Two years earlier, Y and I had presented papers at the 2010 Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Conference in Carefree, Arizona on Avatar (2009). She approached the film through a critical postcolonial perspective and questioned the film’s white savior trope. I used Leo Marx’s The Machine in the Garden as a lens for exploring how the film was made–technology used to create an Edenic world (you can read my paper here).
We enjoyed watching the first Avatar film a few times in the theaters. It was an immersive experience. With Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), we saw it at home, which was a different experience. It was enjoyable but altogether different than the first time we had imaginatively been to Pandora. A lot of years had passed and the world had changed due to COVID.
Pandora
Na’vi and Avatars
AMP Suit
Props and Equipment
Virtual Camera
Big Boots to Fill
