JAMES CAMERON
James Cameron is a director I strongly admire for his constant achievements in undertaking projects of huge scale. Films like the Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies, Titanic, and now Avatar make me realise, that when you think there is a limit to what you can achieve on film, James Cameron is always one of the pioneering filmmakers looking to move the art form forward.
His finesse and attention to detail in the production design and the special effects point to his past as a miniature model maker for the Roger Corman Studio. From there he soon moved on to art directing for sci-fi movie, Battle Beyond the Stars. He later did special effects work while all the time honing his skills as a writer. The first script he wrote was for the film TERMINATOR, which he gave up the rights to in order to direct. After Terminator’s success he took on the director’s job for ALIENS, the sequel to Tony Scott’s Alien, which won several awards and Academy awards. That propelled him onto the Film Industry’s market as a valuable asset.
He stayed in the Sci-fi genre with two following films- THE ABYSS and TERMINATOR 2- which had groundbreaking SFX. Terminator 2 was so popular it made Cameron a brand name.
He excelled himself with Titanic by leaving the sci-fi genre but staying within the SFX world. He created a love story as tragic as Romeo and Juliet set against real events and formula resulted in the most financially successful film of all time.
Avatar is launching soon in cinemas worldwide were Cameron, again, breaches the boundaries filmmaking, this time with the use of his very own 3D cameras. It is just fascinating to me how dedication and precision can motivate someone to do the things he has. Avatar may not appeal to me personally but from what I have heard and seen I’m pretty sure he will leave his audience flabbergasted once again.
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