I think Avatar is a good example of Post Modernism. There are a lot of things in and about the movie that represent Post Modernism. First off, the movie was made almost all the way with a computer. The Avatars and the Avatar world is all completely computer animated, and it took the director a really long time to make it. This shows Post Modernism because Post Modernism is all about technology. Almost everything in Post Modernism has at least something to do with technology, so I thought this movie would be a great example of Post Modernism. Some technology that was used in the movie was one, just to make a movie in general takes technology, two, they had to come up with a whole different language for the Avatars called Na'Vi, three, all of the characters would technologically turned into Avatars instead of using make-up and other usual theater tricks. This movie represents the dawning of a new era of movie making. It is an ear filled with more technology and less old time theater stuff. I like all the technology in the movie.
The movie also represents Post Modernism because the hero, or the main character, Jake, becomes a Post Modernist hero by taking a bad situation and turning it into a better situation. He has to work through a lot of problems with the Avatars and the regular people there that are trying to get the Unobtainium. He is a hero because he turns a bad situation into a good one by working hard. He is not a perfect person, he has flaws, which is what Post Modernist heroes have, but it overcomes those flaws to do what needs to be done. It is a little sketchy that he falls in love with an Avatar though. I thought the movie was actually pretty dumb once you really thought about it. All of the graphics and special effects were awesome, but the actually story has be done before a few times I think. It is a lot of Dances With Wolves, but that is okay because in Post Modernism they change take ideas from the past and turn it into new ideas for the future. So the director took ideas from Dances With Wolves, but he made it more modern by making it in another planet and more technologically advanced.
