Can Avatar sweep the awards?
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The highly anticipated sci-fi epic Avatar centers on Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paralyzed former Marine who is offered an amazing opportunity after his twin brother dies. Recruited by a big faceless corporation (is there ever any other kind in a movie?), Jake travels to the distant world of Pandora, inhabited by the simple, indigenous Na'vi, blue-skinned humanoids who stand 9' tall and have tails. Pandora is also home to a valuable mineral that could solve all of Earth's energy problems ... if only those pesky natives didn't live on top of the richest deposits of it.
Since humans can't breathe Pandora's atmosphere, the company has created Avatars, in which human pilots use their consciousness to remotely-control a genetically engineered body that is a hybrid of Na'vi and human DNA. Jake's deceased brother represented a big investment on the part of the Company, but since he shares the same genome as his twin Jake is offered to take his place as an Avatar driver. Gung-ho for action, Jake agrees and then has the pot further sweetened for him by Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the scar-faced leader of the Company's private military wing. Quaritch offers Jake a deal: he wants Jake, via his Avatar, to spy on the Na'vi, learn their ways and gain their trust so that he can convince them to "relocate" off their mineral-rich land. In return, Quaritch guarantees the Company will pay for the costly operation to cure Jake's paralysis. Jake eagerly agrees, but a few months into the job finds himself "going native" after falling for Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), a beautiful and fierce Na'vi who takes Jake into her tribe. Love and a guilty conscience, along with the realization that he has found a place to belong and call home, propels Jake, in his Avatar form, to switch sides and help the Na'vi make a stand against the increasingly violent encroachment of "the sky people."
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