#424 - Avatar - WatchThis W/RickRamos

Blue Dances with Wolves - James Cameron's Avatar Films 

In 2009 James Cameron took old soup and re-heated it in a familiar bowl. Equal parts Lawrence of Arabia, The Last Samurai, and (most glaringly) Kevin Costner's revisionist Western, Dances with Wolves, Cameron has gone back to the well-worn tradition of re-imagining Native Cultures, Colonialism, and the Trope of the White Saviour. This is territory that we (and many others) have explored ad-nauseum, however the films continue to get made and starving whores that we are, we take the bait. You can love this film series, you can hate it, but the discussion will always be an important, controversial, and impassioned one. Take a listen as Mr. Chavez and I discuss 2009s Avatar and it's thirteen years in the making sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. At the very least it's a fun and combative discussion. 

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