Where is Zhangjiajie? ... Zhangjiajie is on Earth. Not on Pandora.
Where is Zhangjiajie? ... Zhangjiajie is on Earth. With the popularity of Avatar, more people have learned about Zhangjiajie. But some still don't know where Zhangjiajie is. Zhangjiajie is within Hunan Province and is a beautiful tourist city. Zhangjiajie launched the “Avatar Tour,” combining 15 scenes from the film to let visitors experience a real-life version of “Avatar.” It also established the “Avatar Office” (abbreviated as “A-ban”...
Where is Zhangjiajie? ... Zhangjiajie is on Earth.
With the popularity of Avatar, more people have learned about Zhangjiajie. But some still don't know where Zhangjiajie is.
Zhangjiajie is within Hunan Province and is a beautiful tourist city.
Zhangjiajie launched the “Avatar Tour,” combining 15 scenes from the film to let visitors experience a real-life version of “Avatar.” It also established the “Avatar Office” (abbreviated as “A-ban”).
Wreathed in clouds and mist, beautiful and spectacular, with mountains as if floating in the air…… This is the classic scene “Hallelujah Mountain” in Avatar. On the 25th, some people in Zhangjiajie renamed the “Qiankun Pillar” in the Yuanjiajie Scenic Area to “Hallelujah Mountain.” This move attracted attention and controversy from all sides.
Ding Yunyong, director of the Zhangjiajie Municipal Tourism Bureau, formally stated yesterday that the Zhangjiajie Scenic Area has not been renamed because of Avatar. The grassroots action shows that Zhangjiajie is defending its authority and special value as a world natural heritage mountain.
In the two-and-a-half-hour sci-fi film Avatar, about half an hour features “Hallelujah Mountain” with the quartz sandstone peak forest of Zhangjiajie as the background. This Chinese element makes Avatar even more mysterious. Zhangjiajie representatives introduced that in December 2008, Mr. Hanson, the cinematographer of Avatar, accompanied by Mr. Li Te, a staff member of the Digital Media Research Institute of Hunan University, went to the Yuanjiajie scenic area of Zhangjiajie and shot footage of Zhangjiajie's peak forest, including the Qiankun Pillar. This is the “Hallelujah Mountain” in Avatar.
“‘Hallelujah Mountain’ is based on the Zhangjiajie peak forest. Its form and spirit are all characteristics of Zhangjiajie. Mr. Hanson, the cinematographer of Avatar, directly entered the Zhangjiajie scenic area and took photos of the peak forest. These are indisputable facts. No matter how director Cameron misstates it, and no matter how a few netizens argue, as long as everyone watches Avatar and looks at the real scenery of Zhangjiajie's great peak forest and makes a comparison, everything will be clear. Facts speak louder than words.” Ding Yunyong said.
As for the mountain villagers and scenic area managers in the area where the scenic spot is located labeling the Qiankun Pillar, one of the “Hallelujah Mountains” in Avatar, with the name of the mountain from Avatar, Ding Yunyong said the purpose is to prove that the prototype of “Hallelujah Mountain” is Zhangjiajie, and to give the broad audience, netizens, and tourists the truth. They use facts to defend the authority of Zhangjiajie's mountains and use actions to market Zhangjiajie's tourism brand. It is absolutely not about abandoning Zhangjiajie's own cultural roots to “worship foreign things” for a foreign film.