Fictional universe of Avatar Fictional universe of Avatar In the 2009 science fiction film "Avatar", director James Cameron conceived a fictional universe in which humans seek to mine unobtanium on the fictional exoplanetary moon, Pandora. The Earth-like moon is inhabited by a sapient indigenous humanoid species called the Na'vi, and varied fauna and flora. Resources Development Administration (RDA) scientists, administrators, recruits, support, and security personnel travel to Pandora in the 22nd century to discover this lush world, which is inhabited by many lifeforms including the human-like Na'vi. The clan with which the humans have contact in the film "[lives] in a giant tree that
The Moon Is Blue 1961, the PCA granted both "The Moon is Blue" and "The Man with the Golden Arm", Preminger's similarly controversial 1955 release, the seals of approval they initially withheld. In later years, the film was the focus of the "M*A*S*H" episode, "The Moon is Not Blue", in which the characters, having heard about the controversy surrounding it, attempt to get a copy shipped to their mobile hospital in Korea. The film actually was released in the closing days of the Korean War. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" observed it "is not outstanding, either as a romance or as film.