Avatar: James Cameron’s Ode to Lord Krishna - Day, Ukraine
MOSCOW: Pardon me, do you have a minute? Then I’ll tell you a story you probably haven’t heard - one about a hero from another planet.
He’s handsome and dark blue skin, with thick black hair, yellow lines on his forehead and a fearless heart, has descended from the heavens and has found shelter with a lost jungle tribe. He quickly becomes more attached to the forest-dwellers than his alien kin, and decides to stay with them forever. The tribe lives amid deposits of a precious mineral, but considers it simply rubble.
The previous relatives of our hero, the haughty sky people, were angry with the forest-dwellers due to their attachment to the land, and so try to destroy the entire tribe - along with the defector. Defending his newfound people, the hero flies on monsters, establishes a connection with the beasts, and speaks in code to trees that can grant wishes, and which grow at the foot of a sacred mountain.
But the central inspiration of our heroes’ life is the forest king’s beautiful daughter - who initially rejects him as childish. But she is forced to teach him the local customs and soon falls in love with him, meeting him secretly at night and tying her life to his.
And then … Pardon me, what’s our hero’s name, you ask? Yes, he was sometimes called an “Avatar.” But … But how do you know? No, he’s not a disabled Marine. Our hero is a cowherd. … Unobtanium? One moment, if memory serves, the precious mineral of the story is called “Chintamani” - a kind of philosopher’s stone that can convert lead into gold. No, there are no colonels mentioned in the story.