{"id":2460,"date":"2010-01-22T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:41:43","slug":"avatar-controversy-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/avatar-controversy-rages\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar – Controversy Rages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This interesting group of links come from Howard Suber<\/a>, UCLA professor and author of The Power of Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING AVATAR<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/20\/movies\/20avatar.html<\/a>. \u00a0This article is a general discussion of what the film’s political, social agenda is or might be.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/willheaven\/100020488\/james-camerons-avatar-is-a-stylish-film-marred-by-its-racist-subtext\/<\/a> Here is an attack on the racial (racist) implications of the film.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/12\/vatican-slams-avatar-prom_n_419949.html<\/a>. \u00a0Here is how the Vatican has weighed in on the film and surround controversy.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/health\/mental_health\/article6992862.eceThere<\/a> This is a link by a book author on how 3D allegedly leads to suicidal thought and general depression.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/19\/science\/19essay.html?sudsredirect=true<\/a> Another book author weighs in on scientifically accurate the flora and fauna in Avatar is<\/p>\n

THE TECHNOLOGY INVOLVED IN MAKING \u00a0AVATAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7c4kNLz_4E8&NR=1<\/a>. \u00a0This is a Fox Network program on the making of Avatar.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aao0YSITuxc&NR=1<\/a>. \u00a0This is a \u00a0Popular Mechanics<\/strong> interview with James Cameron detailing the technology and how Cameron worked on the technical aspects of the film.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OJ1JzYPjcj0&feature=youtube_gdata<\/a> This is an interesting video on how emotion was captured using Cameron’s new technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Avatar moves closer to breaking Titantic’s number one place in box office history, controversy has raged in the press and elsewhere about the film, about what James Cameron was trying to say, about the supposed underlying political, social or moral agendas at work in the film and generally about what the film means and why it is so popular. Here are some interesting links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[934,25,26,27,28,30,31,32,33,34,242,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies-character-development-screenwriting-screenplay-script-blog","tag-avatar","tag-character","tag-characters","tag-emotional-toolbox","tag-etb","tag-film","tag-films","tag-laurie-hutzler","tag-movies","tag-nine-character-types","tag-sci-fi","tag-screenplay","tag-screenplays","tag-screenwriting","tag-script","tag-scripts","tag-scriptwriting","tag-tv","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"ttshowcase_normal":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",125,94,false],"ttshowcase_small":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",75,56,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"Image Size 500x500":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",500,375,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x400.jpg",300,400,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-600x450.jpg",600,450,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurie Hutzler","author_link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"As Avatar moves closer to breaking Titantic's number one place in box office history, controversy has raged in the press and elsewhere about the film, about what James Cameron was trying to say, about the supposed underlying political, social or moral agendas at work in the film and generally about what the film means and…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}