"Avatar"

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"Avatar" (2009)<br /><br />Director/writer: James Cameron<br /><br />Studio: 20th Century Fox<br /><br />Release: May 22, 2009<br /><br />Status: Filming<br /><br />Synopsis: Set 200 years into the future Avatar follows the story of Jake Sully, an injured war veteran who reluctantly ends up on Pandora, a moon orbiting a giant gas planet. Pandora has a lush, tropical rain forest, is rich in biodiversity and is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own unique language and culture. A rift between races ensues with Jake eventually crossing over to the indigenous side, falling in love with Neytiri in the process and leading the Na’vi in an epic battle for survival.<br /><br />Camerons quote: “In this film the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human's intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body.<br />It's not an avatar in the sense of just existing as ones and zeroes in cyberspace. It's actually a physical body. The lead character, Jake has his human existence and his avatar existence.â€<br /><br />Jake Sully: Sam Worthington<br />Neytiri: Zoe Saldana<br />Tsu'Tey: Laz Alonso<br />Moha, queen of the Navi: CCH Pounder<br />Grace: Sigourney Weaver<br />? name: Michael Biehn (rumored)<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[christine16]

where is this Pandora?

 

[qzzq]

Interesting, hopefully we'll get to see some cool space battles. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>***</p> </div>

 

[a_lost_packet_]

The tech sounds like something from Jack Chalker's Four Lord's of the Diamond series if I recall them correctly. The story, a standard, generic, sci-fi plotline by Alan Dean Foster. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[hracctsold]

Hi littledreamer,<br /><br />You are right! That sounded alot like John Carter to me as well. The other book you were thinking of was written by Lin Carter. There was a series of 6 books or so. I read them as a teen in the 60''s and really enjoyed them as well. Some time back I found a digital copy of all 6, and downloaded them for the fun memories of them. The name of the first book is Callisto, and it is about as you said a chopter pilot downed in Thaland, where he was transported to Europa, (I think), a moon of Jupiter. I can't remember the lead character's name tho'. He becomes a warrior, finds a warrior princess, and all that E.R. Burrough's stuff.

 

[hracctsold]

An update I just researched in Callisto.<br />The lead character's name is Jon Dark, but on that moon the people were calling him Jandar. And it was Cambodia that his copter(?) went down. That may not interest most, but as a teen with an imagination those books were a great escape to enjoy. The name of the first book may be Jandar of Callisto, or not, just in case any wanted to research it out.

 

[3488]

Hi Christine16.<br /><br />Pandora orbits Saturn.<br /><br />84 kilometres from end to end.<br /><br />Below is a nice image from the Cassini Spacecraft.<br /><br />Image: NASA/JPL.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[jmilsom]

<i>Pandora has a lush, tropical rain forest, is rich in biodiversity and is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own unique language and culture.</i><br /><br />There seems to be some contradiction between this sentence and the real Pandora...... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[3488]

Hi jmilsom,<br /><br />Eh, Yes. <img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" /><br /><br />Tropical lush rainforests on an object that small, no atmosphere, made of ice <br />& average surface temps of about minus 190 Celsius.<br /><br />So yes there is a slight contradiction!!!!!<br /><br />Have not read the book, so I assumed this was based on the real Pandora.<br /><br />Thanks.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>