"Avatar: Path of Water" finally brought a wave of blood back to the film market. As the legendary sequel that James Cameron spent 13 years creating, the film grossed 397 million yuan at the mainland box office in its first weekend, creating the third highest opening weekend box o

I believe that many viewers who watched "Avatar" also had children.

It just so happens that one of the themes of "Avatar: Path of Water" is how parents put aside their disputes and seek shelter for the sake of their children, which is the sentence in the film "A family cannot be separated. This is our weakness and our armor".

Cameron also said off-screen that "Avatar: Water Path" expresses what really makes people settle down and be full of strength after having children - love and mission.

02 Title font

The title logo of "Avatar" uses the Papyrus font that comes with Office. Cameron always thought it was a creation of the art department. The font

has been complained about by many movie fans for many years. Even Ryan Gosling starred in a short film for "Saturday Night Live", showing the protagonist being unable to eat well or sleep due to the sloppy font in "Avatar".

Papyrus font is a retro font designed by designer Chris Costello who spent 6 months in 1982 to imitate ancient Egyptians writing on papyrus, giving people a sense of mystery and elegance.

In 2018, "Avatar" officially announced a new logo font. Although it is a completely new design, Gosling still complained about it in his short film. Well, the new font is very similar to the Papyrus font.

03 Two tribes, 12 characters

"Avatar: The Way of Water" has many characters. At first glance, it seems confusing, but in fact the structure is very clear.

The film involves two tribes: the Omaticaya tribe (highland tribe) and the Mekaina tribe (island tribe).

There are 12 main characters in the film.

The protagonists of Highlanders are the couple Jack Sally and Nadi Rui, as well as their sons Netea, Loak, adopted daughter Qili, young daughter Tuk and adopted son Spider.

The leader and high priest of the Island Reef Tribe, as well as their son Onon and daughter Tilea.

adds another villain, Miles.

In the first film, the villain Colonel Miles was defeated and died. In "Avatar: Waterway", Miles was successfully "resurrected" with the help of the latest Avatar technology and became the same Avatar as Jack Sully.

So, the villain of this movie is actually the Avatar version of Miles.

As early as during the filming of the first film, Cameron promised Stephen Lang, the actor who played Miles, "You will return in all sequels."

05 Three-act drama

"Avatar: The Way of Water" is a very standard three-act drama, with each act lasting about 1 hour. The first act of

briefly explains the plot of the previous game and introduces a new conflict in which Miles pursues Jack's family.

In the second act, learn underwater skills immersively in Pandora Ocean.

In the third act, the war comes, and the Na'vi and Sky People (humans) start a fierce battle on the sea at Sanxiong Rock.

06 Soul Tree

In this part, the soul tree growing on the seabed is the ocean holy tree, which corresponds to the forest holy tree in the first part.

In Cameron's original plan, Pandora will present three ecosystems: forest, sky, and ocean in sequence (of course, they are essentially unified). These three systems are soul-connected with the Na'vi people through the sacred tree of the forest, the sacred tree of the sky, and the sacred tree of the ocean.

However, due to changes in the progress of subsequent projects, marine ecology and sacred trees were displayed in this part in advance.

07 73-year-old Sigourney Weaver plays the role of a girl

Sigourney Weaver, 73, plays the 14-year-old adopted daughter of Jack and Nadi Rui in the film.

Cameron believes that Weaver's childlike innocence has not been lost and he is still naive in his seventies, but in fact this is the state of childlike innocence that Weaver actively prepared for the interpretation of the role.

At the same time, Weaver also played Dr. Grace, who died in the first film, and the doctor's Avatar form.

Qili is Grace's daughter who was born after a mysterious conception. Therefore, Qili sensed the existence of her biological mother through the soul tree, but her "father" is still a mystery.

So there are two Weavers in the same frame in "Avatar: Water Path".

08 Michelle Yeoh where?

"Avatar: Way of the Water" has added many new actors, such as Kate Winslet , who set a record for actors holding their breath underwater (7 minutes and 14 seconds), and starred in the role of the high priest of the island tribe.

