Question 2

How are Humans and the Navi represented in the trailer?

Right from the beginning the Navi people are shown to be very peace full, as they don’t have any machinery but use animals and throughout the trailer they are not seen hurting anyone or anything. This is very different from how us Humans are represented as it shows us as very greedy and just out for money. It also shows that people are willing to kill to get what they want even though it’s not theirs to take. However they are shown as the superior type and the likely ones to win the war.   

 There are times in the trailer that make you think that human are represented as having no real human emotion, or sympathy this is because they have been very destructive to a peace full race. The Navi are very traditional and compared to people this is a good think, I think its representing today’s society and how we as a race have lost our traditional values and just care about money.  

What’s interesting is that the villain is a human and you would expect the Navi to be the hero’s, but they are not; as a human has to save them. This conveys that although humans are the bad ones there is still good left in us and I think it is sending out a message that we need to look after people and not just bully others to get what we want.

Also the way the hero is a human and betrays its own race for another represents us in a good and bad way as although he is doing it for a good reason he has still betrayed the human race, so it gives out mixed messages but it is up to the audience to see it the way they want.  

Also Humans are seen using guns a lot in this which is a phallic symbol. This is to show that they need the power. But what’s interesting is that the main character that’s a male is using a gun but the main female is not seen using one. This could convey that women don’t need a man to help them as she uses a cross bow and arrow.

Furthermore in the beginning it shows Earth and Pandora, both planets are half covered with darkness and the rest with light. This represents good and evil as both planets are shown to have good and bad sides. Also Pandora is much bigger than Earth and that could convey that Pandora as a whole is stronger than Earth or Humans.