Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
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ZERO STARS/****starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winsletscreenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silverdirected by James Cameron by Walter Chaw I think, for white Americans, the indigenous peoples they displaced to colonize what would become the United States aren’t real people. Instead, they are supplemental creatures in a myth of American exceptionalism: the wolf that eats grandma; the wind at the door. They are props for enlightenment, triggers of guilt. Once conquered through disease, genocide, broken treaties, and other nasty tricks born of avarice and cupidity, indigenous peoples became objects of pity and romanticization, transitioning…

I think, for white Americans, the indigenous peoples they displaced to colonize what would become the United States aren’t real people. Instead, they are supplemental creatures in a myth of American exceptionalism: the wolf that eats grandma; the wind at the door. They are props for enlightenment, triggers of guilt. Once conquered through disease, genocide, broken treaties, and other nasty tricks born of avarice and cupidity,

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    11·
    15 days ago

    In 2010, Cameron told THE GUARDIAN why he wanted to make these movies:

    I felt like I was 130 years back in time watching what the Lakota Sioux might have been saying at a point when they were being pushed and they were being killed and they were being asked to displace and they were being given some form of compensation. This was a driving force for me in the writing of Avatar–I couldn’t help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation… because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society–which is what is happening now–they would have fought a lot harder.

    Wow…

  • MrEff@lemmy.world
    6·
    15 days ago

    I don’t think anyone is claiming the avatar franchise is some high brow cinema or calling it modern ‘film’. It is a flashy blockbuster movie. Enjoy it for what it is. Or not. But don’t put it up on some high pedestal just to knock it down when it was never up there. I’m so sick of the avatar bashing. If you don’t like it, that’s great, move on. Just like you would do for any other movie. I don’t get the fixation on bashing avatar over any other movie people don’t like.