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James Cameron Attempts To Explain The ‘Avatar’ Science Behind Blowing Your Freaking Minds

4:00AM Seth | James Cameron’s upcoming feature Avatar exists not merely to bring a motion-captured Michelle Rodriguez to a wider audience than ever before, but—if we are to believe what he tells us—to singlehandedly revolutionize the way we make, see, and even perceive of the movies. THR braved an interview with the director, who’s too busy playing with his new toys to worry about losing his top-grossing-movie title to some gravel-voiced bat-creep. (Besides—by the time Avatar rolls around, the sweeping social revolution that accompanies it will render old notions of currency and spending completely obsolete. We’ll be ranking the weekend box office in levels of Braincell Conversion Osmosis, or some other inconceivable economic unit of measurement.) But we digress; let’s let Cameron describe some of the really-complicated-sounding rabbits he’s got stuffed in his wizard hat: More »