Professor Dawn Hayden
Eng 111
15 November 2014
Avatar: The Blue Creatures of Pandora
Avatar. 2009. James Cameron. Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen
Lang, Michelle Rodriguez.
It all opens with the overview of the trees and sky of what it looks like to be, Pandora. Sam
Worthington, who plays Jake Sully a paraplegic marine veteran, wakes up strapped in a bedlike tube with wires all around him. He is put into a tough predicament to fill his twin brother’s shoes, someone who has been preparing for a mission for three years prior. He had a twin brother named Tommy who was a scientist that was involved in a highlevel program and was fatally shot before he was to leave to his journey to explore the world of
Pandora for a piece of paper. Jake never thought he would be going to this place but he was offered Tommy’s contract since he has his exact genome, he could take his spot. Pandora from the sky looks just like Earth but it was a place like no other. Jake is about to embark on a new chapter in his life, placing his facemask on and going into the new atmosphere of
Pandora. Jake immediately went into a military briefing lead by Colonel Miles Quaritch played by Stephen Lang. He informed all new personnel of Pandora’s population known as the Na’vi.
The Colonel states they are “hard to kill” and everything out there will try and kill you and the best way to survive is to obey “Pandora rules”. After the briefing Jake goes into the science lab where he meets other members of the avatar Program and this is where they present what it is all about. Jake sees his own avatar for the first time, these avatars are geneticallybred humanNa’vi hybrid that enables the human to link to it and exist as a Na’vi native. We meet Dr. Grace Augustine played by Sigourney Weaver, the program’s science lead. She is upset that Jake is there instead of his brother that studied for the mission for three years. She walks into the