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I'm your host, Paul, and it's time to open Pandora's Box
as we dove into Avatar the way of water.
In this new video, we're going to be breaking down
the characters plot and also the ending.
James Cameron
has also touched on some things to do with Avatar three and four.
And in this video, we're going to be going through it all.
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Okay, so when we last left Pandora, we just seen the U.S.
military being overthrown by the Navy due to, say,
switching sides and leading an uprising
after the defeat of Colonel Patrick.
The humans were forced to flee Pandora
and there has been peace on the planet ever since then.
We learn that
Jake has created a family with Neytiri,
and he's also adopted the Son of Cartridge
who had to stay on Pandora.
Born in Hell's Gate, he was too young for cryo sleep
and therefore couldn't return home
and has remained behind with the Navy.
He's not the only person they've
adopted either, and they've also taken
Carey under their wing, who's quite a mysterious character
voiced by Sigourney Weaver.
There's a big question mark over how she came to be
for the first part of the video.
We're going to be going through that.
Now, if you cast your mind back to the first movie,
you'll remember that Sigourney played
the character Grace, who died
whilst transferring her mind into her avatar just before her death.
Grace told Jake that she was with AOA
and she passed away, leaving her Avatar body behind.
We discover that Kerry was born from her, and though Grace's
avatar was rendered brain dead, it was still naturally alive.
She conceived Kerry, who now carries human traits
and these include eyebrows as well as four fingers.
This was something from the first movie
that the Avatars carried, and this is
because they were all bearing human DNA.
Kerry has a strong spiritual connection to the planet,
and this is likely due to gracing AOL before her death.
KERRY Even witnesses Grace at one point in the film, but
we don't learn too much about how she was conceived.
Kerry's deepest wish is that
she could have met Grace, and she often visits, ah, Avatar
and also watches through recordings she left behind.
Now, due to her body being brain dead, there's three ways
that she could have been conceived.
The first is pretty prefect,
and I don't know if we're necessarily
going to be going that route,
because I doubt Cameron's going to touch that.
Especially not in a Disney movie.
The second option is that Kerry is actually in Immaculate Conception
and that she came to be after grace,
came in a presence with the God.
She has a way to tap into the spiritual side of things,
and I think that she may become
a really important character in the upcoming movies.
There's also talk that she and Norm had a thing
and that she was pregnant before she passed away,
which means they were getting it on in their avatar bodies.
Kerry can also control planet animal life underwater,
and if she can do this, then it's possible
she can do with the trees and animals on land.
Now, Grace isn't the only character who finds new life in the movie,
and both Waynflete and Colonel Patrick return once more.
We discover that years before his death,
the quatre uploaded his mind.
Emotions and everything that made him him.
He has been processed through the recombinant program,
which has allowed him to return once more.
Now, due to him being duplicated before his death, Quatre,
she doesn't have any memory of his because technically,
from his perspective, he never experienced it.
There's lots of interesting things that they can do with him,
and potentially he may come to realize that
he's a slave that simply being used by the Army
rather than actually having a life of his own.
There's lots of deeper questions here, such
as what it means to be human,
whether a perfect duplicate becomes that more if it's simply a copy.
He also hated the Navy, but is now himself become an avatar
and the dislike for Quadrature is quite rich coming from him.
Quite rich. Quite rich at that.
That's my one bad pun for the video.
Now it's very much a ship of Theseus situation
that they could end up exploring in future movies,
as we know that the character's going to be back
for all the sequels now because of when he was uploaded.
He also carries
the same hatred for Jake that the original did to him.
Jake is a traitor that destroyed the hopes of humanity, survival,
and with the pleading resources back on Earth,
Sully doomed the entire species because he needed some blue
cat lady.
His words, not mine.
Now, after the humans land, we get a one year time jump
and we see, as Jake and the Navy have started
launching guerrilla attacks on the humans.
Spider is captured early on by Quadrature in his forces
and realizing that he has intellect could endanger their people.
Jake and the family decide to up sticks.
The humans have a way of basically seeing someone's thoughts
by putting them on a what's basically an MRI machine on drugs.
Jake would likely be aware of this and not want to bring his family
into it.
And therefore he's just like, we need to get out of here
because they're using the twirly whirly machine
and they travel out to them.
At Kadena, who have become almost one
with the ocean and the aquatic life that live there.
The movie is basically about Jake in the trees family learning
to adapt their and navigating how to best handle the human threat.
It's very much a fish out of water story
and much in the same way that the first movie
focused on Jake learning something new. The family
now have to learn something new in this new environment.
Now, along with Spider
and Kerry, Neytiri and Jake have three other children.
These until Loerke took Terry or took four short and up
we call them, took us up, butchered all those pronunciations.
And then this movie
we watch as they all start to integrate
and also meet several of them at Kadena.
This includes Alida to Nauru, who's voiced by Cliff Curtis
is also his wife for an owl
who I think it's pronounced an owl who's played by Kate Winslet.
On top of this, the pair have a daughter, Reya,
who sort of starts a thing with Jake's son.
