Avatar
Avatar takes place on Pandora, a habitable moon of a gas planet in the Alpha Centauri star system. The Humans are in the middle of the twenty-second century and their planet is dying. In order to try to save their dying planet, the humans are mining unobtainium for cheap energy. In this movie we see the social conflict that arises from the clashing cultures of two different humanoid races.
The main character Jake sully is a paraplegic former marine who ends up coming to Pandora to take his dead twin brothers spot in the avatar project. Jake after getting off the ship goes immediately to a military briefing where Colonel Quaritch is warning the assembled soldiers. He reminds them they're "not in Kansas any more," and he tells them about Pandora's natives, the Na’vi. Quaritch, showing long set of white scars on the side of his head, says they are "hard to kill" and practically everything "out there" will try to kill you. And, while it's his job to keep his people alive, he says he will not succeed in this task. If the soldiers wish to survive, he continues, they will have to follow "Pandora rules." In this moment we already see a social issue arise. We see how Quaritch see the Na’vi. Quaritch sees the Na’vi as a threat that is in the way of the company’s goals and a pest to be killed. This view plays a big role in what the earthlings do later in the film.
Jake then continues into the lab where he meets Norm Spellman and learns about the avatar program and what they are trying to do. Norm Spellman has a ethnocentric mind set and is fascinated by everything about the Na’vi because he compares it to his own human experiences. At this point in the movie we already have to competing views about the Na’vi. We have the company...
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... that acts as a hammock where he falls asleep. In this scene we continue to see the Importance of Eywa and the role she plays in the civilizations of the Na’vi.
When human Jake wakes up he tells Grace and Norm all that happened. Later we see how all the scientists attitudes change around Jake because he is the best shot at getting information about the Na’vi and the company is nicer to him because he is the only one that will be able to get the Na’vi to leave and he has information on home tree infrastructure.
In the next scene we see a time lapse of Jake learning about the language, the rituals, and how important the animals are to them. Nayiri gives Jake lessons on how to bond and ride a dire horse. In the next video log Jake says that the language lessons with Nayiri is like "field-stripping a weapon." Enough repetition and you can't help but learn it.
The story begins with Jake driving on the freeway. He is so enraptured by his daydream of better possibilities that he ends up smacking the car ahead of him. Jake considers driving away but instead he stops and finds out that the owner of the Toyota he hit was a beautiful girl. From there, Jake switches into his smooth talker role with Mariana. Jake then tries to con her by saying he doesn't have any insurance and assures her that he will pay for it. As he drives away, he sees Mariana behind him writing down the license plate numbers that he stole from another car.
It was incredibly difficult to not to pick one of my favorite films for this project, such as A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and Jaws. However, I went out of my comfort zone and picked a genre of film I’ve never become familiar with- Western. The 1974 film Blazing Saddles was a hilarious frontier/Wild West twist about road worker named Bart, played by Cleavon Little, becoming part of character Hedley Lamarr’s (Harvey Korman) evil plan to out-run the small town of Rock Ridge by appointing an African American sheriff to the massly single-minded small town of racist’s. With the plan to destroy the town to make way for a new railroad, Lamarr is convinced that they town would be so appalled that they wouldn’t stand having an
Namor asks her to tell him the story of their past once again, and why their people hate the white Earth Men so much.
Avatar revolves around Jake Sully, an ex-Marine, who is replacing his deceased brother as a hybrid Avatar. A hybrid avatar is a human consciousness inside a Na’vi body. A machine transfers the consciousness of a human to the avatar body. Throughout the movie Jake’s allegiances to the humans fades and he unites with the natives of Pandora, the Na’vi. Jake eventually becomes the leader of a Na’vi clan as well. The natives of Pandora are blue-skinned humanoid creatures around three meters tall. Even though their appearance is frightening to humans, they are peaceful and try to live in harmony with nature and other creatures. As a result of Na’vi’s size they have a very distinct advantage in hand to hand fighting. The central idea is that at the
Avatar the motion picture throws you into a rich world, with diverse characters who clash over cultural and socio-economic issues. At the heart of the story is a former Marine named Jake Sully, who falls in love while on an alien planet with a woman from a race of people called the Na’vi. The character whom he falls in love with is an alien for which he sacrifices his whole way of life to be with. By way of his experiences with the Na’vi, he begins to adopt a new worldview, which can only be described as Pantheism.
Like the film noir detectives that came before him, Jake exhibits some of the common traits of the typical private dick. He is a crass joker, he sis willing to get violent with both men and women who cause him trouble, and never lets physical threats scare him off a case. The standard film noir private eye is a passive, cool, cynical, masochistic character who maintains a subjective view of the case and can sift through peoples’ stories to solve the mystery. The thing that is different about Jake Giddes is that he doesn’t always seem to make the obvious, or even correct choice. Un...
