James Cameron's Avatar in 3D


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James Cameron appearantly want NO hype!

Maybe it's a good thing.

I personally LOVE hype and Believe it WILL live up too!

And, most people think that is a fake teaser trailer, even though it's from account clearly associated with the Real deals! :huh:

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The first toy for Avatar has been released, depicting the Na'Vi-shaped Avatar driven by Sam Worthington's character Jake Sully. It offers a rough idea of how the Na'Vi look, and shows Sully's Avatar in the safari gear he wears when he leaves the Hell's Gate compound to explore Pandora.

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Sigourney Weaver describes her character, Grace: "There's a little bit of Jim [Cameron] in her. She's sort of impatient in some ways, a perfectionist, very passionate, can be caustic but also very kind and with a big heart." [Hollywood Outbreak]

With "Avatar Day" fast approaching (read press release) on August 21, the Los Angeles Times has posted details on how you'll be able to get free tickets to the screenings of Avatar footage:

On Monday, 20th Century Fox will launch an unusual offer on the website for its Cameron-directed film "Avatar": free tickets for an early look at 16 minutes of footage from the futuristic thriller that will be shown in more than 100 Imax 3-D theaters around the world.

With two screenings on Friday, Aug. 21 (at 6 and 6:30 p.m.), the "Avatar" preview will include an introduction from Cameron and some new footage not shown during July's Comic-Con International convention in San Diego.

In what?s sure to be a mad grab among sci-fi fans, tickets will be given away a first-come, first-served basis on the ?Avatar? website (www.avatarmovie.com) at noon PST Monday.

Look for the trailer online on August 21st as well. The James Cameron film opens in theaters on December 18.

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Someone got hold of a couple of screenshots from this movie's Comic Con footage, showing a glimpse of the face, and feet, of one of those Na'Vi avatars. Somewhere a blue foot fetishist is very happy. Bigger versions at the link. [MarketSaw]

I just received this link via e-mail about 30 mins ago. All AMC MovieWatcher members should have received it as well.

This is the RSVP page for all AMC Theatres (in the U.S.) participating in Avatar Day:

http://rsvp.foxfilm.com/signup/1/chain/1?W...movie.com%2famc

Asked whether Avatar is a "classig going native film," in the style of At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, James Cameron responds that APITFOTL was one of the videos he used for reference. Then the reporter goes even further and asks if Avatar is similar to Dances With Wolves, since it's about "a battered military man who finds something pure in an endangered tribal culture." Cameron responds:

Yes, exactly, it is very much like that. You see the same theme in "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" and also "The Emerald Forest," which maybe thematically isn't that connected but it did have that clash of civilizations or of cultures. That was another reference point for me. There was some beautiful stuff in that film. I just gathered all this stuff in and then you look at it through the lens of science fiction and it comes out looking very different but is still recognizable in a universal story way. It's almost comfortable for the audience ? "I know what kind of tale this is." They're not just sitting there scratching their heads, they're enjoying it and being taken along. And we still have turns and surprises in it, too, things you don't see coming. But the idea that you feel like you are in a classic story, a story that could have been shaped by Rudyard Kipling or Edgar Rice Burroughs.b>

He also says that the motion-capture software is so close to the actors' real performances, he wants to call it "emotion capture" instead of "motion capture." And that's what still astonishes him, more than the floating mountains and thousand-foot trees. [L.A. Times[/b]b>]

James Cameron expands a bit more on the important message of his high-tech alien epic. It's

"something that has this spoonful of sugar of all the action and the adventure and all that, which thrills me anyway as a fan, but also wanting to do something that has a conscience, that maybe in the enjoying of it makes you think a little bit about the way you interact with nature and your fellow man."

"It may seem like a simple story about "nasty" humans fighting with "those beautifully, spiritually evolved Navi," he said. "But it's really not, because we make science fiction as human beings for human consumption."

"It means the Navi represent something that is our higher selves, or our aspirational selves, what we would like to think we are or maybe what we realise we're losing," he said. "And the humans in the film, even though there are some good ones salted in, represent what we know to be the parts of ourselves that are trashing our world and maybe condemning ourselves to a grim future.

[Telegraph]

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