Exclusive: James Cameron talks Avatar
11 facts about the most important film of the decade
BY Feb 3rd 2009 10:10AMFILED UNDER: Features
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8. Other cinematic pioneers have been drawn to the set.
VIP guests have included Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Steven Soderbergh and, um, even shockrocker turned filmmaker Marilyn Manson.
9. Soderbergh liked what he saw - a lot.
“Yeah, I went to the set,” said Steven Soderbergh, when Total Film quizzed him recently. “I can tell you that shit was mindblowing. The shit I saw was crazy. Like, craaaazy.I I think it’s gonna be gigantic. It’s gonna be another one of those benchmarks. There’s gonna be Before that movie and After.”
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1: sleepwalker says
feel sorry for those kids who ran with scissors and lost an eye. It sounds like this 3d experience is going to be outstanding.
Posted: Feb 3rd 2009 // 1:01PMAlert a moderator
2: goldfarb says
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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Posted: Feb 11th 2009 // 5:54PMAlert a moderator
3: Yonatan says
"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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