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For those who have seen the movie checkout out this article on 'Project 880' which goes through the original script discussing differences which very much sound like would make for a much richer story then what we got in the movie.

http://chud.com/articles/articles/21969/1/PROJECT-880-THE-AV...

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Don't rule out the director's cut possibilities. People had similar problems with the Abyss, until they saw the extended version which turned out to make a lot more sense than the theatrical one did. I wouldn't be surprised if the version released on Blu-Ray ends up 3-4 hours long.

Great link, btw.

I worry that any scenes that didn't make the final cut would have never even been fully rendered, given the CGI-centric nature of the film.

Thanks for that link. I searched and found the actual scriptment on Docstoc. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/14294813/Avatar-Scriptment-by--J...

Seriously, I really found it, if I "found" it, it would be on Scribd.

Wow, that does seem to be it (e.g. it has the scalping bit). But what does your last line mean?

I meant that I actually found it by searching Google (keywords: avatar scriptment rapidshare), not that I personally uploaded it to Docstoc or Scribd and pretended to find it there.

Thanks. found == searched for it; "found" == pretend quotes, meaning you uploaded it and faux-found it.

It makes perfect sense, now that I know what you meant. Quotes have a few meanings, but it didn't occur to me that you might have meant it this way. Since it didn't make sense in any other interpretation, it wasn't ambiguous; it was just that I was lacking that interpretation. Therefore, I have grown.

Thanks, I picked the unobtainium issue: the tree is supposed to be above the largest deposit, but it doesn't float.

The movie could have been longer: afterwards, I misread the time, and literally thought it was only 1:42 long (not 2:42). I'd see a longer version, that setup motivations properly.

A conflict for me was that destroying the tree was a terrible act, but looked really cool.

Maybe it's because I was reading Xenocide (3rd in the Ender trilogy), but many of the ideas in the film seem to be in that book.

wow thanks so much for that link! it's great to see that cameron's original script (which really seems like a short novel) had much more depth and soul. however, i suspect that he was first and foremost aiming to make a dazzling action film, so unfortunately a lot of the back-story and slower scenes had to be cut. i can't imagine how he could've squeezed in more story without cutting much of the action.

Yeah, go back and watch the previews for it...I think there was a lot of footage that got cut.

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