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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Looks like something the Talking Heads on Fox would put out there. And it looks like some Native Americans are complaining about Avatar 1 and 2 because of grabbing elements of their culture.
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The new clan at the coral reefs are obviously patterned after the Maori People and most of the actors playing them were from New Zealand. The original clan in the forests had definite elements of tribes and nations of indigenous peoples from North and South America. Is this a good thing to have their values represent as the "good guys" in these films or a bad one as it amounts to cultural appropriation. I don't really know. However, science fiction has a LONG history of borrowing from history, culture and modern events, usually to tell a story
about history, culture and modern events. Certainly the original
Star Trek series did a bunch of stories that grabbed elements of modern events and used them to say something about those events. Sometimes it's subtle and other times about as obvious as a brick in the face.
It's
insanely tough to make a science fiction movie or novel that isn't based in human culture. If you made it
truly alien, the viewers would probably not understand the drama, the motivation, the action or the point of the story.