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The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims

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The Job Is Not That Bold, Right?

Every single thing this movie is doing is in service of telling this one very clean story. I mean, he's thinking about this film like an auto mechanic and just making sure all the gears fit into one another. And it does feel like avatars construct in a similar way. When you read the sort of pitch of what he wrote in 1995 when he first tried to make this movie and it was called like Project 440 or something like that. It was much closer to aliens in town. The job doesn't feel that way at all.

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