Avatar: The Way of Water: New Story, New Cast, New Technology

In the world’s first trailer, which was finally released last week, there are still the familiar planets of Pandora and Namei Blue, but this time the home of the story has changed from land to seabed.

The status of “Avatar” in film history is no longer needed to be said. Although the promised sequel is now 13 years apart, as long as it is released, it is expected to set off a new round of movie watching storm.

New story

The story of “Avatar” is not complicated. Jake Sully, a disabled white soldier, falls in love with nature after a soul baptism, assists Na’vi against human aggression, protects his homeland, and harvests love.

Even in the end, Jack managed to shed his human body and officially became a member of the Na’vi.

From this, it can be said that “Avatar‎” is a film about life and survival.

In “Avatar: The Way of Water”, the theme becomes life and life, which emphasizes the concept of “home” like the trailer.

Cameron has said that the plot in the sequel will follow the Jack family, which is more of a family saga of a struggle against humanity.

This is also revealed in the trailer, where Jack and the Na’vi princess Natiri not only have children, but also adopt a human son “‘Spider'”.

“‘Spider'”‘s biological parents were humans who were forced to leave Pandora, and he would paint his body blue to live with Na’vi.

The first stills exposed in “Avatar: The Way of Water” is him, showing its importance in the sequel.

The previously revealed version of the plot is that a tribe member is killed, making Jack realize that the tribe is mixed with Na’vi in ​​human form.

With the threat looming again, and the runaway of their youngest daughter, Jack, Natiri, and their four children had to flee to the Metcaina clan’s realm.

This is a mysterious tribe living on the bottom of the sea, which expands the underwater world that is the main scene in “Avatar: The Way of Water”, and is also what the trailer shows with more space.

It has a unique seabed ecology and wonderful sea creatures, and even more mysterious tribes – “sea people” living in huge reefs.

Another highlight of the plot has also emerged, that is, the sea battle scene between the Jack family and humans, which is very worth looking forward to.

New Cass

After the new map is opened, new casts will naturally appear.

Don’t worry, let’s take a look at our old friends first. In the second part, the actor Sam Worthington and the heroine Zoe Saldana both return, and will star in all subsequent sequels.

In addition to them, Sigourney Weaver (“Alien” heroine), who played Dr. Grace in the first film, and Stephen Lang, who played the villain Colonel Miles Quaritch, will also return for the follow-up story.

Although their characters all died in the first installment, Dr. Grace was shot while fleeing the human base, and Colonel Quaritch was killed by the heroine.

Through interviews with some of the cast, we know that Weaver will return as a new character, and that Colonel Quaritch will continue to serve as the villain in all sequels.

Cameron stated that “Colonel Quaritch has a very interesting and unexpected arc in the film”, and in the trailer, one of the Avatars can be seen with the same flying as Quaritch on his left arm. Eagle tattoo.

Possibly he didn’t die, the DNA sample was kept, and he became a buffed fighter like “The Terminator”.

In addition to the old faces, new characters also appeared one after another.

Michelle Yeoh plays a scientist named Dr. Karina Mogg, whom Cameron praised for “always creating unique and impressive characters”.

Given the political correctness in Hollywood right now, she’d be a nice guy like Dr. Grace in the film.

In addition, there is Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter Oona Chaplin, who previously played “Game of Thrones”, this time she will play a character named Varan, who should be Na’vi by name, described as “strong and dynamic” central figure”.

Beyond that, the biggest new character is undoubtedly Kate Winslet, who will be her second collaboration with Cameron since “Titanic.”

This time she will play a character named Ronald, a member of the “Sea People” tribe.

New 3D Technology

As we all know, the most important thing about watching “Avatar” is not the story, but the cool movie viewing experience.

As a Hollywood technology madman, it is a traditional art that Cameron reforms technology before making a movie.

“The Terminator” and “Aliens‎” use traditional model production methods, which represent the highest peak of film special effects before the emergence of CG technology, and can be called “the top of traditional special effects”.

“The Abyss‎” introduced computer animation technology into film shooting, creating a revolutionary CG special effect technology.

The indestructible liquid robot “T-1000” in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day‎” brought new film technology into the 21st century ahead of schedule.

When it came to “Avatar‎”, Cameron promoted the technological revolution of 3D movies, making movies go from 2D to 3D.

Therefore, although Cameron has repeatedly overturned and postponed the “Avatar: The Way of Water” originally scheduled to be released in 2014, and only now has a trailer, fans are still very impressed.

After all, seven years have passed between “The Terminator” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day‎”, and the more technically difficult “Avatar” certainly needs to keep improving.

We can see that in “Avatar: The Way of Water”, Cameron still chose to shoot with live-action, CG technology and motion capture, but this time he updated a number of technologies.

Because traditional optical motion capture is difficult to deal with the reflection of the water surface, Cameron spent a year and a half to develop a new underwater motion capture system.

He also expressed his satisfaction with the results of the captured data, saying that “the code for underwater motion capture was basically cracked.”

Significant progress has also been made in lighting, with more lighting work being done during production rather than post-production.

Just like Cameron’s previous “Alita: Battle Angel”, the crew can use two lightweight high-definition cameras to record the actors’ facial expressions.

In addition, the crew used two digital puppets, an exact replica of the real actor and the actor’s character, in order to reposition one target over the other, making the results more accurate.

Most importantly, “Avatar: The Way of Water” also uses 4K/3D/high frame rate (up to 120fps) shooting technology, which was previously practiced by Ang Lee on “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk‎” and ” Gemini Man‎”.

The biggest impression is that it is immersive enough.

On the other hand, it also touches on the question we were most interested in in “Avatar: The Way of Water”: is Autostereoscopy coming?

In theory, this technology is currently feasible, but the difficulty lies in the use of large screens, which involves various angles and distances from the screen caused by more than one audience.

According to Cameron’s previous interview, it has been revealed that this revolutionary development will not appear in “Avatar: The Way of Water” for the time being.

Even if this achievement is not achieved, we still get a more magical effect in the trailer.

Cameron, who loves ocean exploration and technological revolution, made our return to Pandora a special thing.

Like the end of the trailer, “Wherever we go, I know one thing: This family is our fortress.”

Our home in the movie is the planet Pandora, a utopia that pushes the art of dreaming to its peak.

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