The famous American director James Cameron explained why he includes love stories in his movies. Cameron has made some commercially successful movies like ‘Titanic,’ ‘Avatar,’ ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day, ‘Aliens,’ ‘True Lies, and more.
Although his movies are based on action and science fiction, love stories have played an essential role.
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In an interview with Empire magazine, the director said that ‘Titanic’ was his only romantic movie that was entirely based on romance. However, in his other projects, Cameron added romance between characters. He said,
“I’ve always said “all of my movies are love stories,” but I wouldn’t say my creative process necessarily starts there, except for the obvious one: Titanic. I pitched it as “Romeo and Juliet on a sinking ship.” Hence, it was a love story from the jump. With others, like The Terminator and The Abyss, they started as genre stories — “a time-traveling hit man targeted on an insignificant person whose existence has great significance in the future,” or in the case of The Abyss, a high-concept one-liner: “Close Encounters underwater.”
He continued,
“But then, as I try to figure out how to create real emotional stakes for the characters, my stories somehow always become love stories. I guess I’ve always believed that to be truly heroic, a character must put someone else before themself and be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice if necessary.”
He concluded by saying,
“So, the love story is my path to creating powerful and heroic characters. It may be new love (The Terminator, Titanic, Avatar), it may be a marriage being tested (The Abyss, True Lies), it may be the love of a parent for a child (Terminator 2, Aliens, and Avatar: The Way Of Water). I guess I’m just a romantic at heart.”
The upcoming project of Cameron is ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ which will be released on December 16, 2022. The movie features Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet in the lead roles.
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