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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Just one of the guys
I've been looking for a scene in Avatar that shows a contrast to Quaritch's ableism, and I think I've found one that will work okay. It's the landing scene. First we see all the new soldiers exiting the shuttle, and as they walk past a group of soldiers who are working nearby, they are greeted with comments like "New meat!" Jake rolls down the ramp and finds himself on a collision course with a guy in one of those exoskeletons, and it becomes clear that Jake is going to have to evade, not exo-guy. There's two ways to look at this: maybe exo-guy can't maneuver very fast, in which case, he's okay on the disability front, OR, he could, but he's forcing Jake to do so because he's another ableist jerk like Quaritch (and not a contrast). However, he says something like "watch it, hot rod," which actually has a kind of accepting tone. The next line comes from a guy next to the one who said "new meat." He turns to NM-guy, and tells him to look (pointing at Jake). NM-guy asks, "meals on wheels?" Both this comment and the hot-rod line are the kind of things that men say to each other all the time as part of some weird ritual that I don't understand, but I think it means that they are, somehow, welcoming him just as they did the other soldiers. I'm probably going to have to do some more research, since I'm pretty sure that some sociologist has come up with a name for this process. Back to the library, or at least to its website.
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