She stayed underwater for 7 minutes and 14 seconds which actually broke Tom Cruise’s record for longest breath hold by an actor! This required serious training and practice from the cast. Many of the cast members were very successful in this, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana both stayed underwater for about six minutes!
So far, Avatar has done incredibly well at the box office. It is now the fourth most successful film of all time because it has exceeded $2 Billion at the box office. The only remaining films ahead of it are the original Avatar, Avengers Endgame, and the other James Cameron and Kate Winslet film Titanic. This is amazing news for the cast and crew because several of them are now in multiple of the most successful films of all time.
The movie takes place in Pandora, an unbelievably beautiful fictional land where the Na’vi live. The movie starts with a battle between the Na’vi and the sky people. The sky people are humans who transformed into Avatars so they can study Pandora and take the land for humans. They also want to kill Jake for now becoming a Na’vi. This makes Jake and Neytiri question whether they should stay with their tribe, or leave in order to protect their people. Ultimately, they decide to leave and go and live with the water people, a new addition to the story of Pandora. These water people live on the water 24/7 which is not normal for Jake and his family. Throughout the movie, Colonel Quaritch is trys to kill Jake so the sky people can take over Pandora and after several small battles and back and forth arguments, they have a final battle at the end of the movie.
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