December 17, 2009
December 15, 2009
Cameron’s Women
My Vanity Fair piece on Cameron’s badass heroines, from Sarah Connor to Neytiri….
This is how “meet cute” happens in James Cameron’s Avatar: At night in a jungle on the alien moon Pandora, Jake Sully, a cocky Marine played by Sam Worthington, stumbles into a pack of snapping, six-legged predators called viperwolves. This jarhead is about to become a viperpuppy chew toy when a lithe huntress named Neytiri (Star Trek’s Zoe Salanda) intervenes. Luckily for Jake, Neytiri is handy with a bow and arrow. She’s also smart, bilingual, spiritual, great with animals, and—for a 10-foot-tall cyan-colored woman with a tail—a babe.
Cameron’s near-death on The Abyss
Time.com’s Techland blog has excerpted The Futurist chapter on The Abyss. It’s a story about how Cameron nearly died filming the underwater sci fi tale in a nuclear container vessel filled with 7.5 million gallons of water. To me, The Abyss is a defining Cameron moment—it’s a movie where he set out to do something others called impossible, built the technology to realize his vision and, as this story shows, nearly died for it.
Read the excerpt here.