10 Lessons The Live Action Avatar Series Could Learn From The 2010 Film

10. Get The Dialogue Right

The film had some of the most unnatural dialogue imaginable; it was the opposite of the beautiful, funny, and meaningful conversations and turns pf phrase in the cartoon.

Dialogue reveals who characters really are, and their relationship with others. It's a glimpse into their persona. Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies once said that "dialogue is just two monologues clashing."

Meaning everyone is inadvertently trying to be heard, rather than listen. It's an uncomfortable truth, but acknowledge it and you're on your way to writing a great and naturalistic script.

M. Night Shyamalan evidently didn't heed these words when writing The Last Airbender. Almost every bit of speech in the film is for the purpose of exposition. The characters don't speak their thoughts - they don't even speak for each other - but they speak for us, the audience. It's all about filling us in on the political situation and history of the world.

It results in painfully two-dimensional characters, and a waste of great acting talent like Dev Patel and Shaun Toub.