assignment 5-2 formula analysis

ARTIFACT	Movie:  Avatar
BELIEFS	That the white Christian way was the correct way and that the native`s with different beliefs and religion was hostile
MYTH	Mono-myth: the myth of an American success, that the American way of life is the true way and that all can be only thru our belief
HERO	Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, who is recruited to gain the entrance and secrets of the natives, and then he finds that his beliefs and understanding of the natives our totaling incorrect.
SETTING	On a planet, far from earth: this movie is a mirror of our beginnings in early years of freedom from the British, what we did to the native Americans we tried to do on the planet of Pandora, destroy them because they had something we as white Americans wanted in this case a mineral, in the native Americans case-land.
RITUAL	The right to practice their own religion.
STERETYPE	We see the stereotyping here of white Americans coming to save the day of another race
FORMULAS	Action adventure: convention; just like in a lot of action adventure, movie such as Indiana  Jones and the temple of doom,  we see the same thing, that the producers always cast a white male as the hero to another race