![]() He is a pioneer of special effects: the undulating water column of “The Abyss” and the liquid-silver man of “Terminator 2” helped to inspire the digital revolution that has transformed moviemaking in the past two decades. “Avatar” will be the first big-budget action blockbuster in 3-D Cameron shot it using camera systems that he developed himself. He started working on it full time four years ago, from a script he wrote in 1994. It has been twelve years since he has made a feature film “Avatar,” his new movie, comes out on December 18th and will have cost more than two hundred and thirty million dollars by the time it’s done. “Terminator 2” earned five hundred and nineteen million around the world, and “Titanic,” which came out in 1997, still holds the record for global box-office: $1.8 billion.Ĭameron is fifty-five. But victory is sweeter after a close brush with defeat. “Terminator 2” was the first film to cost a hundred million dollars, “Titanic” the first to exceed two hundred million. His movies are among the most expensive ever made. The pressures on Cameron are extreme, never mind that he has brought them on himself. “Hiring you is like firing two good men,” he says, or “Watching him light is like watching two monkeys fuck a football.” A small, loyal band of cast and crew works with him repeatedly they call the dark side of his personality Mij-Jim backward. “It saves so much time.” His evaluations of others’ abilities are colorful riddles. “I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt,” he says. ![]() (Schwarzenegger had been giving the other actors a tour of the Capitol.) Cameron has mastered every job on set, and has even been known to grab a brush out of a makeup artist’s hand. “Do you want Paul Verhoeven to finish this motherfucker?” he shouted, an inch from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face, after the actor went AWOL from the set of “True Lies,” a James Bond spoof that Cameron was shooting in Washington, D.C. ![]() He is a screamer-righteous, withering, aggrieved. The director James Cameron is six feet two and fair, with paper-white hair and turbid blue-green eyes. ![]()
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