Avatar: A New Era -- Special Edition of 20/20
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Suomen suurin alevaltaa Ideaparkin. Tule tekemään vuoden parhaat löydöt, kun koko talo on täynnä huikeita alennuksia. Shoppailun lomassa voit nauttia hyvästä ruuasta, rentoutua vesimaailma louhessa, tai viihtyä vaikkapa hottokeilauksen parissa koko perheen kanssa. Ideapark kuin toinen maailma.
Our love will never fade away We're diamonds in the dark What we set out to do with Avatar is not just tell a good story, but to tell that story in terms that have a lot of impact on the audience. We try to create this world and invite you into it and let you live in it.
Even through the flames Even through the ashes in the sky Baby, when we dream
Now here's the latest Avatar film, Fire and Ash. The title alone, I was immediately drawn in, living through fire, rebuilding, resilience, and kind of this phoenix attitude. My goal was to see us through these fantasy characters and see how it reflects back on us.
I sort of feel like the world of movie making and all its technology has finally caught up with Jim Cameron's brain. It's like going through a portal into this other world.
If you thought that way of water was big and impactful, fire and ash is going to be an experience unlike anything.
I've always said, when you come to a Jim Cameron set, bring your A-game.
All right, so let's try this. And action.
The fire is the only pure thing in this world. I think what makes Jim special are his dreams.
There is one moment you just sort of think, how can one person have thought of all this? It does kind of blow your mind.
I've created this little stupid ritual. Every morning when I get my socks out of my sock drawer, I remind myself to be grateful that I get to do the coolest job on the planet. Because, you know, there's a lot of pressure. There's a lot of tension. Your cortisol levels go up. It's good to remind yourself to be grateful that you get to do the coolest stuff. We've got to come up with safety protocols and make it actor safe. We've got to treat it like the space program.
What inspired James Cameron to create Avatar: Fire and Ash?
He's always a man on a mission. He arrives each day with a real plan on where he wants the day to go. Jim, as much as he is relentless and determined and so much of a detailed perfectionist, he has such a big heart and he cares so much about what he does and what it means to him. The first two Avatar movies sold a combined 589 million tickets. Along with the thrill ride and all the fun of a big action film, they got to see what matters most to Jim Cameron. Wherever we go, this family is our fortress. It's why, in part, he makes these movies.
I had a dream, I was 19, and I had a dream of a bioluminescent forest. I woke up and I sketched it in color. And it had glowing trees and purple moss and these kind of trees that kind of looked like fiber optics. In 95, I wrote a treatment for Avatar. It had all the characters, all the creatures, all the set pieces, and it turned out to be too challenging, and we waited. He realized that the technology did not exist, that it wouldn't enable him to tell the story the way he wanted to. If you were any other filmmaker, you'd go, that's too bad. But if you're Jim Cameron, you go, I'm going to help make that technology so that the movie can happen. We wound up waiting 10 years. By 2005, I felt that the things I wanted to do were within striking distance.
So we set ourselves down the path of Avatar. Jim led the way to doing something called performance capture, which was doing the total body and covering every single thing that an actor might do.
It's an evolution of a tool that exists, and we used to call it motion capture. Performance capture speaks to the holistic capture of the performance.
The actors don't do motion. They do emotion. We are all about the actor. I call it the sanctity of the moment of performance.
When we film it, it's a very calm set because everybody's digging in to tell their story as truthfully as they can. And out of that, you're trying to capture lightning in a bottle.
The success of the Avatar franchise is literally off the charts. The first Avatar in 2009 makes $2.9 billion, and that becomes the highest grossing film of all time.
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