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Aseel Faraj Mr. Newman English 101: Rhetoric 15, October 2013  Living Up to Expectations  In the movie, Avatar directed by James Cameron in 2009 the movie is featured in 3-D and IMAX. Having a movie in such high tech both Roger Elbert and Joe Morgenstern agree that it has led a new generation of special effects in the movie industry. Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are the two main characters in the movie. Worthington plays Jake who beings as a good soldier and then goes native after his life is saved by Saldana character, Neytiri. Ne ytiri. Roger Elbert and Joe Morgenstern both really enjoyed the movie and wrote good reviews on it. Although Morgenstern focuses on the little details behind the movie mo vie and Elbert focusses more on the overall movie they both feel like like the movie lived up to the expectations we were waiting from James Cameron. Joe Morgenstern review is mostly a summary of the whole movie. mov ie. But before he goes in and describes several scenes he talks about how James Cameron came up with the title of the movie. I mean it’s pretty obvious that Cameron didn’t come up with the word avatar but apparently: “In Hindu myth, an avatar is a deity descended to earth in human form.” He feels that since the avatars in the movie weren’t human but had human qualities the title fits in perfectly and makes total sense. After Morgenstern explains the reasoning behind the movie title he talks about the indigenes. He felt they were “appropriate” because in the movie Pandora evokes the Indochina that existed before French’s doomed war against an “indigenous insurgency”. When

 

 

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watching the movie you come to realize that they are called the Na’vis. Morgenstern impressions that the most beautiful of the Na’vis is a female warrior w arrior named Neytiri. Towards the end of the review he compares Cameron’s movie

Titanic with Avatar .

Morgenstern declares that in the

movie Avatar it “revises the relationship between everyone ever yone in the audience”; there is no specific age group or intense love story like in the Titanic. Although it lacks the heart of Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Einslet,  Avatar been transformed by technology into “new and ambiguous” entertainment. Finally one last alter Morgenstern expresses is at the end en d of the review it “provokes an adrenalin rush and it feels feels a lot better when it’s over.” My second review was by Robert Ebert who discusses the amount of money it took to make this movie work; “there is at least one on e man in Ho Hollywood llywood who knows how to spend $250 million or was it $300 million, wisely.” He also write about the Na’vi but in the sense that they resembled the Native Americans. He compares them stating “like them, they survive the planet  by knowing it well and living in harmony with nature.” Ebert consults that the Na’vi “tame another species” unlike the Native Americans who used horses to get around everywhere in Avatar the Na’vi use a “graceful flying fl ying dragondragon-like creatures”. Right before he finishes this discussion he adds that “Jake capturing and an d taming one of those be beasts asts is one of the film’s greats sequences.” Next subject he talks about is the fact Avatar  features  features special effects like “Star Wars” and “LOTR”.

Declaring that the avatars in the movie “look like specific, persuasive

individuals, yet the sidestep the eerie Uncanny Uncann y Valley effect.” effect.” Not  Not only does he think they carry all these effects but he focuses on one specific character, Naytiri; “a blue blue-skinned -skinned giantess with golden eyes and long, supple tail, and yet —I’ll  —I’ll be damned. Sexy.” In both reviews they discuss the two main characters charact ers Jake Sully, who is a p paraplegic, araplegic, and  Neytiri. The two characters fall in love after the fact Neytiri saves saves Jakes life. Another similarity

 

 

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would be that they both agreed that their is great use of technolo technology gy since it was in 3-D. The fact the movie was 163 minutes long they the y both felt like the movie wasn’t too long n nor or short. They felt that it was good timing. It was enough enou gh to get the whole message across. And it was set in the year 2154 with a lot of important i mportant information making it just enough timing. Lastly, both reviews felt that the movie lived up to its expectations. Many people were doubting this movie and it was a hot topic to talk about because James Cameron’s presented a previous previous 5  5 star movie. Finally, the overall message was agreed upon both bo th saying it was an anti-war movie. In conclusion, I read both reviews and I tend to side more with Roger Ebert. I watched the movie and I would say he talks about all the good points in the movie. I felt that JJoe oe Morgenstern writes about the small details in the movie that people usually don’t pick up. My My first reaction was the fact there were blue avatars and a nd Ebert made sure he mentioned m entioned how he feels about the decision James Cameron made using the color blue. Although Morgenstern contained more background information we can c an all agree that the mov movie ie is satisfactory.

 

 

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Work Cited Ebert , Roger . "Avatar 2009 ." . N.p., 11 Dec 2009. Web. 16 Oct 2013. Morgenstern, Joe. "'Avatar": The Unreal Thing." .

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