Some behind-the-scenes tidbits and details that are easy to overlook

Melody 2022-03-20 09:01:06

1. In order to help the actors better enter the role, director James Cameron brought the actors and filming team to Hawaii to experience the wild life of primitive tribes in the local forests and virgin jungles, such as making bonfires and grilling fish. But these experiences are carried out during the day, and at night the crew members live in a high-end hotel (Four Seasons Hotel).

2. Avatar's hands and feet have five fingers/toes, and they have eyebrows; but Na'vi people have only four fingers/toes and no eyebrows.

3. Remember that Dr. Grace’s Avatar in the movie wore a Stanford T-shirt? Dr. Grace’s actor, Sigourney Weaver, indeed graduated from Stanford University in 1971 (majoring in English Literature). By the way, she was born in 1949 and is 61 years old this year! I really can't see it... and she is 1.8 meters tall!
[I found that everyone was most amazed by this article, so I additionally searched for the background information of Sigourney Weaver astonished by heaven. For details, please refer to the 8th floor of the comment below]

4. The language of Na'vi is entirely made by linguists. Paul Frommer (Professor at University of Southern California) came up with it! Director James Cameron asked him to design a language. The requirement is to make all the actors feel simple in pronunciation, and at the same time it sounds unlike any other language in the world. Linguist Paul Frommer finally came up with about 500 words.

5. Although the film never clearly told which year the story took place, when the actor Jake recorded the video diary, the display read: 2154. (Wow, I really didn’t pay attention, go and take a closer look next time!)

6. "Avatar" only took 17 days and broke through 1 billion US dollars in box office revenue worldwide, which is currently the fastest record in the film industry.

7. IMAX is actually a Canadian company. Unfortunately, everyone generally associates high technology with the United States. Similarly, most of the special effects in the movie are done by the New Zealand company that has produced the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies.
(Thank you Douyou tking1000 for your correction, "Avatar's special effects, almost all of the world's number of special effects companies have participated. Including Industrial Light and Magic, Digital Field, WETA, etc...")

8. Jake's last video diary Li said that that day (August 24) was his birthday, but this day may not be his "human" birthday, but the birthday of his rebirth, becoming a member of Omaticaya, and becoming a member of the true Nawi tribe.


The above is compiled and translated by myself. The main sources of information are as follows:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/trivia
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000244/bio
http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frommer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX_Corporation

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Avatar quotes

  • Jake Sully: [collector's extended cut] You want a fair deal? You're on the wrong planet. The strong prey on the weak, it's just the way things are. And nobody does a damned thing.

  • Corporal Lyle Wainfleet: [seeing Jake in a wheelchair] Aww, man, that is just wrong.