ENGAGING & FUN, BUT NOT TOO REVEALING
This CBC interview was taped last October (don't know how I missed it!), and there are a few biographical tidbits that I was unaware of, including his pre-Corman days as a machinist and a high school janitor ("When you're sitting in high school wondering who guts the gum off the desk? That was me!"), but the conversation is mostly as trite as the 15-minute run-time would lead you to belief, not excepting the subject of Avatar.
The apparent reason for the trip to his homeland was that he was receiving a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame. As he points out, this is a uniquely meaningful honor because it came at a time of relatively low-visibility, so it was genuine recognition as opposed to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Like he says, you have to pay for that "honor". (Isn't it suspicious that celebrities always conveniently "earn" Hollywood stars right when their latest project is arriving? It's a good bet that, come December '09, Fox will make the payoff and Cameron'll gamely play that silly publicity stunt.)
About eleven minutes in, he apparently jokes that they're going to retrofit Titanic into 3D and re-release it. However, I know that this is being done to many other movies (including Star Wars), so it's very possible that he was serious. (Personally, I think that this is a waste of manpower and, because you cannot fundamentally improve on the original source material of 35-mm film, a transparent gimmick, so I hope it was a joke.)
For my fellow quote hounds, here's his philosophical soundbite:
The apparent reason for the trip to his homeland was that he was receiving a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame. As he points out, this is a uniquely meaningful honor because it came at a time of relatively low-visibility, so it was genuine recognition as opposed to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Like he says, you have to pay for that "honor". (Isn't it suspicious that celebrities always conveniently "earn" Hollywood stars right when their latest project is arriving? It's a good bet that, come December '09, Fox will make the payoff and Cameron'll gamely play that silly publicity stunt.)
About eleven minutes in, he apparently jokes that they're going to retrofit Titanic into 3D and re-release it. However, I know that this is being done to many other movies (including Star Wars), so it's very possible that he was serious. (Personally, I think that this is a waste of manpower and, because you cannot fundamentally improve on the original source material of 35-mm film, a transparent gimmick, so I hope it was a joke.)
For my fellow quote hounds, here's his philosophical soundbite:
"You do have to have a really strong personal ethos in the film business because there is so much craziness and backstabbing and fame is very fleeting fickle and all those things. So ultimately being a person of your word, I think, is really important."
And here's a funny-because-it's-true comment:
Please feel free to make observations or expound on the interview in the comment section. Also....send me some links, eh? This darn interview was conducted back in October, so I can't catch everything!
"It's a fun challenge as a male to write female characters and have them not just be, like, ya know....guys with tits. You can't treat a female action character as just a soulless warrior or women won't relate to her."
Please feel free to make observations or expound on the interview in the comment section. Also....send me some links, eh? This darn interview was conducted back in October, so I can't catch everything!
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