Comments on: Down the Hi-Tech Rabbit Hole of Avatar http://www.screenmachine.tv/2010/01/13/down-the-hi-tech-rabbit-hole-of-avatar/ Film criticism and cultural commentary based out of Melbourne, Australia. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:23:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Screen Machine http://www.screenmachine.tv/2010/01/13/down-the-hi-tech-rabbit-hole-of-avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-862 Screen Machine Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:41:17 +0000 http://www.screenmachine.tv/?p=1442#comment-862 [...] disappointment that I observed the story really doesn’t work on a macro level. Brad Nguyen has written previously about the creative potential of 3D, and how the form can be crafted symbolically into the [...] [...] disappointment that I observed the story really doesn’t work on a macro level. Brad Nguyen has written previously about the creative potential of 3D, and how the form can be crafted symbolically into the [...]

]]> By: Brad Nguyen http://www.screenmachine.tv/2010/01/13/down-the-hi-tech-rabbit-hole-of-avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-501 Brad Nguyen Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:36:00 +0000 http://www.screenmachine.tv/?p=1442#comment-501 Okay you found me out. Okay you found me out.

]]> By: Eloise Ross http://www.screenmachine.tv/2010/01/13/down-the-hi-tech-rabbit-hole-of-avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-500 Eloise Ross Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:07:39 +0000 http://www.screenmachine.tv/?p=1442#comment-500 Hey Brad, Are you the unicorn? Hey Brad,

Are you the unicorn?

]]> By: Conall http://www.screenmachine.tv/2010/01/13/down-the-hi-tech-rabbit-hole-of-avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Conall Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:23:51 +0000 http://www.screenmachine.tv/?p=1442#comment-489 Good essay. This passage from Serge Daney about Coppola's ONE FROM THE HEART could I think also be applied to AVATAR: "Cinéphiles, however, those fortune-tellers who have not given up trying to guess the future of cinema, cannot remain indifferent to ONE FROM THE HEART. Of course Coppola invents machines in which, when the time comes, he has nothing to put. Of course, the exaggeration, the ugliness, the failure, are often intense and their poetic effects often stale. But can we begrudge the builder of the cage if, at the crucial moment, he only has an old cat to exhibit in it? Isn't this lack of proportion, this "much ado about nothing," the most sympathetic aspect of the film? Coppola testifies to the abyss that separates the things we no longer know how to do (as they did before) and those we don't know how to do yet (as they will do after). But he is a bridge-builder all the same." Good essay. This passage from Serge Daney about Coppola’s ONE FROM THE HEART could I think also be applied to AVATAR:
“Cinéphiles, however, those fortune-tellers who have not given up trying to guess the future of cinema, cannot remain indifferent to ONE FROM THE HEART. Of course Coppola invents machines in which, when the time comes, he has nothing to put. Of course, the exaggeration, the ugliness, the failure, are often intense and their poetic effects often stale. But can we begrudge the builder of the cage if, at the crucial moment, he only has an old cat to exhibit in it? Isn’t this lack of proportion, this “much ado about nothing,” the most sympathetic aspect of the film? Coppola testifies to the abyss that separates the things we no longer know how to do (as they did before) and those we don’t know how to do yet (as they will do after). But he is a bridge-builder all the same.”

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