Episode 3. What Avatar Gets Embarrassingly Wrong About Human History

from Pray for Rain · host Jack Willis

In this episode of Pray for Rain, I audit one of the most grating cliches in modern media and look at exactly what James Cameron gets wrong about the Na’vi0:00 — The IMAX Hallucination5:28 — James Cameron and the "Noble Savage" Trope10:39 — Braveheart & Amadeus: Killing the Record14:24 — Why the Wild West was actually safer than you think18:25 — The Nuance of Colonialism31:22 — The 3,000 Statues of Arthur Cotton37:19 — The Problem with "Presentism" in Film

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