Now, Winslet said that she'd never work with Cameron again.
After this, she got put through on Titanic,
and she stated in interviews that during production
she'd sometimes wake up wishing for death.
Yeah, well, she's back because they backed up the money
truck and Winslet actually set a world
record for the movie was filming the underwater scenes.
She held her breath over 7 minutes, which is amazing.
But Cameron won at eight, so get back under the water you can
now quarantine is forces use spotter to track down Jake
and they also start hunting toucans and we learn what the humans are
really there for
these animals are extremely intelligent
and inside them exist to play with.
That completely stops all aging within humans.
Humanity is now well.
Hunting them and trying to harvest this
in order to sell it on to stop humans dying.
The humans and attack leading to the kids being captured
and a big battle on water takes place.
They managed to escape with spider but Nate am a shark jumping off
the ship ends up dying from his wounds.
His body is taken to the shore
and he very much becomes the first blood in the family.
The ending of the film somewhat acts as a mirror
as we start by chronicling the birth of him
and we end with the character's death.
Throughout the movie,
we saw Jake giving his children a hard time due to the pressure
that was caused by the humans coming back.
He had to turn them in. His soldiers.
Rather than letting them be
the family that we see them being in the opening of the movie,
Jake's kids were also bullied by the Macarena.
I think he feels like this war has taken away
the lives that they should have had together.
Now, back on the show.
To make matters
worse, Patrick has Jake's stories, and he wants to try
this life of theirs.
Surrounded by fire, Jake in a tree, head out into the night
on a sinking ship.
Along with Spider,
they launch an attack that wipes out all of the humans
when the tree almost becoming feral.
As she takes them out, Jake frees tuck.
But Kerry's taken hostage by Godric at this point
literally grabs Spider and puts a blade to his neck.
Though Quaritch initially pretends to not care about him dying,
he hands Carrier
about when he realizes she's willing to take a send for his son.
Clearly, Quaritch cares about him.
And we'll talk about this more later on in the video.
Now, Jake goes to leave, but Patrick says that he won't stop
until he kills him and his whole family.
Thus, he returns to battle them again
and the family are forced back onto the ship.
As the fire from its starts to spread, it
slowly starts to go down, and in the end,
Jake seemingly drowns quadrature into the water.
But he's rescued by spider.
Jake now he drowns too.
But Lark travels back down there to get him
and they make it out with some help from a token
one line to Patrick called Spider Son and asks him to come with him.
But Spider does the Navy and swims off back to his family.
This great impression and this is very much a son for a son.
But rather than killing Spider,
they've taken him away from his father.
He may never know the love that having a family brings
and will likely spend the rest of his existence fighting in this war.
The movie ends with a funeral at sea,
and we know from the first film that the Navy have a circle of life
in which they're born.
Before they return to Asia, the son returns to the spiritual world,
and Jake offers to leave them at Kadena.
But he's embraced by the group, and this now becomes his home.
The movie ends with them reaching out to AOA underwater,
and Jake experiences seeing his son.
Along with Neytiri.
Jake vows not to let Quaritch take his home.
They're going forward. They'll make their stand there.
The movie ends
with his eyes opening and this is much in the same vein
of how the first film climax to A going forward.
There's a fair bit that we know about the rest of the Avatar films.
Avatar three was filmed alongside this movie
with principal photography on it.
Starting back in 2017, all the cast returned
and it has been stated that Quadrature will be the villain
in three, four and five.
Oona Chaplin and David Thewlis have been added to the cast
as new characters, and we know that the former will be corberan.
As with Thewlis, we don't know his character name,
but he did say that he needed to do motion
capture for the movie and has stated in passing
that his character is one of the Na'vi.
You also have Michelle Yeoh, who will be playing Dr.
Carina Mogg.
Cameron has stayed in interviews that he got some notes
backed by the Avatar three script.
He said that he must have gotten better
because all he got for Avatar four was an email saying,
This is crazy.
The title for the third film will be the seed bearer
for will be called the Token Rider
and lastly five will be called the Quest for AOA.
We've caused me the tokens in the movie
and these are the giant whales that live within the ocean.
We see Jackson riding them and they'll likely become something
that the other Na'vi learn to ride,
just like how in June we had the whim riders.
I think that the token will be a similar sort of thing.
These great beasts will even the playing field in the sea
and allow the Navy to take down the humans.
The humans, of course, want them to.
And I think that they'll become the most important thing
due to the fluid within them.
Now, last year, the quest for AOA, which will be coming out in 2028,
I'm guessing that this last film will have a strong focus on Kerry
due to her connection to Grace, who she connected with in the movie.
She can pretty much become the human personification of AOA,
and it seems like when she was uploaded
into the tree that she remained there
rather than moving into her body like Jake did.
We'll also likely learn who Kerry's true father is, even though
I think we'll go with the whole Immaculate Conception thing.
Now, tying
back to earlier in the beard and the idea of cloning and so on,
I do think that they could potentially start
exploring this avenue more and more,
although it's possible that Jake will kill
the second version of Patrick.
