Avatar Movie Overview and Insights
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Jake Sully, a former marine confined to a wheelchair, is recruited to travel light years away to
a planet called Pandora, where a corporate consortium is extracting a mineral that
will be key to solving the Earth's energy crisis.
Since the planet's atmosphere is toxic, they have created the Avatar program, in which one unites
human consciousness to the body of an avatar, a controlled biological body that can
surviving in Pandora.
These avatars have been genetically created by combining human DNA with that of the natives.
from the planet called Na'vi.
Converted into an avatar, Jake can walk again and is assigned the mission to infiltrate.
among the natives to achieve the extraction of the mineral. But a beautiful Na'vi woman,
Neytiri saves his life, and this changes everything...
title Avatar.
Director: James Cameron.
Genre: Science Fiction.
Country: United States.
Year: 2009.
Duration: 162 minutes.
Distribution: Hispano Fox film.
Music: James Horner.
Protagonists: Jake Sully, (Sam Worthington).
Neytiri, (Zoë Saldana).
Dr. Grace Augustine, (Sigourney Weaver).
Colonel Miles Quaritch, (Stephen Long).
I.- Facts and curiosities about the movie.
It was a project conceived in 1995 while attempting to create a story of another planet in the
22nd century, but the technology needed to carry it out did not exist until 2005,
referring to the photorealism needed for the movie.
Director James Cameron also used the virtual camera technique while shooting.
scenes in a computer-generated world, like the giant blue avatars,
the jungle of Pandora, the floating mountains hallelujah or the human colony of the door
from hell; as well as the stereoscopic 3D technique that required the creation of
3D scenes and a camera fusion system, which took them 7 years to develop.
The movie premiered after 4 years of work, in cinemas around the world.
raising 2.74 billion dollars worldwide, after its great box office success.
It also required the work of more than 150 contractors for the preparation of the
huge practical sets such as the amniotic tanks, the scientific installation, the
links of the consciousness of the avatars to their bodies like sarcophagi.
Before the filming of the movie, its actors underwent training.
how to ride a horse, martial arts, archery, and the study and practice of
movements.
II.- After reading the previous point, answer the following questions.
Did you know any of these facts? If your answer is yes, where did you read or observe it?
information?
Which ones have you found interesting? Why?
III.- Look for information on the following concepts:
Biodiversity:
Natural Resource:
Sustainable development:
IV.- Difference between renewable and non-renewable resources of our planet,
providing several examples in the given table:
Renewable Resources Non-Renewable Resources
V.- Describe in which of the images there are attitudes and values of tolerance, acceptance,
rejection or discrimination, describing the ritual or activity being carried out in
Pandora.
VI.- Write some of the environmental problems present on our planet.
VII.- Escribe el nombre de los siguientes personajes y describe su personaje.
VIII.- Remember the minutes close to the end of the movie, observe the following
images and answer the following questions:
What effects does man want to have on the environment of Pandora?
What consequences would it have had for that planet?
Do you think the end justifies the means?
Explain what the previous sentence means in relation to the movie.
Did you like the ending of the movie?
Do you think it would be a realistic ending if it were about planet Earth, (Considering
our current situation of natural resource exploitation)?