Avatar

So this is my first blog of 2010.The inspiration is the movie Avatar.

If you haven’t already seen Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3D film, you should make sure you do. No matter what you think of the plot or special effects, this film has a profound and insightful message. To tell something about the director hey he is the one who hardly ever makes a movie without employing state-of-the-art technology to create something we've never seen before.Titanic was the movie which made the highest grossing film in film history.He has dedicated 10 years of his life to develop an awesome movie "Avatar" like this.

For this, he created a language, a remote tribe, their culture and mythology, and a mercenary army to ruin their peace. It should be added that, true to his own culture as an uncompromising envelope-pusher in cinematic lore, he devoted years for the advancement in motion capture technique that helped make sweeping feats of action, destruction, beauty and imagination possible.

A little insight to the story

On the Earth-sized moon of Polyphemus, Pandora, resides a tribe of hybrid beings with human DNA. These people--nine feet tall, with tails, carbon fiber bones and bioluminescent blue skin have super-human strength and move gracefully. Called the Na'vi, their existence is spiritually tied to a giant Banyon-like tree that is at once a protector and life-force. Over its roots they live in communal peacefulness concerned with local threats, like the myriad predator creatures that roam their forest.

Grace's research team has developed a method of genetic engineering to "project" a human to Pandora from a coffin-like box equipped with specialized transfer circuitry. The process puts the human into a coma-like state while the subject watches his or her "avatar" out on Pandora.

The corporation's interest in Pandora stems from the discovery that the sacred tree grows over a vast mineral resource called unobtainium (which sounds like a temporary name that never got improved upon), which contains properties that can save Earth from ecological disintegration. Initial mining operations have begun, but visitors from Earth associated with the project have not gone down well with the Na'vi, their behavior and assumptions repugnant to the natives and causing their expulsion.

Their is the mercenary military force taking its marching orders from chief corporate officer Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi). And, when the research-designate is killed, his twin brother--former marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington)--is pressed into service for the task despite his paralysis below the waist due to a wartime injury.

From the moment he meets Neytiri (luminous Zoe Saldana) who, after Jake saves himself from becoming the meal of a huge, nasty Thanator by jumping off a waterfall, saves him from attack by a pack of ravaging nantangs. She's the lovely warrior and daughter of the tribal leader, and not much taken by Jake's rash impulsiveness.

But, though her intention was to ferry him back where he came from before he can do harm to others, her impression is forced to change when Jake is suddenly covered in a flurry of airborne jellyfish-like pods of luminescent seeds. Neytiri can scarcely believe her eyes (and they are large, beautiful eyes). The seeds are from Eywa and the great tree has shown that Jake has an unknown potential and is welcome. There is no other choice but to introduce this avatar to her tribe, and to her powerful father.

None have ever before been granted such recognition and the dignity it bestows upon him immediately turns tribal hatred to mystical embrace. Neyteri is commissioned to teach Jake the Na'vi ways and, for a borish and immature youth, the process and the tests he undergoes is a challenging one, full of hairy action and impossible courage.

Neytiri and Jake love towards each other and the sheer will of Jake to protect the Na'vi from the chief corporate officer Parker Selfridge from destroying the sacred tree which relates to the story of the indigenous peoples fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation.

The story also states that even though the human race has developed a lot of technology and nuclear weapon and weapons of mass destruction it cannot destroy the sheer will of the people to survive.