So, where is Michelle Yeoh, the Chinese actor who was previously rumored to join "Avatar"?

In fact, she did not appear in "Avatar: The Path of Water". According to IMDb information, Michelle Yeoh will appear in "Avatar: The Seed Bearer" (Part 3), playing the heavy-duty new character Dr. Karina Mogu.

09 Two sets of CP

Cameron set up two sets of CP among the younger generation in "Avatar: The Way of Water".

One group is Roark and Tilea, and the other group is Spider and Keeli.

Tilea noticed Loak when Jack and his family first arrived at the Island Tribe. She fell in love with him at first sight, and later rescued Loak many times.

Loak's response was conveyed in one detail:

When Tilea was training Loak to do ocean breathing, she put her hand on Loak's abdomen and sensed Loak's extremely fast heartbeat.

Spider and Qili are the adopted sons and daughters of Jack and his wife, and their emotions have been cultivated since childhood.

In the ocean funeral at the end of the film, Spider and Qili hold hands in the water, which exactly corresponds to the lyrics of "I feel you" in the funeral song.

I have to say that these two sets of CP are really delicious!

10 Loak and Payakan

Payakan is a tukun.

Tukun is the largest marine creature in "Avatar: The Way of Water". They possess language, mathematics, philosophy, music, etc., and are highly intelligent creatures.

Payakan was expelled because he was misunderstood for killing the same kind of people. This is the same problem as Loak. After all, Jack once said to Loak: You are the shame of this family.

Loak and Payakan established a spiritual bond after saving each other.

Among the titles of the "Avatar" sequels that were previously exposed, the fourth one is called "The Tulkun Rider", and Loak is likely to be the first Tulkun Rider.

According to the producer, the fourth part of "Avatar" will be the pinnacle of the entire series, and the fifth part will return to Earth.

Reflecting the title of the fifth film "The Quest for Eywa", we can guess whether Eva, the mother of the earth, has some connection with the earth?

11 I see you

In "Avatar: The Way of Water", there is a very important line, I see you. The line

appears four times in different situations and role relationships.

The first time, it was Spider who taught Quaritch how to speak Na'vi language . What he was taught was this sentence, oe-l nga-ti kameie (pronounced Na.Ti.Ka.Ma.YeA).

The second time was what the island tribe said to Tu Kun when he was migrating.

The third time, Loak argued for Tukun Payakan and was ostracized by the entire tribe. Only Tilea stood by his side and said to him, I see you.

The fourth time, after Loak and his father Jack Sally escaped from the cabin, Jack said to Loak, "I see you, son."

This sentence is also one of the key lines in the first movie, and the theme song of the first movie is also called "I see you" and was sung by British singer Leanna Lewis.

The producers originally hoped that this song would be as popular as Celine Dion's " My heart will go on", but the song was completely misfired. Therefore, "Avatar: The Way of Water" invited "Ponsai Brother" to sing a new theme song.

Cameron's obsession with this sentence proves that it is an important dialogue that can build a bridge of communication between humans, Na'vi people, Pandora creatures, fathers and sons, and friends.

12 ​​Self-tribute?

In "Avatar: The Way of Water", there are many places where Cameron pays homage to himself.

For example, the scene of Roark falling to the bottom of the sea after being attacked by Akula's sea dragon has the atmosphere of 1989's "The Abyss"; Nadire and Took are trapped in the underwater cabin, and the claustrophobia after lights out has the atmosphere of 2014's "The Deep".

During the process of the Devil's Ship sinking into the sea, Spider and Keeli kept running to the heights of the ship, which was very similar to some scenes in "Titanic".

However, regarding the statement that the new film pays tribute to "Titanic", Kashen himself responded, " This is not a tribute, I just like to sink the ship. As long as I want, I can sink the ship in every movie."

13 Photography

The photographer of "Avatar: The Way of Water" is 72-year-old Russell Carpenter.

He was also the cinematographer of "Titanic" in 1997, and won the 1998 Oscar for Best Cinematography for this film.

So it's no surprise that the third act of "Avatar: Waterpath" has a familiar "Titanic" feel.

