Avatar Screening Report

Avatar Screening Report

A New Home

Jake Sully, a paraplegic marine, is put on an expedition and discovers that a world that is not his own may be more of a home than he could have imagined.

Fantasy Warfare

Avatar is an action, fantasy, drama, war movie. This film follows these genre conventions through pretty simple means. Action and war comes from the basic plot of the movie that a marine is supposed to be extracting a material that is highly profitable and there is a whole race trying to defend it.  Drama comes from the inner story lines of Jake and the Na'vi versus Jake and the Marines. Fantasy is all too obvious that the world of Pandora was conceived and composed by James Cameron.

Transnationalism

This film broke records that many people thought would never be broken. Even with inflation this is the second highest grossing film of all time, behind Gone With The Wind. This film definitely fits into the discussion of a Transnational film with it's international gross of $1.17 billion. This is also the highest grossing film internationally of all time.

Exceptional?

I do not feel like this section even needs to be written, but yes this film was exceptional. In each of the above headings there are reasons that this film was exceptional, but I think that the most impressive is the records that it broke, is continuing to break, and will break in the future with multiple more Avatar films to come. There are many great comparisons when it comes to the almighty dollar when it comes to Gone With The Wind and Avatar, but this article puts it into words better than I can.