{"id":165720,"date":"2022-12-23T01:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-avatar-sequel-is-getting-heat-from-some-indigenous-people\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T01:15:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:15:05","slug":"the-avatar-sequel-is-getting-heat-from-some-indigenous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-avatar-sequel-is-getting-heat-from-some-indigenous-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Avatar’ sequel is getting heat from some Indigenous people"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n \n More than a decade after sci-fi blockbuster \u201cAvatar\u201d hit theaters, James Cameron is back with a sequel that once again takes audiences into the lush world of Pandora. But some Indigenous viewers aren’t particularly interested in returning to it.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cAvatar The Way of Water\u201d and its director are facing fresh scrutiny from Native audiences, some of whom have the franchise for its \u201cWhite savior\u201d narrative, use of stereotypes and inadequate representation of Indigenous people.\n <\/p>\n \n Yu\u00e8 Begay, a Navajo artist and activist, called for a boycott<\/a> of the film in a tweet that’s since received more than 47,000 likes, while Autumn Asher Blackdeer, a scholar from the Southern Cheyenne Nation, compiled<\/a> a widely shared list of Indigenous-led sci-fi films for viewers to watch instead. Countless others have also weighed in with their own complaints, with some \u2013 including Begay \u2013 calling out remarks made by Cameron in earlier interviews.\n <\/p>\n \n The \u201cAvatar\u201d franchise isn’t subtle in its anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and environmentalist themes \u2013 Cameron has said as much, previously referring to the first film as \u201ca science fiction retelling of the history of North and South America in the early colonial period.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n But despite the director’s intentions, critics of \u201cAvatar\u201d feel the films fall short in their execution.\n <\/p>\n \n The original 2009 movie follows protagonist Jake Sully as he’s dispatched to the moon Pandora as part of an imperialist mission. There, he inhabits a new body that mimics the appearance of the Na’vi, the blue humanoid species indigenous to this new environment. As Sully bonds with the Na’vi and falls in love with princess Neytiri, he’s forced to choose between both worlds. In the sequel, Sully is now chief of the Omaticaya clan as he and his family once again come up against the colonial ambitions of the humans.\n <\/p>\n
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