About the transformation in the movie "Avatar" and the image of the Na'vi, I got some original inspiration and concepts from here. But james Cameron tells us a different story.
The time and space of the movie is the future. Think about it carefully. With the humanities, democracy and rationality that human civilization has developed to this day, we do not believe that human beings in the future will do things to exterminate alien species for wealth, and mercenaries to destroy alien homes. It looks more like the collisions of civilizations that have occurred in human history (such events are often not "civilization" at all), and those harrowing stories were made by various expeditions, expeditions, and occurred in Mayans, Indians and on the land of African inhabitants. Some people immediately thought of "Dancing With Wolves" and called "Avatar" a slobbered version of the former. However, james Cameron lasted ten years, not just to move such a typical historical story to a future called Pandora. The planet is not only to achieve a leap in 3D technology, but to repeat the story of Kevin Costner's martial arts - compared with "Dances with Wolves", "Avatar" is a more profound epic and fable.
The vast majority of the audience focused on the appearance of aggression and "demolition", while ignoring another, more profound line of contrast: Avatar, a concept borrowed from the incarnation of the gods, is a The miracle of connecting the mind and soul with the body, but, as the story comes to an end, in the Na'vi people, they used a primitive and mysterious connection method to realize the connection between the soul and the body. As the female scientist said: the wealth of this planet is not just those minerals. Although she did not survive to see the final miracle of the Na'vi people, she had a premonition that the souls of the species on this planet were blended together, and the way their world was running. A more harmonious and robust rule, or "algorithm".
The setting of this contrasting concept obviously stems from the questioning of the necessity of the high-tech development of human beings and the naturalistic feelings of returning to the basics. Therefore, "Avatar" has the same passion and simplicity as "Dances with Wolves". Acura, in addition to using high-tech indifference and machinery to contrast the bloody jungle life, which leads to a reflection on the alienation of human technology - of course, there is an ending when there is a comparison. For a beautiful ending, the ending must be said to be Naive, with what we know about modern technology, especially war machines, the victory of the Na'vi is incomprehensible. But the greatness of the movie is this: the depiction of the good, the desire to be good, and the desire for the Na'vi to win, even with the help of the Beast, the Apparitions, and more unknowable reasons. This is a fairy tale told by a child's father before going to bed. James Cameron treats the global audience as his little daughter. When he tells such a story, everyone will fall asleep happily (except for some Chinese people who don't believe or fear anything, of course. ), and when we wake up, we think of the strong and fit Na'vi flying in the sky on a bird, we know it's impossible, but how we wish we could live like this. Just like Jack Sully, everyone recalls the beauty of the jungle, and feels that the mechanical life is more like a nightmare (Zhuang Zhou Mengdie?), this is our innermost nature, james Cameron wakes us up, who is in the dream Woolen cloth? We follow Jack into the dream, and then we question the right and wrong of the two worlds. In the movie, the colonel said to Jack: Wake up. And Jack's prophecy has another meaning, which is the director's call to alienated human beings: Sooner or later, you will eventually wake up.
The paradox is that in order to fully express the theme of calling for naturalism and warning of technological violence, james Cameron has used the most powerful scientific and technological force in history. His team is really the essence of digital modeling of all human beings. This production process The result: a completely fictitious but incomparably real world, a new mythical time and space, high-tech constructs such a convincing and obsessive wonderland. It is true that the plot of the movie is very simple, but the magnificence of the first half and the grief of the second half are themselves the most magnificent human emotions. It is a great work to convince all mankind of this fairy tale.
The collision between the so-called "advanced" civilization and "backward" civilization is often an unequal and unbalanced collision. When reading "Avatar", one will naturally think of Said's oriental concept: people will easily put habits, styles, Ways are classified as "ours" and "theirs", and "ours" is of course the more reasonable thing, it is this kind of thinking that causes the trauma of civilization, on the way to "wilderness", whether it is swords Or the Bible, it's all harm to "them". The West to the East, mankind to the Na'vi... The limitations of the "other" are considerations that cannot be ignored at any stage of human civilization development. I remember listening to Professor He Ting teach students about anthropology at Xiamen University a while ago. I really want to say to the students that the most important thing in studying anthropology is to break through this limitation. In Wei Yi's words: Believing in the real existence of others is love. This sentence should be the motto of all anthropological researchers. Back to the movie itself, what "Avatar" said is actually "believing in the real existence of others". Conflict itself inspires us to think about the existence of the other, to think about the necessity of this conviction, and the purpose of creation is to convince the subject. The reason why "Avatar" is great is not the record-breaking technical content, but the unprecedented construction of a world that makes us believe in a beautiful world.
Convinced, therefore, that Avatar, which is a metaphor for the gods descended to the earth, came from a proud civilization, and finally opened the eyes of the Na'vi.
Believe in the real existence of others, so, I SEE YOU! I SEE YOU!
So please believe in it.
Convinced, therefore, that Avatar, which is a metaphor for the gods descended to the earth, came from a proud civilization, and finally opened the eyes of the Na'vi.
Believe in the real existence of others, so, I SEE YOU! I SEE YOU!
So please believe in it.
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