James Cameron Talks Avatar And Promises Sequel

In an interview with scifiwire.com, director James Cameron talked about his upcoming movie Avatar.

First up he addressed the negative buzz the movie is receiving from keyboard warriors in certain corners of the Internet…

“I know there’s been a lot of talk and speculation about it, but it’s kind of like the generic Oscar buzz out there—it’s pretty ridiculous when people haven’t even see the movie. All anyone has seen is the 25 minutes of various scenes we showed at Comic-Con—and that’s not the movie! How can fans judge it by that?”

He then went on to talk about how long the world of Pandora has been living inside his head…

“I set out to make a film that’s like the stuff that played on the projection screen of my mind when I was a teenager, informed by science fiction. And I wanted to do original stuff, all those creatures and landscapes and plants and animals that I’d been drawing and noodling out over some 20 years. And fans really love this kind of depth and detail, so when I began Avatar I really put a lot of energy and focus into a sense of completeness in detail of the world, for that very reason.”

But what about the blue aliens then Jim, why blue?

“I wasn’t going for the alien. I wasn’t going for the ugly and strange. I was going for something that’s an expression of beautiful human movement in the film. They symbolize the best of us in the way the film works subconsciously, which I feel is aspirational. What they really are is a heightened sense of ourselves and what we could and should be.”

So, will there be a sequel?

“It is not true science fiction in the sense of saying, ‘This is what contact with an alien species would be like.’ It’s not about that at all. It’s about how we’ve lost contact with ourselves in a natural state. So if we fail, it all ends there, but if we are successful then we’ll make more films, and that world will continue to flesh itself out and be a place that fans can go to.”

Okay, okay, why should we watch it?

“I’m very confident that once “even hard-core sci-fi fans see the whole movie, they’ll get it, because the film will speak for itself. If I can just get ‘em in the damn theater, the film will act on them in the way it’s supposed to, in terms of taking them on an amazing journey and giving them this rich emotional experience. And it’s not really like any other film, and I think that’s its greatest asset—and its greatest deficit. You can’t compare it to something else.”

Avatar opens December 18th.

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