Avatar & Co
I guess the makers of Avatar never set out to make the world a better place, but with the news from the Oscars just in earlier this week, I can’t help wondering:
The movie cost between 240 and 300 million US dollars to make. Amazing, if you think about it. In terms of box office revenue, it made well over 2.6 billion US dollars so far (according to this site). That is US$ 2,600,000,000, and growing. Not to speak of merchandise and DVD sales.
More than a year’s pay, even including the bonus!
And this is just one of many big money-spinning movies. While the crowds enjoy watching the fate of the Earth-like planet Polyphemus in 3D, I can’t help thinking what all this this money could have done in our present, real and truly three dimensional world. $2,600,000,000. That’s enough to fix a lot of things in this world. Instead, we squander it away in 2 hours 40 minutes, accompanied by a bucket of sticky popcorn.
Maybe intelligent life exists somewhere in the Universe. On a whole, we don’t seem to have much of it on this planet.
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I couldn’t agree more. Take this money and the money just the poorest country on earth spends on their “defense” budget and you could resolve even more problems. If you’d take the defese budget money of all countries on this planet to spend it for peoples’ health, education and peace you could probably also solve all environmental problems and still spare 2.6 bn for a movie without having to have a bad conscience. But that would require intelligence, common sense and the will to live without harming our fellow humans and it seems we are not really made for this. Too bad….
Ihr habt ja recht. Trotzdem fand ich den Film einfach wunderschön als Traumwelt. Größtenteils jedenfalls. Wenn man unnütz ausgegebenes Geld hinterfragt, wird man sowieso verrückt.
Na ja, vom unnoetigen Geld ausgeben oder gern fern Reisen und dergleichen sinfd wir ja auch nicht frei von Schuld. Ich war eben nur von der Summe beeindruckt.