Oscar-winner James Cameron is a living god among directors and an unparalleled expert at underwater cinematic storytelling.
So, of course, he’s going to have some complicated feelings aboutAquaman.
“I think its great fun,” Cameron says.
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“I think its a movie I could have never made.
It exists somewhere between a Greek mythic landscape and a fairy tale landscape.
And people just kind of zoom around underwater because … they propel themselves mentally?
I don’t know.
But it’s cool.
You buy it on its own terms.
But I’ve spent thousands of hours underwater.
I’m very literal about my underwater.
It needs to look like it’s real.
Yeah, I couldn’t have made that movie.
For theAvatarsequels, Cameron pioneered a never-before-seen technique that allowed him to do motion-capture filmmaking underwater.
“If anything, I think [what Cameron is doing is] amazing,” Wan said.
1 is don’t ever compete with James Cameron.
He’s in a whole different game of his own.
2, our movie is such a different-looking film.”
Cameron previously played himself as the director of afictionalAquamanmovie in the HBO seriesEntourage.
