The cigarette that Sigourney Weaver 's character "smokes" is computer-generated. First movie to ever cross the U. Jake's atrophied legs were prosthetics cast from the legs of a real paraplegic.
Sam Worthington 's real legs were tucked into the wheelchair and digitally removed in post-production. Some CGI scenes took an average of 47 hours to render.
The book Grace picks up in the abandoned school is "The Lorax" by Dr. Like the plot of the film, the book is about a forest full of beautiful trees and mystical creatures that are destroyed by man's lust for ever-growing industry. Composer James Horner stated that this was his most difficult film and the biggest challenge of his career.
He said in an interview that he worked on the music from am to pm for a year and a half. All animals on Pandora have six limbs, except for the humans and Na'vi. According to James Cameron , the Na'vi are blue to create a conceptual parallel with traditional Hindu depictions of God e. It describes a material that is perfect for an application but does not exist , is extremely expensive, or violates the laws of physics.
Its chemical symbol is Uo. To appease 20th Century Fox's fears, and remembering the harrowing experience of Titanic and its production overruns and costly delays, James Cameron promised to forgo his director's fee if "Avatar" flopped. James Cameron disclosed on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien that he began working on preliminary drafts of his movie as early as the mid-'90s. Because his visual concepts were so avant-garde, the technology required to consummate his vision was not then available.
Not until was he able to proceed with viable script scenarios. Michael Biehn was considered for the role of Col. James Cameron rejected him because he'd already cast Sigourney Weaver , and he didn't want people to think it was Aliens all over again.
A lot of motion capture technology was used for the CGI scenes. Avatars have eyebrows and five digits per hand and foot while the Na'vi only have four digits and no eyebrows. The Avatars are also broader in the chest and arms, appearing more "muscular. The first of five proposed Avatar films.
The word "avatar" is Sanskrit for "incarnation. James Cameron got the idea for "Avatar" after watching Disney's animated film Pocahontas The whooping and cackling sounds made by the wolf-like predators on Pandora are actually real spotted hyena calls. In much of the movie, Dr.
Augustine's avatar wears a Stanford tank top. Sigourney Weaver attended Stanford in the early s. The multiple breathing orifices seen on the larger animals of Pandora were inspired by the air intakes on the sides of sports cars. The first completely digitally shot movie to win the Oscar for Best Cinematography. The actors playing the Na'vi had cameras attached to their heads so that they filmed close-ups of their faces.
Dots painted on their faces allowed motion-capture software to record their facial expressions, providing a "framework" from which the CG artists worked. The spiral-shaped, retracting creatures Jake encounters early in the film are giant versions of Christmas Tree Worms, a marine invertebrate commonly kept in reef aquariums.
In the original ending Neytiri was going to be pregnant with Jake's child. The word "na'vi" in Hebrew means prophet. A na'vi is a visionary or someone who communicates directly with God. Its plural, nevi'im, also refers to the prophetic books of the bible, which include "Daniel," "Micah," and "Isaiah. Despite understanding the Na'vi are not placental mammals, James Cameron insisted from the start that Neytiri should have breasts so as to look hot from a human's point of view.
Sigourney Weaver plays a James Cameron persona for her character in this film. Sigourney stated in an interview, "I teased him because to me I'm playing Jim Cameron in the movie as this kind of brilliant, approach-driven, idealistic perfectionist. But that same somebody has a great heart underneath. So I have to say I was always kind of channeling him. While the movie was often described as "anti-war" by critics and fans, James Cameron repeatedly said in interviews that the film was not inspired by or commenting on any specific conflicts or any specific nation's overall foreign or defense policies.
Cameron also said that the film DID have a brutally strong pro-environmentalist message on purpose because, as he put it, "I am a tree-hugger.
Quaritch mentions that being on Pandora made him feel "like a shavetail Looie. Newly assigned cavalry troopers were given horses with a shaved tail, to let other troopers know that the rider was dangerously inexperienced and should be given extra room to maneuver during training. It took a year to capture and transfer all of that to Neytiri. In James Cameron movies, allies to the main characters often have Catholic references. Saint Augustine was a Catholic monk who brought Christianity to pagan England, and became Archbishop.
One manner of address for an Archbishop is "Your Grace. The film reached the U. James Cameron 's previous film, Titanic , took 98 days to reach the mark. According to a CNN report, James Cameron visited the Brazilian rain forest more than once after receiving outcries from tribal leaders inspired by his film.
During one visit Cameron was a real-life Jake Sully; with warpaint on his face, and a spear in his hand, he met with 18 indigenous tribal leaders to plan a battle to stop the construction of a proposed dam. The kelp, as well as other native lifeforms on the planet, are linked into a large entity with a shared consciousness, called "Avata.
Ey'wa, the deity of the Na'vi people, is a mixed-up pronunciation of "Yahweh," the God of the Hebrews. The film was reportedly conceived in the s - an era when "Save the Rainforest" was a popular phrase in society.
