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Mitchell
Silberberg &
Knupp LLP
Case 2:11-cv-10294-MMM-JCG Document 117 Filed 11/13/12 Page 40 of 45 Page ID
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after landing on the new home planet, the male protagonist, who is human, cannot
breathe the air and dies. The blue-skinned humanoids, however, are able to
breathe the air on this new planet. Exhibit 6 at LIGHTS000120-12; Exhibit 7 at
LIGHTS000148.
123. Similarly, in Mother, humans cannot survive when exposed to the
planet’s atmosphere and must wear environment suits. This prompts the
corporation to genetically engineer aliens so they can be used as mine workers.
See Exhibit 18 at LIGHTS003198, 3205.
124. In order to colonize Pandora, the humans had to be able to exist there.
That is why I came up with the exopack, a lightweight atmosphere filtration
system, which the humans wear when outside. Jake in his human form cannot
breathe the Pandoran air even when he is linked to his avatar. Because the avatars
are genetically engineered Na’vi-human hybrid bodies, Jake in his avatar form can
breathe the air without an exopack. I did not need Mr. Morawski to come up with
the idea that humans cannot breathe the air on the alien planet or the idea of an
exopack. I used the same concept in Xenogenesis more than a decade earlier; there
I called the filtration system worn by the male protagonist an “outpack.” Exhibit 6
at LIGHTS000119.
Female Scientist
125. Grace Augustine, played by Sigourney Weaver in Avatar, is a
character who emerged from my desire to show scientists in a favorable light. I
believe that Hollywood usually treats scientists in a stereotypical fashion, either as
socially hopeless nerds or as evil masterminds. Hollywood believes that they
represent the average person’s point of view by doing this. I believe we need to do
better, and Terminator 2, Avatar, and my documentary work, such as Aliens of the
Deep, show scientists in a positive light as role models. I have a deep respect for
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DECLARATION OF JAMES CAMERON