Avatar

Avatar is a 2009 film directed by James Cameron. When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he of Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers information for the cooperating military unit operated by Colonel Quaritch, while attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity at the same time. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the alien Neytiri. The Colonel can't wait any longer and moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand and fight back in a battle for the fate of Pandora.

In chapter 7 of our text, it talks about color. This element is excellent for this film because there are so many different colors throughout the movie in Pandora. The text gives the definition of color to be the special quality of light reflected from a given surface. The word hue is a synonym for color. There are many terms that go along with color. Anything lighter than the normal value is a tint while anything darker is a shade.

The text also talks about the effects color has on the viewer. There are many ways color effects the viewer such as: color attracts attention, colors contribute to three-dimensionality, colors create an impression or feeling of temperature, and colors function together in different ways. In the film Avatar, the director used color to attract our attention by making objects close up and by having a lot of movement throughout the film. He made some objects seem closer than others and some objects seem farther away. He did this by using advancing colors or also known as warm colors (red, orange, yellow, and lavender) to make objects seem closer up when next to receding colors or also known as cool colors (beige, green, or pale blue).

I went to Avatar when it came out in the theater. At first when my sister said we were going to it, I didn't want to go because I thought the previews to it looked weird. When I watched it, my first instinct of it was totally wrong! It was such a unique movie that seemed to be so real. The colors in the film when the scientists go to Pandora make the movie so much more appealing.