James Cameron
Big-Budget-Loving Hollywood Director By Eric SchneiderJames Cameron is unquestionably one of Hollywood’s heavy hitters.
A director who never met a big budget he didn't like, James Cameron is one of Hollywood's undisputed blockbuster kings. As with many of his filmmaking peers, Cameron cut his teeth on Roger Corman-produced genre movies, helming the schlocky Piranha II: The Spawning before graduating to more respectable fare with The Terminator in 1984. Steadily upping the sci-fi ante with Aliens, The Abyss, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Cameron exhibited not only a fascination with final frontiers, but also an obsession with cutting-edge cinematic technology, as memorably evinced by The Abyss's watery shape-shifters and T2's morphing metallic villain. Although Cameron has occasionally stepped away from the sci-fi genre--most notably on a small little production called Titanic--he is often at his best when dreaming up fantastical tales, a point hit home by the triumph of Avatar, a film that Cameron developed over the course of 15 years. Always one to outdo himself, Cameron helped to create groundbreaking technology exclusively for Avatar, reinforcing the notion that when this guy makes a film, he shoots for the stars.
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