Outline

Time:

The story takes place in the year 2154.

故事发生在2154年。

Places:

①  Earth: 地球

The earth is the planet of the sun in the galaxy and our human habitat. In 2154 the earth is facing a global energy crisis and environmental crisis.

地球是银河系中太阳的行星，是我们人类的居住地。2154年的地球面临全球性的能源危机和环境危机。

②Pandora: 潘多拉星球

Pandora is a character in Greek mythology. In the film, Pandora is a planet in the Alpha Centauri System, about the size of earth. Alpha Centauri is 4.4 light-years away and is the closest star system to earth. The planet was discovered 25 years ago (2129) by a team of earth-star scientists. Pandora's atmosphere is full of ammonia,methane, chlorine, and there's no way for people on earth to survive without other equipment. But Pandora has developed a unique ecosystem based on acompletely different biochemistry from earth, with amazing new plants and animals.

潘多拉是希腊神话中的一个角色。在本部电影中潘多拉是半人马阿尔法星系中的一颗星球，大小和地球差不多。半人马阿尔发星系距离地球4.4光年，是离地球最近的恒星系统。地球星级考察队于25年前（2129年）发现了这颗生机盎然而仍处于蛮荒时期的星球。潘多拉星的大气中充满了氨气，甲烷，氯气，不依赖别的设备地球人在这里根本无法生存。但潘多拉却基于和地球完全不同的生物化学发展出了独特的生态系统，各种新奇的植物和动物令人叹为观止。

 

（注：宙斯发现人类掌握了火的使用方法后，下决心要惩罚人类，就让火神仿造女神的模样，用水和土创造了一个美女，再让爱与美之神阿芙洛狄忒为她喷上令男人心醉神迷的香气，让雅典娜为她披上华丽的衣服，神使赫尔墨斯赋予她言语的天赋。当这个女人做好后，宙斯给她起名为Pandora，让她带着一个宝盒来到人间，并欲擒故纵地警告她不要打开盒子。埃庇米修斯不顾普罗米修斯的警告，娶了潘多拉为妻。潘多拉果然禁不起好奇心，打开了宝盒，放出了里面的各种灾难，仅仅保留了希望在里面。潘多拉的名字Pandora是“众神的礼物”的意思。在希腊语中，pan表示“所有”，dora的意思是“礼物”，其中的do表示“赠送”。pan和do后来都变成了英语词根，衍生了大量英语单词。习语Pandora’s box：灾难的根源。）

 

Beginning:

Jake Sully accepts the task to be dispatched to Pandora.

杰克·萨利接受了被派往潘多拉星球的任务。

Development:

Jake Sully learns to respect the Navi way of living and finally gets accepted by them.

杰克·萨利学会了尊重纳美人的生活方式，最后被他们接受。

Ending:

Jake Sully gives up human identity to become a true avatar.

杰克·萨利放弃了他的人类身份，成为一个真正的阿凡达。

The story happens in the year 2154 in the future when humans are engaged in mining reserves of a precious mineral called “Unobtanium”---a rare super conductor badly needed by human beings to solve the energy crisis---on the lush moon Pandora of the Alpha Centauri star system. On the one hand, Jake Sully from earth is an ex-Marine with paralyzed legs. He doesn’t feel anything worth fighting, so he readily accepts the task to be dispatched to Pandora. On the other hand the colonists’ expansion threatens the continued existence of the Na'vi, a race of humanoids indigenous to Pandora, as well as the moon’s ecosystem. 

We enter the alien world through the eyes of Jake Sully. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where corporations from Earth are mining “Unobtanium”. Because the atmosphere of Pandora is toxic, they have to set up Avatar Project, in which human “drivers” have their consciousness linked to an avatar, a remotely-controlled biological body that can survive in the lethal air. These avatars are genetically engineered hybrids of human DNA mixed with DNA from the natives of Pandora-Navi.

Reborn in his avatar, Jake can walk again. He is given a mission to infiltrate Navi, who have become a major obstacle in mining “Unobtanium”. A beautiful Navi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life, which changes everything. Jake is taken in by Neytiri's clan, and learns to become one of them after experiencing many tests and adventures. As Jake's relationship with his reluctant teacher Neytiri deepens, he learns to respect the Navi way of living and finally gets accepted by them.

As Jake is dreaming that he can persuade local aboriginal people to migrate to satisfy the earth people who have a brutal greed through peaceful negotiation, the war started. As the earth people believe their high-tech weapons than any negotiations, so the general gives an order that the tanks and the troops attack the soul of Daniel, the trees.

Soon Jake will face the ultimate test as he leads them in an epic battle. The battle will decide nothing less than the fate of the planet. At the end of the film,human completely lost, no planes and guns, even the base are lost and expelled from the Pandora. The last remaining Jake who is left for the selection if he will stay with his wife together, gives up human identity to become a true avatar. 

 

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