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"What is it, son?"

~(Spyros / The Parental Father)~

"I'll have a brother or sister soon"

~(Perseus)~

"Think we're gonna love this child 

differently 

to the way we love you?  

We won't."

~(Spyros / The Parental Father)~

"This child will be yours.

Me...

I'm no one's son."

~(Perseus)~

"I am your father, Perseus.

Marmara is your mother.

And you'll always be our son.

The bond between us is much more than flesh and bone.

The love we have for you...

...it's that love that gods and kings fight over.

I've never understood the gods.

But even I don't question that you were saved for a reason.

And some day...

...that reason is gonna take you far away from here.

[LIGHTNING]

But not tonight, eh?"

~(Spyros / The Parental Father)~

"So, what happens when we get there?"

~(Ixas / Soldier)~

"Just another beast to kill."

~(Eusebios / Soldier)~

"A beast?

Medusa was beautiful once.

So beautiful as to tempt Poseidon.

When he came for her...

...she ran to Athena's temple thinking that the goddess would protect her.

She didn't.

Poseidon took her on the cold floor.

She prayed to Athena for comfort...

...but  the goddess felt nothing but disgust.

She made sure no one would ever want Medusa again.

One look at the creature she has become will turn any living thing to stone.

I cannot assist you there.

A curse prevents me.

It was Athena's one bit of solace to Medusa so that Medusa would never harm a woman.

Only men are allowed in the Temple.

Though no man has ever made it out."

~(Io)~

Clash of the Titans (2010 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Clash of the Titans is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film and remake of the 1981 film of the same name (the rights to which had been acquired by Warner Bros. in 1996). The story is very loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus.  Directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Sam Worthington, the film was originally set for standard release on March 26, 2010. However, it was later announced that the film would be converted to 3D and was released on April 2, 2010.  Clash of the Titans grossed $493 million worldwide, though it received generally negative reviews from critics and received two Golden Raspberry Awards nominations.

The film's success led to a sequel, Wrath of the Titans, released in March 2012.

PLOT

In ancient times, the gods divided the Universe among themselves; Zeus took the skies, Poseidon took the seas, and Hades, tricked by Zeus, was left with the Underworld. The gods created the mortals, whose faith and prayers assured the gods' immortality. As time passed, however, mortals began to question them and soon resist their creators, angering the Olympians.

As Perseus and his family fish from a boat, they watch soldiers from the city of Argos destroy a statue of Zeus. The gods, infuriated at this desecration, unleash the Furies, who attack the soldiers and destroy the fishing vessel. Only Perseus survives.

CRITICAL RECEPTION

 AskMen.com felt actor Sam Worthington's heavy Australian drawl was so distracting it "manages not only to single-handedly unhinge any suspension of disbelief we might have had, but his fellow actors often seem to be visibly struggling as they impart fantastical ancient truths to a true-blue brickie in a studded leather dress."

***

"I'm a fisherman.  Perseus is a fisherman.

They've even taken that away from us.

Still they want us to love them anyway.

One day...

...somebody's gonna have to make a stand.

One day, somebody's gonna have to say:

'ENOUGH.'"

~(Spyros / The Parental Father)~

(dialogue beginning of movie)
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(dialogue ending the movie)

"I wanted man to worship us again, 

but

 I didn't want it to cost me a son."

~(Zeus)~

"That's almost human of you."

~(Perseus)~

***

When I pulled this movie NETFLIX had sent me,

out of the mailbox,

didn't understand why?

Along with the other one,
either!

I've already seen them?

Both of the them?

 Several times...
 already?

In fact,

I used to own

CLASH OF THE TITANS,

until

I gave it to my sister on one of her visits to give to my eldest niece, Stephenie. 

On more than one occasion, when my mother and sister visit,

my sister Donna comments on Stephenie being the one who collects movies.

I also own a copy of

AVATAR.
   

Although my friend kept insisting it wasn't,

 my copy of AVATAR I'm afraid is probably a bootleg copy. 

