Saturday, September 18, 2010

Plot

In the year 2154, the RDA Corporation is mining a valuable mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush, Earth-like moon in the Alpha Centauri star system. Pandora is inhabited by the non-technological Na'vi, ten-foot-tall (3 m), blue-skinned, sapient humanoids who live in harmony with nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa.

To learn about the Na'vi and Pandora's biosphere, scientists use Na'vi-human hybrid bodies called avatars that are operated via mental link by genetically matching humans. Jake, a paraplegic former Marine, replaces his twin brother, a scientist trained as an avatar operator who was murdered in a robbery. Dr. Grace, head of the Avatar Program, considers Sully an inadequate replacement and assigns him as a bodyguard. As Grace, scientist Norm, and Jake collect biological samples and data in the forest in their avatar forms, a thanator (predator) appears and attacks Jake. Neytiri, a female Na'vi, reluctantly rescues Jake. Seeing portents from Eywa, she takes him to her clan's dwelling, Hometree; there, Jake meets Neytiri's father, clan chief Eytukan. Neytiri's mother Mo'at, the clan's spiritual leader, orders her daughter to teach the "warrior dreamwalker" their ways.

The head of Sec-Ops, the RDA's private security force, Colonel Miles Quaritch, promises Jake the expensive cure for his paraplegia in exchange for intelligence about the Na'vi. Hometree is on top of the richest deposits of unobtanium for hundreds of miles. When Grace learns that Jake is passing information to Quaritch, she relocates herself, Jake, and Norm to a remote outpost. When Quaritch shows Administrator Parker Selfridge, the leader of the RDA colony, one of Jake's video diary entries, in which Jake admits that the Na'vi will never abandon Hometree, Selfridge orders Hometree destroyed.

Finally, Jake, Norm, Max, and several other scientists, all humans are expelled from Pandora (including Selfridge). Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya leader. The clan performs the ritual dedicated to Eywa that permanently transfers Jake from his human body into his avatar.

Reference: http://www.avatarthemovie.com.au/

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