AvatarTheWayOfWater cinematographer Russell Carpenter reveals how he overcame the challenges of integrating Spider into the digital world of Pandora. '[If you] have the light not quite coming from where it should be, you get into trouble pretty fast.'
Avatar: The Way of Water cinematographer Russell Carpenter talks about the challenges of integrating the live-action Spider into Pandora's digital environment. 13 years after director James Cameron's original smash hit, Avatar: The Way of Water reintroduces audiences to the world of Pandora and continues the story of Jake , Neytiri , and their new family.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Although most of the central characters in Avatar: The Way of Water are 10-foot-tall Na'vi, Spider is a normal-sized, human teenager, which Carpenter said posed a number of challenges on set. In a recent interview with IndieWire, the cinematographer talks about how audiences' immersion would have been ruined if his lighting of the live-action character didn't match exactly with the lighting that would later be baked into the virtual environment of Pandora.
“My mantra was, ‘Russell, you’ve got one job: to make Spider inhabit this virtual world, and to do that while the camera is moving like crazy.’ Your lighting has to be right on the money, because we all know what sunlight looks like, or what shade in a forest looks like, and if you deviate from that and get something wrong, like your contrast or have the light not quite coming from where it should be, you get into trouble pretty fast.
Even though the Na'vi version of Quaritch is not technically Spider's father, he has all the memories of the deceased human Quaritch, who was. The first suggestion that perhaps Quaritch genuinely cares for Spider is when he puts an end to General Ardmore's torture of the boy.
It remains to be seen how Spider and Quaritch's dynamic will continue to play out in the upcoming Avatar sequels, but there is clearly more story to tell. In contrast with the essentially unredeemable version of Qauritch that appeared in the original movie, Spider's inclusion in the sequel now makes Lang's character a much more complex and interesting antagonist for Jake to face off against.
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