“I had a bit of a crisis of faith when we were editing the film,” James Cameron admitted of his billion-dollar earnings Avatar: the way of water. “It was too intense. I wanted a balance between the beauty, the revelation, the spiritual aspect of the film and the plot, and I felt it was a little too strong.
While those who dismissed the blockbuster’s three-hour runtime may find it hard to believe, Cameron says he left some violent moments out of the film.
“I actually cut about 10 minutes out of the film to focus on gunfights,” Cameron told Esquire Middle East. “Of course you have to have conflicts. Violence and action are the same, depending on how you look at it. That’s every action filmmaker’s dilemma, and I’m known as an action filmmaker.”
These are shocking admissions for the man responsible for some of the most iconic acts of violence in film history, from his Terminator films to John Rambo’s 74 kills in Rambo: First Blood Part IIwhich Cameron co-wrote, to the multi-monster battle of Foreigner after the ceramic splash bathroom fight True lies on the natural violence of Alita: Battle Angel.
“I look back on some movies I’ve done and I don’t know if I want to do this film now. I don’t know if I want to fetishize the weapon like I did with some terminator Movies from over 30 years ago in our contemporary world. What’s happening with guns in our society makes my stomach turn,” the filmmaker added. “I’m glad I live in New Zealand, where all assault rifles were banned two weeks after that horrific shooting in a mosque a few years ago.”
Author pmc-u-font-size-14″>Writer: Tom Tick
Source: Deadline
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