Among the many points of the debate that opens Avatar: the sense of water, James Cameron’s long-awaited release focused – for some – on its three-hour runtime, which just kept the film from topping box office charts worldwide.
In a new interview with squireCameron revealed it the film would have been 10 minutes longer if he hadn’t cut the scenes with gun violence. The director said he is no longer interested in fetishizing guns in his action scenes, given the rampant gun violence in the United States.
“I actually cut about 10 minutes out of the film to focus on the shooting action”Cameron said. “I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. You have to have conflicts, of course. Violence and action are the same thing, depending on how you look at it. That’s every action filmmaker’s dilemma, and I’m known as an action director.”
looking at the past
In another part of the interview, the director reflects between responsible and guilty: “I remember some movies I’ve done and I don’t know if I’d like to do that movie now. I don’t know if I’d like to fetishize the gun, like I’ve done in a couple of movies terminator, more than 30 years ago, in our world today. What’s happening with guns in our society makes my stomach turn.”
“I’m happy to live in New Zealand where they have banned all assault rifles. two weeks after the horrific mosque shooting a couple of years ago,” Cameron added on the sidelines.
Given Cameron’s comments, it’s safe to assume that the franchise’s action scenes Terminator they will look slightly different when you come back to the screen.
The director recently made headlines on the podcast Without intelligence after teasing that there was talk of a new movie Terminator. The franchise experienced a box office flop (Terminator Genisys) After another (Terminator: Dark Fate) in recent years. Dark fate was an especially big box office bomb with $261 million worldwide.
As Cameron said on the podcast: “If I were to make another movie about Terminator and maybe try to launch that franchise again, which is under discussion, but nothing has been decided, I would do it a lot more on the AI side, rather than bad robots going crazy.”
What will come…
In 2013, James Cameron decided to bring together all the writers of future installments of Avatars: Josh Friedman (snowpiercer) and Shane Salerno (Armageddon) he wrote Avatar 4 and Avatar 5, respectively, and talked about every idea they had in mind for the future of the film series.
In an interview with Varietyscreenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver revealed how the story writing process led to some surprises that forced them to expand on the story.
The director did this so that the team was in sync and the decisions made by the writers for film 2 were informed and related to the events that unfolded or bore fruit in films 3 and 4.
However, almost immediately, they realized there was a problem with it avatars 2as Silver explains:
“From the beginning, one of the challenges, I’ll say it was a delightful challenge, was that there was too much material. (…) Carrying this load was always a problem in terms of getting the first act of that first film moving, and there was a huge amount of material there.
So sometime after we started writing, Cameron called us and said, ‘Look, we’ve got too much material. We’re going to split it into two movies.'”
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