First Flight

The powerful scene I chose from Avatar was Jake's first flight scene. I think this scene tries to make the reader feel happy for him being able to fly. The lighting, the plants, the different wonders of the planet of Pandora bring you into an entirely new world, it zaps you into a dreamlike fantasy. These signifiers bring you into the fantasy, and they mean that this world is where dreams come true, in my opinion. Becoming a different creature in a whole new world has given Jake an opportunity to make his dreams come true. It also makes you feel heartbroken a little bit because he has never been able to do this and now he can. I think this scene also makes you feel a bit of joy watching Jake flying over Pandora and in a way you get to experience the new found freedom he's feeling in this moment. The argument I'm trying to make for this scene is that dreams can become our reality even if no one else experiences it with us. At the beginning of the movie he talks about his dreams of flying and it seems odd to the audience because he is a paraplegic. Now that he is working on his initiation into this new planet he is given this opportunity and his dream is becoming a reality to him. Nobody is with him except the creature that is helping him fly and it becomes even more powerful in that moment. He wished he could fly and the world of Pandora is allowing him to do that. It feeds our idea of fantasy more than anything because it makes the viewer’s wish something like this could actually happen. We all crave the impossible and want our dreams to become reality and in a way they can. The movie Avatar makes us think about all of the craziest possibilities and it gives us some sense of hope. Maybe some people see it as false hope and think this could never happen, but who’s to judge what each of us may think we may have experienced. This could happen to any of us if our imaginations are crazy enough. This scene makes the impossible seem possible. And I think this whole movie makes our dreams have some hope of becoming reality.