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James Francis Cameron

 James Francis Cameron was born on August 16^th, 1954 in Kapuskasing (Ontario), he is 60, he was born in Canada and is of Canadian origin.

James Cameron is a director, screenwriter, producer and underwater explorer. He has directed, written or produced the films Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2 (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) and Avatar (2009).

His first success came in 1984 from the ashes of his first film "Piranha2 ».

Cameron began writing the Terminator scenario. It was filmed for $6 million. The film was produced by Gale Anne Hurd, who later became his wife. But long before this great success, Hollywood had noticed, and solicitations were multiplying.

Before shooting Terminator, he wrote the first version of Rambo 2: Mission, then rewritten by Sylvester Stallone. After a decade to revolutionize the special effects and endorse ever more innovative projects, James Cameron was still not satisfied.

Titanic

When producing Abyss in 1989, he accumulated extensive documentation about the tragic fate of the Titanic. The idea made its way and he worked to achieve what will prove to be the film of all excesses. Co-produced by two studios, "enemy brothers", 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures, the film, budgeted at $ 150 million, and ultimately cost more than $200 million, a new record. What was the most expensive was the manufacture of the Titanic. At that time, the ship was rebuilt almost identically. Many rumors circulated on the film, including that it would be a money pit, leading to certain bankruptcy the two studios that provided funding. James Cameron also had to sacrifice his salary as a director and revenue sharing in order to prove his faith in the project. Finally, Titanic was the biggest hit of film history with over $1.8 billion in revenue and the director was greatly rewarded financially at first, but also by eleven Academy Awards.

The film remained for 11 years the most successful film of the global box office.

The Titanic is an American drama film, written, produced and directed by James Cameron, released in 1997 and « emerged » in 3D in 2012 for the centenary of the sinking.

It tells the story of two passengers of the Titanic. Rose, who is a first-class passenger who attempts suicide to free herself from the constraints imposed by her entourage, and Jack, a penniless Irish guy who wins his ticket at the last minute in the third class to go to the United States. They meet by chance and live a troubled love story, endangered by the sinking of the ship.

Part of the film, faithful reconstruction of the sinking for instance, was developed with the help of two historians, Don Lynch and Ken Marschall. The film led to a renewed interest for the real Titanic ship which resulted in the publication or republication of numerous books on the subject.

Terminator

 

Terminator was released in 1984.

In 2029, an apocalyptic war is on against what remains of humanity, decimated by a nuclear holocaust. Machines endowed with artificial intelligence attempt to exterminate them. Two beings of that time are sent in the past, in 1984, in Los Angeles. One is a Terminator robot and a human proof sent by John Connor (son that Sarah should give birth in the near future) to protect his mother. The troops of Connor are about to triumph in 2029, the machines sent in the past the Terminator to kill Connor's mother, and prevent the birth of John Connor, "erasing" retroactively his existence and his actions.

Avatar

Avatar was released in 2009.

The action takes place in 2154 on Pandora, a moon of Polyphemus, a giant gas planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, covered with jungle, and is the scene of the clash between humans who came to take benefit from a rare mineral that could solve the energy crisis on Earth, and the indigenous population, the Naa'vi, who live in perfect harmony with their environment and try to defend themselves against the militarized invasion. A program created by the earth scientists, the « Avatar program », will allow them to control a Naa'vi body associated with cloned human genes to be inserted into the population and try to negotiate with it.

This project began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page script for the film. The beginning of the implementation was to begin in 1997, after the release of Titanic, but according to Cameron, the necessary technology to achieve his film was not yet available. Work resumed in the summer of 2005 and Cameron started to develop the script and its fictional universe in early 2006.

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