The name of James Cameron He has been associated with success for many years and with ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ he has revalidated it once again. One of his great objectives in this sequel was to expand the world of Pandora and to do so he came to the conclusion that he couldn’t make the same mistake that George Lucas did in Star Wars.
Cameron’s complaint
Cameron doesn’t hesitate to point out that the Star Wars universe is amazing, but he does have a major complaint about Lucas’s development of it. Specifically, the also director of ‘Titanic’ is annoyed that each planet in a galaxy far far away was so limited and he has expressed it this way in Variety:
If you look at how George Lucas did it in the universe that he created, which is amazing, he chose to make every different biome, every different culture, have their own planet around the galaxy. And I thought, “Well, the Earth doesn’t work like that.” Earth has the Arctic, Antarctica, rain forest, desert, and mountains. All different biomes. And doing my research on indigenous culture, you see such an explosion of ideas and clothing and belief systems. I thought, “Man, I can make all the movies I want on Pandora just by going to different places.”
On the one hand, Cameron is right that it is more logical for planets to have a greater wealth of biomes and cultures, but on the other hand it can also be seen as a reductionist solution on his part. And it is that in the end the part in which we meet the Metkayina clan in ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ ends up being quite similar in narrative to the Na’vi of the first installment.
Luckily, Cameron has already made it clear that he’s going to show a less kind side of this alien race in ‘Avatar 3’, so let’s hope that feeling of repetition goes away from now on. yes, everything It will always be less tiring than the insistence of ‘Star Wars’ on returning to the Tatooine desert…
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