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** Let's be honest here, the Nigerians in the movie are portrayed as a bunch of stupid savages barely capable of any thought that isn't violence. It's the lowest point of an otherwise great movie.
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* Exactly what is Christopher? is he the sole survivor of the Prawn leader caste in the ship, or just one Prawn worker that rose about the bred pasiveness and lack of motivation of his kin?
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*** [[WordOfGod The director said they're named after those insects]], and actually has a very good reason why: most South Africans consider them pests and kill them on sight, but Neil knows that they're quite harmless and beneficial, eating other household pests. They don't deserve the hate they're given, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped much like the Prawns]].
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*** [[WordOfGod The director said they're named after those insects]], and actually has a very good reason why: most South Africans consider them pests and kill them on sight, but Neil knows that they're quite harmless and beneficial, eating other household pests. They don't deserve the hate they're given, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped much like the Prawns]].Prawns.
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*** They WERE nice to the aliens... At least that's what they would tell themselves. Essentially, "These mindless drones actually want to live like filthy animals. We gave them a nice refugee camp and they prefer to decorate it with hordes of rotting trash. We offered them nice meals but they want cat food. They have violent instincts and the only language they respond to is force. They don't really feel pain the way humans do, so it's okay to experiment on them. They can't even raise their children properly do it's okay for us to take them away and destroy their eggs. The slum looks bad to us humans but they actually don't mind, they're perfectly happy this way." Of course all that is wrong about the aliens, but it's the same dehumanizing approach any racist system has taken so that bleeding-hearts can feel okay about being complicit in it.
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* Better question: The Nigerians and the MNU are trying to figure out how to access the Poleepkwa weapons. They know that said weapons are genetically-encoded to the Poleepkwa. The Poleepkwa at least have a rudimentary knowledge of how said weapons work. So...Why don't they just train Poleepkwa to be soldiers? Pay them in cat food, and incentivize them, in different ways, to fight against their enemies. They could offer better living conditions for the Poleepkwa, or just go the route of child soldiers and lie to them.
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** A few reasons are kind of obvious: It is mentioned that the prawn were essentialy leaderless, like ants without a queen. Also, since the humans cut into the ship and forcefully evacuated the Prawn, it seems vbery likely they took the liberty to confinscate their technology. On top of this, it saiod there was only (1.2?) million prawn in D9. Compare that to 6 billion people on Earth, and you can see why the Prawn would be less-than enthuistiastic about fighting back, especialy with companies like MNU constantly watching.
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** A few reasons are kind of obvious: It is mentioned that the prawn were essentialy essentially leaderless, like ants without a queen. Also, since the humans cut into the ship and forcefully evacuated the Prawn, it seems vbery very likely they took the liberty to confinscate confiscate their technology. On top of this, it saiod said there was only (1.2?) million prawn in D9. Compare that to 6 billion people on Earth, and you can see why the Prawn would be less-than enthuistiastic enthusiastic about fighting back, especialy especially with companies like MNU constantly watching.
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** They might have considered that at first, but after a while they stopped caring. They certainly care after the film events, now that there is a chance of the ship coming back much less friendly.
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** Being South African, this troper finds it annoying that to many fans of the movie, the [[BrokenAesop take home lesson]] seems to have been "South Africans are evil and should get invaded by the aliens and it will serve them right". Did people miss the (ironically-named) "human rights" groups protesting the eviction? How about the fact that someone would need to oversee the aliens, and the guys who got the job turned out to be an Evil Corporation, who are not answerable to the South African citizenry in general? Plus, I think you're all overestimating how tolerant ''you'd'' be in that situation. Lest we forget, [[EagleLand America]] also has a history of segregation and reservations, and [[TheApartheidEra South Africa's crime]] was being 30-40 years behind the US socially. So I'd say that the movie is about the human condition in general, not about how evil South Africans are (or Nigerians, for that matter). As for [[HumansAreMorons humanity being stupid]], keep in mind the disillusionment when it turned out the aliens were all pretty dumb (or so it seemed at any rate). Some of the deleted scenes also had a (black, vaguely American-accented) MNU big-shot speculate that the aliens were slaves, pirates who stole the ship, etc. Plus, after almost 30 years nobody was expecting a retaliation, whereas for MNU ('''Multi-National''' United, mind ... not "Stupid/Evil South African-only Corporation") the payoff was weapons tech that could change the entire international balance of power, in favor of whoever paid them the alien mothership's weight in platinum. So ja ... I suppose humans really are that stupid/reckless in this movie, ... and that isn't somehow limited to South Africans. All of humanity seems to be in on this, the [[AmericaSavesTheDay fantasies]] of foreign fanfic writers notwithstanding.
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** Being South African, this troper finds it annoying that to many fans of the movie, the [[BrokenAesop take home lesson]] seems to have been "South Africans are evil and should get invaded by the aliens and it will serve them right". Did people miss the (ironically-named) "human rights" groups protesting the eviction? How about the fact that someone would need to oversee the aliens, and the guys who got the job turned out to be an Evil Corporation, who are not answerable to the South African citizenry in general? Plus, I think you're all overestimating how tolerant ''you'd'' be in that situation. Lest we forget, [[EagleLand America]] also has a history of segregation and reservations, and [[TheApartheidEra [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra South Africa's crime]] was being 30-40 years behind the US socially. So I'd say that the movie is about the human condition in general, not about how evil South Africans are (or Nigerians, for that matter). As for [[HumansAreMorons humanity being stupid]], keep in mind the disillusionment when it turned out the aliens were all pretty dumb (or so it seemed at any rate). Some of the deleted scenes also had a (black, vaguely American-accented) MNU big-shot speculate that the aliens were slaves, pirates who stole the ship, etc. Plus, after almost 30 years nobody was expecting a retaliation, whereas for MNU ('''Multi-National''' United, mind ... not "Stupid/Evil South African-only Corporation") the payoff was weapons tech that could change the entire international balance of power, in favor of whoever paid them the alien mothership's weight in platinum. So ja ... I suppose humans really are that stupid/reckless in this movie, ... and that isn't somehow limited to South Africans. All of humanity seems to be in on this, the [[AmericaSavesTheDay fantasies]] of foreign fanfic writers notwithstanding.
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