Who is James Cameron?
James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-born and iconic director
in Science Fiction films. Born August 16, 1954 at the
age of 58 he is a hailed director for movies like The Terminator, Aliens and
Avatar. In his lengthy career, spanning
over 37 years, he has accomplished many feats as a director, producer and
writer winning multiple Oscars and Golden Globe Awards for his directing. His critically acclaimed film Titanic, made history by becoming the
first film to gross globally one billion dollars.
Before accomplishing many feats as a producer, writer and
director, Cameron majored in Physics at California State University Fullerton. He later dropped out and became a truck
driver; while on the road he wrote ideas for films. After producing his first film Xenogenesis in
1978, he was hired to work for New World Pictures. While at New World Pictures
Cameron was assigned art director on Battle Beyond the Stars in
1980, and director on Piranha II: The Spawning in 1981. In 1990, Cameron formed
Lightstorm Entertainment and with the company he was able to write and direct Titanic in 1997.
Impact on Film History
Cameron’s has given a template of storytelling for other
films to follow. Schwarzenegger’s
success in The Terminator showed that
actors can become famous for their roles without being a speaker of dialogue. If certain characters do more action and less
talking there can be an appeal. An
example of a film that has followed the template of not talking much but having
much action was Javier Bardem’s character in No Country For Old Men. The
assassin bares similar characteristics of the Terminator in the film. They are hunt for a certain item, they kill
anyone in their way of stopping them and they are both villains. A different example is seen in the
protagonist of The Transporter film series,
Jason Statham drives around in a car and beats up people without speaking very
much. Recently he has developed stardom
and has been in feature films such as The
Expendables and The Mechanic in
which he plays similar roles involved with a lot of action in the story and short
dialogue.
Life Outside of Directing/Producing/Writing
Cameron has been married five times. One of his marriages was to actress Linda
Hamilton, who starred in his 1986 film Aliens. He has four children, one from Linda Hamilton
and three others from Suzy Amis, his first wife. He was married to producer Gale Anne Hurd,
who produced several of his films. In 2000, he married actress Suzy Amis, who
appeared in Titanic, and they have three children.
Aside from being a director, producer and a writer, James
Cameron is also an explorer; in 2012 Cameron led his eighth deep ocean
expedition into the Marianas Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. He privately funded the construction of his
personal submarine he named Deepsea Challenger to explore the ocean floor. Together with National Geographic, Cameron
was able to document his journey into the far depths of the ocean for television. Cameron made history with the dive going
What is he up to? (As of 2013)
James
Cameron is planning sequels for Avatar
and Terminator. Cameron has confirmed that he will be
involved in the production of Terminator Five.
Also two more films of Avatar are scheduled. Avatar
Two is scheduled to be released in 2015 and Cameron has also confirmed that
he will be producing Avatar 3 in the
future.
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