charlie: welcome to the broadcast. we ll begin this evening with avatar, the new film by james cameron. it s in 3-d but it s much more. so we start with a conversation with a filmmaker, james cameron. this is a chance to take, the idea was you re going to take the audience to a journey to another world and a journey through that world. a stranger in a strange land. you go to a guy, you go to an alien world and meet an alien culture. this is the goal. i called up this imagery i ve ever drawn over 20 years previously. and it just flowed. it just flowed out, very rapidly and probably wrote the whole thing in about three weeks. charlie: charlie: two critics, david denby and tone owe scott weighed in on avatar and other pieces. ment. as i say everything was color coordinated and movement coordinated and so on. if you look at the end and look at the credits, there are like five different special effects company, not just peter jackson s company in australia but four or fi