Avatar.
The whole movie could have been over in 10 minutes if he’d just had one conversation with them.
Jake Sully’s one job, the only reason he was flown across the galaxy and promised a new set of legs, was to get to know the natives and talk about ONE THING.
“Can we mine the unobtanium?”
“Have you seen this stuff? I know it seems silly, but this is why we are here and it will save our entire society. If you can just leave us alone to mine this, we will stay away from you as much as possible.”
“Did I mention to you this stuff will save our planet? I need you to understand we WILL go to war for this rock, strange as it may be to you. Tens of thousands of your people will be killed, and we can avoid all of that if you can just leave our men and machines alone.
If you don’t, and our planet is in danger of dying, we may genocide this whole fucking planet, and look for it without your interference. We have done that kind of thing before, to our own people even. We wont hesitate to burn this jungle to ash if we need to. It’s that important.”
But he doesn’t do that. He just gets a girlfriend and learns to ride a pterodactyl.
Come to think of it, why didn’t any of the other people with blue clones ask them about it? Like Sigourney Weavers character? I mean, according to the movie they had been there for years!
It is the entire reason they brought legions of people and machines to this planet, at a cost of likely trillions of dollars, and other than being mentioned in passing to Sully as the reason they are all fucking here it is never discussed again.
If any of the humans that had clone bodies had mentioned this years before when they first taught the Navi to speak English, the whole movie wouldn’t have just ended in the first 10 minutes, it would never have happened at all.