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Truly, theAvatarfranchise is his lifes work.
This becomes especially clear inAvatar: The Way of Water, a film full of extended self-homage.
Thats half an hour longer thanAvatar09 and just three minutes shorter thanTitanic.
Which might count as self-homage in itself.
Its an exponential scaling-up of theColonial Marines assaulton the terraforming colony on the moon known as LV-426 inAliens.
(One Earth year?
His maturation and emotional reconciliation with Jake is one of the main emotional threads ofThe Way of Water.
Hell Kill Us All!
Hell Kill Us All!
In this, she resembles Camerons prior warrior moms, Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley.
But everyone loves a good pep talk, I guess.
Get Away From Her, You Bitch!
Even Edie Falco, who plays the general in charge of the RDA expeditionary force, gets one.
Unfortunately, Carmela Sopranos robo-suit does not come with a dope pair of22nd-century Reebok high-tops.
InThe Way of Water, Colonel Quaritch and his squad go village to village hunting the Sully family.
ButThe Abyssremains the most prominent point of reference.
is at least as intelligent as humans and far more empathetic.
This echoes numerous sequences of hatch-battening and flooding compartments and such fromThe Abyssand, of course, 1997sTitanic.
Fight, Goddamn It!
The Harris character, Bud Brigman, has a wet suit, but Lindsey, Mastranios character does not.
Each parent is wounded and has one of their children with them.
These scenes are framed very much like the close-up two shot of Lindsey and Bud in the flooding mini-sub.
Shes Gonna Blow Him Away!
John talks her down from her homicidal frenzy, hinting at the persuasive leader he is destined to become.
She does and then Ripley creme brulees her eggs anyway.
It takes an invasive species to fight an invasive species.
And its been a long time since Cameron made a movie where were meant to root for the humans.
Can you blame him?
