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Uncommon Perspectives by Naveen Bachwani
Filed under TV & Movies, TechTalk | 31 December 2009 |
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Avatar is one for the history books.
Wired magazine wrote Avatar could change film forever:
With the language established, Cameron set about naming everything on his alien planet. Every animal and plant received Na’vi, Latin, and common names. As if that weren’t enough, Cameron hired Jodie Holt, chair of UC Riverside’s botany and plant sciences department, to write detailed scientific descriptions of dozens of plants he had created. She spent five weeks explaining how the flora of Pandora could glow with bioluminescence and have magnetic properties. When she was done, Cameron helped arrange the entries into a formal taxonomy.
This was work that would never appear onscreen, but Cameron loved it. He brought in more people, hiring an expert in astrophysics, a music professor, and an archaeologist. They calculated Pandora’s atmospheric density and established a tripartite scale structure for the alien music. When one of the experts brought in the Star Wars Encyclopedia, Cameron glanced at it and said, “We’ll do better.”
You may not agree with its politics, or its happy-ending storyline but you cannot deny that the world of Pandora is the most elaborate, most spellbinding, figment of imagination ever created on screen. Period.
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