Americans and other countries were highly vocal in protest over industrial slashing and burning of Amazon rain forests and forced displacement of indigenous tribes. By the time the technology was finally available to make this film, the movement's popularity had faded significantly. The Na'vi were partially inspired by a dream James Cameron 's mother had about a tall, blue woman.
The idea of humans landing on an alien planet with a toxic atmosphere which necessitates breathing masks was an unused element from an original story Cameron had once written called "Mother"; the rest of the story had been used as the basis for his screenplay for Aliens Cameron said that he didn't want to cast her at first, exactly because "she was [his] safest choice to play the botanist.
Grace Augustine. Twenty of the world's top creature designers worked with James Cameron on the film, as well as character designs and landscape designs, all for the hardware, amp suits and the helicopters. Eighteen months was spent on design. James Cameron wanted the creatures to be plausible so their form and function were interrelated--e.
All the six-legged creatures in the film move like ants, in that their four front legs move together but the rear two move separately. The cap that Norm Spellman wears during his first trip into the Pandoran jungle has Braille symbols on it that represent " ," or "Number ," the year when humans first landed on the moon. The common spirit of Pandora, where every creature is constantly connected to each other, and the planet itself, is based on the concept of Gaia, described in Isaac Asimov 's novel "Foundation's Edge" When Trudy Michelle Rodriguez refers to needing to fly VFR, she is referring to the Visual Flight Rules, where a pilot, accurately enough, needs to see where they are going.
Grace mentions there are ten to the fourth connections between each tree, and ten to the 12th trees on Pandora, and that this is more than the human brain. In scientific notation, "ten to the fourth" is 10,, and "ten to the 12" is one trillion.
This makes for a total of ten to the 16th, or ten quadrillion, connections. The human brain has an average of trillion. The film is Sigourney Weaver's 7th science fiction film. The film was released 30 years after Sigourney Weaver's breakthrough film Alien James Cameron directed Sigourney Weaver in the sequel Aliens This is the 2nd film which Cameron and Weaver have worked together on.
This is identical to the long shot in Alien , when the Nostromo is approaching LV, the planetoid where they are receiving the signal from. James Cameron based the design of Neytiri's costumes on a taparrabo, a loincloth thing worn by Mayan Indians. According to James Cameron , the design of the mountains in the film is inspired by the mountains around southern China, in particular, ZhangJiaJie. One of China's national park mountains has been renamed Avatar Hallelujah Mountain because of this film.
Mo'at, the spiritual leader of the Na'vi tribe, is referred to by the title "tsahik". It sounds similar to the Hebrew "tsaddik", meaning an individual of outstanding virtue and piety. The term is often applied to an especially knowledgeable interpreter of Biblical law and scriptures.
James Cameron wanted Mauro Fiore to photograph this film because he admired Fiore's lush jungle photography in Tears of the Sun Fiore agreed after a minute meeting with Cameron, followed by a two-hour guided tour of the constructed sets with Jon Landau. Grace's avatar was the most difficult to realize. Sigourney Weaver's face wasn't a natural mesh with the features of a Na'vi.
Her narrow, patrician nose did not translate well to the distinctive leonine Na'vi nose. The concept of a network of trees, in which minds of the deceased continue to exist, appears in several novels of the "Ender" series by Orson Scott Card , most prominently in "Speaker for the Dead. James Cameron considers "Avatar" different from anything he's made before.
He said making the film was "a complete leap into the unknown. Like a jump off a cliff and madly fabricating a parachute on the way down. It's a lot of fun to be out on the edge and know that you're doing something nobody's ever done before. Jake Sully's initials J. This film shares many similarities with the Pocahontas story in plot and theme. Like John Smith, Sully is a member of an invading force who falls in love with a tribal princess, after learning her customs.
In the original draft, Jake's name was Josh, while Neytiri's was Zuleika a real female name of Arabic origin, meaning "fair", "brilliant" and "lovely". Grace Augustine was named Shipley in earlier drafts. The first attack uses a gas called CN20, the same gas the Marines wanted to use in Aliens. The Na'vi people have 4 fingers on each hand, while the avatars have 5 fingers. This is how you can tell them apart.
They escaped when disillusioned pilot and Marine Trudy Chacon along with Dr. Max Patel organized an undercover escape using an unguarded Samson transport.
During the escape, Dr. Augustine was shot and fatally wounded by Quaritch she would later die while a revival was attempted by the Omaticaya, further fueling the animosity between the two factions. The crew were able to steal the avatar uplink from the Hallelujah Mountains and regroup with the Omaticaya. Using the uplink, Jake returned to his avatar and successfully completed tsaheylu with the infamous toruk becoming the sixth Toruk Makto.
Inspired by this feat, the Na'vi once again trusted Jake and followed him "to the four winds" to unite all the Na'vi tribes against the RDA. Aware of the Na'vi's rapid increase in numbers, Quaritch decided to execute a preemptive strike against the Na'vi holy site at the Tree of Souls to "blast a crater in their racial memory so deep that they won't come within a thousand klicks of this place Hell's Gate ever again.
A contingent of AMP suits and standard infantry started noticing readings of movement up ahead, although the air force had yet to notice the enemy.
