Avatar Research Paper

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After long years of preparing for this film, anticipation, loads of hype, Avatar, produced by James Cameron was finally set to come out in 2009. What was all this rage about? Is it worth watching? Can this director live up to the title of another big film? As the slogan goes, “you’d have to see it to believe it.” Breaking several box office records and becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron had lived up to his name and did not disappoint. As Cameron achieved satisfying audiences with such a big successful movie, Cameron had much more to achieve. James Cameron uses the movie Avatar to portray how the rampant consumerism of mankind destroys the environment. It was time to show an actual reflection of an active problem …show more content…

If you had not known, you now knew with the help of Cameron using the plot of the movie to his advantage showing what unethical choices about what to do with technology create. It may not say it flat across the screen “Technology will destroy the natural world,” the whole movie is a wake up call to be cautious of what is possible in our future. Avatar is shown as if it was 2150 and all these problems arise in their land of Pandora, tying it with our planet Earth negatively of possible results from disregarding nature and favoring consumerism. As Cameron clearly gets his point across throughout the movie about what he claims to be the problems in society, his interview proves us right. “We’re telling the story of what happens when a technologically superior culture comes into a place with a technologically inferior indigenous culture and there are resources there that they want,” said Cameron “It never ends well” (Comic Con). This statement shows a good example of the theme capitalism. The use of technology correlating with the environment. It gives a sense that “we” the people are the good guys versus the use of technology in this