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'Avatar' Faces Calls for Boycott Over Accusations of Racism
Director James Cameron is facing allegations of Native American and Indigenous cultural appropriation over the themes and imagery in his latest blockbuster, Avatar: The Way of Water.
The follow-up to his 2009 film Avatar, which is the highest-grossing movie in history, opened this past weekend at No. 1 at the box office. Like its predecessor, the sequel centers on a story about colonizers taking over land from tribes. In Cameron's telling, the colonizers are humans who need a new inhabitable planet because Earth's resources are becoming increasingly depleted.
Also like its predecessor, the new Avatar film is being accused of using an amalgamation of the histories of various Indigenous cultures for a film that features a largely white cast. (Notable exceptions in the casting include Zoe Saldaña, a Black Latina actress, and Cliff Curtis, who is of Maori descent.)
"Avatar" faces calls for boycott over accusations of racism
The "Way of Water" director, James Cameron, has been accused of profiting off Indigenous people's history.
www.newsweek.com