La rareté du cinéma de James Cameron

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00:00In 40 years, James Cameron has only made 11 films, including one he disowns, and two documentaries.

00:05But then, why such rarity?

00:07Well, because Cameron is a man who likes to surpass himself.

00:10Digital effects are an integral part of his cinema and he pushes them to their maximum capacity.

00:14In Abyss, released in 1989, the challenge is considerable.

00:18The famous scene of the visit of the liquid entity is unique in its kind.

00:21For the first time, a 100% digital liquid effect is represented on screen.

00:25An effect that even reproduces the actors' faces.

00:27A tour de force that he sublimated two years later in Terminator 2.

00:31This sequel has the strength of taking all the elements of the first film and reversing them.

00:35The bad guy becomes good, the girl in distress becomes the warrior,

00:38The action scenes are the same with the characters reversed and the same goes for the dialogues.

00:43He will reproduce this pattern with Aliens and Avatar the voice of the water,

00:46and at first we can see this as a kind of laziness.

00:49Yet, despite their repetition, these sequels will take the complete opposite approach to their predecessor and thwart all expectations.

00:55Twice he leaves aside the horror to focus on the action,

00:58making the victim a strong character.

01:00Avatar 2 will introduce a new universe,

01:02reverse the hero's initiatory journey and make the antagonist experience it,

01:06and above all bring new advances in motion capture,

01:09which he performs for the first time underwater,

01:11with a camera that his engineer brother literally invented for the specific needs of this film.

01:16This is why his cinema is rare.

01:17Because it offers a unique experience every time.

01:19Because he looks beyond what exists.

01:21Abyss is shot 40% underwater,

01:33in almost unlivable conditions,

01:35with a Cameron, let's say, rather tyrannical.

01:38He almost drowns Ed Harris during this scene to make it more realistic.

01:43Marie-Elisabeth Mastrantonio will leave in burnout

01:45after he did countless takes of the scene where she gets backhanded by Ed Harris.

01:50So after that she took out all her frustration on the director,

01:53then left the set, never to return.

01:56The two main actors will not even participate in the promotion of the film.

01:59The technical team renames the film The Abuse.

02:01In short, let's be honest, on this set, Cameron is the king of idiots.

02:04But demandingness comes at a price, and oddly enough, it doesn't go well with empathy.

02:08His behavior was no better on the set of Titanic, where security was clearly lacking.

02:13or on Alien, where he locked up his technicians and refused to release them until he got what he wanted.

02:18Democracy is not his thing.

02:20Although, strangely, no abuse of power was reported on the sets of the three films with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

02:25Rather weird.

02:27Cameron asks a lot because a lot is asked of him.

02:29He will spend his career being underestimated and mocked.

02:32No one believed in an action sequel to Ridley Scott's masterpiece.

02:36No one believed in the financial disaster that was Titanic.

02:38And until recently, no one believed in the continuation of his avatar,

02:41which many considered to be a film that had not left its mark on popular culture,

02:44and whose sequel, released 13 years later, inevitably turned out to be a flop.

02:48But Cameron has always managed to disappoint his critics,

02:50thanks to ultra-popular cinema,

02:52of unfailing efficiency,

02:54but above all, ultra committed.

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