The new trailer for Avatar 2 has finally released
online, and it includes visually outstanding footage and a bigger focus on the plot in
James Cameron's highly anticipated sci-fi sequel.
In this video, I'm going to be giving you my reaction and breakdown to the new trailer
for Avatar: The Way Of Water, which is due to be released in theatres this December.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my breakdown and thoughts on the new Avatar 2
trailer.
So the new trailer for Avatar The Way Of Water, gives us expanded world building, not just
through it's impressive VFX but also through the imagery and new characters, which detail
the powerful storyline we're going to be getting this time around.
We get introduced to some of those new characters right from the get go, including Jake and
Neytiri's children swimming in the oceans of Pandora.
One of their children, Tuktirey, played by Sigourney Weaver, who of course played Grace
Augistine in the first film, looks amazed at the sea
creatures and I think that based on this trailer we're going to see the big importance of them.
It would also reflect how Eywa communicated that Jake and the Navi needed help during
that battle in the first film.
We saw different tribes and creatures on the planet come to their rescue and like I say,
I think this time around we're going to learn more about the
bond between Eywa and the living on Pandora.
A following scene between Jake and Tuktirey makes that even clearer, showing that his
daughter is going to be a big character in this
franchise going forward.
During footage of Jake training his kids as they grow up, a shot of the Tree Of Souls
and the woodsprite landing on Tuktirey, she says to Jake "I know you
think I'm crazy, but I feel her, I hear her heart beat, she's so close".
Jake asked what her heartbeat sounds like and Tuktirey replies "mighty".
So I can see that we learn more about Eywa and things that change our perspective
of this story and Pandora as a world.
And this will come via the larger focus on Jake and Neytiri's children.
Based on what happens later on in the footage, I think that the opening
shot of the children in the water is also their first introductions to the oceans around
the home of the clan that allows them to stay there, following their previous home being
destroyed by the returning revenge filled humans.
We see more shots of Neytiri being pregnant and the kids appearing slightly younger, so
based on that, I'm guessing that in the first act we're going to get a bit of time focused
on the years since the original Avatar film.
Then cue in some really epic shots, where we get Cliff Curtis's Tonowari surfing the
ocean on a massive sea creature, the one that was also displayed on the front of the Avatar
2 art book a few weeks back, and it seems that the
dymanic between his clan and Jake and Neytiri's is going to be quite the interesting thing
to see unfold.
It's confirmed in the footage that Jake and Neytiti are pushed out of their
home by the returning humans, and then they have to flee to the oceans to try to settle
in a new clan's home and get them to join and
help win this new war for Pandora.
But as seen in the footage, Tonowari says to Jake that this is his war and not theirs.
So we are really seeing an extension of what Cameron stated
in the Empire Magazine article from a few months back, where he said that Jake and Neytiri
would be questioned by this new clan, because aparently, they have adopted a human soon
and are looking after other human survivors from
the first war.
It apparently creates a tense environment between the different clans, and with footage
in this new trailer of their childran being picked on and looked down at
by members of Tonowari's clan, it definitely shows the obstacles that Jake and his family
will have to get over before they even prepare for the relentless new war ahead.
Alongside these challenges though we do get some beautiful new imagery of Jake and his
children riding sea creatures in their new home, exploring
the oceans of Pandora soon after being allowed to stay there, and vibrant night time ocean
scenes with Jake's son Loak, mentioning that "The Way Of Water connects all things".
Which is quite the powerful reflection to the dominance
of ocean on our planet and it also reflects James Cameron's love for the sea, which he's
explored so much in his career whether it be
with films or documentaries.
This brings us now to the opposite side of things in the arising new war.
We see shot of the new tech that the humans have brought with them to fight this battle,
including new agile exoskeleton suits, a new water ship, which
looks identical to the ship from the first film, but now able to surf the oceans, underwater
robotic suits and shots of the humans destroying the land.
After that previously mentioned footage of Jake and Neytiri's home being destroyed, we
particularly see a new shot of Stephen Lang's Quaritch visiting the place
where he died in the first film, and crushing what I think the skull of his human self.
We now see him as a Na'vi and I think based on what was said by the actor in the Empire
article, that the Quaritch we now see is one that has been able to be brought back via
the dna of his previous self.
I think he is dead but that this version has been recreated to
live as a na'vi using the dna of the original.
