Avatar (2009) Review

Avatar (2009) Review

Jake Sally - a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. Despite his broken body, Jake is in his heart is still a warrior. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where corporations are mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis.

Avatar (2009) Review

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• The gas used by the military to pacify the Na'vi, called the SM-20. In the movie " Alien " (1986) (also directed by James Cameron and the main heroine Sigourney Weaver ), Vazquez suggests using CM-20 nerve gas to attack the hive strangers.
• Even before the release of the film, in an episode of "Dancing with the Dwarves" the animated series " South Park ", there was a satire on the history and story of the film.
• Realistic scenery includes a room communication, where established similarity sarcophagi, by which the human mind is transferred to the avatar body Biolabs - space for scientists and storage tanks of amniotic fluid, which are the body avatars who have reached the state of maturity during a six-year journey from Earth to Pandora; The control center, which is a central nervous base "Gates of Hell" system, and a military bastion Armor Bay, where you store the costumes enhanced mobility and helicopters.
• "World Day for Avatar" was announced on August 21, 2009. On this day around the globe held screenings 15-minute fragment of the picture.
• Events unfolding picture on Pandora, a satellite with a medium similar to the earth, orbiting the giant planet Polifemusa in the Alpha Centauri-A system.
• Initially, James Cameron is planning to release a picture on the screens in 1999. However, given the complexity and scope of the special effects that are going to create Cameron, the film's budget was about $ 400 million. Even though a huge box-office success of " Titanic " (1997), no studio could not afford to allocate such funds. The project went on the shelf, where he remained for about 10 years.
• Michael Bean claimed a role in the film. He met several times with  James Cameron . But James did not want the film to be associated with the audience with " Aliens " (1986), t. To. Sigourney Weaver has signed on to shoot.
• Cameron came up with the plot of the film and wrote the first version of the script in 1995.
• For the film, Cameron has developed a special technology, which allowed during the filming of the characters seen on the computer monitor screen with live actors.
• The premiere was postponed from summer to December 2009. However, the delay is not explained by technical difficulties in the production of paintings, and the ability to cinemas extra time to prepare for the release of 3D film.
• The film consists of 40% of the live footage and 60% of realistic computer graphics.
• In the original script Cameron plant foliage was as blue as the skin of the Na'vi, but eventually he decided to use green for a more realistic look.
• Most of the episodes with the natural motion filmed in Wellington, New Zealand, which were erected huge sets. It was like a present, large-scale construction. For the construction of scenery huge substructure using more than 150 builders, contractors was established.
• Cameron called the team of Paul Frommer (Paul Frommer), a linguist at the University of Southern California, in order to come up with the language Na'vi, blue-skinned inhabitants of the planet Pandora. In order to facilitate the selection of the director, Frommer recorded on tape a number of audio samples. Cameron chose ejective consonant and staccato phrases, slightly resembling a strangled voice. In the preparation of grammar alone it took several months. Frommer gave the actors of "Avatar" brochure "speak Na'vi" and began to teach them the correct pronunciation of a new language. Cameron also invited to cooperate and other experts - astrophysicists, music professor, archaeologist. These specialists have calculated the density of the atmosphere of Pandora, and also established a three-part harmonies in the music structure aliens.
• To create the film took about 1 petabyte of disk space (1024 terabytes) ... To compare - all the "special effects Titanic " took in 500 times less, approximately 2 terabytes.
• In a conversation with Colonel Jake Sully he mentions in passing that he participated in the operations of the US military presence in Venezuela and Nigeria, and miraculously survived. Consequently, the film takes place after the US invasion of the country. Both in our reality are rich in oil and other mineral resources.
• The meeting before the decisive battle, Colonel Kuoritch ( Stephen Lang ) announces that to pacify pandorantsev operation codenamed "Shock and Awe" (eng. Shock and awe). So called military doctrine of US troops in the Middle East, developed specifically for the invasion of Iraq.
• Curious fact that the avatars of people five fingers, while the inhabitants of Pandora are only four.
• On the role of Jake's studio planned to invite Matt Damon and  Jake Gyllenhaal , but  Cameron has defended the candidacy of Worthington Sam .
• The first film, the box office is at the box office amounted to more than $ 2 billion.
• Sam Worthington was invited to the casting call. The one who called, did not tell him a single word about the plot and did not disclose the name of the director. Sam was disappointed, because I thought that it was another waste of time.
• Jodie Foster rascmatrivalas for the role of Dr. Grace Augustine.
• Year never pointed out in the film, but Jake's video blog shows in 2154. The final battle took place in August 2154, the 200th anniversary of the birth of James Cameron .
• The first phrase of "Avatar", which is heard all earthlings after arrival on Pandora - "You are not in Kansas anymore!" - Derived from the English idiom not in Kansas anymore - «no longer in familiar surroundings, not at home." This expression appeared in 1939, after the release of the movie " The Wizard of Oz " (1939), when Dorothy, finding himself in the Land of Oz, says: «Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore» ( « Toto I feel that we are no longer in Kansas ").