Matt Cameron

(“Themes”). Avatar was clearly a passion project for James Cameron, a storied director with a best of blockbuster films to wait that long to fully realize a project he had conceived so long before is not just indicative of a person who was waiting for the right technology to come by. It’s a clear indicator of a filmmaker who had a message to put out to the world. Based on my reading and research, it is widely acknowledged that Mr. Cameron intended to touch on many themes in this film. Some…

With his tenth film, the bittersweet and poignant comedy/drama A Man Called Ove, Swedish writer/director Hannes Holm has the chance to finally reach North American audiences for the first time. Not only has his work landed distribution with Music Box Films after winning three 2015 Guldbagge Awards (Sweden's top film award), but the film earned Sweden's selection to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards, and some believe the film could land the country's…

Fai Jubono, a young male human, few of his kind, is searching the galaxy for treasure with his droid J6, a repurposed, round, and rusty engineering droid who now helps Fai scavenge the Yinnad galaxy for spare parts, which he then sells for credits. At this time, Fai and J6 are headed to the ocean planet Kee. This planet used to be all ice, but had melted due to Kee getting significantly closer to the sun. Now multiple boats have been submerged underwater, which so called treasure beneath them.…

The movie titled Inception was produced in 2010, and it captured many viewers as being one of the best fantasy and science fiction of the years. Christopher Nolan was the producer and director of the film. He also fully participated in its script writing. The movie's storyline and script development were Christopher Nolan's ideas from 2001. According to Christopher Nolan, the movie was themed around lucid dreaming and incubation of dreams that brought up visions of an existence whereby…

Archetypes are common themes, situations, characters, or symbols found in books, movies, or other types of media that are recognizable cross-culturally. The 2009 movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron, exhibits multiple archetypes that propel the plot through two separate subplots. Avatar is set in a distant planet known as Pandora. It is inhabited by the Native people (Na’vi), as well as humans who are after a rare and valuable metal only found on this planet. The humans develop Avatars, which…

Bryce Klanac BMT 1 10/5/15 Jerry Maguire Jerry Maguire is a movie about a sports agent, named Jerry Maguire, who one night questions his purpose and what’s wrong with his life. He then writes all of his thoughts into a mission statement for his company. However his bosses don’t like his mission statement so they fire him. After getting fired he decides to starts his own agency to test his mission statement with the only one client he has left. The lessons I can take away from Jerry Maguire in…

Dion Arnold BMT 1 10/4/15 Jerry Maguire Jerry Maguire is a movie about a sports agent named Jerry Maguire who questions his purpose and what’s not right in his life his life He then composes all his thoughts into a mission statement of purpose for his organization. However his managers don't care for his statement so they fire him. In the wake of getting terminated he chooses to begin his own office to test his statement with the one and only customer he has cleared out. There are many lessons…

James Cameron’s Avatar is a very well-crafted film that exemplifies one of the darkest aspects of human nature; greed. The basic plot of the movie is that an ex-marine is sent to a far off world to work for a corporation mining a rare and valuable resource called unobtainium. However, the planet is inhabited by a primitive alien species that happens to live right on top of the largest deposit of unobtainium in the entire planet, and despite numerous attempts at negotiation, they refuse to…

The amazing world of Pandora with the story that was created by James Cameron to demonstrate Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. Campbell observed that the hero went through many similar situations in every story. The hero begins to separate from their daily life to go initiation a quest that they finish the quest and return home. However, Cameron designed the film Avatar in some a more modern plot of the hero and used a lot of effects to complete the whole monomyth. The whole story of the Na’Vi and…

Culture and Influence In her position of leadership, Mo’at reinforces the clan’s current culture, as well as to exert direct influence on the cultural changes that take place as the clan’s social structure evolves. Our first introduction to the character takes place in Hometree as she meets an Avatar prisoner. During her first interaction with Jake Sully in his Avatar form, she challenges the conventions currently held by the Na’vi by allowing Jake, a member of the “Sky people”, the opportunity…