AVATAR

The film Avatar has finally been released this month after being in development since 1994. I have not seen it yet, but I have read about it and discussed it with several people who have. This prose-poem tries to encapsulate some of my initial thoughts on this blockbuster, its initial reception and some of its meaning.

James Cameron, who wrote, produced and directed the film, stated in an interview that an avatar is: “an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form." In this film, though, avatar has more to do with human technology in the future being capable of injecting a human's intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body. "It's not an avatar in the sense of just existing as ones and zeroes in cyberspace,” said Cameron; “it's actually a physical body." The great student of myth, Joseph Campbell(1), should have been at the premier in London on 10 December 2009. I wonder what he would have said.

Composer James Horner scored the film, his third collaboration with Cameron after Aliens and Titanic. A field guide of 224 pages for the film's fictional setting of the planet of Pandora was released by Harper Entertainment just five weeks ago. The guide was entitled Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora. With an estimated $310 million to produce and $150 million for marketing, the film has already generated positive reviews from film critics. Roger Ebert, one of the more prestigious of film critics, wrote: “An extraordinary film: Avatar is not simply sensational entertainment, although it is that. It's a technical breakthrough."-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 30 December 2009.

(1)Google Joseph Campbell for some contemporary insights into the individualized myth we all have to work out in our postmodern world.

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I have only just learned in the last five minutes that Alan Oswald Moore (born 18 November 1953)[5] is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell.[6] He wrote the novel Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some released on CD.

As a comics writer, Moore applied literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium as well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes. He brings a wide range of influences to his work, such as William S. Burroughs,[1] Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair,[7] New Wave science fiction writers like Michael Moorcock and horror writers like Clive Barker.[8] Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman,[9] Jack Kirby[3] and Bryan Talbot.

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Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) movie was in released with in few days and It becomes more adventure with the time and the hidden stuff behind the stage and some things we can not be seen just in front of his performance really making a welcome back for the pop king Michael Jackson's oh we really miss u and online movies we saw the trailer of his new upcoming movie

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