James Cameron is planning Avatar 3: the story of the film will be around fire in the next part

James Cameron is planning Avatar 3: the story of the film will be around the fire in the next part

Dec 11, 2022 - 12:29
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James Cameron is planning Avatar 3: the story of the film will be around fire in the next part

Part two of the world's tallest filmmaker James Cameron's Avatar i.e. 'Avatar: The Way of Water' is now just a few days away from release. In a special conversation, James Cameron talks about his approach from the making of this film. This film of James is also inspired by the basic five elements of Indian philosophy. In the first part, he presented the world of the sky. Now they are talking about water. In the third part, there will be the issue of fire. Here are the main parts:-
What helps you make great stories?
I get story ideas from everything that we have access to. Be it news or travel or anything else. I watch other movies too. For decades I have lived in areas of the rainforest. I have given 52 years to diving for this film. I am 68 now. I've been learning to dive since I was 16. 50 percent of the film has been shot underwater. I can literally say that the ocean resides in my heart and my soul. I get my stories from all these things.
Much of the film has been shot underwater. So a lot of new techniques have been used to shoot things underwater. However, the other side of this coin is that if our actors are not aware of those techniques. Here we have characters who are air breathers. Like dolphins, because such species live to some extent on land and to a large extent in water. So our actors had to learn 'free diving'. We found the best free diving instructors from around the world. I myself have been a free diver for the last 50 years. Our actress Kate Winslet can hold her breath underwater longer than me. So our actors developed the art of doing movement while staying underwater.
Avatar is a whole world. There are many characters in it. Thousands, millions of creatures and different environments are also inherently present in them. So for five years, I was constantly busy in creatively creating all these things. That's the whole time it took to shoot the live-action. I'm totally immersed in it. A large portion was also devoted to marine conservation. So in those five years, I made five to six documentaries. Amidst all this, of course, my complete dedication was to make a big-screen movie. When people see this, they will see my years of hard work.
That's how the filmmakers are able to stick to the objectivity of the film. Also, while working on a film for five years, is it possible to maintain the same vision of its theme, story, characters, and events, which was in the beginning? Another pressure also remains that a filmmaker's film can be completed on time. Although it was such a film, which could not be made soon. The film had 3250 VFX shots, while Terminator 2 had only 42 VFX shots. There was the pressure of budget and deadline. However, in spite of all these things, if you are able to enjoy this kind of journey, then it is a great thing.
Indian culture is undoubtedly the architect of human thinking. It is evident from there that what is going to be the direction of worldly thinking? So, my world of incarnation has got inspiration by India somewhere. There is talk of 'The Way of Water' in this film. Before making it, I was about to bring a novel about 'Way of Wind'. Later 'The Way of Water' came to mind.
The aspects we want to show in this, but not just one event. It is an essential practice. It's like a mantra. How do we enter the water if we hold our breath? Then for how long do you keep holding it and finally what rhythm is created? So 'The Way of Water' has neither a beginning nor an end. Samandar is also a character in our film. He is a footman. We have shown his strong backstory. In Avatar 3, there is going to be the talk of fire.

Muskan Kumawat Journalist & Writer