Like Peter Jackson and George Lucas, James Cameron raises the level of technical achievement in film making in every movie he makes, and Avatar is no exception. We have set before us a digital masterpiece of beauty and spectacle, where the technology has once again surprised us, but the beauty and imagination of the artists behind it inspires us even more. Now, as before, much of the movie was green screened, but unlike before, it doesn’t matter. When live actors are on the screen, they actually look less real than their surroundings. The idealized Na’vi are sacred, vivid, and real. Live actors are dimly lit, phony profanities in James Cameron’s digital reality. Read More…