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<\/a>Watched the movie Avatar two days back in 3-D. James Cameron \u2013 the Director of blockbuster, Titanic \u2013 has done it again. The movie will go down in history as a watershed Cinematic event. Its not that such technically superior animation has not been down before, but the extent of how the animation was woven into the story was truly remarkable.<\/p>\nThe story echoes the Iraq war. The American forces are trying to invade a planet of the aliens with a stone under the surface that sells for $20 million a kilo. The aliens who are a strange mix of highly evolved, nature hugging, alien-faced, but African-cultured people seemed like a caricature of what the story writer perhaps thought was his idea of \u201cEsoteric\u201d. The truth is that the \u201cevolved creatures\u201d if there are such \u2013 with kick-ass UFOs and all \u2013 will be much more advanced and more than a handful for us to manage. They wouldn\u2019t be flying around with just birds and waiting for someone to bomb them.<\/p>\n
So, I didn\u2019t get excited about the caricature of the aliens much, although its rendition \u2013 using animation \u2013 was definitely mind-blowing.<\/p>\n
Generally in stories where Aliens and Americans fight, somehow Americans ultimately get to kick the ass of the Aliens, although they couldn\u2019t seem to do that same in Afghanistan against cave dwelling Al Qaeda.. but then the Hollywood Directors don\u2019t check facts with the US Department of Defense on their capability anyways!<\/p>\n
In this movie, however, the Aliens fight back and win against the Americans\u2026 helped of course, by some charitable Americans who fight alongside the Aliens. In fact, the Aliens get a \u201cSavior\u201d in an American who finally becomes part of the Aliens. A pure Alien, it seems could not have been a good enough savior! This show of subtle jingoism somehow takes away from the movie\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
In order to \u201cbreak into\u201d the Alien clan, the Americans somehow morph one physically challenged guy Jake and a female, Director of Research in that Lab into Aliens and introduce them on the planet, so they could somehow infiltrate the race, while looking like them, acting like them and being like them while playing the American role. Just that the guy, Jake, falls in love (old tactic of the downtrodden to get the superior races?!) with an Alien female. Thereafter he looks after the interests of the Alien clan.<\/p>\n
When the American War Commanders realize and go for the final battle, somehow the two Americans, who could morph as Aliens escape along with the entire machinery for the morphing to join the final battle.<\/p>\n
A few messages that were given out:<\/p>\n
\u2013 Being in tune and in harmony with nature is a superior way of living.
\n\u2013 Nature, trees and plants, etc are an extension of ourselves and they respond to us just as we respond to them or others.
\n\u2013 Cosmic Balance can entail fighting back by the nature\u2019s powers sometime (as it happens in the end).<\/p>\n
Just for these messages, this movie was good for me. Specially coming in the backdrop of the Copenhagen Summit for the Climate Change where the nations were fighting against each other like dogs. The future of mankind is at stake due to its own follies. And in the \u201cfinal battle\u201d we may not need to fight any Alien\u2026 but our own hearts themselves!<\/p>\n
Directed by:<\/b> James Cameron
\nProduced by:<\/b> James Cameron, Jon Landau
\nWritten by:<\/b> James Cameron
\nStarring: <\/b>Sam Worthington, Zo\u00eb Salda\u00f1a, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver
\nMusic by:<\/b> James Horner
\nCinematography:<\/b> Mauro Fiore
\nEditing by:<\/b> James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin
\nStudio:<\/b> Lightstorm Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, Ingenious Film Partners
\nDistributed by:<\/b> 20th Century Fox
\nRunning time:<\/b> 161 minutes[1]
\nLanguage:<\/b> English
\nBudget:<\/b> $237,000,000<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watched the movie Avatar two days back in 3-D. James Cameron – the Director of blockbuster, Titanic – has done it again. The movie will go down in history as a watershed Cinematic event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":11457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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