I think I read an earlier post that stated that Avatar will be a trilogy. Hopefully, once I get a job this summer when I graduate, I can afford it.
I think I read an earlier post that stated that Avatar will be a trilogy. Hopefully, once I get a job this summer when I graduate, I can afford it.
You should probably refer to this as something else than simply "Avatar", that is just guaranteed to cause confusion :P
Avatar: The Last Airbender and "Avatar" (with the blue aliens) have no relation at all, just a similarity in the names.
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just look at this face
he's a perfect Sokka.
browny? yes. eyebrows? check. relatable to the audience? you've seem him take an Oscar. totally ladies man? you bet!
sure, he's a bit tall and older, but that's nothing a good director and make-up artist can't fix.
maybe if they hadn't cast a six years old for Aang and a white jailbait harrypotter reject for Katara it wouldn't have stand out so much.
but this guy is perfect for Sokka... I can't imagine him acting out as a emoZuko...
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<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
I love the animated series, but I'm not sure about this film. I think I might have to wait for it to come out on DVD.
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just look at this face
he's a perfect Sokka.
browny? yes. eyebrows? check. relatable to the audience? you've seem him take an Oscar. totally ladies man? you bet!
sure, he's a bit tall and older, but that's nothing a good director and make-up artist can't fix.
maybe if they hadn't cast a six years old for Aang and a white jailbait harrypotter reject for Katara it wouldn't have stand out so much.
but this guy is perfect for Sokka... I can't imagine him acting out as a emoZuko...
I agree. Zuko & Fire nation are totally Han Chinese, and the water tribe is clearly like, south/SE Asian/Inuit inspired. I do go to racebending, and I totally support that "movement". In fact, did you know that Facebook banned their group for being offensive? Nobody quite knows why http://www.racebending.com/v3/press/...up-taken-down/ Maybe Paramount was offended by the (true) conversation that minorities are underrepresented in film and TV.
While the group may have had a legitimate cause (and one I agree with), the scope of their group would inevitably draw a constant stream of real racists. I imagine that this is why it was taken down rather than any Hollywood conspiracy. They have the risk of having fringe commenters co-opt the group and subverting it to a racist agenda. Facebook probably canned instead of leaving them around long enough to have that potentially happen. Facebook is very wary of allowing itself to be used a gathering site for hate groups. It puts them into a lot of liability that would harm their ad revenue and information selling business model.
That would be my guess.
Fire Nation are totally Han Chinese, complete agreement there.
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If anything, it seems this movie will be a visual spectacle.
They can choose whatever actors they want. But I want the make up artist do the job properly. If the character is an orc, you better make him look like an orc and not a white guy...
Great, more white people getting roles meant for Asians. And what twist will M. Night Shamylan be able to add to this story without offending hardcore fans and the canon material?
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I don't know if you have been keeping up with the "recebending" and all that, but there is little he could do to screw this film up more (along with the casting director, of course). Besides the whole casting white kids for all the heroic roles (strangely, their clan are Inuit and south Asian, I think) thing, it seems that he doesn't really get the story of Avatar. For instance, he didn't understand how the main characters could be so lighthearted as they are going through all these trials, and he initially wanted to exclude Momo, as he did not "get" why Momo was integral to the story (allegedly, his daughter had to explain it to him).
Shymalan is a racist.
It's because he wants to refer to himself as "Asian" but we won't let him.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Haha, the author of this article is getting all excited for some pretty unexciting stuff. That lemur looks awful, and everything else he mentions is pretty much on par for CGI.
Anyway, I'm not interested in the movie, but these look pretty cool. They're roaming sky view clips of each element nation or whatever:
Air Temple
Water Tribe
Earth Kingdom
Fire Nation
The fire one looks identical to the earth one, though. Only with more orange and red hues and buildings.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
the fire nation was a bunch of volcanic islands....i wish they'd kept it like that.
In anycase, im looking forward to seeing the movie, but im not gonna go in with any preconceived notions about the acting/story etc. Nor do i care about this apparent race issue.....everyone in hollywood is white....OMG! i didnt know that!.....Get over it.
What does worry my though is that comment about momo and how his daughter had to explain to him why he was important.....i hope at the very least he watched the series before taking on this project.
CGI Lemurs are more important than racism.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
I think it's a bit of racial bias that all the yellow characters are played by white actors/actresses and a bit of racial nepotism on the part of the director has a brown guy playing one of the main characters.
Also, the lead kid should have worn a skin cap or shaved his head more often. The fuzz on his scalp shows his lack of dedication to his trade.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
for some odd reason, i feel the need to defend shymalan on this. he wanted to write momo out of the movie because momo's not really integral to the story. and other than being comic relief in the show, he's really not. but of course everyone still wants him in it. also, shymalan's apparently a huge fan of the show and was the one who approached the creators about making the movie. you should watch his interview with mike and bryan on the book 2 boxset.
i'm still not sure how i feel about this movie, but i'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic, and i am planning to go see it. at the very least, it's good because it'll most likely help lead to a second avatar animated series
a second animated seires is like the best possible outcome....i'd watch the movie 10 times if it meant a second series. As for momo, while he's not 'integra' to the story, he is a big part of the team because he represents a link to aang's past, something only him and appa can provide. Though i'll admit, with the redefining of the story, maybe his part is no longer the same.
oh and also....SAMAN! where have you been hiding?
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