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Avatar”: “The main thing is the performance of the actors”, analyzes director James Cameron
“Avatar”, “Titanic”, “Terminator”… The productions of American director James Cameron are among the most profitable films in history. He is the guest of 20 Heures, Wednesday April 3.
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“Avatar”, “Titanic”, “Terminator”… The productions of American director James Cameron are among the most profitable films in history. He is the guest of 20 Heures, Wednesday April 3.
More than 250 sketches of robots, monsters, creatures. Before the public can discover his films, James Cameron spends many hours drawing to put together his worlds piece by piece. The Cinémathèque, in Paris, pays homage to his sketches. “I feel like I’ve been drawing forever”, assures James Cameron. Drawing is his way of seeing the world, which he sees through sketches and which allows him to create his “own visual language”.
Leonardo Di Caprio ‘can’t draw at all’
In Titanic for example, Leonardo Di Caprio’s character draws a nude of Rose, played by Kate Winslet. “He’s a great artist, a great actor, but he doesn’t know how to draw at all”, laughs James Cameron, who created the drawing himself. In Avatar, the characters are blue aliens and the actors are unrecognizable. But according to the director, “everything depends on the performance of the actors (…) the main thing is the performance of the actors”he analyzes.
