Avatar (2009 film) before it can reach the Tree of Souls; Quaritch, wearing an AMP suit, escapes from his own damaged aircraft and breaks open the avatar link unit containing Jake's human body, exposing it to Pandora's poisonous atmosphere. Quaritch prepares to slit the throat of Jake's avatar, but Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake from suffocation. With the exceptions of Jake, Norm and a select few others, all humans are expelled from Pandora and sent back to Earth, after which Jake is permanently transferred into his avatar with the aid of the Tree of Souls. In 1994, director James Cameron wrote an
Avatar (2009 film) can just get 'em in the damn theater, the film will act on them in the way it's supposed to, in terms of taking them on an amazing journey and giving them this rich emotional experience." Cameron was aware of the sentiment that "Avatar" would need significant "repeat business" just to make up for its budget and achieve box office success, and believed "Avatar" could inspire the same "sharing" reaction as "Titanic". He said that film worked because, "When people have an experience that's very powerful in the movie theatre, they want to go share it. They want to grab