Let's hear from some more ladies! (Characters in Avatar)

[Jay]

I know that most people on this site are guys, but let’s hear from you ladies! I want to know what you think about Jake and Neytiri, Grace (mother figure?), Trudy, Moat, etc. There are many strong female character here!

[swordwhale]

Sigourney Weaver is the orginal kick butt heroine (Aliens). James Cameron, for some odd reason, seems to be able to give us women female characters who don't take a back seat to the male heroes. Her name here, "Grace" has meaning if you contemplate it. She's like many people who go into a foreign culture (especially a low-tech one) and start by thinking they're going to bring education and medicine and ikmprovements... then realize there's more to the culture they're studying than they thought. That they need to empty their minds and learn. At the tree, Grace goes from "I need to take samples" to "I see her, she's real!"

Neytiri is much more than just a skinny male fantasy; she is the embodiment of natural power. Of a person attuned; mind body and spirit, with the natural world.

(I'm foggy on secondary character names here); pilot girl was awesome. I think the image of the blue warpainted chopper was one of my favorites.

Jake was well-played by an actor I am unfamiliar with. He was the iconic boy next door, in human form. I personally like him better in blue, but that's just me. In human form, he's understandably low key, a bit resigned, determined to not let anyone tell him he can't... In Na'Vi form, his inner child emerges (swatting the glowy plants), his inner dork, too. We see more of who he really is.

[Neytiri]

In Avatar, it seems as if just about all the male characters take a back seat to the females except for Jake. The female characters are dominant. Mo'at was the one who in the end decided that Jake would stay to learn. Neytiri was the one that even brought Jake to the clan. In a male-dominated culture, where a female is not allowed a voice at all, if a female was seen walking out of the woods coming into the village accompanied by a strange male, good God, it would not have gone over very well at all. Although Neytiri is daughter of royalty so to speak, and maybe they would make an exception for her, it was not even mentioned to be an indiscretion or anything of that sort. There are some cultures even today where being found alone in the presence of a male stranger is equivalent to loss of honor. Honor killings. I'm sure we've all heard of that. I do see a strong feminine presence in this movie. At least something closer to equality than you would see in a lot of male tribal cultures. There are a few matriarchal tribal cultures in the annals of anthropology, but they are few and far between. And where but in Avatar do you get to see a primitive indigenous woman hunting with a bow and arrow? Traditionally the men hunt, and the women get busy once the men bring home the kill and drop it on the ground.

[Jay]

In Avatar, it seems as if just about all the male characters take a back seat to the females except for Jake. The female characters are dominant. Mo'at was the one who in the end decided that Jake would stay to learn. Neytiri was the one that even brought Jake to the clan. In a male-dominated culture, where a female is not allowed a voice at all, if a female was seen walking out of the woods coming into the village accompanied by a strange male, good God, it would not have gone over very well at all. Although Neytiri is daughter of royalty so to speak, and maybe they would make an exception for her, it was not even mentioned to be an indiscretion or anything of that sort. There are some cultures even today where being found alone in the presence of a male stranger is equivalent to loss of honor. Honor killings. I'm sure we've all heard of that. I do see a strong feminine presence in this movie. At least something closer to equality than you would see in a lot of male tribal cultures. There are a few matriarchal tribal cultures in the annals of anthropology, but they are few and far between. And where but in Avatar do you get to see a primitive indigenous woman hunting with a bow and arrow? Traditionally the men hunt, and the women get busy once the men bring home the kill and drop it on the ground.

Good points indeed.

Only two though?

[Ethan]

i know theres more

[CrashingDoors]

I've been kind of surprised not to see more female fans for Avatar. I've been to one other site and it seemed to be mostly composed of guys. Now, I get the affection that a lot of the fans have for Neytiri, who seems to be the Leia of our generatoin, but there's more appeal to the film than just Neytiri. Personally, she's my favorite character but it's not in a... romantic fantasy kind of way. I typically prefer strong female characters (namely, Buffy, Sidney from Alias, the Gilmores, etc) just because--well, let's put it this way: it's too long to explain and I'm too tired.

But anyway, I'm curious how the fandom breaks down in terms of % males to females.

[Navi's saviour]

So far seems more male then female.

"Titanic for men" I call it.

[prime]

If you build it they will come. Give it time,.

[Neytiri]

So far seems more male then female.

"Titanic for men" I call it.

Maybe so, but it is also this girl's favorite love story EVER. It takes the concept of "boy meets girl" totally out of this world, both literally and figuratively!! It's like, boy meets girl, girl almost kills boy, girl teaches boy how to live as a different species, boy saves girl's planet, they live happily ever after!

[Navi's saviour]

Maybe so, but it is also this girl's favorite love story EVER. It takes the concept of "boy meets girl" totally out of this world, both literally and figuratively!! It's like, boy meets girl, girl almost kills boy, girl teaches boy how to live as a different species, boy saves girl's planet, they live happily ever after!

That's why I fell in love with the movie.