directing the new motion picture ) will make it more blatant this time around .
And then there’salsothe liven Planet 51 , starring the Rock , in which the peaceful stranger think the humans are there to invade and plunder their planet . But they ’re wrong … or are they ?
https://gizmodo.com/planet-51-continues-scifis-invasion-of-animation-384181
I guess there ’s not enough examples there to contend that this is a sweeping new vogue . And of course the post - revelatory Earth movie has one major advantage over the foreign world epic : it ’s cheap to shoot , since you may make a post - revelatory landscape almost anywhere you may find some rubble .
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