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Director James Cameron discusses the visual inspiration for Eywa, the Great Mother of Pandora, revealing he wanted to capture the 'luminous quality' of the Star Baby from Stanley Kubrick's classic, '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
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00:00I was really interested in the Iwa, how you showed the Great Mother, and if it was inspired at all
00:05by 2001.
00:07It's a really good question because I said I want the luminous quality of the star baby at the end
00:14of 2001.
00:16I want to just, and we see that character sort of turning almost toward us, you know.
00:23But I said, but this is different because her hair is blowing in these kind of underwater currents,
00:28and is it leaves, is it kelp, is it seaweed, sargassum?
00:32You know, what is it we don't really know, and what does she look like?
00:37We see a big eye, we don't really know.
00:40So at least she can manifest herself in some visual form.
00:44I always see the spirit world, which the Navi call the Oma, when they plug in and they can go
00:50there.
00:51They don't necessarily get to talk to her.
00:52They're not plugging in straight to Iwa anymore than I can go online, I can email people,
00:57I can go to websites, all of those functionalities would exist in the kind of the Oma.
01:04Just because I'm in the Oma doesn't mean I get to talk directly to the President or the Pope, right?
01:10You've still got to go through some channels here.
01:12To rest, we can find you, though...
01:12I have to keep moving away here.
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