"Find out what the blue monkeys want."

The scene that sticks out to me is the one of Jake in the office with the Colonel and Parker Selfridge, the corporate administrator for the RDA mining operation. Jake is explaining that he has gotten in with the Omaticaya people. Parker explains to Jake that he has to find out what the Omaticaya want from the humans in order for them to move their village. He simply puts it as “Find out what the blue monkeys want.” Parker wants them to move because their Hometree is resting on the largest unobtainium deposit on Pandora. Parker says he has tried offering them medicine, education, roads, etc., but they won’t take it. Jake needs to find out what they want or else the colonel will step in and advert to killing them. Parker says “Killing the indigenous looks bad, but there’s one thing shareholders hate more than bad press, and that’s a bad quarterly statement” showing that he will do anything to get the unobtanium. Jake looks obviously uncomfortable with this but doesn’t say anything. I believe he is trying to convince himself that he doesn’t care what happens to this people or this planet. Later on in the film, as the Colonel and Parker see footage of Jake’s video diary where he says that the Na’vi will never leave Hometree, Parker orders that Hometree must be destroyed.

This scene is important because it symbolizes what humans will truly do just to make money. Like in this scene, Parker is willing to destroy an entire tribe of Na’vi people and maybe the whole planet just to make money off of the unobtanium. It is showing the evil of society and how materialistic people have become. While the war destroys Hometree and many of the Na’vi people, hope is restored to Pandora when the wildlife come to help fight against the humans, ultimately getting them to leave Pandora. This hope and coming together in the movie, shows the audience that there is still hope if someday our world comes to this.