A compliment coming straight from the likes of James Cameron who is not known to hand them out to fellow actors or directors that easily, is an honor of the highest degree.
Kate Winslet, working with him after almost twenty-five years in Avatar: The Way of Water since Titanic in ‘97, feels that Cameron has always been a tough nut to crack.
To this day, Avatar’s box office collections are undefeated and the second installment sits at the third spot after Avengers: Endgame. It may seem a little far-fetched coming from him, but Cameron was sold on another sci-fi project back in 2013.
He even went on to sing praises for the film after Avatar had only lived for four years in the theaters, and that was nothing short of an Oscar for the lead — Sandra Bullock.
James Cameron Had Alfonso Cuarón’s Back For Gravity
Gravity didn’t just happen without Alfonso Cuarón having to face incredibly difficult challenges to land a 2013 release. He wasn’t sure of the technology present at the time but was lucky enough to have Cameron as a mentor.
James Cameron made history in 2009 by using advanced motion capture technology to create stunning visuals for his Avatar, and surprisingly, he wanted no less for Cuarón and wanted him to postpone.
“I read the script, and I thought it was tremendously challenging to shoot with a high degree of veracity to get the real look of zero gravity,” Cameron once said in an interview.
He further added that achieving the feat was only possible for someone like Cuarón who knew in his mind how he wanted the scenes to look and went for it.
James Cameron Adored Sandra Bullock’s Performance
Cuarón, making a never-before-achieved feat with the film’s cinematography, had to have a master filmmaker like James Cameron involved in some capacity.
Not just the script, but Cameron was blown away by Sandra Bullock’s true zero-gravity choreography visuals in the final cut.
“She’s the one that had to take on this unbelievable challenge to perform it. There’s an art to that, to creating moments that seem spontaneous but are very highly rehearsed and choreographed. Not too many people can do it. I was stunned, absolutely floored,” Cameron said about the film.
We have Cuarón to thank for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’s amped-up visuals and we can see why, if even digitally, he wanted to push the project against Cameron’s advice.
James Cameron is set to come back with the third installment of Avatar, but the audiences will have to wait till December 2025.
Source: The Verge