It is worth noting that Mauro Fiola, the cinematographer of the first "Avatar", also won the Oscar for Best Cinematography, and the winning film was "Avatar".

14 Spider's embarrassment

As the only pure human descendant living in the Na'vi tribe, Spider will eventually face the problem of identity .

At the end of the film, Spider did not follow his "father" Miles away, but returned to Jack's house, but his identity in Jack's house was actually a bit embarrassing.

The younger generation such as Qi Li and Loark have a good relationship with Spider, but as an adopted son, he did not call Jack "Dad", but called him by his first name "Jack", proving that there is no real father-son relationship between the two.

What’s even more embarrassing is “mother” Nadiri. In the climax scene of the shipwreck at the end of

, Cameron used a very obvious close-up to show the spider's fear of Nadi Rui. In order to save Qili, Nadi Rui did capture the spider as a hostage and slashed his chest.

This kind of potential conflict and identity contradiction is likely to be amplified in subsequent stories, becoming the new dramatic charm of "Avatar".

15 Rival relationship

"Avatar: Waterway" deliberately cross-edited the scenes of Miles taming the Ikaran Pteranodon and Jack taming the Slippery Fin, proving the two's feuding relationship throughout the series.The main conflict clue in the sequel of

is that after the "resurrection", Miles' pursuit of Jack's family is not only a revenge for the past, but also a kind of psychological catharsis.

Because he was optimistic about Jack and trusted Jack, which was explained shortly after the beginning of the first part.

16 Finger

The "resurrected" Colonel Miles, when he captured Jack's children, identified who was a "mixed race" based on whether they had four or five fingers.

Because in the setting of the first part, purebred Na'vi people have four fingers, while Avatar has five fingers.

17 "Official Tucao"

In the film, Miles kidnapped Jack's children. Among them, the youngest daughter Tuke was kidnapped twice, and both times she was tied to the devil's ship with tape.

Tu Ke couldn’t help complaining: Why am I tied here again in ?

This can be considered an "official complaint".

18 Environmentalism

The death of two sea creatures in "Avatar: Water Path" is particularly impressive.

One is the island tribe's mount Yilu (similar to plesiosaur ), and the other is Tukunluoya.

Among them, Luo Ya died particularly tragically.

The sky people used maternal love as bait and used echolocation, depth bombs , sonic cannons, etc. to float Luo Ya's body in the sea.

The purpose of Skyman is just to obtain a tube of the essence of immortality (priced at US$80 million).

Roya is the spiritual sister of the high priest. She waited for many breeding periods before she had a child. This corresponds to the memory plot of Payakan's decisive battle with the devil ship due to the death of his mother.

As Jack said, Sky People don't care about ecological balance at all , and ecological balance happens to be one of Cameron's basic motivations for creating Pandora.

Cameron once produced the documentary "The Secret of Whaling". The scene of hunting Tukun clearly hinted at whaling in the real world.

19 Tribute to "The Godfather"

Cameron once compared this new film to "The Godfather" in an interview. He believes that "Avatar: Water Path" is a family saga spanning several generations.

The Vito Corleone family in The Godfather also has four children, three boys and one girl. This is similar to the family structure of Jack's family, which has three boys and one girl. Jack's family also has an adopted human son "Spider".

Although the script has undergone substantial rewriting, we can still see the development direction from heroes to families, and from tribes to ethnic groups.

Jack’s children will take on more roles in the future.

20 inheritance

In "Avatar", Jack was attacked by a beast in the jungle of Pandora and had to hide in a small space hidden by trees.

In "Avatar: The Way of Water", Roark was attacked by Akula under the sea surface of Three Brothers Rock, and he also hid in a similar support space.

allows the "rebellious son" Loark to experience his father's experience back then, which shows that Cameron intends for Loark to inherit Jack's life story.

In addition, the film ends with Jack suddenly opening his eyes while connected to the sacred tree in the ocean, which also corresponds to the ending scene of the first film where Jack opens his eyes while connected to the sacred tree in the forest.

proves that although the location of home has changed, the awakening for home remains the same forever.

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