Avatar is one of the most successful films released in 2009. The main actors in the film are Sam Worthington; Michele Rodriquez and Stephen Lang. In the film, Jake Sully, a paraplegic visits a place called Pandora. While in this land, he learns that Parker Selfridge wants to drive off the natives of Pandora. Jake decides to help a military unit to gather intelligence information. He also wants to trick the natives of Pandora using an avatar identity. As he tries to bond with the natives, he falls in love with a beautiful alien called Neytiri. The Colonel in charge decides to exterminate the natives and the film ends when Jake is taken to another planet as a paraplegic war veteran. This planet is inhabited by the Navi, which is a humanoid race that has its own unique linguistic and cultural disposition.
The film won awards for the best movie in visual effects, cinematography, and direction during academy awards. The use of the floating mountains in the film creates extraordinary visual effects. One of the best visually presented scenes in this film is the virulent destruction of the tower of Navi that goes down in flames after being attacked using missiles. This scene creates vivid memories of how the world trade center collapsed during the September 11 attacks in the year 2001. The visual presentation of the landscape with embers and ash during the collapse of the Navi tower highlights the gravity of the attack.
The cinematography used in this film creates bioluminescence in the landscape. This is film uses computer-generated graphics and the use of CG in this movie is critical because it helps the film to respond well on IMAX. This ensures that attention is paid to little idiosyncrasies that may expose the frailties of filming. The use of 3D also gives the film an edge because the perspectives and the dimensions appear very natural (Cameron 2010). The depths of the 3D created in Avatar are very complicated and paying attention to every detail creates a highly captivating and scintillating effect. The absence of the usual visual gimmicky makes the film real and natural. The film is so excellent visually that it compensates for a weak plot that consists of the usual romantic relationships and violence that are present in virtually all standard movies. The visual excellence ensures that the simple story is accessible from a unique dimension though some of the visuals that Cameron and his team create are not easy to follow.
Avatar has set standards that future movies must achieve because the introduction of 3D means that people will be reluctant to go back to 2D movies. The standards of cinematography and the experience of viewing are so high that everyone that watches this movie is left with a total cinematic experience that very few modern movies can create. However, the cinematography in this movie is completely overwhelmed by the visual content mainly because it does not rhyme with CG. This means that there is much that needs to be done to make CG and cinematography to rhyme. This film is a complete departure from the norm because it has used cinematic technology and visual techniques that have never been used in Hollywood before scintillating effect. The absence of the usual visual gimmicky makes the film real and natural. The film is so excellent visually that it compensates for weak plot that consists of the usual romantic relationships and violence that are present in virtually all standard movies. The visual excellence ensures that the simple story is accessible from a unique dimension though some of the visuals that Cameron and his team create are not easy to follow.
Avatar has set standards that future movies must achieve because the introduction of 3D means that the people will be reluctant to go back to the 2D movies. The standards of cinematography and the experience of viewing are so high that everyone that watches this movie is left with a total cinematic experience that very few modern movies can create. However, the cinematography in this movie is completely overwhelmed by the visual content mainly because it does not rhyme with CG. This means that there is much that needs to be done so as to make CG and cinematography to rhyme. This film is a complete departure from the norm because it has used cinematic technology and visual techniques that have never been used in Hollywood before.
Reference
Cameron, J. (2010). Avatar Screenings. Web.