To: average joe who wrote (85085 ) 12/26/2011 5:50:50 PM From: 2MAR$ 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to The Politics of Religion vs the religion of politics and all the areas in between ....its complicated by the looking back at the reporting & recording of events and their interpretation and with the passage of time which way & where you look & who does the looking ...and all wrapt in mystery like explaining love . Every generation brings change and yet so many things stay the same ... or do they ? "Avatar" by James Cameron from theatres to make space for home grown competition especially for the release of " Confucious " played by Chow Yun-fat . This version was rumored to include a part for the concubine & illicit relationship the great philosopher was said to have had . But Avatar was extremely popular with the Chinese for it deals with a people called the Navi who are facing forced eviction from their land , subject very sensititive in the minds of many there huffingtonpost.com Columnist Huang Hung penned a commentary in the official English-language China Daily, saying the film had struck a chord with Chinese viewers. "All the forced removal of old neighborhoods in China makes us the only earthlings today who can really feel the pain of the Na'vi," she wrote. "Avatar" is already the biggest box-office success in China, pulling in more than 300 million yuan ($44.1 million) as of Jan 12. It quickly surpassed last year's "2012" and "Transformers 3." "King of the World" en.wikipedia.org Cameron was born in Kapuskasing , Ontario , Canada , 1954 the son of Shirley (Lowe), an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron, an electrical engineer . [11] [12] Balquhidder , Scotland in 1825; [11] Clan Cameron . Cameron grew up in Chippawa, Ontario with his brother Davie Cameron and attended Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls ; his family moved to Brea, California in 1971 when he was 17. [13] Fullerton College , a 2-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester. [14] After dropping out of Sonora High School , he went to further his secondary education at Brea Olinda High School . After graduating, he worked several jobs such as truck driving and wrote when he had time. [15] [16] After seeing the original Star Wars film in 1977, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry. [17] Syd Field 's book Screenplay, it occurred to him that integrating science and art was possible, and he wrote a ten-minute science fiction script with two friends, entitled Xenogenesis. They raised money and rented camera, lenses, film stock, and studio, and shot it in 35mm. To understand how to operate the camera, they dismantled it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running.
