Why did Avatar’s script suck?
James Cameron’s op-ed on space exploration in today’s Washington Post offers a clue. Favorite line: “So it could be said that rockets really run on dreams.” (All snark aside, I like Cameron’s enthusiasm for...
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On noble savages and the humanity of the ‘other’
Sullivan nods approvingly at this passage from Conor on Avatar’s Na’vi: The problem with the noble savage cliche is that it is demonstrably untrue. The people who inhabited North America before the arrival of...
Avatar
I finally saw Avatar (in 3D) without anyone threatening to beat me up. It was everything I thought it would be. The 3D was cool. The glowing plants in the jungle were really quite...
“The words ‘No’ and ‘That’s impossible’ and phrases like ‘That can’t be done’—that’s the stuff that gives him an erection”
The New Yorker has a great James Cameron profile.
