James Cameron Week: Day 5

This week we take a look at the one and only James Cameron.

Or Big Jim as we like to call him.

He definitively is the Babe Ruth of Hollywood, hitting nothing but home runs.

With Avatar: The Way of Water hitting theaters on the 16th it gives us the perfect time to reflect on his work.

Specifically, we wanted to take a look at his action set pieces because there might not be anyone better at making big thing go boom.

Now for the reason, we’re all here, to pregame Avatar: The Way of Water!

Why Big Jim is obsessed with this world we have no idea but we are glad he is. Even by the standards of seasoned filmmakers in the final phase of their careers, this one is pretty radical.

Cameron isn’t so much interested in telling personal stories like Spielberg or Scorsese.

He’s here to push the boundaries of filmmaking and the industry to a fundamental level with the technology he’s helping innovate with these movies (He took 12 yrs to make this new movie because he needed to crack shooting motion capture underwater for god's sake!)

What’s so fascinating about a film like Avatar is it keeps Cameron’s very classical style as a filmmaker; shooting in wide, sweeping score, a spectacle that you can only see on the big screen, it has more in common with The Patriot and Last of the Mohicans than it does something like The Fifth Element.

When the classical and the innovating converge like today's clip though, it’s nothing short of magical!