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If you already know the ending of Avatar: Fire and Ash, then you'll understand the importance of the character of Spider in this new sequel to James Cameron's saga, and in a new promotional interview, the director defended the young human character, played by Jack Champion, from his detractors.
According to Cameron, Spider is a fundamental character for the Avatar sequels, so much so that without him, the structure of the films wouldn't hold up, and apparently, James Cameron speaks from personal experience, because he tried to remove Spider from the screenplays but quickly realized that the story wouldn't work.
"We knew it would be difficult to film with a live-action actor and surround that character with all these people in performance capture suits who are twice his height," the director recalls. "I knew it would be a difficult and horrible job to do, and indeed it was. I tried to write a version of the story without Spider, but it simply didn't work. Without this character, the entire story of Jake and Quaritch collapses, because at that point, they're just two guys trying to kill each other. It's too simplistic."
James Cameron added: "With Spider, the relationship between Jake and Quaritch changes drastically: they are involved through this boy that Jake raised and that Quaritch desperately tries to win over; he wants to define his identity as the reincarnation of a person from the past whose memories he has imprinted. Part of his identity is that of this boy's father, so it becomes important for him, in his search for identity, to try to be that father. In the third film, we witness this triangle, this father-son relationship, and this leads Jake and Quaritch to form a strange alliance."
Source: EW
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