So if that is the case, it makes for a pretty interesting evolution of his character, and
the fact that we see other Navi soldiers around him in some of the segments, suggests to me
that maybe a lot of these individuals are soldiers that also previously died in that
original war, and have been brought back using the
advancements in technology.
You may be asking what else is really motivating Quaritch's character this time around.
Well we don't see Jake and neytiri's son Spider in this new
trailer, but that character is their human adopted son, and Caemron has already confirmed
that he is the real human son of the original Quaritch.
So maybe Quaritch is furious at Jake and Neytiri's clan when it comes to taking
humans into their tribe after the first war and having borught them up there in the time
since.
We'll have to see but I'm intrigued by the conflict that could evolve within this setup
and it definitely poses for a more emotional and powerful storyline with the sequel.
But we come to the final sequences of footage, and it shows us shots of the final battle,
with Jake riding a sea creature against the humans on boats, the big whale like creature
from before ascending from the ocean to attack
the big motherboat and Jake telling Neytiri that he needs her with him and that she needs
to be strong.
She fights the humans using her classic bow and arrow and it's a really emotional
ending that suggests that we are going to get a much draker third act that will lead
into the rest of the franchise.
I think that this ending might suggest that Jake could
actually die in this film and he'll essentially leave Neytiri and his kids with the opportunity
to rebuild a home on the oceans.
They are definitely setting up their kids to be the
main characters going forward and I think it would make sense to make this film have
a payoff or sendoff to the character that started it
all.
He taught them the ideals of family, togetherness and home, and to have him maybe sacrifice
himself so that they can live on, alongside all the potential reveals we get
surrounding Eywa and his daughter, is something that I think might be possible based on what
we're seeing.
We'll soon find out, but from a character and story perspective, we
definitely got a lot more to chew on with all of this new footage, and it looks like
this new war is definitely going to add to the narrative that begun with the original
Avatar.
So what did I think of the full length trailer for Avatar The Way Of Water.
Well watching this new footage really brought the chills and reminded me just how special
the world that James Cameron digitally and masterfully created
for the big screen.
Just in the 2 minutes of new footage we saw how he's really taken his time, literally,
to advance the visual effects and during the many water sequences
and night time scenes, I think you can really see the progression to a point where these
characters look real.
There's no green screen or cheap methods being used like we
see in many cgi heavy blockbusters today, and that's because Cameron has put the effort
in to capture these actors under and above the water
using high frame rate motion capture technology and supremely evolved cameras.
I particularly loved the look at some of the sea creatures, and especially that one that
I mentioned before from the Art of Avatar cover, as it
showed that the filmmaker and the people working on these films really care and are striving
to capture something bigger and wider then the
original.
This combined with a more intimate and emotional sense of scale makes me excited to see a more
impactful storyline with the Way Of Water.
The idea of having the humans come back and succeed in pushing Jake, Neytiri
and their family out of their home and then our Navi characters having to convince other
tribes near the ocean to allow them into theirs and
even help them win this war, is something strikingly relvant and provides the opportunity
for some serious dramatic and expanding possibilities from a storytelling perspective.
Constrasting that with the revenge of the humans and also how in particular, Quaritch
feels, not just towards his death but also towards the fact that Jake and Neytiri have
adopted his son, makes for an interesting conflict
with much bigger stakes.
The focus in the Way of Water is family and home, and I think having these character starting
points is just going to make for a much more powerful film.
I also was really surprised by the music in this trailer, because with James Horner having
tragically passed and not being able to do the
sequels, the new music combined cues from his original score with modern motifs, and
that really did move me and brought back that epic sense that we loved from the first film.
Hopefully all of these impressions will be delivered on by Cameron come this December,
and Overall, this trailer did exactly what I wanted it too.
It made me want to go back to Pandora once again.
It posed more intriguing story and character details.
And it blew me away with the advancements it's made through the technology being used.
But that was my video discussing my thoughts and breaking down the new trailer for Avatar:
The Way Of Water.
I can't wait to see what we get with the sequel on December the 16th, and
with Cameron promissing a more darker and evolved tale this time around, this trailer
definitely echoed those comments.
There's world building opportunities and the potential for
deeper character arcs, and the focus on family and loss is something that can really push
that message across.
I'm hoping for another transcendent experience that makes me fully
invest in a world full of a cgi, and if this trailer is any indication, James Cameron may
have done it again and showed how this is the right way to do that.
But if you've seen the trailer, what are your thoughts towards the
new footage from the film, and are you excited to return to Pandora in the first of 4 planned
sequels.
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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