She needs to hold the bow sideways, like a gangbangah holds his nine. Then it’d be perfect.
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That was the biggest problem you saw with the movie? Poor archery?
I thought the lame Pocahontas-retread of a story was a bigger issue. The characters were one-dimensional caricatures ... evil military/ white guys; uber-wise tree-worshipping indians ... it was such a cliche.
It was a dolled-up 6th grade earth day essay.
SnakeDoc
But as the author points out, archery ain’t so simple! Even with his criticisms, the author gives Cameron and the animators a tremendous backhand compliment for creating a pixel-spun character whom you care enough about to critique their archery form!
Clearly this archery thing in Avatar is quite a concern to you, given that this is at least the 2nd time you have posted on the topic. You are a bit more strident, though, this time, as I don’t recall you suggesting that someone be shot in the head for the crime of creating a fictional movie character on a fictional world holding the bow in a fictional fashion.
Anyway, interesting change of pace and I’m sure the comments will be as interesting as they were the last time.
It is not irrational to posit that creatures on another planet might have somewhat different anatomy from humans.
Also, most steppe and eastern archers used a completely different draw based on a thumb hold protected by a ring, rather than a finger hold protected by gloves.
I remember going to see the Howard Hill documentary films about his bow safaris after wild game including the elephant.
It inspired me to go buy myself a bow and learn a little bit about how to shoot one. I’ve always had a soft spot for archery since.
Looks to me like Cameron is doing an ET version of Kyudo.
PS... Skeet is a particular clay target game. The clay birds are not refered to as “skeets”
Regards, Slim the competitive Skeet shooter.