The prequel ‘Predator: the prey’ (Prey, 2022) by Dan Trachtenberg, has received a generally positive response from critics and fans alike, but there have also been a minority of viewers who said the film was “too Woke”because it features a lone, inexperienced warrior facing off against an alien killing machine.
“People don’t have a clue about the history of the natives, period.”
The star Amber Midthunder has rejected the idea that ‘The Prey’ is very woke, a term coined to define almost everything that is considered to be pushing some sort of agenda or to include “forced diversity” these days, is ridiculously used if a movie features a woman in a lead role. In Prey’s case, the main problem is that she is the only warrior in the movie to go toe-to-toe with an alien killing machine and emerge victorious with barely a scratch.
But watching the movie, Naru gets a lot of help from his brother and others along the way, and Midthunder has addressed the controversy in an interview with people
“I think a lot of people thought our movie was going to be some kind of super woke story about fucking the patriarchy, and that’s not what it’s about at all. It’s not a girl challenging what men say she can and can’t do. It’s literally a person who feels called to do something and the people who know her don’t think that’s her calling. That’s much more personal and I think I think as a character she’s harder to deal with than anything else.”
Although Naru’s tribe, the Comanches, are not known to have had outstanding female warriors, there is also no evidence that they have not had themto which Midhunder adds:
“People don’t have a clue about native history. Period. So they don’t know what kind of warriors we were. They were known to be some of the fiercest warriors of all. And they had a society of women warriors, so there were women who fought and hunted.