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The future’s so dark, we have to wear shades.
Αντίο 2009 (και μην ξανάρθεις)- the real 2010, please stand up..
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"Ο ΟΥΡΑΝΟΣ ΠΑΝΩ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΛΙΜΑΝΙ ΕΙΧΕ ΤΟ ΧΡΩΜΑ ΜΙΑΣ ΤΗΛΕΟΡΑΣΗΣ ΠΟΥ ΗΤΑΝ ΣΥΝΤΟΝΙΣΜΕΝΗ ΣΕ ΝΕΚΡΟ ΚΑΝΑΛΙ..." ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΤΟΥ 'ΝΕΥΡΟΜΑΝΤΗ', ΤΟΥ WILLIAM GIBSON
He started by hiring USC linguistic expert Paul Frommer to invent an entirely new language for the Na’vi, the blue-skinned natives of Pandora. Frommer came on board in August 2005 and began by asking Cameron what he wanted the language to sound like? Did he want clicks and guttural sounds or something involving varying tones? To narrow the options, Frommer turned on a microphone and recorded a handful of samples for Cameron.
The director liked ejective consonants, a popping utterance that vaguely resembles choking. Frommer locked down a “sound palette” and started developing the language’s basic grammatical structure. Cameron had opinions on whether the modifier in a compound word should come first or last (first) and helped establish a rule regarding the nature of nouns. It took months to create the grammar alone. “He’s a very intense guy,” Frommer says. “He didn’t just tell me to build a language from scratch. He actually wanted to discuss points of grammar.”
Thirteen months after he began work on Avatar, Frommer wrote a pamphlet titled Speak Na’vi and started teaching the actors how to pronounce the language. He held Na’vi boot camps and then went over lines one by one with each actor. “Cameron wanted them to be emotional, but they had to do it in a language that never existed,” Frommer says. If an actor flubbed a Na’vi word, Frommer would often step in with a correction. “There were times when the actors didn’t want me to tell them that they had mispronounced a word that had never been pronounced before,” he says.
With the language established, Cameron set about naming everything on his alien planet. Every animal and plant received Na’vi, Latin, and common names. As if that weren’t enough, Cameron hired Jodie Holt, chair of UC Riverside’s botany and plant sciences department, to write detailed scientific descriptions of dozens of plants he had created. She spent five weeks explaining how the flora of Pandora could glow with bioluminescence and have magnetic properties. When she was done, Cameron helped arrange the entries into a formal taxonomy.
This was work that would never appear onscreen, but Cameron loved it. He brought in more people, hiring an expert in astrophysics, a music professor, and an archaeologist. They calculated Pandora’s atmospheric density and established a tripartite scale structure for the alien music. When one of the experts brought in the Star Wars Encyclopedia, Cameron glanced at it and said, “We’ll do better.”[source]
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[..] I'm a big Max Richter fan. However, my biggest influence as far as soundtracks go is Ennio Morricone. He is a hero to me—the maestro. Michael Nyman's The Piano, John Barry, John Williams—all heroes. [..]
[..] minimalist, with a really melancholic atmosphere. It's my style of piano. Xine is a soundtrack to a film that hasn't been made [..] an imagined journey through all elements of life [..]
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Subway II, the debut album by Subway on Soul Jazz Records, is a startling cosmic marriage of influences – German electronic rock music from the 1970s (Cluster, Kraftwerk, Neu, Harmonia, Ash Ra Tempel), 80s Detroit science fiction techno (Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Jeff Mills) and a hint of Italian and European disco (Danielle Baldelli meets Cerrone, Space, Moroder and Jean Michel Jarre).
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