‘The Terminator’: James Cameron has doubts if he would direct the film right now

‘The Terminator’: James Cameron has doubts if he would direct the film right now

The first two feature films of “Terminator” are iconic films that undoubtedly made it to director James Cameron’s top list. However, he doesn’t know if he would actually do it.

🇧🇷I think back to some films I’ve made and I don’t know if I would like to make this film now. I don’t know if I would fetishize the gun, as I did in some Terminator movies over 30 years ago, in our current world. What’s happening to guns in our society makes my stomach turn🇧🇷

James Cameron

It turns out Cameron, who is known as an action director admits, believes his films are often too violent and the large amount of gun violence that appears in films like ‘Terminator 2’ and ‘The Lying Truth’, he believes they have no place in moral cinema in the current state of the world.

“I’m happy to live in New Zealand, where they banned all assault rifles two weeks after the horrific mosque shootings a few years ago,” he adds.

Cameron “struggled” with his current dislike of gratuitous violence during the making of “Avatar: Walking to Water,” ultimately deciding to eliminate much of the gun action he felt was unnecessary.

“I actually cut about 10 minutes of the film for the action of the shooting. I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, find a balance between light and dark. You have to have conflicts, of course. Violence and action are the same thing, depending on how you look at it. That’s every action director’s dilemma, and I’m known as an action director.”

James Cameron

However, “Avatar 2” is not entirely devoid of action, but it has no battle in the final scene. “The first movie has the good guys and the bad guys seemingly opposite each other, and then the good guys get crushed and defeated and a lot of the heroes die. Then there’s this almost ‘deus ex machina’ where Jake invokes the forces of nature – a ‘deus ex machina’ I think is earned by the way. The second movie doesn’t work that way. The battle isn’t even a battle, it’s a defeat. It is the revenge of the Na’vi and the Tulkun. The real challenge, and the real defeat, and what has to be recovered, happens after the battle,” he says.

With information from Squire

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