Even his claim of downloading it from a legit movie sharing site didn't sit well with me. 

But how could I refuse this friend's gift.  

Honestly,
didn't come to view this copy of AVATAR downloaded off the Internet as a gift
until
he died not long after due to complication from A.I.D.S....
on
The Eve of Christmas 2010.

Oh how I remember that Christmas Eve so well;
and
 this was before someone called to tell me about Matt.

How so alone I was that night.

How,
that very same evening had just finished
writing and uploading
"Who's Child Is This"
to my blog;
the only one, out of two eventually, I had at that time.

How,
I then looked out the window into the dark of the night;
seeing for the first time,
the beginning that winter's first snow...
 almost midnight straight up.

How,
in place of the crying I felt like doing;
instead,
finally getting up out of the chair from in front of my computer, turning out all the lights,
then
sitting quietly on the couch watching the snow falling as I stared out the window overlooking my back yard. 

How,
eventually before falling asleep,
thinking about a song,
RUDOLF THE RED NOSE REINDEER;
wondering if this was suppose to be my cue
as
to a darker, far less colorful,
meaning
behind this seemingly jolly song.

[LIGHTNING STORM]

"Just like the day you come to me.

The storm brought me right to you.

I know you have questions, son.

I wish I had the answers."

~(Spyros the Parental Father)~

"I have everything that I need...

...right here."

~(Perseus)~
 

"Good night, son."

~(Spyros the Father before Killed by Hades)~

[LIGHTNING STORM]

That very same night,

only the beginnings of all that snow and ice heading toward and about to shut down,

bringing to a virtual halt,
all
of  Metro Atlanta.

In the middle of all that snow and ice that same year was also January 14th...

my birthday. 

The middle of that very same kind of storm that welcomed me into this world the day I was born,
January 14th, 1962.

So....

why did I que these two movies in line to be seen again?

Have no memory of me even doing this.

Anyway...

long story made short...

glad I did.
 

Both of them.

The dialogue between Spyros the Parental Father and his son Perseus at the beginning of the movie along with the dialogue between Zeus and his biological son Perseus at the end of the movie fits perfectly with the interpretation I'm wanting to believe Jesus meant by his use of the trinity.

 

I really do

 believe

 it makes far more sense,
the

"FATHER"

Jesus was referring to
was
probably

JOSEPH THE PARENTAL FATHER.

As for the movie,
AVATAR...
this was the first time watching it in closed caption.  Was not aware I had yet to watch this movie in close caption until I actually began watching this one sent me by Netflix.  Only then did I realize what was happening, after questioning not long into the movie,  why everything sounded so different;   completely floored learning just how much of this movie I had been missing until now.

Was not able watching in close caption, the one Matt had given me as a gift.

Would not have caught this line had I not eventually watch it on closed caption:

"It is hard... 

to fill a cup which is already full."

~(Mo'at / Spiritual Leader)~

Just hope...
 writing about this gift doesn't end up getting me arrested.

"Over the years, I've always gotten a laugh out of telling people:
'Some of us HAVE to be Charming!'
Now I feel must say this:
'MATT
was
someone I've always
found...
TO BE CHARMING,
WITHOUT HIM HAVING TO BE!'"
 ~(Simply Jim)~

 Better not get arrested,
now!

Not how,
when the funeral was over,
 everyone who had gathered our small little gossip group immediately afterwards
agreed
wholeheartedly with this statement I made about Matt.

Not when,
 hearing for the first time only after the funeral was over,
then becoming angry,
at
how
Matt's partner/longtime companion had listed himself
behind
Matt's mother, Matt's father, and Matt's sister...
before
listing himself fourth in order of those having survived Matt.


Not when,
also,
 having just learned,
only Matt's sister came to the funeral;
his parents
still
wanting nothing to do with their son.

 

I even printed this picture,

one I found online and saved,
 full size on photo paper and took it with me too Matt's  funeral.

Not sure why.

Just did.

