James Cameron is under fire for past comments - why some boycott "avatar"
A tweet calling for the series of "racist" films accumulates thousands of likes.
Thirteen years after the release of the original film, the Avatar following, Avatar: Water path , created on December 16. The film made $ 435 million worldwide In his first weekend, but not everyone wants to go see him. On Twitter, a call to boycott the film has more than 37,000 tastes from the publication of this story.
The tweet claims that the series of films is racist and culturally appropriate to the indigenous peoples of North America. It also indicates a 2010 quote from the writer-director James Cameron on the Lakota people and how their experience inspired the Avatar script. Read on to find out more.
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Avatar concerns colonization.
It is no secret that the Avatar The films relate to colonization and which they derive from European colonization of North America. In Avatar , humans try to colonize a planet, and they interact with its indigenous inhabitants, NA'VI. In the first film, a white man named Jake Sully ( Sam Worthington ) fall in love with a na'vi woman named Neytiri ( Zoe Saldaña ). Na'vi are able to successfully fight humans, but Jake remains for good as the NA'VI version of him (his avatar) and becomes a chef.
A tweet calling a boycott attracts attention.
December 18, Twitter user @asdza_tlehonaei posted , "Do not look at Avatar: The Way of Water join the natives and other Aboriginal groups around the world to boycott this horrible and racist film. Our cultures have been appropriately appropriate to satisfy a Savior of Man [White]. No more blue surfaces! The people of Lakota are powerful! "
The user continued to list science fiction films and indigenous creators' books that potential viewers could instead.
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Fans defend the films.
The response to the tweet was mixed, some social media users supporting the boycott and others defending the Avatar movies. A commentator wrote , "As a person who comes from an indigenous people, it is literally a fictional film on blue cat robots and robots."
Another person wrote , "The whole point of the films is to comment on the horrible destruction of native cultures due to the colonization and the destruction of the earth because of greed." For that, Someone else answered , "You missed the fact that a white man was the savior and the hero of the films", who launched a more in -depth discussion to know if Jake Sully was supposed to be a hero or just someone who learned a lesson D 'acceptance.
An old interview with Cameron's is circulating.
A Cameron quote referred to the Lakota people circulated online, including in the original post of @asdza_tlehonaei. In 2010, Cameron spoke to The Guardian on support it Brazil Amazon Xingu In their fight to stop the expected construction of a large hydroelectric dam. The director described the conflict of "real life Avatar confrontation."
At the time, Cameron said that what he had witnessed in Brazil had made him think about the history of North American and that this story was a "driving force" in his writing of Avatar . An extract in particular arrives in the back of the long -awaited suite.
"I had the impression that I was 130 years back in time by looking at what the Lakota Sioux could have said at a time when they were pushed and that they were killed and they were asked to move and they were given in a form of compensation, "said Cameron. "It was a driving force for me in writing Avatar- I couldn't help but think that if [Lakota Sioux] had had time of time and that they could see the future ... and they could see their children commit suicide at the highest suicide in the country ... Because they were hopeless and they were a dead end company - what is going on now - they would have fought much harder. ""
Some have found its offensive words.
A Tweet with more than 22k likes Said: "Yes, James Cameron, essentially, saying that the native communities could have fought harder against colonization if they knew that the suicide rates of young natives today are simply not cool at each level, so No, I won't see his films or will never support him. " Another popular tweet which connects the Guardian The article reads as follows: "The natives said that James Cameron's avatar is racist and scary like hell. The way he talks about Lakota in this article is absolutely horrible."
Cameron has explicitly confirmed that NA'VIs are based on indigenous Americans.
In 2012, Business Insider Published extracts from a legal document Cameron filed in response to an alleged trial that he had stolen the idea of the film. "" Avatar is a science fiction that tells the story of North and South America at the start of the colonial period, "reads a section". Avatar Old reference to the colonial period in the Americas, with all its conflicts and its blood effusions between the military aggressors of Europe and the indigenous peoples. Europe is equal to the land. The Amerindians are the na'vi. It is not supposed to be subtle. "" AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
As ABC News reported in 2010, the director denied that The first film was racist In a declaration to the Associated Press. He said that the film "asks us to open our eyes and really see others, respecting them even if they are different, in the hope that we could find a way to prevent conflicts and live more harmoniously On this world. I barely think that a racist message. "
The best life has contacted Cameron and Disney to comment on the current backlash, but has not yet received an answer.
