{"id":8598,"date":"2017-08-24T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T23:13:17","slug":"james-cameron-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/24\/james-cameron-disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron &#8211; Disturbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2017\/08\/22\/terminator-2-judgment-day-is-still-a-deeply-upsetting-blockbuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Village Voice<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>\u201cTerminator 2: Judgment Day\u201d Is Still a Deeply Upsetting Blockbuster<\/h1>\n<h2>\u201cIt\u2019s in your nature to destroy yourselves\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>by <a class=\"author url fn u-skip\" title=\"Posts by Bilge Ebiri\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/author\/bilgeebiri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">BILGE EBIRI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_U5IhEAFGwQ\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"body1-dropcap\"><span class=\"CharOverride-1\">S<\/span><span class=\"CharOverride-1\">ay what you will about James Cameron, but the man\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"body1-italic CharOverride-1\">commits<\/span><\/em><span class=\"CharOverride-1\">. Stories of the director\u2019s perfectionism, his control-freak mania, and his sheer drive are legion, but I\u2019m talking about something more fundamental to the work itself. Whereas most action filmmakers are\u00a0content to let emotion and morality play second fiddle to the more immediate, commercial elements of their movies, Cameron refuses to relegate such things to the background. The love story in\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"body1-italic CharOverride-1\">Titanic<\/span><\/em><span class=\"CharOverride-1\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>isn\u2019t just an excuse to stage an extravagant disaster flick; it becomes the picture\u2019s <em>raison d\u2019\u00eatre<\/em> (and, not coincidentally, a key factor in its success). The environmental and anti-colonial overtones of\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"body1-italic CharOverride-1\">Avatar<\/span><\/em><span class=\"CharOverride-1\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>aren\u2019t there merely to provide some character shading; they practically take over. And now, back in theaters and converted to 3-D, is Cameron\u2019s classic sequel\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"body1-italic CharOverride-1\">Terminator 2: Judgment Day<\/span><\/em><span class=\"CharOverride-1\">\u00a0\u2014 not just a movie about fighting to prevent nuclear apocalypse, but a movie\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"body1-italic CharOverride-1\">obsessed<\/span><\/em><span class=\"CharOverride-1\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>with nuclear apocalypse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"body1 ParaOverride-1\"><span class=\"CharOverride-1\">Maybe that wasn\u2019t so clear back in 1991, when it originally came out. The Iron Curtain had recently fallen, effectively ending the Cold War and seemingly lifting the nuclear threat. I distinctly remember Sarah Connor\u2019s occasional ruminations on the fate of the human race eliciting chuckles in my theater at the time. Today, however, the overwhelming despair of\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"body1-italic CharOverride-1\">T2<\/span><\/em><span class=\"CharOverride-1\">\u00a0is impossible to ignore. This is one of the most upsetting blockbusters ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"body1 ParaOverride-1\"><span class=\"CharOverride-1\">In 1984, Cameron\u2019s original\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"body1-italic CharOverride-1\">Terminator<\/span><\/em><span class=\"CharOverride-1\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>played a key role in turning Arnold Schwarzenegger into a massive global star, and it was a nasty, brutish little beast of a movie \u2014 an R-rated horror flick posing as a sci-fi thriller. But it worked (and became a hit) because, playing a killer\u00a0super-robot sent from the future by our machine overlords to murder the young woman (Linda Hamilton) who would give birth to the leader of the human resistance, Schwarzenegger used his considerable limitations as an actor to his advantage. Thus did Arnold become an icon of Reaganite, muscles-and-guns spectacle: a terse, emotionless robot racking up an insane body count with an assortment of heavy weaponry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2017\/08\/22\/terminator-2-judgment-day-is-still-a-deeply-upsetting-blockbuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Village Voice<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Village Voice \u201cTerminator 2: Judgment Day\u201d Is Still a Deeply Upsetting Blockbuster \u201cIt\u2019s in your nature to destroy yourselves\u201d by BILGE EBIRI Say what you will about James Cameron, but the man\u00a0commits. Stories of the director\u2019s perfectionism, his control-freak mania, and his sheer drive are legion, but I\u2019m talking about something more fundamental [&hellip;]<\/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-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","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=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}