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Human Rights Film Project: Avatar

Human Rights Film Project: Avatar. By: Henry Walter. Summary.

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Human Rights Film Project: Avatar

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  1. Human Rights Film Project: Avatar By: Henry Walter

  2. Summary Jake (The main character) is a man formerly in the military and was discharged after getting shot in the leg. His brother gets killed on earth, the company his brother worked for had big plans for him. To pilot a remote body of mixed human and Na’vi (native peoples of Pandora) DNA. Jake becomes the user of his brothers avatar and creates a relationship with the Na’vi. But the humans are on Pandora for a rock, unobtanium, which is very valuable on earth and is only found on Pandora. The richest unobtanium deposit on Pandora is under Hometree, the “house” of the Na’vi. But destroying Hometree could disrupt the bio-botanical system of life on Pandora and destroy the entire ecosystem. Jake after making a new life with the Na’vi wants to save their home so he leads a resistance against the military forces that are aiming to destroy Hometree. The Na’vi eventually defeat the humans but not before they have a chance to destroy Hometree. After they defeat the humans the Na’vi accept Jake as one of their own and forever solidify his place in their history http://www.pickledwookiee.com/?p=896

  3. My Review The first time I saw Avatar is was caught in the story and idea of the possibility that something like this may happen in the future. But I was amazed with the cinematic quality I had never seen before in a movie. http://www.deadline.com/2009/12/first-look-alvin-2-beats-avatar/

  4. http://urbanhoustonian.com/2010/11/center-stage-city-of-gold/http://urbanhoustonian.com/2010/11/center-stage-city-of-gold/ Historical Parallel Avatar closely resembles when the Spanish, French, and British Empires searched overseas in rumors of finding lands of gold during the age of exploration in the 15 and 16 hundreds. This is very similar to unobtanium in Pandora. The new people, like conquistadors, killed the native people in order to get the gold and other precious minerals that were very valuable in their homeland of Europe. They would destroy cities in order to loot them for gold, much like the humans destroy Hometree in order to get to the largest unobtanium deposit on the planet. http://avatar.typepad.com/entry/6a0128755f6728970c01287670ea66970c

  5. Cause and Effect • The film brings about many questions about our human rights and expanding to different places. It also makes us think about how we should treat the native peoples of places that we both already are in control of and where we may end up. And it questions the use of force and violence that may be used in order to obtain something value, even if it means wiping out an entire people.

  6. Bibliography • Avatar. Dir. James Cameron. Perf. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver. DVD . 20th Century Fox, 2009. Film. • http://avatar.typepad.com/entry/6a0128755f6728970c01287670ea66970c • http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/spanishexplorers.htm • http://urbanhoustonian.com/2010/11/center-stage-city-of-gold • http://www.deadline.com/2009/12/first-look-alvin-2-beats-avatar • http://www.pickledwookiee.com/?p=896

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