As in the first part, the story of the sequel is not particularly original: Twelve years after Jake Sully With Avatar defending Pandora against the Earth invaders alongside the Na’vi, the Resources Development Administration troops make a fresh start. Jake and his Na’vi wife flee the fighting Neytiri with her three own children and adopted daughter Kiri to the coast to the Metkayina tribe. Their leaders, Ronal and Tonowari, are initially skeptical about the refugees because they don’t want to be drawn into their conflict with the humans. But when the RDA was under the military direction of the Colonel, revived as the “Recombinant”. Quaritch also initiates the exploitation of raw materials under water, the Na’vi clans join forces.
This obviously does not detract from the success. However, director Cameron had to invent everything else besides the story. Or as he says, “I was trying to do a simulation of…okay, I am Peter Jackson, who is doing ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Except that ‘The Lord of the Rings’ doesn’t exist yet. So I have to go too tolkien and invent ‘The Lord of the Rings’. And then I can be Peter Jackson. It’s all a bit bold and ambitious, but I don’t have a huge pantheon of books that existed. I had to do it all.”
In view of the strong results, it sounds a bit self-pitying. Only a few weeks ago he said that he would always work with the same ideas: “I only have four or five good ideas. I recycle them all the time.”
In any case, “Avatar: The Way of Water” is far from the end of its triumphal march. The film is still in the box office. However, there is still a long way to go before the box office of the next-placed, “Avengers: Endgame”, is missing: more than half a billion US dollars Second place.
