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How much do you really know about Avatar? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

All of the Na'vi actors performed their scenes in full prosthetic makeup and body suits.

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Easy
✗ FALSE

Actors wore motion-capture suits and head rigs with cameras, not prosthetics. Their performances were digitally rendered into Na'vi characters in post-production.

2.

The film's 3D technology was developed specifically for Avatar by Cameron and his team.

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Easy
✓ TRUE

Cameron co-developed the Fusion Camera System with Vince Pace, creating a new 3D rig that allowed the immersive stereoscopic filming Avatar pioneered.

3.

The Na'vi language was created by a linguist and has a full grammar and vocabulary.

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Medium
✓ TRUE

Paul Frommer, a USC linguist, developed the Na'vi language with over 2,000 words and a complete grammatical structure, making it a functional constructed language.

4.

The floating Hallelujah Mountains were inspired by real rock formations in China.

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Medium
✓ TRUE

Cameron and the design team used the karst limestone pillars in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China, as visual inspiration for the floating mountains.

5.

Avatar was the highest-grossing film of all time until adjusted for inflation.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

It held the nominal box office record until Avengers: Endgame, but when adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind remains the all-time leader in the US.

6.

Sigourney Weaver's character Grace Augustine is a former marine turned botanist.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

Grace Augustine is a botanist and head of the Avatar Program, but she was never a marine. That background belongs to Colonel Quaritch.

7.

James Cameron first conceived the idea for Avatar in the 1970s.

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Hard
✓ TRUE

Cameron wrote a treatment for Avatar in 1994, but the original seed idea dates back to the late 1970s, inspired by classic science fiction and his love of diving.

8.

The word 'Avatar' in the film refers to the genetically engineered Na'vi-human hybrid bodies.

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Hard
✗ FALSE

While the hybrids are called avatars, the term also refers to the Hindu concept of a deity's earthly incarnation, which inspired Cameron's choice of title.

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