Avatar 2s Underwater Setting Can Fix The Originals Copycat Problem

Avatar 2’s Underwater Setting Can Fix The Original’s Copycat Problem

Avatar’s plot was criticized for being unoriginal, but James Cameron can use his revolutionary underwater technology to fix that in the sequel.

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Avatar 2s Underwater Setting Can Fix The Originals Copycat Problem

Avatar 2 can use its underwater setting to tell a more unique story the second time around. James Cameron’s Avatar franchise will finally release its second installment thirteen years after the original, and it seems that its groundbreaking visuals will make the wait worthwhile. However, that same anticipation has given audiences enough time to focus on how much Avatar’s plot struggled to have the same impact as its visuals, as multiple other books and movies have told similar stories throughout the years. If there’s something the first Avatar movie is famously known for, it’s the revolutionary CGI James Cameron used to tell an otherwise rather conventional story.

The first Avatar followed Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic Marine who replaces his deceased brother in a mission to invade the distant planet of Pandora, inhabited by the Na’vi. Led by Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), Jake Sully connects his consciousness to a Na’vi avatar of himself and infiltrates Pandora to help humans mine the mineral “unobtanium” and save a dying Earth. Sully falls in love with the Na’vi Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), daughter of the clan leader Eytukan (Wes Studi), and turns against the humans to defend Pandora and its people.

Since its release, Avatar’s plot has been criticized for repeating the story of works like Disney’s Pocahontas, Paul Anderson’s 1957 novella Call Me Joe, Kevin Costner’s 1990 Western Dances With Wolves, and the 1992 animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest – only with the innovation of visually-striking 3D technology. The details and the setting change, but the story always follows an all-American hero who arrives on a natural paradise to colonize it, only to end up saving its natives. Even the natives’ magical tree, floating islands, dragon-like creatures, and unobtainable minerals are shared by numerous stories. If Avatar’s story was completely original, the basic premise stills pales in comparison to its visuals, which were the movie’s main attraction. This could be fixed by exploiting the narrative possibilities of Avatar 2’s revolutionary underwater setting.

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Just like he waited years for the right technology to film the first Avatar, James Cameron has focused on Avatar 2’s underwater technology more than anything else. Since the director is such an avid ocean enthusiast, he will use this tech to explore Pandora’s biome, with a considerable chunk of Avatar 2 taking place underwater. This gives the sequel an opportunity to break away from the original’s plot and craft a truly unique story – even more so considering the limited amount of movies that share this setting, precisely because technical limitations have prevented them from making it look real.

It wasn’t until 2018 that a live-action movie was set mostly underwater: James Wan’s Aquaman. However, Aquaman’s superhero nature makes it inherently different from Avatar’s purely sci-fi roots. James Cameron’s new underwater tech will be vastly different from the kind of filming techniques used in Aquaman, which means that its depiction of underwater physics will affect the characters’ behavior and overall story in a very different way. Innovations like these grant James Cameron with a blank slate to tell a story that has never been told in a live-action movie before. That’s something very few directors have been fortunate enough to say.

All of the upcoming Avatar sequels need to have an innovative plot in order to succeed, which means focusing on the story and the character arcs as much as the VFX and CGI. As revolutionary as its technology could be, Avatar 2 can’t rely on its visuals once again, and now that the first story has already been told, every new technical innovation opens the gate for countless narrative possibilities.

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