As the shuttle approached the stone arches marking the entrance to the Tree of Souls, several hundred banshee mounted warriors descended onto the formation. Jake Sully accounted for the first RDA casualties when his Toruk grabbed onto a Scorpion gunship and sent it out of control into a nearby cliff face.
At this point, the primary strategy of the Na'vi was to fire arrows directly into the cockpits of the enemy aircraft, making use of their banshees' speed and close range to overcome the reinforced glass. Meanwhile on the ground, a large group of Direhorse -mounted Na'vi approached the advancing infantry head on with less effect. Although the Na'vi had taken advantage of the element of surprise and managed to destroy several enemy units, Quaritch eventually ordered the RDA to break formation and the battle soon turned to favor the humans and their superior technology.
Even though Trudy managed to cause some damage to the enemy in her own Samson suitably decorated with Na'vi war paint , she was quickly shot down and killed by Quaritch's Dragon gunship. At this point, the Na'vi sustained heavy casualties, including Tsu'tey who attempted a direct assault on the Valkyrie shuttle , Trudy after fighting the Dragon Assault Ship and Seze , Neytiri's banshee.
The RDA soon regained control of the fight and were subsequently allowed to regroup and resume their bombing run of the Tree of Souls. As Jake slowly came to realize that his counterattack had failed and Neytiri prepared one final, suicidal attempt to attack the advancing enemy ground forces despite Jake's order to hold her fire, much of the native wildlife suddenly organized against the human invaders.
Dozens of hammerhead titanotheres and sturmbeest charged at the advancing AMP suits, their natural frontal armor easily deflecting the large caliber rounds fired by the GAU This stampede made short work of the advancing ground forces and quickly caused a retreat, which was pursued by packs of viperwolves. Solely from a logistical point of view: they're wanting to mine the area around the Hometree for Unobtanium.
That's the entire motivation behind the assault. So their approach is to fell this giant, trillion-ton tree right on top of the area they're looking to mine? Couldn't they have caused enough havoc to force out the Na'vi, but still kept the tree upright? Heck, they could've used it as staging space for the mining operation. By taking the tree down, they've created a mountain literally of additional work they have to clear while mining.
Yes, it made for an awesome action scene, but maybe it wasn't the best long-term strategy. Jake is recruited to relocate to Pandora, but he seems pretty much clueless to everything going on there. He didn't go through any of the extensive, required training to be part of the Avatar program though he did at least read the manual , and he seems amazed at everything he sees on Pandora. Yes, it's a beautiful new world, but he's pretty much clueless at everything he finds there.
He messes with plants that could be poisonous and doesn't know anything about the indigenous animals he's tasked with protecting his team from. The film obviously needs a character to serve as a way into the story and this world, but Jake comes off a bit too wide-eyed. The atmosphere of Pandora is highly poisonous to humans and is largely comprised of carbon dioxide.
It's an interesting juxtaposition, creating a lush world of greenery that's also deadly, but it also doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The trees and plants look remarkably similar to what we have on Earth well, except for the weird ones , so why don't they produce oxygen? The entire concept of creating these alien Avatars doesn't seem like a wise way to build trust with an alien civilization. The Na'vi are smart enough to understand that humans are different than they are, and they've seen them running around on the planet.
So why do they think that making these "fake" versions of the aliens will help them connect? If they're really trying to make them feel comfortable and blend in, why the heck do they still wear human clothes on their Na'vi Avatar bodies? If you're going to all the trouble to build this apparently insanely expensive alien body, you should probably not dress it in human clothes that make it stand out like a sore thumb.
If anything, you'd think the Na'vi could be offended and trust them less. In a way, this almost mirrors the diplomatic faux pas we've seen happen throughout history, but c'mon — this is supposed to be the future, right? They spend a ton of money we're told a few times that the Avatar program is crazy expensive to create these alien hybrids in an effort to Connect with the Na'vi?
They build a school but then let the soldiers mow down a bunch of kids for vandalizing a bulldozer. They have these dual initiatives to send in a bunch of soldiers and just start tearing up the land, led by tanks and massive robo-suits, while also using the Avatar program to try and make friends? When the film starts, there doesn't seem to be any active communication or negotiations whatsoever between the Na'vi and humans.
So why keep spending money on the Avatar program at all? This is necessary for the plot to work, but it's absolutely mind-boggling. We can track people and things pretty darn well already, but do we lose that capability once we start traveling to other star systems? When Jake is separated from the team early in the film, they scour the woods to try and find him. Later, when Jake starts going rogue, they don't realize he's the Na'vi tearing up to the bulldozer until they stop the camera and look at his face.
Wouldn't it make infinitely more sense to just track him the whole time? Michelle Rodriguez's Trudy joins up with Jake and the other humans that help the Na'vi, and she's dressed for success during the final battle. Apparently at some point before the final fight, Trudy found the time to paint some blue war paint on her helicopter and her face!
If she did this so the Na'vi warriors would know to avoid her chopper, that makes some sense, but it also ruins her ability to blend in while attacking the human war ships.
As for the face paint? While sitting alone in a helicopter where no one can see her?
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