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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 21, 2010, 01:30:43 pm ---
Does anybody else think it would be good for the Avatar posts to be split out into their own thread that can be continued?
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Sure why not. I hope you will participate, Elle!!
Kerry:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 21, 2010, 01:30:43 pm ---
Does anybody else think it would be good for the Avatar posts to be split out into their own thread that can be continued?
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Sounds good. :)
Kerry:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 21, 2010, 12:47:13 am ---There was so much I didn't understand about the movie AVATAR. For one thing, why was there no backstory about the dead twin brother? How did he die and why did Jake feel compelled to step into his place? Why was he in the scientific group instead of the security group?
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I may be wrong, but I think something was said about Jake's twin brother being murdered.
. . . . and what Katherine said about the genetic match. There was also mention made of the much greater salary Jake would get as an avatar, as opposed to his usual marine grunt's modest salary. That may have been an incentive. And from the way he looked affectionately at his brother's coffin as it was incinerated, and the defensive way he snapped, "He's dead!" at Dr Augustine, I would say the twins were probably close and, therefore, maybe Jake agreed to take his brother's place out of loyalty and love.
And of course he would be able to walk again as an avatar. He couldn't afford the operation on his Marine's salary on Earth.
Kelda:
I finally saw avatar yesterday and thought it was abou 40 mins too long....
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Uhm--what????
SW as--who??
And: "--the guy who appeared as Jake Sully in his non-blue, human form during all of Avatar's boring parts--"
Excuse me?
I resemble that remark!
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/01/jake_sully_to_play_dracula.html
Jake Sully
to Play Dracula
By: Lane Brown
1/26/10 at 6:30 PM
Here's how Hollywood thinks money gets made: Sam Worthington — the guy who appeared as Jake Sully in his non-blue, human form during all of Avatar's boring parts — will play a vampire (one who does not fight with a werewolf over Kristen Stewart) in Alex Proyas's Dracula Year Zero. Also, the treatment sounds slightly Batman Begins -ish; according to The Hollywood Reporter, the script "explores the origin of Dracula, weaving vampire mythology with the true history of Prince Vlad the Impaler. It seeks to depict Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war." Unless it's a war over unobtanium and the magic involves sticking ponytails into flying dragons, we're skeptical about this one.
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