James Cameron’s ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ unites Canada’s Indigenous population — in dislike for this movie Opinion by TheDHTaylor
OK, picture it in your mind. A movie about a soldier sent out to pacify the local Indigenous people. Soon, he becomes disgusted with his own people and joins the local Native population, eventually becoming a better Indigenous person than the new people he rides with. Typically, he becomes one of their leaders. There was a term in literature/history for people who did this. It’s called “Going Indian.
So the question is: is this “Dances With Wolves” or “Avatar”? Or its sequel, now out in theatres, “Avatar: The Way of Water”? All you pretty much had to do was exchange the copper-toned hue of the Lakota characters for a more Lapis Lazuli or Cerulean blue motif of the Na’vi. One unique byproduct of “Avatar” for director/writer James Cameron: he’s developed one of the few ways to unify the collective consciousness of Canada’s Indigenous population. It’s through their dislike for this movie.
In this more recent creation, Jake Sully and his family run from the colonizers, leaving the forest wonderland and seeking refuge in the faraway reefs and oceans of a sister tribe who seem to have incorporated unique elements — i.e., tribal tattoos and intimidating facial expressions — of the Maori culture from Aotearoa, formally known as New Zealand.
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