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My best friend Leah Nepomuceno is one of the strongest people I know, especially when it comes to family. Family to her is everything and she has done all she can to try and keep hers together as a whole. We were in sixth grade swinging on the swings outside at recess, whispering and giggling about our usual gossip when she received news from one of our teachers that we knew was serious by the look on her face and fear in her voice. She came up to us and told her she needed to go the office and that she was being dismissed, she gave me permission to walk with her inside. On the short but long felt walk inside Leah's heart was pounding, her hands were sweating, and her eyes were slowly filling with tears. Her mom was

The movie Avatar was directed by Canadian James Cameron, the renowned director of Titanic, and was released in 2009. In addition to holding the record for the highest worldwide earnings in the box office, the movie has won three Oscars. However, the Na’vi, the natives of the planet Pandora, are comparable to the Aboriginals. This is evident through the similarities in culture and religion, the attitude of those who came to their land, and the events that took place.

In the year 2009, James Cameron wrote and directed one of the most remarkable films I have ever seen ‘Avatar’. This science-fiction saga has a story line that is engaging and captivating for its audience. Avatar took place on a moon called Pandora. Humans discovered very valuable natural resources on Pandora and did whatever it took to obtain what they needed from Pandora. The people of Pandora are Na’vi’s, a 10 foot tall, blue-skinned humanoid alien group that lived in the rainforest or Pandora. The Humans found a way to interact with the Na’vi’s by artificial yet organic avatars that were controlled with a human mind and conscience. Jake Sully, a paraplegic marine who was given the task to manipulate the Na’vi’s into leaving their home. Sully entered

The discovery of oneself is a very prominent theme throughout the stories of Pleasantville and Autobiography of a Face. It’s not just the word self in these pieces of literature it’s more like discovery and how the characters in these pieces find themselves as they thought they were and in new ways. It’s about facing difficulty and challenge to see what lies ahead on the other side of the wall we call adversity. Looking at the movie Pleasantville the theme of self occurs constantly. In the beginning, in their normal world, Bud and his sister are both just trying to fit into whatever crowd they can.

Set on the planet Pandora, Avatar is a science-fiction story of a money-hungry corporation’s attempt to conquer and excavate the land of humanoids known as Na’Vi. Jake Sully is a paraplegic, who is sent to space to complete his deceased brother’s mission because they share the same genome, which is necessary to navigate the expensive avatar that had already been cloned. We learn that the avatar is basically a mind-transporter used to be a part of and learn about the Na’Vi community. During his first expedition in the land of the Na’Vi, Jake gets lost and encounters one of the main female members of the tribe who ends up taking him under her wing and

“I love to have fun! It is in my blood.” Doug speaks this way as if to show signs of life enjoyment behind scarred mental anguish. This is a man who was diagnosed dead in the back of an ambulance and fell into a coma. Doug is not lying when he says he likes to have fun because he is a man suffering from a severe brain injury due to his passion for fun and the thrill of excitement. He was young and doing want any young boy likes to do with a four-wheeler and that his go fast. Laura Stone, writer for dontjudgeme.com, writes; “Speaking of those toys… While

The movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron, was based off of the history of Canadian history and the comparison between the First Nations and the Europeans. The first thing I will be talking about is the word choice they use to describe the people such as “savage” because i feel that it dehumanises the Native people. Secondly, how the assimilation between the two cultures and races affects the relationship, by getting rid of their culture and language and making them adapt into their own. Lastly, I will talk about our most valued resources and what we did and are currently doing to the land and the surrounding sacred land of the First Nations. This is portrayed when they are plowing over the Na’vi people's soul trees to get their resources.

First, the film is done in black and white which was surprising interesting. To my curiosity it evoked a nostalgic feeling. Not only did it give and old world appeal, it gave the viewer a sense of how exploration was in the past. My take on this was that the director Ciro Guerra wanted to show the integration of the ecosystem and the characters in the film. In the textbook, “The Media Ecosystem”, Antonio Lopez writes about this integration. He states “we are connected to the planetary spirit that lives in everything, as was symbolized by the Na’vi in the film Avatar” (Lopez, 20). It makes the actors equal to their surroundings. It would have looked quite different if the film was done in color. I actually think that if it was done in color there would have

James Cameron uses the natural world and how it works as a symbol of the “unknown” savages that were target of American and European imperialist conquests and other parts of the unknown, uncivilized world. The American group of military and science believe they are getting a true view of the indigenous people on Pandora, a totally new environment for them. While a lot of the scientists go into the world of Pandora using the bodies of the Na’vi, immersing themselves into the world as if they were looking at it in a stereoscopic way, the human society remains in the camera obscura way of viewing the world: misinterpreted with details missing and disconnected. They rely on the methods of science and what they learned from history about different races to gather a picture of what they think life on Pandora is. There is a difference between the outside world and the inside laboratories that they observe from, creating a disconnect between the reality and the representation.

The movies Avatar and District 9 are perfect examples of science fiction movies that have been created and highlight the different kinds of conflicts that one can relate to in the current world that we live in. Both movies have a similar setting in that both of them have incorporated the aspect of extraterrestrial forms of life in the screenplay. Most critics heap particular praise to the way the movies have been produced, directed and how the actors portray the various individual characters in the movies. An important characteristic that is well brought out in both movies is the existential anxiety or crisis that is described by the characters. This paper is aimed at summarizing the two films and clearly highlighting the existential anxiety

The Oscar award winning motion picture Avatar, directed and written by James Cameron, tells an alluring tale about an external world called Pandora. This Science-fiction flick focuses on the battle between the humans and Na’vi people, or avatars. When ex marine, Jake Sully, realizes the human’s intentions in killing the Na’vi’s native land, he chooses to work with the Na’vi people. Due to the poisons air on this land, humans must link their minds to human, Na’vi hybrids so they can safely explore Pandora. As Jake becomes further invested into this new life he learns about the “Tree of Souls”. This tree connects Na’vi’s to their God, Eywa, who is made up of all living things and protects the ecosystem of Pandora. The tree is the Na’vi’s life

In the movie Avatar, James Cameron depicted 3 themes that I can see, these themes are biodiversity, sustainability, energy pyramids. Avatar has a lot of themes but the ones i see and think are the most important and noticeable are these. This shows us how humans are greedy and selfish. All they care about is profit and self benefit. Most humans just think about themselves but one day they will lose everything but the harm they did still affects others.

The theme tragedy of the commons is depicted in the movie by the movie indicates how the human thought the avatars used up to many resources that was affecting the way they live on earth that's why they sent jake and his friend into pandora to get the minerals for them to survive.

Avatar, a 2009 American epic science fiction film was directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. The film’s main stars are Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriquez, and Sigourney Weaver.

Character animation is something I have wanted to do for ages and would like to do in the future. So when this assignment came around I was rather looking foreword to it. I did not however see that we had to model, rig and weight the character. I thought we were given a character and told to animate it. I did not mind the idea of having to model a character. Rigging was a new area for me never did it before so I was looking foreword to giving that ago.