Avatar - New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever

In 1977, a 22-year-old truck driver named James Cameron went to see Star Wars with a pal. His friend enjoyed the movie; Cameron walked out of the theater ready to punch something. He was a college dropout and spent his days delivering school lunches in Southern California’s Orange County. But in his free time, he painted tiny models and wrote science fiction — stories set in galaxies far, far away. Now he was facing a deflating reality: He had been daydreaming about the kind of world that Lucas had just brought to life. Star Wars was the film he should have made.

...This paragraph taken from the excellent story about AVATAR published at wired. It would take some your time but worth it. It's well written by Joshua Davis, I recommend you to read when you get a chance!

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