2023-06-25 05:01:00
In the best tradition of Hollywood stars committed to supporting causes that they do not understand, that go beyond them, of which they are ignorant of almost everything and that have nothing to do with their existence of beings frozen in life in their mansions in Beverly Hills, the director film director James Cameron decided to take his ingenuity for a walk through Argentine territory.
This director, specialized in increasing the bank accounts of the big producers with his box office hits like Terminator and Titanic, came to the country invited by none other than the governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales, known, among other talents, for being one of the umpteenth northern caudillo of encyclopedia and for having 25 relatives employed in the public administration of his province.
Cameron became a defender of the seas after filming the sinking of the Titanic, and now he has become a defender of the environment after filming Avatar, a story starring the Na’vis, blue and long-eared aliens who must defend themselves against extractive ambition. of the humans.
The Lithium Martians
Cameron participated in a forum on sustainability at the Four Seasons hotel, in the Retiro neighborhood of Buenos Aires, and was to accompany the governor to see the Cauchari solar park, built by a Chinese company four thousand meters above sea level, in the Puna of Jujuy. .
James Cameros, with a representative of the “na’vis” that he discovered in Argentina.
But, according to the official explanation, the “strong winds” would have prevented this cinematographic titan from reaching the place.
In other words, Cameron was able to descend 33 times to see the wreckage of the Titanic sunk at a depth of 3,900 meters in the navel of the Atlantic Ocean, and he broke the human record for descending into the deep sea by going down in a submersible to more than 10,000 meters. deep in the Mariana Trench, in 2012, but it was impossible for him to reach a place where 5-year-old boys walk to school, Monday through Friday, in the immediate town of Olacapato Chico.
The problem was that, as soon as Cameron set foot in this country so prone to unreality, he received an extensive letter signed by the Jujuy indigenous communities, in which they used an irrefutable argument: Mr. Cameron, “Jujuy is Pandora, it is under threat from the greed of the mining industry and we are the Argentine na’vis, from whom lithium is extracted to manufacture the batteries that power electric cars and computers in the developed world.
an off screen star
Such a solid argument served so that Cameron, only 24 hours after having been with the governor, denounced having been “ambushed” by the Argentine politician. Poor Cameron; Did no one explain to you what planet he came from? It is known that no one can claim his own clumsiness.
The threatened world of the Na’vis, as depicted by James Cameron in his second Avatar film. (20th Century Studios).
In a hilarious press conference, Cameron, who is enlightened, said that if he has to choose between the extractive industry and the aborigines, he will always choose them. When is he going to talk to the communities? the journalist from the Spanish newspaper El País asked him. As soon as possible; I have to find out first, replied the director, who had already taken sides in the conflict.
Cameron, originally from one of the countries with the highest mining activity in the world, Canada, has in his portfolio to continue filming three more films after the two already released Avatar, which are increasingly similar to well-intentioned National Geographic documentaries than to cinematic adventures.
In the distribution of good-natured causes and image washers, while other Hollywood stars suffered famine in Sudan, barefoot children in Guatemala or women forced to wear a burqa in Afghanistan, Cameron won lithium and Argentine politicians. Nothing so slight, so frivolous, so lost as a celebrity when they take her away from the comfortable world of the screen.
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