A good film has a date ｜ James Cameron has been dreaming about ＂her＂ for 20 years.
1905 movie network news Recently, the director talked about the development progress of the sequel to the film Avatar in an interview. He revealed that the post-production is in an orderly way and the film is expected to be released during Christmas in 2025.
In December 2009, the sci-fi movie Avatar directed by director James Cameron was born, creating a global box office of more than 2.7 billion US dollars. In December, 2022, after waiting for twelve years, fans finally expected a strong return. Although the industry was not optimistic before the release, "Avatar 2" still got a global box office of 2.32 billion US dollars, making it the third highest box office movie in the world.
In addition to the Avatar series, the well-known masterpieces of documentary history are also written by Cameron.
Who would have thought that James Cameron, who created such masterpieces, turned out to be a "non-class player" from a truck driver.
"truck driver" bravely broke into the film circle
On August 16th, 1954, James Cameron was born into a middle-class family in Ontario, Canada. His father was an electronic engineer and his mother was an artist. Influenced by his parents, Cameron has shown a keen interest in scientific and technological manufacturing and artistic creation since childhood. He likes painting, making handicrafts and watching science fiction novels and documentaries.
At the age of 14, Cameron saw a film directed by movie master, and from then on, he had the desire to make movies, and began to shoot some crude films with his father’s 8mm camera.
In 1971, he went to the United States and majored in physics at California State University, but he soon got bored, so he chose to drop out of school, became a cleaner and truck driver, and taught himself how to make movies in his spare time.
It was not until 1980 that he got his first official job in the film industry & mdash; — In the film "The Battle of the Century", he was the artistic director, making special effects models.
Since then, James Cameron finally got his wish and took the first step on the road to film.
In 1984, Cameron made a movie of one of his dreams. The name of the movie was Terminator.
The movie Terminator grossed $78 million at a cost of $6.4 million, which became a "stepping stone" for Cameron to knock on the door of Hollywood.
In the following decades, James Cameron was invincible all the way, not only creating countless classics of film history, but also promoting the progress of film visual effects technology.
The girl who has haunted James Cameron for 20 years
This week’s excellent film is adapted from the comic book gunnm published by Japanese cartoonist KISHIRO YUKITO since 1991.
As a child, James Cameron loved science fiction and heroic comics, so when Cameron first read Alita’s story, he was deeply attracted by this character.
KISHIRO YUKITO constructs a future world with a grand world outlook through gunnm, and tells the story of a lucky mechanical girl who was born again in the last days who bravely struggled to change the world and embarked on a journey to explore the truth.
As a female character, Alita is a woman full of sense of justice and courage, which coincides with the characteristics of the female characters in Cameron’s films. She has not changed into a simple girl or woman, but has grown into a powerful female character.
The "twists and turns" on the creative road
Preliminary preparation
Cameron’s biggest problem in the preparation of filming is the right to adapt and shoot his works. At that time, many famous filmmakers and Cameron fought for the right to adapt and shoot comics with KISHIRO YUKITO, and it was rumored that Cameron had started to shoot a copy of gunnm without seeking permission. After some investigation, KISHIRO YUKITO’s agent questioned Cameron. Unexpectedly, in the face of an official letter, Cameron himself wrote an explanation letter to deny the matter.
Cameron’s sincerity also touched the author of the comic book, and he won the right to film the comic book "gunnm" in one fell swoop.
Mid-term shooting
Although he was granted the right to film the comic book, the filming process of director Cameron was not smooth.
Because of the explosion of Avatar series, Cameron could only concentrate on the filming of Avatar series first. After a long wait, it was not until ten years later that he handed over this 186-page script, which had been written for five years, to his friend director who had known him for 25 years, and he himself worked as a producer to create his "dream goddess" together.
post production
James Cameron pursues "photo-like realism" in the film. This also poses an unprecedented challenge to the production of special effects. If Cameron’s Avatar revolutionized film technology and started the "industrial revolution in Hollywood", then Alita: Fighting Angel he directed started the "second industrial revolution in Hollywood".
Cameron strives to portray the details to the extreme, and through continuous improvement and revision, Alita is vividly displayed to the audience.
Behind such a difficult challenge is the unremitting efforts of Vita Digital Team. Cameron once said: "Vita Digital is undoubtedly the best in the field of facial animation."
Vita Digital team innovated the motion capture technology created in Avatar, and adopted a brand-new performance capture technology, which is a shooting technology based on facial expressions, while recording body movements and facial expressions.
Performance Capture Techniques in Alita: Fighting Angels
Relying on this performance capture technology, the film also presents us with many wonderful fighting scenes.
If we give the audience a reason to see Alita: Fighting Angel, Cameron said in an interview: "I want to say that this is an epic story, which takes place in a grand world and has wonderful action scenes, but it is still a story about the protagonist looking for his heart and soul. Countless conflicts run through Alita’s story. How do marginal groups survive in a cruel world? Alita is a heroic female character with weak heart but strong will and dare to compete, so I love this story deeply anyway. "
In 2019, during the premiere of the movie Alita: Fighting Angel in China, the column "Good Film has an appointment" exclusively planned the dialogue between the director and James Cameron and the director of Alita: Fighting Angel robert rodriguez.
This week, let’s walk into the excellent film Alita: Fighting Angel and see how the soul looks for hope in the mechanical body.
Alita: Fighting Angels
Welcome to this issue of CCTV-6 movie channel "A Good Movie with an Appointment".
Saturday, December 23rd
22:22 Saturday Promotion Edition
22:31 Alita: Fighting Angel
Sunday, December 24th
13:35 Alita: Fighting Angel
15:32 Sunday Film Review Edition