For the fans of director Jameseims Cameron's previous films as "Terminator 2: Day of the verdict", "Aliens" or "Titanic", it is difficult not to frustrate Cameron's later filmmaker. Since Titanic released in 1997, Cameron has released only two films from "Avatar" in 2009 and "Avatar: Water Way" in 2022. The third film in the franchise, "Avatar: Fire and Ash" is set for publication in December this yearWith two more "avatar" extensions after that.

In other words, Cameron has spent most of the past 25 years focused fully on Avatar, a problem for viewers who don't think the Avatar films are so good. If you think the franchise is everything style and there is no substance, if you think the films are too long, and the characters too much archetype, it is easy to see why we can repeat the common talk point that Cameron is "wasting his life" by devoting a lot to his blue films.

But Cameron himself doesn't think about it. He enjoyed making these films "Avatar" not only because these are stories he wants to say, but because he thinks they bring well into the world. As he explained in A. A recent interview With the variety:

"I justified making Avatar films for myself in the last 20 years, not based on how much money we made, but based on that, I hope it can do something good. Can help us connect. It can help us to connect with the lost aspect of our self associated with nature and respects nature and all that things. ... Do I think films are the answer to our human problems? Avatar is a Trojan horses strategy that enters you with a piece of fun, but then works on your brain and heart a little in some way. "

Cameron supported this good stance by associating his marketing team Avatar with environmental charity. In the construction of the "Water Road", the Avatar website has a page for fans Donate to the conservation of natureNonprofit aimed at protecting ocean habitats and marine animal world. Combine it with the two Avatar films are basically 3-hour subliminating recycling, and it's easy to see its point.

While some cynics can follow the eyes of the idea of a movie that makes any tangible good in the world, the Avatar series is unique in how environmental protection and fight against those who do it. The film represents the most of its human characters as cold oil, destroying a beautiful alien paradise for their own corporate profit; The solution of the film to deal with these corporate spirits is not to compromise with them or to change their minds, but to have them on na'vi to kill them in some of the The coolest action sequences of the 21st century so far.

Avatar receives its mainly American audience to cheer on the violent death of people who are the height of American greed and cruelty. The fact that he did And The broken entries in the box office in this process were quite impressive. Movies with this policy should not do usually $ 2.9 billion in world treasurerBut Cameron did it anyway.

When the first Avatar film was released in 2009, climate change was probably in the amount of importance as a cultural issue. This was in the post-"awkward truth" in the world, where even the Republican presidential candidate in 2008 was recognizing that climate change existed and proposing plans to combat it. But during the 2010s, as Republicans turned to the status quo of climate change, climate change activism, kind of faded in the background. Presidential debates were particularly rare for any climate issues, nor voters tend to rank high on their list of most urgent problems.

Although climate change became an even more urgent issue during the 2010s, its cultural importance in those "avatars"-without years, seemed strangely muted compared to the previous decade. This seems to be less than that people do not believe in the problem, as much as a huge sense of helplessness that people feel when they think about it. Will the recent return of the hope, defiant environmental "avatar" franchise to help change this trend? For Because of our descending coral reefsOf course we hope so.