Avatar: Military Vs. Science And Invasion
Hi, welcome to Weekly Planet Podcasts. I am Mahnaz and today I am talking about the film Avatar and the theme of military versus science and invasion. If you haven’t seen Avatar, this contains spoilers so you should watch first it.
Avatar is a science fiction film. It sees paraplegic soldier Jake Sully who works with scientists to infiltrate the Na’vi, a native race on the moon Pandora.
Jake learns the native’s culture and falls in love with Neytiri, the chief’s daughter. He faces a decision of whether to allow his military unit to invade the land or stay and defend it with the Na’vi race.
The director, James Cameron shows the two sides of military and science and he wants us to side with science people. He shows us this by negatively …show more content…
Therefore, the eye level angles make us connect with the scientists and want to side with them.
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Sound effects show the invasion. During the scene where the military is invading with their ships and destroying the Na’vi’s culture and the home, there are loud invading sounds.
One of the loudest sounds is the intense and powerful missiles being shot from the aircrafts.
These unnatural sounds from the military weapons invade our senses and portray the military people as the bad guys because they are destroying the Na'vi culture.
In the same scene when the Na’vi are running around, away from the missiles, there is no music, there are just sounds of loud screaming which makes us hear the pain of the Na’vi during the invasion.
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One more cinematic technique which portrays the invasion of Pandora is the camera shots. While the humans are attacking and invading Pandora, there are a variety of camera shots which help us to see a sense of invasion and see the emotions of the characters.
There are multiple close up camera shots showing the Na’vi people’s faces which shows different perspectives of each character and how everyone is feeling about the
Avatar is a science fiction film. It sees paraplegic soldier Jake Sully who works with scientists to infiltrate the Na’vi, a native race on the moon Pandora.
Jake learns the native’s culture and falls in love with Neytiri, the chief’s daughter. He faces a decision of whether to allow his military unit to invade the land or stay and defend it with the Na’vi race.
The director, James Cameron shows the two sides of military and science and he wants us to side with science people. He shows us this by negatively …show more content…
Therefore, the eye level angles make us connect with the scientists and want to side with them.
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Sound effects show the invasion. During the scene where the military is invading with their ships and destroying the Na’vi’s culture and the home, there are loud invading sounds.
One of the loudest sounds is the intense and powerful missiles being shot from the aircrafts.
These unnatural sounds from the military weapons invade our senses and portray the military people as the bad guys because they are destroying the Na'vi culture.
In the same scene when the Na’vi are running around, away from the missiles, there is no music, there are just sounds of loud screaming which makes us hear the pain of the Na’vi during the invasion.
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One more cinematic technique which portrays the invasion of Pandora is the camera shots. While the humans are attacking and invading Pandora, there are a variety of camera shots which help us to see a sense of invasion and see the emotions of the characters.
There are multiple close up camera shots showing the Na’vi people’s faces which shows different perspectives of each character and how everyone is feeling about the