You know, James Cameron: the director of The Terminator, True Lies, Titanic, and avatar, among other obscure movies.
Discovered frozen in ice by two Inuit waterbenders, they begin a journey to help him access his full powers as avatar.
avatar is equally good at exploring moral ambiguity in its cast.
On the avatar sequels: The second, third and fourth films all go into production simultaneously.
Currently the project is on hold until I finish the currently planned avatar sequels, which will be a number of years.
And is this genial old heretic an American avatar of the monk Bohaira?
He had a morbid vision of avatar after avatar being kicked from sphere to sphere.
Blood was its avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.
One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment.
But some day it will reassert itself, for it is stronger than we, alike our overlord and avatar.
1784, "descent of a Hindu deity," from Sanskrit avatarana "descent" (of a deity to the earth in incarnate form), from ava- "down" + base of tarati "(he) crosses over," from PIE root *tere- "to cross over" (see through). In computer use, it seems to trace to the novel "Snowcrash" (1992) by Neal Stephenson.
In Hinduism, a god made visibly present, especially in a human form. The Buddha is considered an avatar of the god Vishnu.
Note: By extension, an “avatar” is any new embodiment of an old idea.