Avatar etc.

(Talking about the battle cries in AVATAR, in sff.net . . . )

I suppose battle cries crop up in most cultures, but an army advancing silently would have its own variety of scariness.

In Basic Training when we were thrusting at dummies with our bayonetted rifles, we were allowed to scream either "Kill!" or "Lollipop!" I was not the only one who chose the latter.

We didn't have battle cries in Vietnam. Kind of silly in dense jungle. "Hey! I'm over here!"



Plot wasn't very important in AVATAR. J...