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Avatar: A Tragic Hero In Avatar

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Biography-Employee at MNU, Typical stereotypical South African man, clumsy ,Married man in his mid 30’s goes through transformation into a alien. Biography- Ex-military soldier whos been brought in as replacement for his brothers avatar, he is crippled ,eager to work late 20’s Position- Main Character, gets potrayed as being against The sliens and for the forced removals, Perception changes with his transformation into one of them Position- a Tragic hero, his role as an antagonist changes to him being a protagonist Pivotal Scenes Where he accidentally sprays the alien chemical all over him; The first symptoms of his transformation; When he is moved down to MNU test labs; First introduction to him, Fights of Kobus and the Cowboys to help CJ escape. Pivotal Scenes When we first meet him in the wheelchair; He gets recruited for a recon team by Colonel miles; Firts encounter with Nyetri ; When they try to fight off the special army to save the sacred tree; Getting accepted as …show more content…

What we see in Avatar is a whole new different perpective of living and the other worldy being not being from the world they make use of advanced science and explore the concept of time travel whereas in District 9 we plainly see a known environment which it is mainly based on Earth where, but not forgetting that District 9 meets the SF genre criteria well enough with the futuristic machinery that is being used and the weapons that are being brought out by aliens. Avatar is more deliberate and obvious in the displaying of the criteria of SF genre it would need to meet they highlight all the futuristic machinery and vehicle , technology and so forth. This is also made obvious by the Utopia setting introduced as Pandora ,thus i conclude that Avatar is more likely to be seen as a True full-fledged Science-fiction movie whereas District 9 may just have hints of Sci-fi in

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