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Happy Valentine's Day! | Onestopenglish


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Read some of the frequently asked questions about the movie and try to answer them. Then check with you teacher to see if you're right.

1.Is Avatar based on a book?
2.What does avatar mean?
3.What is this movie about?
4.Who is the director of this movie?
5.What other famous movies has he made?


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1.No. Avatar is based on an original screenplay penned by writer/director/producer James Cameron.
2."Avatar" is a Hindu word meaning incarnation or embodiment. Both this film and the Avatar series are named after this concept.
3.In the year 2154, ex-Marine Jake Sully is offered the chance to travel to a distant planet inhabited by an alien race, the Na'vi, in order to help exploit the planet's resources. He remotely "pilots" a biological clone of the planet's indigenous humanoids in order to learn from them and influence them. He falls in love with Neytiri, daughter of the tribe leader, and joins them, finding their culture & society compelling. Now he must choose sides... either remaining loyal to the humans and the corporate ex-Marines, or helping to protect the Na'vi.
4.The director is James Cameron.
5.The Titanic, The Abyss, The Terminator, Alien, True Lies, etc.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/plotsummary ;
http://www.reelmovienews.com/2009/12/memorable-quotes-from-avatar/

Think about the events in the movie and answer the following questions.


1.Which historical event does the occupation of Pandora remind you of?
2.What does Jake's avatar-life offer him and he doesn't have that in real life?
3.What is the difference between a soldier and a mercenary?
4 Why do the Na'vi accept Jake as one of them?
5.What are the ambitions of Parker and his mercenaries?
6.Which character in the movie do you find most interesting and why?
7.Which part of planet Earth does Pandora remind you of?
8.Describe the skills Jake has to learn to join the Na'vi?
9.Describe Neytiri – her looks, skills, character...
10.What is the main message of the movie (in your opinion)?


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/plotsummary

Read the Internet interview text. Afterwards look for synonyms ins the text for the words listed below.

Avatar Interviews!

James Cameron's Avatar opens in theaters this Friday, December 18th. Cameron has notoriously been working on the project for almost 15 years, and fans have a lot of questions. At a recent press conference in London for the film, some of those questions were answered.
Cameron was on hand with stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver to discuss the film. Among the most discussed subjects was the nature of the film's 3-D photography.
"Well, I think that up until now, every filmmaker who has made a 3D film has really felt it incumbent upon themselves to constantly remind you that you're watching a 3D movie by having things that come out into the viewer's space, and feel like they're quite present," Cameron remarked.
"So I sort of took the approach that if I'm constantly reminding you that you're watching a 3D movie, then you're constantly sitting there reminded that you're in a movie theater. I didn't want you to spend the whole two hours and forty minutes in a movie theater, I wanted you to go to Pandora. So we approached the 3D as if it were a window, or I like to think of it as a portal, into a reality."
The press conference wasn't all business, as Sam Worthington had the chance to tell an amusing story that happened during the film's production.
"We went to Hawaii to look at reference and stuff. We had to wear tiles and ears and a flimsy g-string and run around basically half naked pretending to be our characters which was all well and good except for when some guy came up to me and said, "So what are you doing here?" the actor recounted.
"I said, "We're filming a movie." He looked over and there was Jim Cameron with handycam. He said, "He's the director?" I said, "Yeah, that's James Cameron." He said, "Well, he's gone a long way down since 'Titanic.'"

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texts used for the exercises borrowed and adapted from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/plotsummary ; http://www.reelmovienews.com/2009/12/avatar-interviews/

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