"Unusually for humans, sometimes they didn't even have to steal their acquisitions from anybody else."
Perhaps because the Polynesians encountered islands that were for the most part...uninhabited? They generally weren't known for being pacifists. Supposedly nearly half of Samoan dieties are war gods.
They used to put their old people on islands to die. Can't wait to see that in a movie, the way we always see slavery. Only North American and Roman slavery, of course. (Which reminds me, still waiting for a movie showing how the British forced the Arabs to stop their slave trade in the Indian Ocean, notably the trade from Zanzibar and Somalia. "Arabs don't work," the Arabs said. You could make a movie with a dashing British captain fighting the Arab slavers and their African aides in the waters by Zanzibar, which really happened.)
One of the smallest wars in history happened on an island in the Pacific. They had gotten alcohol and guns from the Europeans and couldn't handle either. IIRC a man accidentally shot the king at a celebration, and the small island was then divided between north and south. They couldn't go out without bringing a gun for defense.
A ship arrived, I think it was British, and learned about the war from a German who had married an island woman. They gave the islanders a brief deadline for handing over all their guns. Which they did, and then the war was over. Then they had a cleric tell the islanders that Jesus says you shouldn't kill, and so forth.
We will know wokeness is over when The Sack of Baltimore gets made into a big-budget studio movie that depicts the Arabs/Africans as just plain evil enslavers and raiders and not "misunderstood" people.
One of my Dad's friends also got a free trip to the South Pacific courtesy of the USMC. Somehow that soured him on ever going back to a tropical beach.
On a bucket list trip to Tahiti and Moorea, one of our guides was a scholar with a loose connection to UC Berkeley and a Tahitian wife, who had his own boat before COVID. He said yes, Moana did a pretty good job portraying Polynesian culture, and yes, he had gotten a little consulting money.
I met Musker of Musker & Clements once, and he more or less confirmed that being old hands, they got out ahead of the Social Justice Warriors by spending time in Polynesia first talking to locals who actually could help them make their movie better and then signing up the ones they got along with, so when they finally announced the movie, they already had all the hand-picked respected local elder advisors they needed under contract. An expensive set of precautions, but it worked out well for them.
"The songs, some of them by Hamilton composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, seem okay ..."
I watched a bit of it over the holidays. The musical score was pretty jarringly generic American Broadway. (Cf. Gilbert's and Sullivan's compositions for The Mikado.)
"Unusually for humans, sometimes they didn't even have to steal their acquisitions from anybody else."
Perhaps because the Polynesians encountered islands that were for the most part...uninhabited? They generally weren't known for being pacifists. Supposedly nearly half of Samoan dieties are war gods.
It is sad that Disney has made a movie that makes money.
Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic most affected.
They used to put their old people on islands to die. Can't wait to see that in a movie, the way we always see slavery. Only North American and Roman slavery, of course. (Which reminds me, still waiting for a movie showing how the British forced the Arabs to stop their slave trade in the Indian Ocean, notably the trade from Zanzibar and Somalia. "Arabs don't work," the Arabs said. You could make a movie with a dashing British captain fighting the Arab slavers and their African aides in the waters by Zanzibar, which really happened.)
One of the smallest wars in history happened on an island in the Pacific. They had gotten alcohol and guns from the Europeans and couldn't handle either. IIRC a man accidentally shot the king at a celebration, and the small island was then divided between north and south. They couldn't go out without bringing a gun for defense.
A ship arrived, I think it was British, and learned about the war from a German who had married an island woman. They gave the islanders a brief deadline for handing over all their guns. Which they did, and then the war was over. Then they had a cleric tell the islanders that Jesus says you shouldn't kill, and so forth.
We will know wokeness is over when The Sack of Baltimore gets made into a big-budget studio movie that depicts the Arabs/Africans as just plain evil enslavers and raiders and not "misunderstood" people.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Sack_of_Baltimore
One of my Dad's friends also got a free trip to the South Pacific courtesy of the USMC. Somehow that soured him on ever going back to a tropical beach.
On a bucket list trip to Tahiti and Moorea, one of our guides was a scholar with a loose connection to UC Berkeley and a Tahitian wife, who had his own boat before COVID. He said yes, Moana did a pretty good job portraying Polynesian culture, and yes, he had gotten a little consulting money.
I met Musker of Musker & Clements once, and he more or less confirmed that being old hands, they got out ahead of the Social Justice Warriors by spending time in Polynesia first talking to locals who actually could help them make their movie better and then signing up the ones they got along with, so when they finally announced the movie, they already had all the hand-picked respected local elder advisors they needed under contract. An expensive set of precautions, but it worked out well for them.
"The songs, some of them by Hamilton composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, seem okay ..."
I watched a bit of it over the holidays. The musical score was pretty jarringly generic American Broadway. (Cf. Gilbert's and Sullivan's compositions for The Mikado.)
My kids loved that movie.
I demand more Sailer reviews of children's films/ animation! This was pleasantly entertaining.