Blog Post #4 assignment
The trope of the white savior is one wherein a white protagonist is portrayed as a messiah or savior who is usually shown to have more knowledge and are able to learn the cultures of the nonwhite characters that they are saving in short amounts of time. In the wake of Avatar: Way of Water Being announced as the sequel to the original Avatar (2009 ) film directed by James Cameron, I will be talking about how the main protagonist Jake Sully, portrayed by Sam Worthington, perpetuates the white savior trope. Avatar takes place in the world of Pandora where an alien species called Na'vi live. Humans in the year 2154 have depleted the world's resources and so have set course towards other planets to harvest more. Humans are unable to withstand the planet's atmosphere so are tasked to pilot human/Na'vi bodies called avatars like mechas in Gundam or Pacific Rim. Jake Sully, a retired paralyzed former marine is tasked to take over his deceased twin's place in this operati...