Thirteen years ago, on December 18, 2009, theaters were blessed with the masterpiece Avatar, directed by James Cameron. The film made box office history and currently tops the list of the highest-grossing films of all time. Although it was briefly overtaken by Avengers: Endgame, the film was re-released, reaching the top of the chart again. The undisputed franchise is ready to break more records as it returns with a sequel very soon.
James Cameron has made so many brilliant films in his career that one can’t help but wonder where he gets all his ideas from. Well, the director has the answer to that question. Neither books nor video games, James Cameron draws inspiration for his masterpieces from his dreams.
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James Cameron Gets Movie Ideas From His Dreams
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Sixty-two-year-old director James Cameron has revealed that his dreams are the perfect place to seek inspiration for his films. terminator was inspired by his dream where he saw “a figure of death, a chrome skeleton emerging from a fire. Even the iconic scene involving the alien queen in aliens came to him in a dream.
The loved one Avatar was also a fragment of Cameron’s unconscious. He said he saw a bioluminescent forest with fiber optic-like lamps and a glowing river. Her dream also had lizards turning into rotating fans in the fairytale-like forest.
“I woke up dreaming about this kind of bioluminescent forest with these trees that look a bit like fiber optic lamps and this river that was glowing with bioluminescent particles and some kind of purple moss on the ground that lit up when you walked on it. And these kind of lizards that didn’t look like much until they took off. And then they turned into these rotating fans, kind of like living frisbees, and they go down and land on some It was all in the dream.
Cameron further added that he was so excited about this dream which came to him when he was nineteen years old, that he actually woke up and drew it all on paper. He went on to say that this handmade drawing saved him from a bunch of lawsuits.
“In any blockbuster movie, there’s always a freak with tinfoil under his wig who thinks you’ve put the idea out of his head. And it turns out there were 10 or 11. And so I pointed to this drawing I did when I was 19 when I was going to Fullerton Junior College, and I said, ‘See that? See those glowing trees? You see that shiny lizard spinning, it’s orange? See the purple foam? And everyone’s gone.
Taking a subtle dig at popular streaming sites, the Titanic The director added that his dreams are like a streaming service that only he has access to. Although said streaming service is just his dream, he said it was “better than any of that stuff out there. Was the Cinderella lyric, “a dream is a wish that your heart makes, when you sleep soundly” written just for Cameron?
James Cameron’s unique take on film
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Avatar Actress Zoe Saldana said that while Hollywood is about a lot of creatives working together, Cameron is a lone warrior. In his own words, “if it weren’t for Jim’s heavy, heavy brain, this would all fall apart.
Cameron himself has said that while many directors start small before moving on to bigger projects, he’s always been more of a big movie type. He said he was done with people asking him to do smaller movies with a smaller cast. He said that while one day he would film a scene with just two actors, the next day he would film a battle scene for the same movie with forty thousand people. That’s how he rolls.
Avatar: The Way of the Water will be released in theaters on December 16, 2022.
Source: GQ