Na’vi and they worship the deity Eywa, Eywa keeps the Ecosystem balanced. Avatar focuses around Jake Sully who has taken the place of his brother, in the Avatar program, which is lead by Scientist who explore Pangora by using a body of a hybrid of a Na’vi and Human as if it were his or her own, this helps them to carry
This is such a good conflict, which made the movie more interesting to watch and you always waited to see what the Indians were going to do next.
Jake’s friend and show to Judge that Garret is a good boy and make him give to Jake Garret a second chance. And what do you thank happened? Maybe this quote will help you to guess: “I should have known before. Nobody was coming to stand behind Jake. Not one solitary soul”. Without parties, free beer and pizza nobody needed Jake. Those hundreds and hundreds teenagers who went to his parties, call themselves Garret’s friends just disappeared. Even Didi, did not showed up. This story tells us how selfish and villainy people could be.
Along, with everyone lying this could have caused a completely different outcome of the book if they would have told the truth. The book would have turned to Miss. Narwin not being afraid of just going out in public if Jake Barlow didn't have the dismissal and omission lies. Phillip would still have his friends and track, if he would have not lied about patriotism to the nation. Finally, Dr. Seymour would have a phenomenal teacher in her district if she would have kept Miss. Narwin and cared about the truth. In conclusion, the book would have a contrasting ending is Phillip, Dr. Seymour, and Jake Barlow did not
The protagonist and narrator of the novel, Jake was left impotent from an injury incurred while serving with the Italian Front in World War 1. His inability to consummate his love for the insatiable Brett Ashley, and the sterile social backdrop of Paris provide a striking similarity to the Arthurian Fisher King motif of a man generatively impaired, and his kingdom thusly sterile. Bill Gorton, an amicable ally of Jake, and one of the few morally sound characters in the novel, serves as Galahad, gently kidding Jake about his injury, promoting self-acceptance and healing.
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 teaches him the ways of a Omaticaya. From here, the movie continues to tell the story of Jake’s dilemma between the mission he started with his people and the allegiance he slowly pledged to the Omaticaya clan. After watching Avatar the day it came out in theaters, I easily decided that it was one of the most extraordinary movies I had ever seen. My opinion may seem invalid coming from an uncultured fourteen-year-old, but even after having recently re-watched the film, I feel this movie and its social commentary are remarkable. There were many aspects to this movie, some controversial, that made the movie exceptional: its new-aged cinematography, disputable portrayal of the indigenous peoples, oddly familiar plotline, and mostly its critique on colonization and civilization. After having watched Avatar for the sixth time, I have come to the conclusion that this film much more intricate than its critics and supporters acknowledge. There are multiple parallels between imperialism and...
By contrast, Jake implies about himself that he is a man of few illusions. Here it is important to note that Jake—both protagonist and narrator—is telling the unfolding story from his own perspective. He works as a newspaper reporter, but the reader must bear in mind that objectivity about personal matters is rarely achieved. By the end of these opening chapters Hemingway has created two distinct sensibilities. Jake and Cohn have in common being more productively engaged and forward-looking (less "lost") than their more dissolute companions. Cohn, however, lives with a certain "expectancy, an assumption that life can be better than it actually is, and Jake adopts the soberer awareness that there is no escaping the limitations of the self. In
Because of the place and development of this society, it has formed a certain alterity or “otherness” to it's culture that is vastly different than what we see today. It is all used as a blown up concept of what life is today, and even in the 1930s when the book was written. Huxley is showing where we have placed ourselves as a society and how we have set the direction of it for the future. Aldous Huxley sets out and makes true connections and assumptions that with time our own society is becoming more exotic from one generation to the next. We change in sexual morality, what we value changes completely and we begin to see our own alterity in the culture we have so blindly and carelessly shaped.
Jake joins the science and wing of the operation as a substitute navigator for his deceased twin brother’s Avatar. Early in the film, we discover that the avatar is an expensive high-tech clone that allows its user to temporarily experience and the Na’vi community. After a series of unexpected events during his first avatar excursion, Jake finds himself living amongst the Na’vi clan known as the Omaticaya where he becomes an apprentice to the female tribe member Neytiri. From that point, the film revolves around the internal and external conflicts that happen as Jake bonds with the Omaticaya and struggles between his mission and his beginning friendship to the aliens. Avatar is about life; in this movie it involves future human technology that is capable of putting human’s intelligence into a ...