Critical Analysis of Twilight
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Critical Analysis of Twilight Is it racists for the amazon Coven to be depicted like this?
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Yes, because they don't dress like that! That's way too much clothes, in weird styles. Amazonian women typically wear skirts and that's it. Or, if they're close enough to trade with more modernized peoples, they wear a mix of traditional clothes and new styles, like a tshirt with a wrap skirt. But not animal skins, like they're shown wearing here.
But that's not really racism, that's just not doing the fucking research and probably executive meddling wanting them to look "exotic"
Anyway, sometimes racism is extremely clear and sometimes it's in the eye of the beholder.
But they were not a part of an Amazon tribe. They were part of a Pantanal tribe, then moved into the Amazon.
They're not wearing animal skin (or even imitation) in the pictures, it's brown fabric.
I wouldn't say these outfits are racist so much as hilarious.
Pantanal tribes, according to pictures, wear cloth/fabric and paint.
Seeing as they are vampires in Twilight, and likely to be exceptional at everything, it's not such a long shot that they'd be really good at sewing and making clothes. Probably much better than the normal humans without any industrial resources.
Fanfly, I love that comment. Its exactly what it looks like.
@cassie, If you really want to take this seriously....
The Amazon coven is described as having no contact with humans other than to hunt them. So how would they have access to cloth? They could steal it I suppose but if they did it would look much more Western because most Amazon tribes these days wear Western clothing. Any non-Western clothing probably wouldn't be made of cloth. Also I really don't think it's a matter of them patterning their clothes after a certain culture but rather making clothes from the resources available to them. I believe in the books they are described as wild-looking and clothed entirely in animals skins. Which makes sense. Obviously the movie depictions have taken some liberties with them in order to prettify them. Which isn't that big of a deal, happens all the time in Hollywood.
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These are just some random examples of traditional clothing. There are of course many different tribes within these 2 regions that would no doubt differentiate from each other.
And then this is what these tribes are more likely to be wearing now in their everyday life:
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I really don't think the way Hollywood has chosen to depict these characters is surprising.
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