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The white savior tropes are mostly from activists. The actual book is a critique of the very idea of saviors in general.
by ThomPete 5y ago
The white savior tropes are mostly from activists. The actual book is a critique of the very idea of saviors in general.
- nsonha 5y agoWas it the intention from the start or did Frank come up with it as he wrote more books?
- klik99 5y ago"white saviour" is just the pithy modern name for what the book was critical of. It wasn't just in general against saviours, the oppression and race aspects were def part of the book. I'm no activist but I was disappointed (and surprised given the current climate) that those undertones weren't in the movie at all (arguably acting nice to the Freman for "desert power", but the movie was too invested in showing Leto as a really great guy with so little screen time that it couldn't afford to dwell on the complexity) - it comes more to the foreground after he's with the Freman so hopefully the second movie will explore that critique a bit more. None of this stopped me from really enjoying the movie - though I think highlighting the ambiguity could make it into a really great movie. The book does it by exploring how the systems work in the world which rarely works well in movies, so I'm not sure how part 2 could do it without it feeling "tacked on"