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The connection between Walking With... and Avatar
Topic Started: Apr 6 2012, 06:32 PM (344 Views)
T.Neo
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So, anyone here watched the ~4 minute Pandora Discovered promo video, with clips of Avatar linked together and narrated by Sigourney Weaver, describing the fictional world of Pandora? You can see it here.

I think it's a pretty well put-together video, in quite a few ways I enjoyed it more than the film itself. Plus it had some cool and very appropriate sounding music.

I wondered a bit where I could find a sample of this music, then forgot about it when I got distracted with making self-immolating fusion powered spacecraft

Quite a while back I happened upon watching Prehistoric Park clips, and noticed music a lot like the one in the Pandora video. I noticed that it was not similar, it was in fact the same music.

I wondered again where this music came from, and forgot, until I was searching for clips/soundtracks/etc on the internet recently, and I discovered that it's indeed part of the soundtrack composed for the series by David Pemberton. You can listen to it here; the relevant part is 00:00-01:18.

I find it quite fascinating that someone from Fox (presumably) must have chanced across this piece of music (somehow), and selected it for their promo video. Then again, it's not too hard to believe, since it describes quite well, I think, the sort of emotions one would feel upon seeing a live prehistoric beast for the first time... or the sort of emotions one would feel as they took their first steps onto an alien world.
Edited by T.Neo, Apr 6 2012, 06:33 PM.
A hard mathematical figure provides a sort of enlightenment to one's understanding of an idea that is never matched by mere guesswork.
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