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00:00It took only 8 films for James Cameron to revolutionize an entire industry.
00:04Obviously, this could only be the bare minimum for the record-breaker,
00:08the one who proclaims himself King of the World.
00:12Terminator 2 was the most expensive film ever made in 1991 with its 102 million dollars.
00:17and the biggest worldwide success of that same year.
00:20Seven years later, Titanic became the most expensive film ever made, costing $200 million.
00:25and the biggest hit of all time with $2.2 billion in worldwide revenue.
00:30An indecent sum that only he could surpass since he smashed his own record in 2009 with Avatar
00:36and its almost 3 billion dollars in revenue.
00:38The video has barely started and I've already said the word billion way too many times.
00:42But this decadent over-achiever is the image of a man for whom nothing is unattainable.
00:46Yet, James Cameron has come a long way.
00:48As a child, he was overflowing with imagination, creating rich worlds through writing and drawing,
00:52but yet while growing up, he only had a series of small jobs, notably truck driving,
00:56before discovering Star Wars in the cinema in 1977 and telling himself that he could and should make this kind of film.
01:02He leaves the room frustrated. He feels like his dream has been stolen.
01:06He knows from this that if he does not get down to work seriously and become the director of a whole generation,
01:12someone will do it for him.
01:22This is how, two years later, he managed to get his first short film, Xenogenesis, financed.
01:27by a conglomerate of dentists. The film lays the foundations for what his cinema would become,
01:31and we will see how, two years later, he managed to finance his first short film, Xenogenesis,
01:36by a conglomerate of dentists. The film lays the foundations for what his cinema would become,
01:41and we'll get to that, don't worry.
01:47This is how, two years later, he managed to get his first short film, Xenogenesis, financed.
01:51by a conglomerate of dentists. The film lays the foundations for what his cinema would become,
01:56and we'll get to that, don't worry. From there, he works on film sets
02:00and is responsible for special effects, notably on New York 1997 and Galaxy of Terror.
02:05It was also on this film that he managed to make a small reputation for himself in the industry,
02:08notably by succeeding in making previously immobile worms move using an electrical impulse.
02:13Cameron is resourceful and understands the system like no one else.
02:16The film's producers say that if he can get verses to play,
02:19There's no reason it wouldn't work with actors.
02:21This is how he ended up at the helm of Piranha 2,
02:24replacing the first director who was sacked before being himself dismissed after eight days.
02:28A film that he doesn't have time to completely shape in his image,
02:31This is why he disowns it and considers The Terminator to be his first real achievement.
02:36Terminator is an idea that came out of his twisted but brilliant mind
02:50during a nightmare on the set of Piranha 2.
02:52When he woke up, he drew this sketch and began writing the script.
02:55To be able to take the helm, he sells his script for a symbolic dollar.
02:59and has to sleep in his car during production due to lack of money.
03:02When the film was released, it was an immediate success, grossing over $130 million on a budget of $6 million.
03:08He is now a director of consequence and the Cameron legend can begin.
03:12Today, he is at the origin of a digital revolution in cinema.
03:15It is the precursor of visual effects never seen before.
03:17And it even shapes the way we consume cinema, notably with 3D, which it popularized thanks to Avatar.
03:23But beyond the numbers, the technology and other madness, James Cameron is above all an author.
03:27With a very unique vision of the world, with his own obsessions
03:31and which he never stopped highlighting in his films.
03:33Thanks for watching this video!
03:35Thanks for watching this video!
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