A brilliant new photo featuring Noah Ringer as Aang surrounded by dozens of Fire Nation soldiers was recently revealed on MoviePictureDB.com.
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A brilliant new photo featuring Noah Ringer as Aang surrounded by dozens of Fire Nation soldiers was recently revealed on MoviePictureDB.com.
Tags: avatar, airbender, aang, Noah Ringer, Avatar: The Last Airbender, moviepicturedb
February 2, 2010 at 3:36 am |
Oh! wow… it looks amazing. the set, the fire nation everything. It’s really impressive!! Thank you for posting this!
February 2, 2010 at 4:01 am |
Is it just me, or does it look like Noah has a ring on his right pinky? o.o
Great photo, btw. I have this as my desktop. : D
February 2, 2010 at 5:40 am |
Something about that picture looks way fake to me.
February 2, 2010 at 2:57 pm |
Yea, I agree… but its still impressive and makes me super excited!
February 2, 2010 at 12:04 pm |
PHOTOSHOPPED!!!!
February 2, 2010 at 3:08 pm |
I have to say, the stills and posters we’ve gotten for this movie look stunning, and very much in the spirit of the series. I’m still cautious about the final product (many a rousing trailer has resulted in a disappointing movie) but if nothing else, it definitely seems that M. Night “gets” Avatar on a visual level.
February 2, 2010 at 3:41 pm |
Thats not a ring, its the end of the staff… and yes, there are a lot of people thinking its photoshopped.
February 3, 2010 at 12:02 am |
ive actually seen the trailer cause of a survey i did at the movie theater and i srsly cant wait for the movie to come out ahhha
February 3, 2010 at 12:35 pm |
It might be photoshopped, no-one can tell. But it still looks alright, though slightly fake.
From a baguazhang/airbending perspective, a stance like that would never be used. Bagua is based on movement and evasion, and a low stance prevents that. It looks more like a firebending/shaolin stance. The only way I can interpret the picture is that Aang has nowhere to run, and is preparing for a huge burst of air. Or something.
June 30, 2010 at 3:07 am |
Actually, we do have a stance like that but it’s more of a transition movement sometimes translated as “Swallow Skims the Water”. But that’s not quite it. The movement involves diving down for a low attack then coming back up using the inertia of the thrust in some usages.
However, I think this is just a case of “Movie Kung-Fu” and they wanted something cool looking. As a BGZ practitioner, I’m happy it’s going to be represented but I’m also doubting it’s accuracy. They hired a Tae Kwon Do guy to play the part (the arts are like night and day) and the fight choreographer doesn’t seem to have any credentials in this style. Whereas in the tv show, they actually worked very hard to have each art represented accurately (barring firing elements out of your hands and such ;P).
Oh well.
June 30, 2010 at 2:13 pm |
Also, it’s also just known as “Crouching Stance” but would be used for more stance training to open up the kwa (just think of it as training your legs for strength and flexibility. That’s kind of an elementary explanation but will serve here
).
February 4, 2010 at 4:14 am |
I don’t understand what you’re referring to by photoshopped, do you mean aang isn’t actually there or something else?
March 15, 2010 at 9:37 am |
wow! this is good!