The Characteristics Of Aliens In Avatar And District 9

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

One of the main themes the author conveys is fear. In the teleplay, neighbors are afraid of each other because they don’t know who the aliens are and what they will do next. An example of fear is when Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn. Pete was walking back to Maple Street, and Charlie shot him, thinking Pete was the alien. “But.. I didn’t know he was… He comes walkin’ out of the darkness. How am I supposed to know he wasn’t a monster

“I guess that’s the thing about a hero’s journey. You might not start out as a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to,” (Kami Garcia). The movie Avatar, released in 2009 and directed by James Cameron, is an example of a main plot and a subplot carried by the hero’s journey and has many examples of other archetypes. Avatar is about Jake Sully, an ex-marine, who takes over his dead brother’s place on a scientific mission to a planet called Pandora. Their goal is to collect a natural resource, Unobtanium, and bring it back to Earth. A clan of Na’vi’, human-like creatures, called the Omaticaya, live in a tree right on top of the main source of the Unobtanium. Jake Sully’s task is to enter an “avatar” body disguised as a Na’vi’ and learn as much as he can about their kind and what the humans have to do to relocate their clan. Eventually, the Omaticaya assimilate Jake into their clan and teach him their ways, not knowing that he is one of the “sky people”, or humans. As the plot of Avatar moves on, Jake begins to change his opinions on the Navi, the idea of nature, and which side he should fight for with help of

Archetypes are characters, symbols, and situations that represent universal patterns and symbols in human nature. These symbols and patterns appear in countless pieces of literature and media. The 2009 film, Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron, is a modern-day prime example of a hero’s journey also containing many character and symbolic archetypes. Avatar is a science-fiction in which humans have drained all of earth’s natural resources and have been searching exoplanets and their moons for vital materials to sustain the human population. The protagonist and hero, Jake Sully, is sent to a moon of the gigantic exoplanet Polyphemus named Pandora, which has a poisonous atmosphere and hostile native species, but holds a valuable metal, unobtanium. There he has to take his twin brother’s place controlling an avatar in the Avatar Project, a system of mind controlled bodies made up of cross-bred human DNA and the DNA of the natives. In his Avatar form, Jake is accepted into a tribe of the natives known as the Na’vi. Though his mission

Before a reader can understand this essay, they must know a little background about the subject. For a long time, what went on in Area 51 was kept top-secret. This led to many people speculating that the government was hiding things such as aliens and crashed UFOs there. These speculations led to things such as movies and TV shows being made on the subject. The creation of these led to more people learning about and believing in the rumors of Aliens and other extraterrestrial beings in Area 51.

The high probability of alien life makes it very hard to deny their existence any longer. While some proponents of some more ‘out-there’ theories, such as the Ancient Astronaut Theory, may discourage some from pursuing the subject further, actually discussing the possibility of other life forms similar to humans is a leap from when scientists were too scared of ridicule to even mention the topic. The ridicule that is becoming decreasingly common is well-illustrated in the picture below (9). The picture alludes to the childish nature that some associate with claims of alien life and UFO sightings. This is achieved through the two characters, which appear to be young. The boy’s claims of a UFO sighting also help the claim as his goal of the sighting was to be famous, which pokes holes in any perhaps viable claims of UFO sightings. Despite all of the bumps in the road, science now has the technology and passion for finding life. One question remains in the minds of those who may doubt it: which is more comforting, the thought that we’re alone in the infinite universe or the belief that we

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

Both the movies have the plot of the main character experiencing events that lead to them transforming into an alien body and having the responsibility of making the aliens leave their allocated area, in Avatar it was the “home tree” and in District 9 it was “District 9”. In Avatar, Jake Sully was given an opportunity to walk again in a mutated body called avatar

The movie Avatar directed by James Cameron and district 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp were two films that were related to the same theme of human vs aliens and the portrait of the bad side of humanity. In addition to that the character depiction of the aliens and humans lead to a stronger message to the viewer to be sympathetic towards the alien race and makes the viewer think about the similar activities that are occurring in our world with other humans.

These cinematic elements are additional evidence of emotional development of this film, both in terms of progression and characterization. The films evolution is grasped through the plot development as John and the community members as confront the reality of an alien invasion. In kind, the same fear and paranoia manifesting within the nation was going through the same linear progression. It is important to reference that this film does not conclude in a diplomatic nature. As both John and those around them come to the realization that aliens have infiltrated and taken over their community, the immediate result is eradication. It is not until John persuades the aliens to leave, is this mission aborted. However, they did not part as friends.

Imagine, if you can, a world where the future is told in the fantastic. Where stories are not tomes dedicated to what has happened, but what is still to come. Where adventures are found with space aliens and dystopian governments, technology and time travel. The stories of science fiction transcend all media, from books, to radio, to movies, to television and to hologram. Wait, hologram? Isn’t that impossible? In science fiction, the word “impossible” became obsolete many generations ago, with the dawn of the genre. When analyzing science fiction, “it is imperative to keep in mind that science fiction has long since ceased being only-or even primarily-a literary phenomenon.” (Landon, 6). From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to Big Brother’s omnipotent gaze in George Orwell’s 1984, to the screen and the incredible space adventures of Captain Kirk and his crew in Star Trek, to the young adult genre with the dystopian futures of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. There’s simply no

James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) is feat of technology; it contained the best visual effects during the time of its release. The story on the other hand is extremely cliché and not very ground breaking. It is due to a combination of these two facts that it became the highest grossing film of all time and broke a number of records for the amount of money it made. Whilst grand in theory, the movie lacked a significant, underlying theme, but this was overridden by the vast world James Cameron has created. The concept on the other hand, is very similar to many previously made movies depicting a similar storyline, that is, forbidden love between a native and a foreign invader.

The mise-en-scene in District 9 also helps to create realism, and strangely enough there is something even very ‘real’ about these aliens in District 9. They are almost like giant ants and the way they function and

Another movie influenced by the Romantic period is Avatar, directed by James Cameron. In the movie, Jake Sully’s consciousness is linked to the body of a lifeless alien body and is assigned tasks to complete while on the alien planet of Pandora. The movie produces vivid pictures of floating islands and beautiful scenes of plants and creatures not found on Earth. According to Adam Glasgow, the movie includes an “awe of nature” influenced by the Romantic period (1). The movie also incorporates the strange scenes of Pandora and the mystery revolving around the foreign planet. The alien tribes consider themselves one with nature. Their lives and the lives of all the plants and animals are connected through spirit. Neytiri, one of the aliens, instructs

The film Avatar (italics on titles - plus remove the bold writing on your paragraphs and remove all the planning above when you submit the final) directed by James Cameron is the story of Jake Sully; the man who is asked to take the place of his twin brothers place at Pandora for a scientific experiment. At the start he was very hesitant toward taking his brothers (apostrophe) place, there were times when he felt like not continuing with the program. Along the way he faced a series on tests, allies and enemies. The end result is what he was starting to want near the end of the movie.(the more formal term is film)