Avatar Review: Ready to be transfrormed into a new AVATAR
“I see you.” That is not only sung by Leona Lewis, romantic and sentimental title song, which is on the credits of James Cameron’s highly anticipated, spectacular sci-fi action-adventure epic Avatar (hearing 2009) to . It is also one of the main characters repeatedly voiced leitmotif that runs through the entire movie. This initial greeting of Na’vi, the original inhabitants of the distant alien planet Pandora, where – although the film is somewhat misleading subtitle in this country the German’s departure for Pandora – almost the entire plot of Cameron’s new film plays, communicates a willingness to be both Compared to understand as well as his view of things and accept them. In the course of the film will be shown that these words are not just for intergalactic understanding (and love) between the human species and Na’vi, but also implicitly refer to the aesthetic program of the film. Its self-declared ambition was finally beginning to deliver the cinema audience a revolutionary new film experience, give us a new perspective cinematographic possibilities, including the use of an advanced motion capture process, 3D and digital cameras designed specifically for the film . “I see you” here means including being able to see the world through eyes of James Cameron. Already 15 years ago by former sci-fi cult film director and Oscar-conceived future Titans, only to be postponed due to technical possibilities not yet fully established only once, four years ago went avatar in great secrecy in the production and now come under tremendous pressure of expectation in the cinemas. After the rather subdued voices, for the first teaser hit the hysteria around the film – strange blue light, lanky alien characters and generic clip-aesthetics – even to the blind desire for a potential masterpiece in the nervous panic over a complete disaster. The last time a celebrated sci-fi genre film director after a long abstinence from the director’s chair once again returned to his tribe genre and was confronted with a similar hype in 1999 when George Lucas with Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace a very mediocre movie in the cinema brought. Avatar, the movie hype to Cameron, has fewer weaknesses than the megahit annoying, but not much more original. And that may well be the biggest disappointment of such an intelligent filmmakers like James Cameron.
