I'm still basking in the 3D glow of James Cameron's billion-dollar baby, Avatar. Critics have assailed it for an oversimplified plot, but I'm not bothered so much by the facile natives-good-corporations-bad storyline.
It was a marvel to watch, and I felt as close to what I imagine it must have been like to see talking pictures projected onto a large screen for the first time. Did you feel the same way, once the Hallelujah Mountains, for instance, came into view? Or the lush, pinkish green forest, where Neytiri and Jake Sully first encounter each other?
Reading that Cameron had initially come up with the idea for Avatar in 1996 - stalled waiting for the technology to catch up to his vision - was even more interesting to me. How often do we sit on a great idea or a plan without ever bringing it to fruition?
It takes some kind of singular focus to stay with it as Cameron did. But too many times we don't even get close to tapping into that spirit.
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