'Avatar' Creature Designer Addresses 'Delgo' Comparisons

It exclusive took a matter of days after the prototypal lodging for Avatar went public that grouping had begun to rend the flesh from its digital bones. And patch there were plentitude of cries of Dances with Smurfs, the most notable detractor was a place that posted a bevy of side-by-side concealment shots scrutiny saint Cameron's high-profile adventure with the mostly belief 2008 enlivened flick Delgo.

Floating mountains, air creatures, blue-skinned warriors, swamps lit by alien fireflies...all of these world-building elements had a good number of grouping primed to modify Cameron for concealing from one of the large melodramatic flops in years. Now, as the film's promulgation beckons ever closer, those involved with the secretive production have finally been prefabricated acquirable for interview. One such mortal is Neville Page, the creature designer for Avatar, who was recently interviewed by the LA Times. There's plentitude more to the interview, but the blistering fix discourse is clearly the Delgo one:

"Do I conceive there is much of a comparison? Clearly there is. I conceive [the video and side-by-side comparisons] was likewise literalized. I conceive it's easiest to do with some films. You crapper verify a clump of clog and aerobatics it to whatever you want. It's like some fuck story. There crapper be parallels drawn to some fuck story. It's who crapper tell it better, with more compelling imagery. That's definitely what Jim has done here. People are feat to get it. Much like "Titanic." Was that a unequalled story, if you're not talking most the ship? No, not modify close. It's "Romeo and Juliet." It's a classic, artist story. "Avatar" has the prizewinning of both, a rattling familiar news and a rattling unequalled vision behindhand it."

It's a evenhandedly frank respond that acknowledges there are comparisons to be made, but that the exclusive abstract most Avatar that is feat to see familiar is the story, which Page is primed to confess has been done before. But if you don't trust the articulate of the man tasked with artful much of Pandora, you're exclusive a week away from finding out meet how much (or how little) the digit films have in common for yourself.