Avatar Is a Live Action Film That Essay

Avatar is a live action film that was written and directed by James Cameron and released in 2009. The film features a new and more advanced level of special effects and which creates a truly immersive cinematic experience marked with revolutionary technology that is capable of both story-telling and astounding the visitor with its intensive and sweeping production quality. The film tells the story of Jake Sully, a marine who has been injured in the field, and who is confined to a wheelchair. The marines are invading a planet known as Pandora which has rocks on it which are almost priceless on earth, fetching prices of around $20 billion per kilogram on Earth. The marines uses a technology of creating "avatars" to infiltrate the Na'vi -- the indigenous people of Pandora. An avatar is made for Jake, allowing him to walk again as he fulfills his mission to infiltrate the Na'vi so that they will help him and the other marines mine the ore, or at least stay out of their way while they try to mine it. Jake meets Neytiri and falls in love with her, causing him to better understand the Na'vi.The movie climaxes with a final test between the Na'vi and the marines as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

The film did not impress me the way it impressed other friends of mine. Basically, I found that while the technology was mildly impressive, the story was predictable. I don't feel that James Cameron deserves all the esteem he's been lauded with for this film, since it was more a triumph of computers than cinema. This film indicates that the future of film-making will probably rely heavily on advanced technology since this was such a blockbuster. It has showed me….....