How do you follow up a little movie like Titanic? Most directors would probably grab their knees, curl into a fetal ball, and rock back and forth babbling “I’m the king of the world.” But James Cameron is no ordinary director. Granted, it’s been 12 years since Jack and Rose made goo-goo eyes on the Lido Deck, but Cameron hasn’t forgotten how to crank up the hype machine. Last month, he unveiled 25 minutes of footage of his latest film, the $200 million-and-change 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar at Comic Con — 25 minutes that left the unwashed masses slack-jawed, drooling, and giddy. And now, as he enters stage two of his drum-beating PR campaign, he’s taken a strangely humble, Joe-Sixpack approach for a film that anyone in their right mind would argue is the blockbuster to beat this winter simply based on the auteur’s track record (The Terminator, Aliens, etc).
For example, when asked if he was anxious about trying to capture the same Titanic lightning in a bottle with Avatar, Cameron told EW: ”I don’t feel competitive with Titanic. Not that I feel Titanic was a fluke. But this isn’t Titanic. Titanic was one of those of those moments when all of the tumblers in the combination lock happened to just line up perfectly. In all cultures in the world, everyone just happened to like that movie! But I can’t run my career trying to reverse-engineer the combination to that lock. If you try to make a movie for everybody, what is that? I have to make a movie for myself and assume that my tastes are so banal and commonplace that someone else will like what I like. I didn’t attend university to study film aesthetics. My film class was a drive-in in Orange County with a six-pack of beer. That’s how I absorb movies, and that’s where I’m stuck as a movie fan.”
Also, when it comes to influences on Avatar, Cameron leans more towards Star Wars than the “slow” 2001:
“Nothing comes out of thin air. I probably read 80 percent of the oeuvre of science fiction when I was in high school. It wasn’t until Star Wars…or 2001, which as brilliant as it was, I found to be slow. When I saw Star Wars, I finally saw onscreen the images I had in my head. It had for me a familiarity. And I thought if this is popular, and people love this, and this is what’s been in my head for years, I should be making movies!”
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well i’m not surprised James Cameron was not a fan of 2001… but I am surprised he doesnt think The Abyss is slow cause it kinda is…
It doesn’t sound like he wasn’t a fan of it, but rather, Star Wars better represents the kind of sci-fi he wants to make. 2001 IS slow, but sometimes, slow is fantastic (hello, Mad Men!).
I think he respests 2001 immensely, but didn’t set out to make a 2001, he set out to make a Star Wars.
Cameron introduced a documentary on 2001 and stated his affection for the film.
2012 wasn’t slow, it was just thrilling in a different kind of way.
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if he thinks this will make a return on his investment, he is seriously delusional.
Jackson:
What was Cameron’s investment? He didn’t pay for Avatar. And with worldwide receipts and home video, etc, this movie will make money.
I dare not draw comparisons between Delgo and Avatar, but how could you not? Look at the visual similarities just based on the trailer. Time to get the lawyers involved!
Link to images:
http://img.denihilation.com
Saw the 20 minute 3D trailer today. Unwatchable in 3D. Got a headache after 5 minutes. Great visuals, great FX. But did not care for story and characters.
20 min and you’ve made up your mind? Go see the movie first then talk about it.
I agree. The 3D is really bad. What’s the point!
I thought it was just our theater. It was only a 15 min presentation and a dozen people left before the end. Shouting 3D sucks! I like 3D. But Cameron’s use of it does suck. I don’t see how anyone could take it for 2 hours.
I agree. The 3D left me seeing double for most of the footage.
The whole thing looked like a videogame cartoon.
I didn’t understand what the hype was about.
Again – see the movie first.
People are such haters…..
A movie for Joe Sixpack by Joe Sixpack. And the noble savage was always a myth, mr. Cameron.
Watched the 15 min..where is this 20 min crap coming from?…obviously there are people posting who didn’t see it. Good FUD job guys. The 3D was fine. It was immersive, it wasn’t in your face about it (someone shoving a spear at the viewer in Beowulf) and it didn’t give me a headache. There will be a handful of people who will get headaches, but it will be few and far between. No one walked out and frankly I’m pretty sure that is an outright lie. I only wish games could achieve this level of CGI. The reality is that the CGI was flawless. The issue is that the characters aren’t human. And no amount of makeup could create them, so it triggers a response of THAT IS CGI! Is the movie going to make serious bank? Of course. Its not going to be the industry tsunami that Fox is hoping for. Its a movie that is going to move CGI to the next level just as LOTR did with digital characters.
Nobody walked out of our theater. But I almost did… I was sitting fairly close to the screen and the action scenes were really hard to watch. On the way out I heard a lot of negative comments: headache, nauseous, queasy, unwatchable…