"Avatar" was re-screened in the mainland for 6 days, with a box office of 180 million, and "Hello, Li Huanying", which was also in the limelight of the Spring Festival, won the single-day box office championship consecutively.
With the east wind of the mainland box office market, the global box office of "Avatar" has also climbed steadily, officially surpassing "Avengers 4" with $2.797 billion to become the global box office champion again. The Russo brothers, the director of "Avengers 4," tweeted congratulations to Cameron.
A work from eleven years ago can still set off such a storm today, and it is still enduring under the grinding of time, perhaps this is the charm of "Avatar".
Speaking of "Avatar", we have to mention its creator, director James Cameron, and fans often refer to him as "Card God". The visual effects maniacs of the surrounding film world have created a series of classics such as the Terminator series, True Lies and Titanic.
Avatar was the most ambitious work of his career, as early as 1995, when preparing "Titanic", Cameron took the first draft script of "Avatar" to producer Jon Landau, and Jon was also attracted to Cameron's world of appearance.
But the level of special effects at that time could not support Cameron's visual fantasies, and he wanted to shoot this work in 1997, but he had to give up. Cameron began to wait for the technology to mature.
Entering 2000, the Lord of the Rings trilogy revolutionized the visual effects industry around the world, and what attracted him to Cameron was the image of Gollum in the film, a character created by motion capture technology that marked the maturity of motion capture technology, so Cameron invited Weta Studios, who made the Lord of the Rings series, to work with Industrial Light and Magic to take charge of the visual effects part of Avatar. In 2005, Avatar was officially launched.
So we saw the most magnificent visual spectacle on the screen so far, and the production staff referred to the landforms of Zhangjiajie, Huangshan and other places in China to create a spiritual landscape. Suspended in the air, the towering god trees rising from the ground, the magnificent waterfalls, and the wild forests, these scenes are both familiar and fresh, bringing more shock to the audience.
Under motion capture technology, the three-meter-tall Neayans were created with blue skin, cat-like tails, and a emaciated physique. More important is the details, from the movements and muscles of the body to the skin of the face, the eyes and pupils, which completely create an emotional and persuasive creature.
Not to mention the epoch-making 3D technology, Avatar is a well-deserved pioneer of 3D cinema, and Cameron collaborated with Sony to transform the 3D camera, making the stereoscopic sense of the image more realistic by simulating the human eye. The audience gained a sense of complete immersion, we can fully immerse ourselves in the three-dimensional world, emphasizing interaction, emphasizing somatosensory, but also led the visual trend of the following decade, but also led to the 3D film boom.
"Avatar" is not only a visual effects blockbuster, but also more thought-provoking in terms of story content, in the film the invader is no longer an alien, but a human to another planet for development, the real villain of the film is a human from Earth.
A former marine with paraplegic legs came to the planet Pandora and infiltrated the Na'vi through genetic modification technology, but in the end he gradually accepted the life of the Na'vi, he learned the language, rituals, and way of life of the Na'vi, gained friends and love, and eventually he betrayed mankind.
Such a story is easily reminiscent of "Dancing with Wolves", the same story of two races, the clash of civilizations, and the same uncharacteristic criticism of the colonists from the perspective of the indigenous people. The planet Pandora in "Avatar" is the mirror of human society, colonization, capitalism, resource plunder, clan conflicts and other issues, all appear in "Avatar", a nearly three-hour movie, can be said to be a condensation of many aspects of human society, ten years after the release of the film, these problems continue to intensify in the current world, to this extent "Avatar" has sounded a wake-up call for human society.
Of course, the ambition of the god Card does not stop there, Cameron not only has to narrate the story, but also to create a world, in addition to the shocking visual effects, the flowers and trees on the planet Pandora, birds and animals have formed a strict ecosystem, they live, grow, reproduce, and coexist on this planet, almost every creature has a scientific basis.
At the heart of the film, the Nea'i, Cameron created a language system for them, a completely new language in which linguist Paul Frommer created 1,000 Nea's words, enough to cope with everyday communication.
The planet Pandora shown in Avatar is just the tip of the iceberg, and there are more parts hidden under the sea, waiting for us to discover. Avatar is big enough to make a series of movies.
Since the release of "Avatar" in late 2009, the news of sequel shooting has been heard endlessly, from the earliest finalization in 2014 to 2018, the sequel production has been delayed again and again, so eleven years have passed in the blink of an eye. "Avatar" has also become a series that fans can never wait for, although in 2017, "Avatar" finally began filming, but the schedule still changed again and again, from 2019 to 2020 to the end of 2021...
Ka Shen is not because of procrastination, but the sequel production of "Avatar" is too complicated, Cameron wants to make not a movie, but four in a row, the "Avatar" world and the whole and the disk, and more deep into the Pandora planet, see the different fields, underwater, around the Pandora planet, flora and fauna, different cultures.
Judging from the exposed subtitle, Avatar 2 was named "The Way of Water", which foreshadowed that Cameron would show the underwater world of the planet Pandora, so the film would have large-scale underwater shooting, and there was even news that Cameron would explore naked-eye 3D technology, revealing that the audience would be able to appreciate the 3D effect on the screen without wearing glasses.
It's worth the wait, and perhaps Cameron, like the first part of Avatar, waits for the technology to mature, just to bring the audience a new visual experience.
We look forward to our chance to walk into the planet Pandora again and wait for Avatar 2 to return again!