James Cameron: Avatar Essay

Avatar required 10 years to complete and was a visually stunning. A film with visionary technology, graphics, and film techniques. Director James Cameron developed and pioneered many of these techniques while creating this film, and propelled motion capture technology and film to a new level. The characters were well written and the actors chosen fit their roles very well. One of the characters in this epic film was Mo’at the spiritual leader of the Omaticaya clan. (Khare, 2009)

It goes without saying that The Hero's Journey is an intriguing path for a story to follow. The Hero's Journey is a narrative pattern created by Joseph Campbell. James Cameron’s Avatar is a story about Jake Sully. Jake's brother was killed and because the two share the same DNA, Jake must take his place as an Avatar. Throughout this movie, friendships are formed, enemies are made and many lives are lost. In this essay, the path of The Hero's Journey will be looked at. Specifically, the Ordinary World, Meeting the Mentor, Tests, Allies and Enemies and the Ordeal. Avatar perfectly captures The Hero's Journey throughout the movie. From the Ordinary World to the Returning with the

After watching and analyzing the action adventure film, Indiana Jones - “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008) and the Sci-Fi thriller, The Matrix (1999) many cinematic elements attracted my attention. With three very distinct and ingenious directors, (Spielberg and the Wachowskis siblings) these two films exemplified extraordinary uses of lighting, framing, editing and sound techniques unique to its own genre.

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 movie Avatar is about how the human race invades a planet called Pandora to mine a certain kind of resource and fights with the Na’vi, the race of creatures that live on Pandora. The main character Jake Sulley decides to take his brothers

Avatar uses a variety of film genres and styles. One of the styles is the Cowboys versus Indians theme. It is clear that Avatar is a product of post-colonialism: it shows the Na'vi as the relatively harmless yet environmentally respectful and spiritually in tuned indigenous population, while the humans are a corporate military whose only goal is mine the resources of Pandora. The film presents an anti-military narrative. The soldiers are portrayed as cruel, violent, and brainless brutes, with only mercenary intentions. They are the stereotype of the ultimate warrior. They perpetuate the “might is right” myth. All of them are males, except for a female helicopter pilot, who ultimately defects to the

The 2009 film Avatar directed by James Cameron is a stunning visual masterpiece that required state of the art animation technology. Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million and became the highest grossing film of all time bringing in more than two billion at the box office. The film used a new form of stereoscopic filmmaking that was touted as a breakthrough in cinematic technology. Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects. Avatar can be analyzed from various new historicist perspectives and effectively makes provocative statements about social issues such as race relations, imperialism, environmentalism, and the tactics of the military industrial complex.

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

The hero in this movie was Jake Sully. Jake is a hero because he saves the Na’vi people from the humans. Jake is the main character whose journey the audience follows throughout this movie. Jake begins as a human who is disabled from the waist down, traveling to Pandora to complete what his late brother had been working hard on for the last couple of years. He is chosen because he is the only one who has the same DNA as his brother, and they are similar considering they are twins. Once on Pandora, Jake meets Norm, another initiate that is to be an avatar. He is also introduced to Grace, his mentor for the human world and the person in charge of the entire organization. With Grace’s help, he adjusts to being an avatar. Jake soon goes out into the foreign world and ends up straying from the group. He is left in the wild to survive on his own until he meets Neytiri, the daughter of a powerful leader in a Na’vi tribe called Omatikaya. Neytiri helps Jake become one of the Na’vi by training him in several categories. Without the hero, Jake Sully, the audience would not have a journey to follow. Jake’s journey is followed throughout the movie. Without him there would be no saving of the Na’vi, and the humans would take over the land

Their growth throughout a time frame is a large part in the focus and conflict of a film. In Avatar, Jake Sully is the hero; his journey in the movie is what molds the plotline and intrigues an audience. As Jake’s mindset towards the Omaticaya Clan changes, so does the movie’s conflict. No longer having the problem of gaining the native's trust, another predicament comes along. Saving Hometree from the humans. Jake becomes a fierce warrior and one of the main saviors of Pandora. After fighting along Meytitr against the humans, Jake restores peace in Pandora and even becomes the leader of the clan. Jake’s role as the hero and main character gives a strong sense of direction from the movie and gives a character to connect and fall in love with. Just like any other hero archetype, Jake Sully’s character is what creates the storyline and the emotions that come with

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.

Avatar is a blockbuster film from 2009 and one of my most favorite Sci-fi films of all time. The film was directed by James Cameron, who is known for directing films like Titanic (1997), Aliens (1986), and the Terminator (1984), all of which helped shape the film industry into what it is today. Although at the time, there was a recession and people were trying to save money, this movie became the highest grossing film in at the time. The movie provided stunning 3D technology unlike any other movie and this was one of the reasons that made people want to go watch the film. From visual effects to the camera angles, James Cameron directed this movie to make the audience feel like they are in the movie. Although the film looked amazing, there were messages and themes inside the film that made it such a success. The film provoked discussions about various messages and themes embedded inside the film, such as terrorism, Imperialism, religious connections, and connections to current world. Such messages can be clearly seen throughout the plot of the movie.

The movie Avatar is a box office hit that was released in 2009, directed by James Cameron. The film is based around an ex-marine who became after a paraplegic after an unexplained wound. He takes up his brother role in a Avatar program on the distant pnet pandora after her brother's death. He is expects to take on the role of becoming a Na'vi and becoming involved with the people learning their culture, becoming close and apart of their tight clan. Specifically the Omaticaya tribe (Blue Flute Clan). Throughout the film the it becomes increasingly obvious that the Omaticaya people have a strong sense of spiritually within their clan.

While analyzing Avatar, it’s safe to say that there isn’t one main theme, but plenty. One main theme of Avatar is the flow of energy and the beauty of nature. “She said all energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back,” (Cameron, 2009). Another huge theme in Avatar is the battle between Mother Nature and humans. “Our Great Mother does not take sides. She protects only the balance of life,” (Cameron, 2009). This quote is said by the Na’vi character Neytiri when Jake tries to ask Mother Nature to help him in his battle against the humans. In the end, Mother Nature does end up taking a stand and fighting for the preservation of life. Issues like corporations destroying nature for profit, the lack of respect for living creatures, and the failed policies of "military diplomacy" that the USA continues to pursue are just a few of the other themes behind Avatar. It would be ridiculous to say that the deep, meaningful themes from Avatar are just a copy of the weak, childish message from Pocahontas.

Avatar is the story of Jake Sully, a paraplegic marine that is sent to the world Pandora to take the place of his dead-brother's job as a Na’vi avatar pilot. The humans on Pandora use these