It used to be that an avatar was a character you created to represent yourself on bulletin boards, interactive games, and other internet places. The idea was rather than showing your own face, you could transform into someone else to do your bidding on your behalf. You controlled the strings, but other people (or other avatars, if you will) interacted with your avatar.
This is partially the premise for the new James Cameron film, AVATAR. If you get a chance to see it on an IMAX screen with 3-D glasses, please do; for the film experience will not disappoint!
But the kind of avatar I’d like to point out is the kind stereotyped by Felicia Day in the below song and dance routine:
It used to be that avatars were characters you created to represent yourself. But now, online avatars that most people know on social networking profiles are snapshots of your own faces. Goodbye mystery, goodbye intrigue, goodbye transformation. The internet has changed what your avatar looks like, whereby if you don’t include a Twitter or Facebook picture that has you in it, there is a sense that you are not you.
How things change.
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I agree. Avatars become your online identity and in essence you create your “brand” around your avatar. I like you last statement “…The internet has changed what your avatar looks like, whereby if you don’t include a Twitter or Facebook picture that has you in it, there is a sense that you are not you.” – those are very true words.
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The acting was good, but not memorable. Sam Worthington, who stole the show in Terminator Salvation earlier this year, was good here. Zoë Saldana was also very good in her part and actually makes you feel for her character, even if it is just a blue alien. Stephen Lang gets the customary unidimensional villain, so he fills his character’s shoes as though they were meant for him and gives a nice, intense performance. And Michelle Rodriguez gets points simply for being beautiful. Sigourney Weaver gives the best performance from the entire cast, and I wish she was given more screen time, not simply because it would have helped a lot later on as her character becomes important, but also because, well, it’s Sigourney Weaver. Who wouldn’t want more of her?
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The Avatar movie was awesome. I watched it only once but will be watching it again soon. I agree that there is no mystery any longer when people are using their own faces in their avatar.
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