Avatar – Like Walking on the Moon

“Any fear about this film is long behind us,” Titanic producer Jon Landau told the AFP at the 14th Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea. Landau was there to screen the infamous 30 minutes. The project has been hushed on the web, save for those who were disappointed by what they saw, or let down? Could it be that Avatar is really a lot like the Segway? Expectations were in fantasy land but when you accept it for what it is it’s pretty cool indeed. It’s just a little hard to keep those expectations down when quotes like this keep popping up.

“When we started it was a little like the people at NASA who first went to the moon,” [Landau] said.

“When John Kennedy said they were going to put someone on the moon, they didn’t really know how they were going to do it and when we started we had an idea but we had no idea how we were going to do it either.”

“The excitement for me is that we are finally going to be able to show something that we have been working on for four-and-a-half years. Because a film is nothing if no one sees it,” said Landau.

Unlike landing on the moon, this journey might actually lead some place:

“No single movie can revolutionise the movie industry but one film can be a step in the evolution of movies. What we think we are doing here is unlocking the door for more filmmakers to tell more stories.”