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Lechara
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 Posted: 07 Feb, 2010 20:49 24 UTC Post subject: Avatar the Last Airbender |
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When I first joined TS, the show "Avatar: The Last Airbender" was my daughter's favorite at the time, and was a huge influence on the creation of Lechara. It was perhaps the biggest influence on my choosing of her powers.
Imagine how loudly I'm Squeeing at the moment.
http://www.thelastairbendermovie.com/#home/video
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| Posted: 08 Feb, 2010 19:03 31 UTC Post subject: |
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Ah, yes. I was kind of impressed by the trailer. I know of a few other friends who are probably very happy right now, as well.
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| Posted: 08 Feb, 2010 19:23 36 UTC Post subject: Re: Avatar the Last Airbender |
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| Lechara wrote: | | the show "Avatar: The Last Airbender" ... was a huge influence on the creation of Lechara. It was perhaps the biggest influence on my choosing of her powers. |
I knew it. XD
Honestly, I think you're the first person I've talked to who's actually excited to see the movie; mostly I've just heard people bashing it because, oh noes, M. Night Shyamalan's directing. So of course Zuko is going to turn out to have been dead the whole time, the movie is set in the present and the Air Nomads were just rejecting the trappings of modern life, and the Fire Nation invaders will turn out to have a deadly weakness to water.
I stole that from someone else; I'm not that clever.
I'm not a fan of Shayamalan's movies, and some of the casting of this one is making me go, "...huh?". But I'll probably give the movie a shot, because it's got the potential to be really great, and it's based on a great show.
...and yeah, the trailer was awesome. |
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supernova
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| Posted: 08 Feb, 2010 23:03 00 UTC Post subject: |
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i have little interest in this movie but i shall see it just to spite the protesters. gotta love all those fans that turn their backs on their franchise over small details. imagine if comic fans were like that protesting every time an artist changed.
i never watched the show but i think it looks cool visually. seems like a nice popcorn movie
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Just playing devil's advocate, but the main reason fans are upset about the casting is that "Avatar: The Last Airbender" deliberately made the characters non-Caucasian. In fact, each tribe was pretty specifically based on a non-Western culture entirely.
When you consider that these characters are some of the very few non-Caucasian leads in a cartoon, I can understand why some fans are a little annoyed that the only tribe that wasn't cast using Caucasians is the Fire Nation. In other words, the bad guys.
Personally, I don't mind it. But I do see where some fans are coming from.
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| Posted: 09 Feb, 2010 7:04 29 UTC Post subject: |
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Oh, I totally agree about the casting, but I'm still excited to see the show come to be. the only way you were going to get an asian cast was to have it made a la House of Flying Daggers or Crouching Tiger, Hdden Dragon- eg: not even in English, and this was an American show, even though the animations were done in Korea. My biggest concern is that it will be way darker than it was originally, it was a kids show after all.
What will be most interesting to me is to see how they differentiate the fighting styles. In the show, each Nation's bending movements was based on a different form of martial arts- Northern Kung Fu, southern Kung Fu (which are very different) etc. I'll be looking to see if they've maintained those differences, or if the actors all trained the same and only difference between the moves will be the elemental fx.
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I to am excited to see The Last Air Bender come to the big screen as it was a show that i and my kids loved to watch together. It was one of the few well written cartoons today that did not talk down to it's audience.
I do feel that the live version will be a bit darker than the cartoon but I have no problem of that since the show did have some very dark undertones. Also many of the kids who watched the show when it first came on have grown up to the the point that many of them can now handle the darker part of the story lines.
Lastly I do have a problem with the casting too. I would of loved to see a bit more non-Caucasian actors. Aang was of course Chinese, Zuko was Korean, Katara and Sokka were Eskimo or maybe even from Northern region of China or Tibet. The unfortunate fact is that we don't have enough well qualified actors of the these various persuasions to pull off a movie this big. Not to say we don't have some great Asian actors it's that we just don't have enough of them to pull off a movie of this size and magnitude. So I'll just suspend my ideas of the actors and their ethnicity and enjoy what i hope with be one fantastic movie.
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| Posted: 10 Feb, 2010 19:17 12 UTC Post subject: |
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I just saw the trailer...oh man, I'm excited!!
I used to watch the show when my brother was home. Totally awesome.
*fangirl squee*
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