{"id":143771,"date":"2010-01-06T04:15:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/06\/cameron-smoking-in-avatar-a-critique-of-gamers-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T04:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:15:57","slug":"cameron-smoking-in-avatar-a-critique-of-gamers-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/143771","title":{"rendered":"Cameron: Smoking in Avatar a Critique of Gamers [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Gus Mastrapa, Contributor, Game|Life, Wired.com<\/p>\n<p>Anti-smoking watchdogs are up in arms about Sigourney Weaver\u2019s character lighting up in the movie Avatar, but James Cameron says that her character\u2019s cigarette habit was a critique of videogamers.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s New York Times (NYT), the director defended himself against critics, saying that Weaver\u2019s character Grace Augustine was never meant to be a role model for young people. In fact, he said, her smoking was meant to be a commentary on the character\u2019s obsession with climbing into her blue meat puppet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2010\/01\/smoking-avatar\/\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100106\/cameron-smoking-in-avatar-a-critique-of-gamers\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gus Mastrapa, Contributor, Game|Life, Wired.com Anti-smoking watchdogs are up in arms about Sigourney Weaver\u2019s character lighting up in the movie Avatar, but James Cameron says that her character\u2019s cigarette habit was a critique of videogamers. In Sunday\u2019s New York Times (NYT), the director defended himself against critics, saying that Weaver\u2019s character Grace Augustine was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}