{"id":2443,"date":"2009-12-17T16:24:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T16:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/will-avatar-be-this-generation%e2%80%99s-star-wars-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T16:24:40","slug":"will-avatar-be-this-generation%e2%80%99s-star-wars-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/will-avatar-be-this-generation%e2%80%99s-star-wars-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Will Avatar Be This Generation\u2019s Star Wars? | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I changed my facebook <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#\/sheril.kirshenbaum?ref=profile\">photo<\/a> to feature <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/character\/ch0098391\/\">Neytiri<\/a>, a central character from James Cameron&rsquo;s much anticipated new film <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\"><em>Avatar<\/em><\/a>. Displaying an &lsquo;<em>avatar<\/em>&lsquo; as my avatar seemed funny, but to my surprise, several &lsquo;friends&rsquo; emailed puzzled over the switch. And while a simple facebook pic requires no explanation, it&rsquo;s good reason to bring up the movie, which looks visually<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5494\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a544a_Picture-41.png\" alt=\"Picture 4\" width=\"168\" height=\"390\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> spectacular with an intriguing story to boot. Over at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/cinema\/2010\/01\/04\/100104crci_cinema_denby\"><em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>James Cameron&rsquo;s &ldquo;Avatar&rdquo; is the most beautiful film I&rsquo;ve seen in years. Amid the hoopla over the new power of 3-D as a narrative form, and the excitement about the complicated mix of digital animation and live action that made the movie possible, no one should ignore how lovely &ldquo;Avatar&rdquo; looks, how luscious yet freewheeling, bounteous yet strange. As Cameron surges through the picture plane, brushing past tree branches, coursing alongside foaming-mouthed creatures, we may be overcome by an uncanny sense of emerging, becoming, transcending&mdash;a sustained mood of elation produced by vaulting into space.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>I&rsquo;m very much looking forward to the premiere and extremely curious to see how Cameron and his team imagined this other world called &lsquo;Pandora&rsquo; and its Na&rsquo;vi inhabitants. What can I say&hellip; the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_NfKwjR8raUA\/SxhAY0izYUI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/79k3_xw4dHg\/s1600-h\/geekmap.png\">science geek<\/a> in me just loves the possibilities! There&rsquo;s already a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/avatar.typepad.com\/\">community blog<\/a> and lots of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/11\/first-wave-of-avatar-reviews-contradicts-early-buzz\/\">enticing reviews<\/a> around the interwebs.<\/p><p>While I don&rsquo;t catch many films this days, you bet I&rsquo;ll be buying tickets for <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\"><em>Avatar<\/em><\/a><\/em> in 3D. Who&rsquo;s with me?<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1J9l_I7Fwo4bSya59uro5dTItIU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a544a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1J9l_I7Fwo4bSya59uro5dTItIU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a544a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a544a_FERUVK0EL5I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I changed my facebook photo to feature Neytiri, a central character from James Cameron&rsquo;s much anticipated new film Avatar. Displaying an &lsquo;avatar&lsquo; as my avatar seemed funny, but to my surprise, several &lsquo;friends&rsquo; emailed puzzled over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/will-avatar-be-this-generation%e2%80%99s-star-wars-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}