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At this stage Cameron bought some cheap movie equipment and began to try and figure out how George Lucas had created his
classic film. He set up bright lights in his living room and rolled a camera along a track to practice dolly shots. He became obsessed with special effects and spent his days in the University of Southern California library, researching them.
He persuaded a group of dentists to invest $20,000 in what he called his own version of Star Wars. With a friend, he wrote a script called Xenogenesis. He shot a 12-mintue segment which featured a stop-motion fight scene between an alien robot and a woman with a massive exoskeleton.
The scene was used as a pitch – and he failed at his attempt to show-up Lucas. Finally in 1981, Cameron directed his first film
– and in 1984 he finally put himself on the map with Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator.
The next 10 years brought Cameron more and more success — peeking with the highest grossing movie of all time, the 11 Oscar winning, Titanic.
So now it’s 1995, Cameron thinks to himself, I can follow my dream, without the backing of local dentists, and create a greater Star Wars.
He wrote an 82-page treatment about a paralyzed soldier’s quest in virtual reality, after the Earth becomes obliterated. The alien world, called Pandora, is populated by 10-foot-tall blue creatures called Na’vi. The atmosphere in Pandora is so toxic that human scientists are forced to grow genetically engineered versions of the Na’vi, so-called avatars, which can be linked to human consciousness.
Avatar: The Last Airbender uses 3D animation technology which is being called the “future of the film industry.”
See for yourself in movie theatres on December 18th.
