The Future of Movie Making??

It’s been over 10 years since the highest grossing film of all time Titanic cleaned up at the Oscars, but whatever happened to the film’s director James Cameron? Well, he has been planning and making his 200 million dollar 3-D/CGI/motion capture/live action sci-fi blockbuster Avatar.

Apparently one of the reasons for Cameron’s long absence from feature-film directing is because he has had to wait for the technology to become advanced enough to match up with with his ideas for this mammoth project. The movie pioneers technologies such as a new advanced e-motion capture which uses images from tiny cameras attached to the actors head to replicate their expressions in extraordinary detail and digital 3-D. All of this is used to create the alien world in which the story is centred. Cameron has created a living breathing world with its own languages, cultures and ecosystems. The story is about earth’s colonisation of this planet in the distant future and revolves around an injured ex-marine who is torn between the two planets because he falls in love with one of the native inhabitants. It stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana along with more established actors such as Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver. When it comes to the Science Fiction blockbuster there are few better equipped to handle the task of Avatar than James Cameron. Cameron’s resume includes such Sci-Fi classics as the first two Terminator films and Aliens, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien, which many believe exceeded the original. Cameron is creating something original. Whether it will be merely an empty visual feast or something more is yet to be seen. It could be the best Sci-fi since The Matrix

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