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The complexity of film making

Posted by Bambi B on January 7, 2010 at 09:40:50:
tinear,

As you seem to be closed to any hint of positive comments about James Cameron, it seems futile to continue to list the good and the bad. Every artist has their weaknesses- Beethoven was not the best composer for the human voice, Picassos sometimes seem crude technically, Rothko did the same painting from 1949 to 1971. Shakespeare could be a political opportunist skewing history. If you have the inclination- and you seem to have a special negative niche for Cameron, you can find flaws in any artist and their work.

Cameron's relative weakness in my view tries is that he tries to do everything and he is simply not very verbal, nor interested in complex emotional structures, and even intimacy can be mechanical- preferring everything to be of an epic scale and as dynamic as possible. I read that there was a sex scene between the aliens finished that was cut from the movie- it probably was too quiet and interrupted the pace.

But, on the other side, movie- lovers should become aware of how amazingly complex making a movie is. The nearest analogy I think of to movie-making is architecture: the artistic, client relations, technical, bureaucratic, craft, and financial demands make accomplishing any good work almost a miracle. Think of coordinating the hundreds of people and hundreds of millions of Dollars involved over 18 years that required to make "Avatar". In that effort, there was substantial, important craft innovation and that ll this could be juggled into producing such a detailed, integrated work is quite amazing.

No, I don't think of Cameron as a "great artiste" but more a brilliant engineer/craftsman/logician combined with a remarkable visual inventiveness with attention to internal logic and detail. It's a small wonder

Come to Los Angeles and visit a movie set. I think if you saw first hand how extraordinarily complex movie-making is, you would probably appreciate what Cameron accomplishes even if the content is not to your taste. And, we have to keep in mind that we are not anywhere near the intended demographic for these movies- after all, they're intended for an audience 40 years younger.

Cheers,

Bambi B