Grace shouts at her group to flee. Jake runs from the thanator, who is after him, and loses most of his equipment and weapon in the process.
He narrowly escapes death from the predator and falls into raging rivers below. As darkness falls, Jake creates a fire torch using a sap substance on the trees, and once more runs and fights a large group of small sized viperwolves nantang.
Neytiri is at first angry with Jake for having caused her to kill the viperwolves needlessly and leaves him. Jake goes after Neytiri, who tells him not to follow as she knows he is an avatar hybrid - a dreamwalker from the Sky People. Grace arranges the movement of the avatar team to a remote camp in the Hallejuiah Mountains after finding out from Dr.
Max Patel that Jake has been having regular communications with Quaritch about the Na'vi. He tells Quaritch that he will attempt to convince the tribe once he is made part of the People, a ceremony granting the greatest honor to an avatar. That night, Jake undergoes the ceremony where Eytukan considers him as one of their own and made part of the People, with Grace and Neytiri looking on.
Jake is now part of the Omaticaya clan, and with this he can choose his mate; he and Neytiri choose each other and spend that night mating at the Tree of Voices , and they are now mated for life. When Jake and Neytiri awake, they encounter several bulldozers, sent by the RDA, destroying the nearby forests. Returning to the Hometree, Tsu'tey confronts him for mating with Neytiri. Before anything else can happen, Jake and Grace are suddenly sent back to their human bodies when soldiers sent by Quaritch arrive and open their link units to take them back by force.
Given a chance to attempt a final plea to the tribe to leave their home, Jake and Grace return to their avatar forms but the Na'vi refuse to listen after Jake reveals he was sent by his superiors to convince them to move. They are bound and labelled as traitors by the Na'vi who intend to defend themselves. A large strike force led by Quaritch destroys the Hometree, firing incendiary rounds that topple it to the ground, while killing large numbers of the tribe, despite their attempts to retaliate.
Eytukan is killed in the destruction, leaving Neytiri devastated. She tells Jake to stay away when he tries to comfort her. In the chaos, Jake and Grace are sent back to their original bodies to be placed under arrest for treason, along with Norm, who tried to stop the military from disabling their avatar forms.
Trudy Chacon rescues the avatar team from prison and flies them to safety, however Grace is shot by Quaritch when he attempts to stop them from leaving the colony. The team has the camp container holding the avatar transfer pods sent near the Tree of Souls , where the remaining Omaticaya tribe has fled to safety.
This is done by trying to have her consciousness transferred permanently into her avatar form, using the Tree of Souls, before her human body expires. However, it is too late, as Grace is too weak to be transferred.
The night before the battle, Jake appeals to Ewya to fight along side the Na'vi, asking her to look into Grace's memories of Earth. A huge military fleet commandeered by Quaritch approach the Tree of Souls, beginning the Assault on the Tree of Souls.
Trudy makes a valiant attempt to protect Jake from Quaritch's Dragon , but is outgunned and killed. When all things seem bleak, the native wildlife of Pandora strikes back in force, seemingly responding to Jake's earlier plea to Eywa for help.
The ground and aerial troops are scattered by the wildlife, while the shuttle carrying the explosives is destroyed before it reaches the Tree of Souls. During the wildlife's attack on the ground, a thanator approaches Neytiri and offers her to ride it. She accepts by bonding with it. The camp is damaged during Quaritch's attack and leaks deadly Pandoran air, leaving Jake's human body almost dying from the poisonous air until Neytiri helps him put on his exopack.
Neytiri begins to shed tears of joy and says it back to him. He also amplifies the emotion by creating some conflict and the anticipation of conflict in each scene. And as Jake is given his introduction to avatars, Grace gives him a hard time for being a marine and not knowing anything about science or what they are doing there. The big action sequences in Avatar are interspersed with quieter scenes of Jake recording his video-log, talking to others at the base camp, getting language lessons or learning about Pandora from Neytiri.
These moments allow the audience to catch its breath and to begin anticipating the next big conflict. They also prevent the movie from becoming one monotonous action sequence. Michelle Rodriguez as Trudy Chacon in Avatar. Photo courtesy of ILM. And while surprises and confrontations are often brief, anticipation can be prolonged almost indefinitely. Just as the arrows in the tires create anticipation of the conflict to come, numerous scenes in Avatar create anticipation of the ultimate conflict between Jake and the mercenaries.
All these instances of superior position create anticipation of the conflict that will result when the information we have is revealed to the characters in the movie. This principle is even more important in a comedy, thriller or horror film, where reversals create humor, shock and fear. Pretty impressive for one short scene. Stephen Lang as Miles Quaritch in Avatar. Photograph by Mark Fellman. And Davy Jones [from Pirates of the Caribbean] — all these examples of compelling photo-realistic, fully CG characters, in a photo-realistic world.
They did a lot with miniatures, but toward the end they were doing a lot of the jungles in CG. James Cameron doesn't make movies on the cheap, especially these days. Through his extravagant ideas and expensive mythology, he imagines worlds that engulf the screen, practically bursting at the seams. To realize such incredible innovations, some serious dough needs to be thrown on the table. Titanic was certainly not a small-budget effort , but Fox was rewarded tenfold for that well-regarded film.
Therefore, it makes sense that they willfully let Cameron have whatever money he needed to realize his latest vision. That said, Fox certainly forked up a whole lot of moolah.
That's a fortune for just one picture, notably by standards, but as Fox executive James Gianopulos admits, it was ultimately "money well-spent" given Avatar 's great success. An astonishing amount of CG went into Avatar. It's been reported that 60 percent of Avatar involves CG, and it's hard to know if that's counting all the CG environments, characters, technology, weaponry, and everything else computer-animated that appears on-screen. Avatar involves so much computer graphic technology that even Cameron later admitted that they're basically animated movies, especially when you account for all the random uses of CG seen throughout — even if you didn't notice.
For instance, did you know that when Sigourney Weaver's Dr. Grace Augustine smokes a cigarette, there wasn't a real cigarette in Weaver's hand? The Blu-Ray extras reveal behind-the-scenes footage that shows Weaver puffing on air. It was a special effect, though Avatar 's depiction of smoking was nevertheless criticized. Cameron defended the choice. Projects change invariably throughout their production.
What's on the page isn't always what's on the screen, and the journey through which a movie is realized is filled with compromises and revisions. Even his well-known PG movies, including The Abyss and Titanic , push hard against its regulations. And Avatar was reportedly also set to be R-rated at one point, though that wasn't meant to be. As it was reported , Cameron originally wrote an R-rated screenplay, but it became clear that concessions were needed.
Given the incredible budget, they needed to make sure the blockbuster had as wide an audience as possible; that wouldn't happen with an R-rating. Therefore, Cameron dialed back and made a PG version instead.
It's an understatement to say that James Cameron is a very wealthy individual. The guy once made two of the highest-grossing movies of all-time. That is not an easy feat, and it brings you a great deal of wealth in this life. Sure enough, thanks to Avatar 's success, Cameron got a whole lot more money in his pocket. That's a pretty good cut of the pie. As the writer, director, and producer, it's safe to say Avatar wouldn't exist without Cameron's bold vision.
Therefore, given its incredible triumph, it makes a lot of sense that the award-winning filmmaker earned one sweet-ass paycheck. Will is an entertainment writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Will Ashton.
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