I’m Indigenous Canadian … 100% Ojibway on all sides of my family
As soon as I saw the first movie, I knew immediately it was just cultural appropriation … the blue space smurfs are modeled around jungle tribes … then their fighting is reminiscent of western Native tribes like the Apache, Comanche and Navajo … the war tribes are also modeled around African tribes … then all their spiritual stuff is weird space version of native mysticism from many Native cultures around the world
It wouldn’t have been so bad if they had left it like that … but the worst part is that they portray the Natives as being naive, childlike, simplistic beings who are incapable of defending themselves … so the story needs a white saviour who takes on the suit of one of the Natives … essentially, the Natives are too dumb to save themselves so they need one of the white colonizers to save them.
And we also have to feel empathy and sympathy for the white saviour who tried to save the natives … even though he volunteered for the mission and it was his people who wanted to kill them all.
It’s a very simple story. How did you manage to get that take? Also there’s a deleted scene that shows Sullys failing restaurant and why he had to join. Interesting take nevertheless.
What’s cultural appropriation about it?
I’m Indigenous Canadian … 100% Ojibway on all sides of my family
As soon as I saw the first movie, I knew immediately it was just cultural appropriation … the blue space smurfs are modeled around jungle tribes … then their fighting is reminiscent of western Native tribes like the Apache, Comanche and Navajo … the war tribes are also modeled around African tribes … then all their spiritual stuff is weird space version of native mysticism from many Native cultures around the world
It wouldn’t have been so bad if they had left it like that … but the worst part is that they portray the Natives as being naive, childlike, simplistic beings who are incapable of defending themselves … so the story needs a white saviour who takes on the suit of one of the Natives … essentially, the Natives are too dumb to save themselves so they need one of the white colonizers to save them.
And we also have to feel empathy and sympathy for the white saviour who tried to save the natives … even though he volunteered for the mission and it was his people who wanted to kill them all.
It’s a very simple story. How did you manage to get that take? Also there’s a deleted scene that shows Sullys failing restaurant and why he had to join. Interesting take nevertheless.