The Last Airbenders Teaser Got One Thing Right That The Movie Failed At

The Last Airbender’s Teaser Got One Thing Right That The Movie Failed At

2010’s The Last Airbender was a poor adaptation of Nickelodeon’s Avatar franchise, but its teaser succeeded in one area where the movie didn’t.

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The Last Airbenders Teaser Got One Thing Right That The Movie Failed At

The Last Airbender was an extremely lackluster adaptation of Nickelodeon’s animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, but the movie’s teaser executed one thing very well. It’s an exciting time to be fan of the Avatar franchise, with Netflix currently producing a live-action Avatar reboot. Additionally, the show’s creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino have founded Avatar Studios with multiple animated projects in the works, and it goes without saying that both are assiduously avoiding the shortcomings of The Last Airbender movie.

When it hit theaters in the summer of 2010, The Last Airbender dropped the ball on adapting Avatar in virtually every way. Fans and non-fans of the show alike were united in criticizing the film’s writing, dialogue, whitewashed cast, and terrible action scenes. However, the movie’s teaser trailer showed that one central component of the series could be done well in live-action.

The Last Airbender’s teaser features no footage from the film itself, instead showing the young Avatar Aang (Noah Ringer) in a room surrounded by candles, and engaging in an Airbending training ritual. The end of the teaser moves out of the training room, showing the ships of the Fire Nation arriving to try to capture Aang on the orders of Fire Lord Ozai, played in the film by Cliff Curtis. As a completely separate entity from The Last Airbender movie, the teaser shows some very well-orchestrated Airbending, making it all the more frustrating that element bending having been one of the biggest shortfalls of the film.

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In the Avatar universe, bending is the act of telekinetically controlling the element of a given individual’s respective nation—either Water, Earth, Fire, or Air. The Avatar is the only person capable of wielding all four elements, with Aang being born into the Air Nomads and being the last of the airbenders. While Avatar introduced the concept of bending and showcased it extremely well, The Last Airbender’s bending was anything but.

The film’s bending choreography was excessively elaborate, with benders frequently taking a very long time to unleash the power of the elements being used. Furthermore, Avatar based the bending of each element on a different form of Chinese martial arts, with every movement acting as an extension of a different technique. The Last Airbender utterly failed to show the bending of any of the elements in this way, failing to grasp the very foundation of the entire Avatar franchise.

With two separate Avatar universes now unfolding and the departure of Konietzko and DiMartino from the Netflix show, that’s led to some concern among Avatar fans. Still, the franchise hit rock bottom with The Last Airbender, and the odds of a repeat of an adaptation that bad seem very slim. Meanwhile, The Last Airbender’s trailer demonstrates how much better that movie’s portrayal of bending could have been, so ironically, it shows at least one thing Netflix’s Avatar would be wise to use as a template.

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