Sigourney Weaver plays [SPOILER] in Avatar 2
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I'm rooting for him. I just want to know what exactly they are doing to make this work. The Bob's Burgers or The Simpsons approach works when you're dealing with characters speaking in "funny voices" the entire time so I don't think that's an apt comparison. I mean the Luke Skywalker AI voice thingie didn't sound terrible, there was just something clearly missing that I can't put my finger on that gave away that they tempered with it.
If they are going fully cyclical - and it looks like they are - some kind of technical solution to deliver convincing aged up or aged down dialogue is going to pay dividends down the line when the main cast is going to play old/young versions of themselves.
From the makers of "highschool kids played by 30 year olds", we present you....
an adopted alien teenager played by an old woman
an adopted alien teenager played by an old woman
They're definitely playing up the idea that she could be a reincarnation of Grace, since she died while being connected to Eywa. They may not even bring it up in the movie at all, but the suggestion is there.
She also played a much younger version of herself in the first movie, although in Navi form.
edit: looks like they have similar skin patterns on their foreheads
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Honestly pretty ageist. Did he even audition actors that are actual teenagers? Representation matters.
Huh?
Wondering how they will pull off the voice. Lucasfilm had done a decent job at it with AI for Hamil and JEJ using old voice recordings to base it off, but I'm not sure the range is really there for a more expressive performance, especially with a bigger age gap they are attempting for a more energetic teenager.
Wondering how they will pull off the voice. Lucasfilm had done a decent job at it with AI for Hamil and JEJ using old voice recordings to base it off, but I'm not sure the range is really there for a more expressive performance, especially with a bigger age gap they are attempting for a more energetic teenager.
Yeah, the first movie is mostly a blur to me since I only watched it once but I came to this thread thinking she was uploaded to the tree or something similar.
They're definitely playing up the idea that she could be a reincarnation of Grace, since she died while being connected to Eywa. They may not even bring it up in the movie at all, but the suggestion is there.
She also played a much younger version of herself in the first movie, although in Navi form.
edit: looks like they have similar skin patterns on their foreheads
Maybe it's a spare Avatar body at the lab with her DNA in it that somehow gained awareness?
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Oh fuck. You just made me realise that it is an Avatar body since in that pic she has 5 fingers on each hand, when the Na'vi only have 4.
Well that's that mystery solved
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I don't know if we've solved all of it, but perhaps. We know Jake and Neytiri have also adopted Chet Hanks - I mean Spider after the RDA took off and left him behind as he was too young to make the Interstellar voyage back. Perhaps this is something similar?
The only thing I thought of was that the overwhelming majority of Mark Hamill's acting in the OT mostly just sounds like he's talking casual. In fact that was probably part of his appeal in OG Star Wars, it wasn't some high-brow sci-fi it was an adventure flick; Luke was just like a contemporary and relatable person. There's not a lot of scenes in the OT of him talking in some placid holier-than-thou instructor-like tone (there are some, particularly in ROTJ), but his AI voice scenes are all mostly like that because he's ostensibly a Jedi Master now.
I'm with you. I found the first movie to be a bad version of Pocahontas with bland characters and terrible CGI. I love James Cameron but I don't get the love for Avatar.
Avatar/Na'vi crossbreed? I doubt Jake was the only human getting lucky.
But but but how will she possibly play an alien when she is a human?!?
Yup.
And since Stephen Lang was also great, nobody will mind him returning also. Even though he was speared twice [those arrows were as large as spears] and left without a mask.
That is...not what I expected at all.
Her and Pearlman were the only reasons that movie was watchable.
Her and Pearlman were the only reasons that movie was watchable.