Only after the funeral,
was I told about a more private group that would be gathering at someones home.
Once at this home,
I pulled one of the two hosts off to the side and handed him a manila envelope containing this picture.

"For some reason,
this picture made me think of Matt.
It's yours.  
I'm going to let you use your judgement, 
whether or not,
 to share it with the rest."
~(Simply Jim)~

Later that afternoon before leaving,
 noticed the host had found a frame for it and placed it on a well lit table in an otherwise dark room...
 all by itself.

I can only hope,
one day,
 Bob and Janet Gary will read this blob entry and  feel the shame they should upon realizing themselves on the other side of this white washed wall.

4. We do not listen to religious talk from anyone, let alone invite

them into our home.  We do not do that with you.  We share our faith

with people who ask questions of us and our religious convictions.  You

had no questions for Janet, only pressing her to agree with your

doctrine.

 

G. Robert Gary, Sr. ThD

 

 

"It is hard...

to fill a cup which is already full."

~(Mo'at / Spiritual Leader)~

I'm even beginning to wonder...
if these two are even capable of this emotion by the likes of me and the rest of us who gathered at this home
after
Matt's funeral.

I'm sure they are capable of some shame;
Janet, anyway.

Janet would not be able believing herself a
"LIBERAL"
without a certain amount of empathy.

As for her husband Bob,
or
a different way of saying the same thing,

"nationally known pastoral consultant"
George Robert Gary, Sr. ThD,

will no longer make the mistake of giving this man the benefit of the doubt.
He will be having to prove himself
every step of the way for the rest of the life he's got left.

Man,
 did I learn the hard way....
the difference between a good doctor and a bad doctor!

"God helps those who helps themselves."
~(Benjamin Franklin)

Believe I've finally figured out the secret to this quote;
one I've came across credited to Benjamin Franklin,
that's been baffling me since this whole mess first erupted between me and the Gary's three years ago.

Even if Benjamin Franklin's original intent was more derogatory in nature when he first utter these words;
do not care. 

My intent was trying to find a way making these words
making
some useable sense from the perspective of a God.

Secret's in the pronoun,
Saint Bob(!).

Apparently,
this one's only interested in the SIZE of his church congregation,
or the SIZE of his ego;
not sure which one come first.

Too close to call.

Then again,
depends on how one chooses to measure/define ones...
"greatness."

 Said it before and will say it again,

"Far as I'm concerned...
that was a BOTCHED crucifixion!"
~(Simply Jim:  One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ.)~

***

 "Is this right?
I just say whatever to the video log?"
~(Jake Sully /  Avatar Driver)~

"Yeah, we gotta get in the habit of documenting everything.
You know,
what we see,
what we feel.
It's all part of the science."
~(Dr. Norm Spellman / Avatar Driver)~

"And good science is good observation."
~(Dr. Max Patel)~

"Plus, 
it'll help to keep you sane for the next six years."
~(Dr. Norm Spellman / Avatar Driver)~

"All right.
Whatever.
So, 
uh...
Well, here I am, doing science."
~(Jake Sully / Avatar Driver)~

"How much lab training have you had?"

~(Dr. Grace Augustine / Avatar Driver)~

"I dissected a frog once."

~(Jake Sully / Avatar Driver)~

"You see?  You see?

I mean, they're just pissing on us without even the courtesy of calling it rain."

~(Dr. Grace Augustine / Avatar Driver)~

 

(Jake's first dialogue exchange with Dr. Grace Augustine, head of Avatar science program)

8

(Jake's first dialogue exchange with Mo'at, spiritual leader of the Omaticaya tribe)

 

"Why do you come to us?"

~(Mo'at / Spiritual Leader)~

"I come to learn."

~(Jake Sully / Avatar Driver)~

"We have tried to teach other Sky People.

It is hard... 

to fill a cup which is already full."

~(Mo'at / Spiritual Leader)~

"Well, my cup is empty, trust me.

Just ask Dr. Augustine.  

I'm...

no scientist."

~(Jake Sully / Avatar Driver)~

"What are you?"

