Exclusive: James Cameron talks Avatar

11 facts about the most important film of the decade

Feb 3rd 2009


2. Avatar will be a 3-D experience unlike anything you’ve seen before.

The new technology allows Cameron to do something no one has ever done: shoot in live 3-D. Not poke-your-eye-out 3-D, but a totally immersive environment.

You don’t see a screen. You see a window. “Sharing a reality,” Cameron calls it. “You’re there. A scene in the snow with two people talking? You’re in the snow. You feel the snow.”


3. The CGI is photorealistic – it’s impossible to tell the difference between effects and location footage.

 “The audience has no idea which they’re looking at,” says Cameron. “Avatar will make people truly experience something.”

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    • sleepwalker

      Feb 3rd 2009, 13:01

      feel sorry for those kids who ran with scissors and lost an eye. It sounds like this 3d experience is going to be outstanding.

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    • goldfarb

      Feb 11th 2009, 17:54

      I'm looking forward to Avatar as much as the next person...however, it might be prudent to avoid statements like the following: a total cinematic revolution changing the way we watch films forever Avatar will be the most important film of the decade - possibly century ...the fact that neither you nor anyone else has seen any footage and/or is able to comment on it objectively makes these statements ridiculous hyperbole "He teamed with WETA to develop new motion-capture techniques and photorealistic CG" a gross exaggeration...that ignores the past 15 years of VFX work that has led to the work being done all over the world right now. "the VPS system tracks every CG cloud and blade of CG grass in the film" this is factually incorrect. Katzenberg's statements MUST be taken with the understanding that he has a vested interest in attracting people into the theater...the future of 3D cinema will be very different than what he, or Cameron for that matter, claim. ...

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    • Yonatan

      Apr 30th 2009, 9:03

      "Jeffrey Katzenberg predicts that one day soon, no one will film in 2-D." Yeah, right. There will always be making movies like Frost/Nixon, Doubt, Milk, etc. Drama movies, about characters and emoitions with real recognizable actors. They aren't better movies, and Avatar might be great, but there will always be room for both kind of movies. image is actually the equivalent of listening to vinyl,” said Katzenberg

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