Avatar – Individual Acting Performance – Neytiri

One of the best performances in this movie is that of Natyri, who is excellently portrayed by Zoe Saldana. She truly comes off as a native woman. She is believable as a native female who knows her forest; she may not know about much else in the universe, but she knows the forest well. And, her teaching to Jake is alternately frustrating and patient. She does a great job at the initial meeting with Jake when divine intervention not only prevents her from killing Jake but causes her to bring him before the tribe. Their initial meeting is believable in the sense of her portrayal of a woman fighter, who has lost her sister to the humans, is stopped from killing Jake by “divine” intervention, and must somehow explain to Jake, without getting too close, that his blundering in the forest is ignorant and shows he doesn’t belong there. Of course, a 2nd “divine” intervention by Eywa causes her to bring Jake to the tribe.

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