It not only set box-office records, but the movie is still tied for the most Oscars won in a single night. In the 1990s, Hollywood executives predicted Titanic would flop. The kids chafe, and Jake has to learn how to trust them.īut even this more enlightened Cameron hasn’t lost his edge.
An ex-soldier, Jake barks orders at his family, not unlike a director. After infiltrating the alien race known as the Na’vi in the original, Jake has settled down with his love, Neytiri ( Zoe Saldaña), and their brood of children-five kids, just like Cameron. Way of Water, which Cameron admits is a personal film, charts a similar journey for its hero Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). The problem is nobody is going to put up their hand to volunteer to be the half that has to go.” “I thought he had a pretty viable answer. In fact, it’s the villain who becomes so concerned with waning resources that he uses magic to snap his fingers and demolish half of all life in the universe. Still, that Marvel blockbuster doesn’t exactly endorse green activism. Since then, other movies like Avengers: Infinity War have tackled climate change. Avatar went on to achieve massive success, grossing nearly $3 billion globally. When the director brought the idea for the first Avatar to 20th Century Fox, he says executives asked him to strip the script of “tree hugging” because they thought it wouldn’t sell tickets. “We couldn’t lecture oil companies and turn around and eat hamburgers,” he says.Ĭameron may have also intended to make a larger point to Hollywood. The sci-fi epic, which reportedly cost more than $350 million, centers on aliens fending off invading humans who have depleted earth’s resources.
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