- Film
- Avatar (2009)
- Actor
- Dileep Rao
- Character
- Dr. Max Patel
- Watch
- Unidentified watch
- Status
- Unidentified
Dr. Max Patel runs the avatar link room, the facility where human operators lie in coffin-like pods and transfer their consciousness into genetically engineered Na'vi bodies. Dileep Rao plays him as the kind of scientist who is too busy monitoring vital signs to worry about politics. He patches up Jake Sully after rough field sessions, adjusts neural calibration settings, and keeps his opinions about the RDA's military ambitions mostly to himself until Grace Augustine forces his hand. When everything goes wrong in the third act, Patel sides with Sully and Grace without hesitation.
A watch is visible on Rao's wrist, but the brand and model have not been identified. Patel is a lab scientist monitoring neural interfaces, not a field operative, so the prop department may have made different wardrobe choices for him than for the combat personnel. Without a clear shot of the dial, the watch remains unidentified.
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