~(Mo'at / Spiritual Leader)~

"I was a Marine.

A...

a warrior of the Jarhead clan."

~(Jake Sully / Avatar Driver)~

 

 

Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi, and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's title refers to a genetically engineered Na'vi body with the mind of a remotely located human, and is used to interact with the natives of Pandora.

Avatar premiered in London on December 10, 2009, and was internationally released on December 16 and in the United States and Canada on December 18, to positive critical reviews, with critics highly praising its groundbreaking visual effects. During its theatrical run, the film broke several box office records and became the highest-grossing film, as well as in the United States and Canada, surpassing Titanic, which had held those records for twelve years (and was also directed by Cameron). It also became the first film to gross more than $2 billion. Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects. The film's home media release went on to break opening sales records and became the top-selling Blu-ray of all time. Following the film's success, Cameron signed with 20th Century Fox to produce three sequels, making Avatar the first of a planned tetralogy.

CAST

Humans

• Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, a disabled former Marine who becomes part of the Avatar Program after his twin brother is killed. His military background helps the Na'vi warriors relate to him. Cameron cast the Australian actor after a worldwide search for promising young actors, preferring relative unknowns to keep the budget down.  Worthington, who was living in his car at the time, auditioned twice early in development, and he has signed on for possible sequels. Cameron felt that because Worthington had not done a major film, he would give the character "a quality that is really real". Cameron said he "has that quality of being a guy you'd want to have a beer with, and he ultimately becomes a leader who transforms the world".

Na'vi  

• Zoe Saldana as Neytiri, the daughter of the leader of the Omaticaya (the Na'vi clan central to the story). She is attracted to Jake because of his bravery, though frustrated with him for what she sees as his naiveté and stupidity. She serves as Jake's love interest. The character, like all the Na'vi, was created using performance capture, and its visual aspect is entirely computer generated. Saldana has also signed on for potential sequels.
• C. C. H. Pounder as Mo'at, the Omaticaya's spiritual leader, Neytiri's mother, and consort to clan leader Eytukan.
• Wes Studi as Eytukan, the Omaticaya's clan leader, Neytiri's father, and Mo'at's mate.
• Laz Alonso as Tsu'tey, the finest warrior of the Omaticaya. He is heir to the chieftainship of the tribe. At the beginning of the film's story, he is betrothed to Neytiri.

ORIGIN

In 1994, director James Cameron wrote an 80-page treatment for Avatar, drawing inspiration from "every single science fiction book" he had read in his childhood as well as from adventure novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard.

DEVELOPMENT

After Fox accepted Avatar, one skeptical Fox executive shook his head and told Cameron and Landau, "I don't know if we're crazier for letting you do this, or if you're crazier for thinking you can do this …"

In December 2006, Cameron described Avatar as "a futuristic tale set on a planet 200 years hence … an old-fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience [that] aspires to a mythic level of storytelling". The January 2007 press release described the film as "an emotional journey of redemption and revolution" and said the story is of "a wounded former Marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in biodiversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival". The story would be of an entire world complete with an ecosystem of phantasmagorical plants and creatures, and native people with a rich culture and language.

Estimates put the cost of the film at about $280–310 million to produce and an estimated $150 million for marketing, noting that about $30 million in tax credits will lessen the financial impact on the studio and its financiers. A studio spokesperson said that the budget was "$237 million, with $150 million for promotion, end of story."

THEMES AND INSPIRATIONS

Avatar is primarily an action-adventure journey of self-discovery, in the context of imperialism and deep ecology. Cameron said his inspiration was "every single science fiction book I read as a kid", and that he was particularly striving to update the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter series and the deep jungles of Pandora were visualized from Disney's 37th animated film, Tarzan. He acknowledged that Avatar shares themes with the films At Play in the Fields of the Lord, The Emerald Forest, and Princess Mononoke, which feature clashes between cultures and civilizations, and with Dances with Wolves, where a battered soldier finds himself drawn to the culture he was initially fighting against.