James Cameron's sci-fi film "Avatar 2: The Way of Water," which allegedly benefits from a white man's saviour mentality, has also been asked to be boycotted after becoming the latest victim of India's powerful cancel culture.
James Cameron's film Avatar: The Way of Water has opened in theatres and has already grossed $300 million worldwide.James Cameron, a director, is accused of appropriating Native American and Indigenous cultural practises.
To get people to skip the movie, a boycott campaign has been started.
The movie is also facing a boycott campaign in India due to multiple reasons, with India’s cancel culture as one of the main reasons. India's Cancel Culture is a relatively new phenomenon that started in the West, but we are what the West was, and as a result, our support for it today is so strong that it even outshines IPL cheerleaders.
It all started as a way to criticise people, whether they were famous or students passing through school hallways, and to try to shift the winds of social injustice, whether real or perceived to be so.
Some claim that it has a special relationship with the #MeToo movement. India’s cancel culture has destroyed many hyped projects.
Similar to the 2009 movie Avatar, the sequel basically continues the theme of colonizers robbing tribes of their motherland and resources. The colonists are portrayed in the sequel as people who require an entirely livable world because Earth's resources are depleting.
The director has been charged with appropriating the traditions and histories of various Indigenous tribes in order to produce a movie with a largely white cast.
Influential Native American Yuè Begay declared that he will boycott this "heinous and racist" movie alongside Natives and other Indigenous communities around the world. She added that their customs had been improperly altered to satisfy the notion of a man as a savior. This tweet has received more than 40,000 likes.
Begay also brought up an interview James Cameron gave to a portal in 2010.
The director claimed to have spent a significant amount of time with Amazonian tribes researching indigenous peoples' history.
Avatar: The Way of Water has been strongly condemned by a number of additional Native American influencers who have called for a complete boycott of the film.
"Join Natives & other Indigenous groups around the world in boycotting this horrible & racist film," a native American influencer named Yue tweeted. Our cultures were harmfully appropriated in order to fulfill the savior complex of some white men.
James Cameron's contentious interviews have also been uncovered and examined, in which Cameron is said to have revealed that he spent a lot of time with Amazonian tribes in order to learn more about the history of what he had previously referred to as the "dead-end society" that was the indigenous population of North America.
All of these omens are not encouraging for Avatar: The Way of Water, so let's hope that the movie can overcome these early setbacks caused by India's potent cancel culture.
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