New York (QNN)- In an interview for his new Avatar sequel, James Cameron said the Palestinian resistance is “existential” after decades of Israeli occupation. The Canadian filmmaker expressed his understanding of why people in Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan are standing up to their oppressors.
During a "Director Debrief" interview with journalist Brandon Davis, released shortly after the film's premiere on December 19, the host asked, “You capture all-out war in this movie. Good guys are killing bad guys. They’re each killing each other.”
“They’re each killing each other’s animals and creatures. And yet I feel like when we see the sort of suffering, we only see the pain, mostly see the pain inflicted on the good guys. As if you’re trying to make sure we don’t empathize with the bad guys. Can you talk about how fighting for what’s right, and walking that line, requires that sort of portrayal?”
Cameron responded, “It’s a fine line, right? Because we go down, we go into Tulkun culture and they say, you know, killing only leads to more killing, an endless expanding spiral, right? And that’s the world we live in right now. That’s what we’ve seen. We’ve seen it in Gaza. We’ve seen it in Sudan. We’ve seen it in Ukraine.”
“And you know, you’re doing an action movie. People are going to fight, right? But are you fighting for a just cause? Are you fighting for what you believe in? Are you fighting from a place of hatred or revenge?”
“There are some fights that are righteous. And total annihilation is a reason to fight. It’s existential.”
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Cameron drew parallels between fictional narratives and real-world crises. Cameron's remarks align with the overarching narrative of Avatar: Fire and Ash, where indigenous Na'vi characters confront human colonizers.
The film, the third installment in the saga, delves into grief, loss, and redemption, mirroring what Cameron described as humanity's "greed and willful destruction."
