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Gayatri Mantra.

                                  Gayatri Mantra | 108 Times by Suresh Wadkar.

Freedom II.

Avatar.

             Aquí os incluyo uno de los dos artículos que he publicado en la Revista de la E.O.I. de Las Palmas del casi recién acabado curso escolar. Espero os guste. 

Por motivos que no vienen al caso la revista en cuestión acaba de "salir del horno". Quien quiera hacerse con un ejemplar de la misma no tiene más que acercarse al mostrador de conserjería -a la entrada de nuestra escuela- y coger una.

       

Avatar has been slow the slowest movie to film and of a greater complexity, especially technical –the own James Cameron tells-.

He had written it twenty years ago when Titanic but “the people of the special effects” thought that Cameron was mad. The preparatory work lasted from 2.005 to 2.007. Still, it took longer to complete until the premier in 2.009.

Directly, Avatar gave work to 14o people. It created a new way of making films together with the new technology such as two systems of cameras or the system “the capture of interpretation”. Part of challenge was to be able to represent all the human emotions in a computer generated character.

 Avatar was born of the vital experience of its director and writer and his taste of the same nature, fantasy and science fiction and his love for the details and the work done in a seamless manner.

 The actors had to train a lot and in many and varied aspects. It was hard but amazing and funny too. Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodríguez) learned to fly in a helicopter for example.

Sigourney Weaver returned to form part in this new film with J. Cameron as she had done in Aliens (1.995) that so masterfully interpreted.

 Also, the villain of Avatar -Coronel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang)- he was called by Cameron after many years since this actor had made the casting but… for Aliens.

  Year 2.154.

 Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is an ex-marine who has been recruited to travel to Pandora. As its atmosphere is toxic the program “Avatar” is created. Thanks to it humans maintain their conscience united by the DNA an avatar, non-transferable and staff.

 An epic adventure, an unexpected hero, forced to choose between the life he left behind and the incredible new world with its close relationship with nature that has come to feel like a home and where, finally, he has found Neytiri (Zoë Saldana), his beloved.

 Avatar is the story of the clash of two worlds, two opposing cultures, arrivals at a point where it is impossible the coexistence. An utopian story full of fiction but also of love, faith, business. S. Weaver says: “it is a great adventure. At the same time it is also a great love story. It addresses the business, his blindness and the destruction they cause”. Humans.

  And… the na´vi that want to stay at home, in their planet and preserve the presents that has given them Eywa, the fountain of all energy.

        Good has just triumphed: a neolitic, fascinating, happy culture that has just been imposed on the other, super-technologized.

          Beautiful and moralizing story in wich two-thirds of the some are facts of virtual realities together whit the “truth”.

         Perhaps not so futuristic, and the history does not differ from our own.

Perhaps this song to the rainforest, mutual respect between beings, etc, can represent anything that ignites our consciences to stop raping the land and we shall not stand in the future.

Perhaps because this movie is a dream for those who worked in their note that aspect are both dreamlike.

             What can you do to save the Earth?

        The magistral J. Cameron made this film and a humble servant writes these lines recalling that, perhaps, the best gift that we have is the life on our planet. How smart and good would that also have future generation.

        This film is one of the best gifts that for both the viewer as to the history of contemporary filmmaking and in many ways too.

I invite you to see Avatar and the happy ending of the Omaticaya people.

So… now, only the aftermath of this movie, remains to be seen. To visit the Ocean of Pandora and we´ll know other worlds and realities…

We´ll see you next time here or… there!!

The best gift

                       by Ana Manuela García Contreras 
                                                                                    (Anna).