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Old 02-24-2024, 04:49 PM   #1
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Adventure genre

I've been thinking about the "adventure" genre lately, as typified in this cool scene in a bad movie:

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The adventure genre was born out of the Victorian Era, which (along with Taisho Japan) is carried on by second-hand nostalgia.

None of us lived in this period, so we have no direct memories of the good time under the British sun, but looking back on it today it's kind of icky.

Adventure as a genre looks at the deep jungles of Africa, India, Borneo, etc. as a mysterious land where the white imperlaists can conquer and get rich. It's like the Wild West mythology in that folks there have more individual power.

I can't look at that genre today without thinking of it from the native perspective. It's colonialist to the core, based on the presumption that Africa is unknown to (white) "civilization" and to know it is to dominate.

I will say though that 1998's The Mummy, while also firmly adventure-ground, is probably less colonialist, probably a midway between Indiana Jones and King Solomon's Mines. Ancient Egypt is unknown because it's separated by time, not by geography, but it's still a grave robbing adventure like an Indy (not Indie) film.

I guess this is kind of rambling, but is it truly possible to separate the adventure genre from the stain of colonialism? I don't think I can enjoy it anymore. If I wanted to go on a safari one can do that without dipping into that nostalgia of empires being on top of colonies.
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