“…in the new film, the family of ‘Jake’ and ‘Neytiri' grapple with grief after the death of ‘Neteyam', encountering a new, aggressive ‘Na'vi’ tribe, the ‘Ash People’, who are led by the fiery ‘Varang’, as the conflict on ‘Pandora’ escalates and a new ‘moral focus’ emerges…
“In the original, first ‘Avatar’ film, during the year 2154, Earth suffers from resource exhaustion and ecological collapse. The ‘Resources Development Administration’ (‘RDA’) mines the valuable mineral ‘unobtanium’ on ‘Pandora’, a lush habitable moon orbiting a gas giant in the ‘Alpha Centauri’ star system.
“Pandora, whose atmosphere is inhospitable to humans, is inhabited by the ‘Na'vi’…
“…10-foot-tall, blue-skinned, sapient humanoids that live in harmony with nature.
“To explore Pandora, genetically matched human scientists control Na'vi-human hybrids called ‘avatars’.
“Former ‘Marine Jake Sully’ is recruited by the RDA to replace his deceased identical twin, who had signed up to be an operator. ‘Avatar Program’ head Dr. Grace Augustine considers Jake inadequate, but accepts him as an operator…”
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