I actually think it would be more interesting if he was kept alive
say that he comes to accept the idea
that he's actually quite rich rather than being a clone.
And instead of living an existence based around war,
he decides to try and form a relationship with his son.
He has seen behind the curtain of what humanity is up to,
and being in that way
now might make him start to see empathy
when he's murdering people that look like him.
Therefore, he may leave the service in order to live in this paradise
with his son
instead of being like,
nah, if it were going to burn it all down now, what would the Army
do at this point?
Well, they still have his mind backed up.
And I think it would be crazy
if they just decided that because the prior version had failed
and it was time to create another rom com using his mind.
There's no rule that we can't have two romcoms of the same person
running around out there,
and for this newer version it would be like
he just come off the back of uploading his mind.
He could have two visions of Quadrature
running around with one having gone through an entire character
arc whilst the other is coming
fresh off having just being resurrected.
I think this would add such an interesting dynamic
to the entire franchise and ask what it means to be human.
Now we know at some point that the fight will likely be taken
to air.
The rumors around Avatar five say that we will be turning
to the planet.
And this could either be because they want
to stop the humans once and for all,
or potentially Pandora itself could be inhabitable.
The war could potentially destroy all life on the planet
and mean that the Navy have to flee into space.
The Navy don't really have the technology for space travel
and thus it is interesting to think why there'd be any other reason
for traveling to Earth.
Have you saw the extended cut for the first movie?
Then you'll know that we spent some time on earth
and that takes me into my next point,
which is my crazy theory about Jake's brother.
That's right. You jump.
It's theory that to.
Take that favorite bit.
Favorite, isn't it?
You know, it it seems to
serve.
You cast your mind back to the first movie.
Then you'll know that
Jake only got into the Avatar program
because his twin brother was part of it.
Jake's brother died
and thus he was asked to go
to Pandora as it be compatible with his avatar.
I think the recombinant angle adds
a lot of avenues to the movie and I'd love it if we have a twist
where it turns out that his brother was still alive,
his body was cremated, but if his mind was duplicated,
then there is the potential that they could bring him back.
With him being a twin as well, Jake, looking at him in his avatar
would add an extra dimension to all of that interactions.
Jake could pretty much be faced with the way he used to look
and his brother would represent the past that he left behind.
Jake's brother's death is what pushed him on this journey,
and though I don't think they go with that,
it could add some internal conflict within him and his brother.
I think the film in general could end up being about
freeing those trapped in the recombinant program
because those that are in it could potentially be enslaved.
Who knows how many time cartridges being brought back?
And if one awakens and doesn't act the way they want,
they can just press the reset button and start all over again.
Say these are fluid and tokens on the soldiers.
Then that means rich
is going to be a slave that's fighting the war for eternity.
It removes freedom, and those that don't act
the way they want are forced into a life of war.
And vengeance might not happen, but that's a freedom.
To talk, to. Show thinking. He did.
Anyway.
I've seen some people saying that due
to Cameron's comments about for being crazy,
that they could even do some wild shit
like saying it's all a simulation,
but dealing with those bodies and stuff.
But with the title of the movie, having that aqua in it,
I doubt they're going to do it.
Movies that do that stuff without the premise
already being built in normally get backlash for it.
And I'd kick the calf if that happened so don't can do it
and those are my thoughts in the film I think James Cameron
is bloody doing it again in terms of visuals.
This movie is unmatched
and even the first one doesn't come close in terms of environment
and the beauty that's on display here.
It really is an experience that leaps off the screen
and continues to remind me why cinemas are such an important
part of our culture.
Now the plot is a little bare bones and clocking in at over 3 hours.
I think there are some people who might struggle with the pacing.
It's an hour into the movie before we even get to the Macarena.
But I think just
how much the world absorbs you definitely makes up for it.
Again, this is unmatched in terms of scope and scale,
and it's something that I definitely recommend.
Everyone checks out in a cinema.
I just in the same way that the first movie
was captivating, this upped the stakes too.
I have seen people saying that the characters
are a little shallow, but I do disagree with that too.
I mean, the now massively complex,
but it's very much a coming of age story for the kids
and the parents also having to weigh up the costs of war.
You also have some really interesting things
with Quadrature in Kiri
that no doubt will be explored in future sequels down the line.
So yeah, Cameron Stern and again, he's created an amazing spectacle,
but at the heart of it is a story about family that feels timeless
and whether this tops the best ones box office remains to be seen.
And I think this does very much
feel like a middle chapter, whereas that was more stand alone.
You kind of need to get all those people back.
But I think word of mouth for this
movie will be very strong and people will probably return.
I also think that on the whole, that most will enjoy it to now
as an experience.
I'd say this is a ten out of ten tour de force as the Tour de Force.
However, as a movie, it probably market around the age of ten,
that sort of place
as great storytelling and things that set up the future.
But yeah,
the pacing at points and the fact that it doesn't feel like
a complete story just knocked it down from being perfect for me.
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