阿凡达 Avatar Movie Script

He sprints with her through the trees, trying to keep up.

She CLIMBS and LEAPS with the ease of a spider monkey.

JAKE (V.O.) I have to trust my body to know what to do. With Neytiri it's learn fast or die.

Neytiri LEAPS off into space, falling, falling until -- She catches an enormous palm leaf and, gripping it, allows its DROOP to slow her fall. She lets go, plummeting, and catches another.

JAKE FOLLOWS in a leap of faith. THE CAMERA PLUNGES with him, from leaf to leaf, down and down in a dizzying kinetic rush.

He drops down from the last leaf, landing next to her on a game trail. He is exhilarated to still be alive.

Neytiri is surprised -- that he followed. That he lived.

TIGHT ON HUMAN JAKE, in the shack. Thinking as he looks at the pictures of Grace with the laughing kids at the school.

IN THE COMMONS -- AVATAR NORM formally greets MO'AT. The Matriarch looks on as GRACE kneels to hug children she knows.

Grace's eyes sparkle as she chats with them in Na'vi.

JAKE (V.O.) I sweet-talked Mo'at into giving Norm and Grace a hall pass. Now Grace even makes me coffee before link every morning.

Grace looks up to see Neytiri approaching. It is an awkward moment between them. Grace makes the formal gesture of greeting.

GRACE:

(Na'vi, subtitled) I See you, Neytiri Mo'at'ite.

NEYTIRI:

I See you, Doctor Grace Augustine.

ANOTHER DAY -- NEYTIRI kneels on a game trail, pointing out the tracks in the mud to Jake. She touches the edges of the plants around her, and sniffs the air.

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JAKE (V.O.) I'm learning to read the trails, the tracks at the water-hole, the tiniest scents and sounds.

JAKE AND NEYTIRI watch through a screen of leaves as -- A HERD of huge, armored STURMBEEST walks through the shallows of a lake. In the middle of the herd, the babies are sheltered from predators among their parents' legs.

One of the BULLS trumpets, and a flock of TETRAPTERONS takes flight, an explosion of purple wings.

Jake stares at the strange and wild alien tableau.

ANOTHER PLACE -- NEYTIRI STANDS utterly still, except for her ears, which move with a life of their own. Her eyes are closed. She speaks very softly to Jake --

NEYTIRI:

When you hear nothing, you will hear everything. When you see nothing, you will See everything.

JAKE (V.O.) Sometimes I have no idea what she's talking about.

Jake and Neytiri creep quietly, stalking a large male HEXAPEDE -- a six legged deer-like creature.

Jake expertly nocks an arrow and draws his bow as Neytiri watches. He takes a bead on the hexapede -- tracks it for a beat with the drawn bow, then RELAXES his arm. Zen archery.