Avatar: Fire And Ash and What’s Making Us Happy
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:28.1 | James Cameron's Avatar series has produced some of the most expensive and lucrative films ever made. Set on a faraway moon, trillions of miles from Earth, the movies tell ambitious |
| 0:34.1 | stories about a clan who must fend off a human military invasion. |
| 0:38.8 | In Avatar Fire and Ash, the story continues in a visually stunning, nearly three and a half |
| 0:44.6 | hour movie full of epic battles, uneasy alliances, human assimilation, and debates with whales. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Stephen Thompson. Joining me today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour is freelance music and culture journalist. Rihanna Cruz. Hi, Rihanna. Hey, Steven. Also with us is writer Chris Klemick. Hey, Chris. Yes, Stephen. I've asked you repeatedly to introduce me by the title I have earned, Taruk Maktou. Maybe next time. Have you been learning Navi just for this conversation? Papyrus subtitles beneath my face say yes. |
| 1:13.2 | Yes, I have. |
| 1:14.4 | All right. |
| 1:15.2 | It took more than a decade for director and co-writer James Cameron to make a sequel to his |
| 1:20.3 | audacious special effects blockbuster avatar, but the weight paid off handsomely with |
| 1:25.0 | Avatar The Way of Water a few years ago. The film grossed billions of dollars worldwide and was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. |
| 1:33.1 | Now Cameron returns with another chapter called Avatar Fire and Ash, |
| 1:36.9 | in which the Navi, they're the Blue Guys, are chased by a human military that seeks both resources and revenge on the Navi. |
| 1:43.7 | They're especially interested in the one |
| 1:45.8 | with the very non-navi name Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington. He's a former human |
| 1:51.2 | Marine who switched sides and bodies in the first film. In Avatar, Fire and Ash, the human |
| 1:56.8 | military is still largely personified by Colonel Miles Quorich, played by Stephen Lang. |
| 2:02.4 | You want to spread your fire across the world? Yeah. I'll give you guns. I'll give you |
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