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Avatar: Journey to the blue world

By Alondra Gomez

Nov 15, 2023

  Avatar is a movie released on December 18, 2009, by James Cameron which got a sequel last year called Avatar: The Way of Water. This movie takes place in 2154 on a planet called Pandora, Where humans are looking for valuable minerals and resources. The story starts with Jake Sully, a human on earth who is a paralyzed former marine who is asked to operate an avatar that is a genetically engineered body after his twin brother dies. The avatar is made to look like a na’vi and fit in with the others to learn and grow a connection with the actual na’vi and their connection to their planet. 

I personally love Avatar. I enjoyed the amazing visuals showing their respect to other cultures and remembering others to protect our planet. I watched Avatar when I was in elementary school with my parents and being able to watch the new movie with my parents again was fun and a way to hang out with my family. I am now looking forward to watching all the movies with my family. The Avatar movie had me emotional. It's a whole rollercoaster that made me cry many times. The actors took their roles seriously and did  a spectacular job. I loved how Jake Sully, the main character, went to another planet and fell in love with Neytiri and gave up his human body to be a full Na'vi for her and learn her culture. It was truly love at first sight.  

It took James Cameron 15 years to come out with the sequel to Avatar which I think was worth it because he took it seriously and filmed the water scenes all in the actual water making it realistic, unlike other movies. The sequel is about Jake Sully and Neytiris's family trying to protect each other and stay together. The Jake Sully family face jakes enemy in the previous movie who is after him and wants to get rid of his family out of revenge for betraying humans, so the sullies run away from their home and hide and seek help from the Metkayina tribe having to learn their culture and their ways of the water since the sullies lived in the forest, now they have to fight a war against humans.

I am waiting for the 3rd movie to come out in 2025 which I’m happy about since the 2nd movie took about 15 years. 

This article was written by journalism students at Waynesboro High School.