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19. At the beginning when Colonel Quaritch is briefing the men on the situation non Pandora, there are blinds as well as a metal panel in the top-left corner of the blinds, which resemble an American flag. Oddly enough, the panel has a “50” engraved in it, the number of stars on the American flag.

Jake’s atrophied legs were actually prosthetics cast from a real paraplegic’s legs. The actor’s legs were hidden under the wheelchair and removed in post-production.

20. When Sully reassures Mo’at (the shaman) that he is “empty”, it refers to his life being empty. The term “jarhead” is applied to Marines referring to their traditional ‘high and tight’ haircut, and is used by Dr. Augustine when Sully is entering the Avatar link for the first time.

Avatar, marketed as James Cameron’s Avatar, is a 2009 American epic science fiction movie directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.

If you follow Jake’s logs in the film, the entire plotline of Avatar unfolds over a span of only 96 days. Those are some action-packed days!

James Cameron has stated that he was inspired to make Avatar after seeing Disney’s Pocahontas.

In the final battle sequence, Neytiri has a white hand print on her chest as part of her warpaint. It has five fingers, indicating that it is Jake’s hand (avatars have five fingers while Na’vi only have four).

The movie stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Waver. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fascinating facts about Avatar.

James Cameron admitted in an interview he got the idea for “Avatar” after watching Disney’s 1995 animated film “Pocahontas”.

Sigourney Weaver dyed her hair red for her role as Grace.

2. The movie’s title refers to a genetically engineered Na’vi body with the mind of a remotely located human that is used to interact with the natives of Pandora.

3. Development of Avatar began in 1994, when James Cameron wrote an 80 page treatment for the movie.

The connective spirit on the planet of Pandora is based on the concept of Gaia, described in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation’s Edge.

In 2014 an article entitled “The 1960s Avatar TV Show” was posted to the web claiming that James Cameron’s film was actually a re-imagining of a science fiction television series from 1963. It supposedly starred William Shatner as Jake Sully (until being replaced by Roger Ewing in season 3) and featured several images from other 60s sci-fi films and series with the actors’ skin tinted blue. Despite claiming to be authentic, it is entirely a hoax.

4. Filming of Avatar was supposed to take place after the completing of James Cameron’s 1997 movie Titanic, for a planned release in 1999, but, according to Cameron, the necessary technology wasn’t yet available to achieve his vision for the movie.

Cameron was finally convinced that the time is ripe to make Avatar after he saw the CGI wonder of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

. When Jake is examining his ponytail, Dr. Augustine states, “Don’t play with that, you’ll go blind.” This is a common phrase that is taught to adolescent boys (referencing their genitalia) to discourage them from masturbating. It is shown later in the film that the Na’vi use their ponytails to link their minds during mating.

5. The work on the language of the movie’s extraterrestrial beings began in 2005, and James Cameron began developing the screenplay and fictional universe in early 2006.

The reason Cameron cast Worthington in the lead is because he wanted a complete unknown to play Jake, someone you’d want to hang out with and grab a beer

6. Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million, but other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and $150 million for promotion.

Some CGI scenes took an average of 47 hours to render. That’s more than a work week for just one scene, which explains why the film took four years to complete.

Composer James Horner has stated that he created the score for the film with immense difficulty, often starting work at the crack of dawn and working through until 10 pm for a year and a half!

7. During its theatrical run, Avatar broke several box office records and became the highest grossing movie of all time, as well as in the United States and Canada, surpassing James Cameron’s Titanic, which had held those records for 12 years.

There was an idea tossed around to make the sky on Pandora purple and the plants blue, but Cameron thought working with the Na’vi being blue was difficult enough and let the plant life stay green.

In the scene that introduces the concept of the tree of souls to the viewer, Grace remarks that outsiders are forbidden to go there, but that she would “die to get samples.” This turns out to be an unfortunately prophetic figure of speech as later, she is allowed to go to the tree of souls because she is dying. Her first words upon arriving are, “I need to get samples…”