James Cameron

James Cameron had directed many movies at this point in his life.While most of them have included high action fight scene, a lot of weaponry, and strong female lead, this one next movie Cameron would take on is very different. It’s a beautiful love story about a woman trying to find who she truly is, set on the catastrophic 1912 Titanic passenger ship, this movie, named after the ship is one of, if not the best work Cameron has ever done. Cameron directed and wrote Titanic, a cinematic masterpiece. Throughout the movie the female lead, Rose Bukater, portrayed by Kate Winslet, becomes more and more of a dynamic character. She starts off as a stiffer upper class member who doesn’t feel like she is meant to be there. Cameron wrote up a perfect…

In the 1997 film Titanic, the director James Cameron exerts to act the historic disaster of the damned ship. In the scenes of the ship's sinking, Cameron shoots the camera at a distance several times in order to show the mass scale of the disaster. He provides a viewpoint of the lifeboat survivors’ from their distance of the ship. He also thrives on capturing a visual in a bird's eye view of the incident during its occurrence. This view would provide the viewer with a sense of how isolated the…

back to the early 1900’s. The film Titanic, written and directed by James Cameron in 1997, is the best film of all time. With the support of the countless awards it received in its favor, this film is loved by people all around the world. With the internet breaking out in this time period, the focus of this famous love story- tragedy was all over the World Wide Webinternet. Although James Cameron’s hit film was made in the late 90’s, it still has people shocked at how excellent this film was…

Since the inception of the motion picture, countless filmmakers have made a point of infusing the same ancient tales into their movies for centuries. Some of the best artistic reflection is expressed through writing fiction. Not all movies that attempt to weave deeper themes into their stories succeed. James Cameron’s Avatar is a movie that executes this and does so extremely well. “Avatar is a joyous celebration of story craft and the visual possibilities of cinema.” Meyer (2017) Avatar is such…

Avatar was then realized in December 18, 2009 with a budget of 238 Million Dollars (“Themes”). Avatar was clearly a passion project for James Cameron, a storied director with a best of blockbuster films to wait that long to fully realize a project he had conceived so long before is not just indicative of a person who was waiting for the right technology to come by. It’s a clear indicator of a filmmaker who had a message to put out to the world. Based on my reading and research, it is widely…

The feature film Avatar, is an animated film that was written and directed by the illustrious Canadian writer, director, and producer James Cameron. The film was released December 18, 2009. After moving to the U.S in 1971 Cameron decided to attend the University of California where he majored in physics, after graduating he decided to pursue his passion in screenwriting. Some of his best work includes directing groundbreaking and iconic films such as The Terminator movies and Titanic, which of…

word “pioneer” and film director James Cameron, who is otherwise known as “the scariest man in Hollywood” (Hedegaard 1), go hand-in-hand. Born in Ontario, Canada on August 16, 1954, Cameron was birthed into a family with father Philip, mother Shirley, brothers Mike and John David, and sisters Valerie and Terri. Being the oldest, he naturally took on the leadership role when it came to him taking care of his sisters. One day when he was fourteen, James went to see the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.…

James Cameron movie, Avatar, struck the audience in a provoking way. The method Cameron made it seem that way was by challenging the protagonist, Jake Sully, to become involved with the Na’vi and do things he did not believe in after he had adapted to the Na’vi culture. Avatar is a case of imperialism, which has happened throughout history in the world. Various times occurred in history, a foreign country has been imperialized for their lands belongings for natives of a country. Countries take…

The movie I decided to watch for my Film Review was Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron. Avatar was presented by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and in association with Dune Entertainment, Ingenious Film Partners, and Lightstorm Entertainment. Written originally in 1994, and eventually get filmed in The United States and New Zealand, James Cameron watched his script get brought to life. Avatar was just another success on Cameron’s record, following Titanic (1997) that broke all…

The amazing world of Pandora with the story that was created by James Cameron to demonstrate Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. Campbell observed that the hero went through many similar situations in every story. The hero begins to separate from their daily life to go initiation a quest that they finish the quest and return home. However, Cameron designed the film Avatar in some a more modern plot of the hero and used a lot of effects to complete the whole monomyth. The whole story of the Na’Vi and…