When James Cameron won the Academy Award for Best Director for Titanic, he stood on stage, recreating Leonardo DiCaprio’s character from his film, and shouted: “I’m king of the world!!” There was a clear nod to his work, but there was also a declaration of intent. Cameron had everyone falling at his feet with a kind of cinema that was increasingly difficult to make. A huge film, with a huge budget, that did not appeal to all ages, and was centered on a lifelong love story. The result is cinema history. Over $2.2 billion in box office receipts and 11 Oscars, a historical record that at the time equaled Ben-Hur, a film that responded to the same forms of cinema that Cameron appealed to.
With such a phenomenon on his hands, Cameron was able to choose which project he wanted to do next. He chose a more technically complex project. Review for Pocahontas In the form of a sci-fi epic that used the fashionable technology of the time, 3D, to manipulate the theater and take action cinema to its limits. It took 12 years to release, and many questioned whether the original story, with such a large budget, was worth the effort.
Once again Cameron got his way, and I’m sure he thought he was king of the world once again. Avatar blew up the box office, was nominated for an Academy Award and became a cult phenomenon. One of those few titles that everyone knows and recognizes in one frame. Avatar remains the highest-grossing film in cinema history with nearly $3 billion grossed. Giving him the ability to develop the entire universe he envisioned in his head to explore the world of Pandora, Sully, and Neytiri. But for Cameron, Part Two was not about hastily exploring the mechanism, but about showing his faith in what he was relying on. Avatar: Water Sensation has arrived after 13 years. The result: more than $2.3 billion.
He only had to wait three years for the third installment to be released, filming both sequels at the same time. Avatar; Fire and Ashes arrives on December 19. And it does so with Cameron being the only director to have three of his films among the five highest-grossing films in history. Continue exploring Pandora, now a world ravaged by fire and the evil Varang, leader of the Fire Clan who challenges the Na’vi. From Paris, where the film’s European premiere was held, Cameron analyzed the keys to the saga’s success, stressing that they come because it “speaks to universal aspects of the human experience.”
“It’s about identity, about family, about duty to that family, about duty to society. About asking where you belong and finding that place. Now in this third part we see kids growing up and searching for their place in the world and they are of mixed race. These are fundamental issues that people feel all over the world. We’re talking about a family of refugees. And about immigrants. Displaced people can identify with that. So I think that with the Avatar films, we’re always trying to address very human and relatable themes, because they’re grounded in experience. “It takes place in a wonderful world, but it resonates with us in ways that are close to us.”
“Avatar” is about breaking the cycle of violence created by the hatred that arises from that loss. We see that in the world today.
James Cameron
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He also highlighted “grief” as a major theme. He added, “It’s a movie about grief. It’s a movie about loss. It’s a movie about trauma. And it’s a movie about healing and moving forward, taking responsibility and moving forward, and breaking the cycle of violence created by the hate that comes from that loss. And we see that in the world today.”
Although the performances in Avatar use motion capture, they have always sought to explain how what you see is actually the work of the actors, which is why James Cameron also emphasized that working with the actors is “the most sacred part of the process.” “I use that term intentionally. There’s something very pure in what I do with these amazing actors. And it’s not for a week or even a month. For these two films, which are really one big story, we spent 18 months working together day in and day out. It’s a fun process. We work on conflict, but conflict between the characters, not between the people behind the characters. We enjoy each other’s work, and we have a very trusting relationship. We call it the Avatar family.” He pointed out.
He even allowed himself a joke when they asked him if there was a reference to Titanic in a particular scene where one character tries to climb onto a board in the water, referring to the heavily analyzed moment in which Rose arrives at the door of the sinking ship, but there’s not even room for her lover: “I’ve only had five good ideas in my entire life and I keep reusing them nonstop.” It may only be five ideas, but it’s clear that people love it and that they still consider it the king of blockbusters.