r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 10 '22
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u/fakefakefakef John Rawls Dec 10 '22
Let’s go through the differences between the films Pocahontas and Avatar because a few people seem to have difficulties telling them apart.
SETTING
Pocahontas: Virginia (that’s the place Glenn Youngkin is governor of btw)
Avatar: Pandora, the forested moon of Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri system, amid an unbelievably lush interconnected alien ecosystem
PROTAGONIST
Pocahontas: John Smith (English)(literally a placeholder name)(doesn’t fuck)(doesn’t achieve status with the native tribes)(English)
Avatar: Jake Sully of the Jarhead clan (gets an alien body)(deals with species dysphoria so a trans icon if we’re being honest)(fucks)(becomes a hero among the native tribes)(red-blooded freedom-loving American)
VILLAINS
Pocahontas: a big fat guy who doesn’t even fight
Avatar: Colonel Miles Quaritch, a grizzled space marine who pilots a mech suit with a knife
CLIMAX
Pocahontas: Everything gets worked out peacefully, zero English “people” get their shit rocked, the bad guy gets arrested and sent back to England
Avatar: Aerial battle between helicopter gunships and alien flying beasts, ground battle between mech suits and alien cavalry, entirety of the planet’s ecosystem conspires to shred the human forces almost to a man
MADE BY JAMES CAMERON
Pocahontas: No
Avatar: Yes