{"id":12354,"date":"2022-12-04T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:38:59","slug":"a-cameron-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/04\/a-cameron-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cameron Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside James Cameron\u2019s Billion-Dollar Bet on \u2018Avatar\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The director on spending a decade of his life \u2014 not to mention hundreds of Disney\u2019s millions \u2014 to make \u2018Avatar: The Way of Water,\u2019 the long-awaited second film in his ambitious and risky franchise: \u201cThere\u2019s skepticism in the marketplace. Can anybody even remember the characters’ names? We\u2019ll see what happens after this film.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY <\/strong>REBECCA KEEGAN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI want to tell an epic story over a number of films. Let\u2019s paint on a bigger canvas. Let\u2019s plan it that way. Let\u2019s do The Lord of the Rings. Of course, they had the books. I had to write the book first, which isn\u2019t a book, it\u2019s a script,\u201d says James Cameron, photographed Nov. 5 at Park Road Post in Wellington, New Zealand. PHOTOGRAPHED BY NIKI BOON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, after James Cameron<\/a> finished the first Avatar<\/em> film, his kids called a family meeting to deliver some notes on his parenting. Some of the kids, who today range in age from 15 to 32, had attended the MUSE school in Calabasas that Cameron\u2019s wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, founded in 2006. At MUSE, students are encouraged to provide feedback to their teachers, and now the Cameron brood was emboldened to apply that same technique at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cameron is known in the film business for getting what he wants when he wants it, from release dates to budgets to the right to mount elaborate oceanic expeditions on a studio\u2019s dime. The director admits he has sometimes brought his hard-driving style home, and there are moments when his fathering has resembled the Robert Duvall character in The Great Santini<\/em>, the relentless Marine colonel patriarch. \u201cI\u2019m on a rules-based universe, and the kids weren\u2019t into it,\u201d Cameron says. \u201cThey said, \u2018You\u2019re never around half the time. And, then, when you come home, you try to make up for it by telling us all what to do. And Mom\u2019s really the one that\u2019s been making all the rules the whole time while you\u2019ve been off shooting. So you don\u2019t get to come home and do that.’\u201d (The Camerons have three children together and one each from a previous marriage \u2014 his to Linda Hamilton, hers to Sam Robards.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cameron says he took the kids\u2019 note, that he tries to listen more and control less. \u201cI thought, \u2018Well, that\u2019s valid,’\u201d he says. \u201cI realized I was wearing the mantle of responsibility of a parent and overcompensating for the time I wasn\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps more than any new camera system or giant media merger, the humbling experience of parenting teenagers has had the greatest impact on how Cameron made his latest movie, both in the choice of subject matter and in the way he managed his cast and crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Avatar: The Way of Water<\/a><\/em>, which Disney will release Dec. 16, Cameron takes the stakes to the home\u2014 albeit an alien home, where Mom and Dad are blue and 9 feet tall. \u201cI thought, \u2018I\u2019m going to work out a lot of my stuff, artistically, that I\u2019ve gone through as a parent of five kids,’\u201d Cameron says. \u201cThe overarching idea is, the family is the fortress. It\u2019s our greatest weakness and our greatest strength. I thought, \u2018I can write the hell out of this. I know what it is to be the asshole dad.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Hollywood Reporter Inside James Cameron\u2019s Billion-Dollar Bet on \u2018Avatar\u2019 The director on spending a decade of his life \u2014 not to mention hundreds of Disney\u2019s millions \u2014 to make \u2018Avatar: The Way of Water,\u2019 the long-awaited second film in his ambitious and risky franchise: \u201cThere\u2019s skepticism in the marketplace. Can anybody even remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}