Avatar 2
The long-awaited cinematic sequel to “Avatar” has finally been released after 15 years.
Oscar nominee “Avatar: The Way of Water” premiered on December 6, 2022. Its opening day box office performance was $1.752 billion and is forecasted to reach $2 + billion.
The first Avatar film is set in the year 2154 on the luscious planet Pandora. The Earth is quickly running out of resources so a group of scientists and military soldiers are sent to colonize Pandora. One of these soldiers is Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), an ex-Marine with paraplegia who has been dispatched with the RDA in place of his murdered twin brother due to their shared DNA. Since the twins are identical Jake can connect to his brother’s Avatar. Once he is in the new Avatar body, Jackie begins serving as Dr. Grace Augustine, the director of the Avatar Program, bodyguard (Sigourney Weaver). Later in the film, we are introduced to Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang). Colonel Quaritch will convince miles to go along with the scientist excursions but report everything back to him. Throughout the rest of the film, Jake falls in love with a Na’vi woman named Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), who teaches him about Eywa (Mother Nature). The soldiers along with a mining company intend to distort Pandora and mine it for its resources, Jake and the Na’vi gather and fight to protect Eywa. By the end of the film, almost all humans are banished from Pandora, except for Jake, his friend Norm, and a small group of scientists. Determined to stay on the moon indefinitely, Jake permanently transfers into his Na’vi body and starts a new life with Neytiri.
Set over a decade after the first film, “ Avatar: The Way of Water” begins by telling the story of Jake Sully’s (Sam Worthington) life after the Sky People (humans) were mostly defeated. Jake, Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their kids are faced with a new branch of Sky people. Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and his team are revived in the bodies of Avatars. The Sully family must make sacrifices to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure as they migrate to the seas of Pandora. The Sully family learns to adapt to the ocean people’s way of life and make friends with the chief’s children. On the other side, Colonel Quaritch and his crew search and destroy all of the Islands to find them. After discovering that the sky people killed a Tulkun ( whale), Jake and the Metkayina clan ( sea people) warn them to migrate before the rest of them get killed. While the children are warning an outcast Tulkun, they are captured by the sky people. Jake must now fight against Colonel Quaritch to protect his family and new home.
The actors also worked endlessly behind the scenes! They trained by learning how to hold a bow and arrow in a fictional technique, scuba diving, and more. The actors only worked in a studio wearing motion capture suits to track their every move, the rest is the work of four amazing editors. Currently, Avatar 2-5 has begun production and is programmed to be released from 2024-2026.
Overall Avatar: The Way of Water is a breathtaking film that will transport everyone in the family to the amazing world of Pandora.
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Delia is a junior at TWHS. She is an only child and has a dog named Aika. She loves to write and listen to music, and is an aspiring filmmaker.