James Cameron on Terminator's True Meaning, the Film's Origins and More | On Directing

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  • @baftaguru
    @baftaguru  4 роки тому +34

    Are you looking forward to Terminator: Dark Fate?

    • @robleeming4815
      @robleeming4815 4 роки тому +2

      Yes, the new trailers are an improvement from the early teaser, but I was looking forward to it despite that.

    • @haczabim
      @haczabim 4 роки тому +3

      Now I am! I was hesitant after the first trailer, but the second was convincing

    • @rixenjacob
      @rixenjacob 4 роки тому +3

      Absolutely. Can't wait 😬

    • @bradhouston4734
      @bradhouston4734 4 роки тому +2

      I just saw the trailer last night and can’t wait! Looks epic and like a solid return to T2 glory!
      😀🕺🏻🎥🏖🇦🇺

    • @liamdhardy
      @liamdhardy 4 роки тому +8

      No

  • @voteDC
    @voteDC 4 роки тому +17

    To be honest Ray Harryhausen's effects are still pretty good today. The skeleton battle (children of the hydra's teeth) in Jason and the Argonauts remains absolutely amazing to my eyes.

  • @seferino
    @seferino 3 місяці тому +3

    Cameron is definitely a MASTER director. 💯💯💯 His movies are like magic 🪄

  • @aleksisuuronen5969
    @aleksisuuronen5969 Рік тому +16

    The making of the first Terminator is incredible story in itself, they shot the movie without permits to the places in guerrilla style, Cameron just prepped by himself studying and then pretty much just making a movie. Brilliant choices made like they looked for certain kinda streets to shot, because there was at the time used these certain kinda lamps that made the blueish hue to the many of the shots. Tons of little details like that which makes the movie creditable with it's budget and so the little they had could be mostly used for the couple big set-pieces. Just the casting of Arnold was so smart choice even tho it wasn't a thing to cast someone with such heavy accent to any movie (still really isn't).

  • @selfelements8037
    @selfelements8037 Рік тому +8

    2:00, 4:33 This is why "Terminator" is the most relevant movie franchise. It has to be!

  • @maskurhasan325
    @maskurhasan325 Рік тому +8

    Best Director ...

  • @MaheshWalatara
    @MaheshWalatara 2 дні тому

    Greatest Action Director.

  • @Stygian360
    @Stygian360 10 місяців тому +4

    He's subtly flirting with the host. Masterful

    • @ssl3546
      @ssl3546 10 місяців тому +1

      Virile. And. Potent.

  • @brittniclayton8401
    @brittniclayton8401 Місяць тому +3

    He’s not the creator of the terminator

  • @dafrog491
    @dafrog491 8 місяців тому +1

    Jim Cameron's not only talented & cool, He's funny.

  • @anavilla7134
    @anavilla7134 10 місяців тому +4

    THE MOST BEATIFUL AND ROMANTIC FILM OF CAMERON, IS TITANIC....

  • @erikfldt390
    @erikfldt390 6 місяців тому

    Don't get me wrong, I loved Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2, pretty much all of Cameron's oeuvre, but I wish he'd just admit that his inspiration for Terminator was from reading X-Men comics. He lifted the idea from the 'Days of Future Past' (Uncanny X-Men 141-142) storyline then even lifted the concept of living metal being frozen by liquid nitrogen (Uncanny X-Men 177). He's got talent, I just wish he'd admit that he was just following the old adage 'talent borrows, genius steals.'

    • @ECLECTRIC_EDITS
      @ECLECTRIC_EDITS 5 місяців тому +1

      He didnt. If anything he was influenced by Harlan Ellisons Outer Limits episode: Soldier. Besides, I think re-interpretation is always okay as long as new novel and creative concepts are introduced and influenced by what came before.

    • @erikfldt390
      @erikfldt390 5 місяців тому

      @@ECLECTRIC_EDITS Cameron himself said he absolutely didn't steal the idea from Ellison and denied any inspiration, maybe that was to avoid a lawsuit, but sure, maybe he did find inspiration from that. Even if that's the case, there's too much a coincidence that he stole two very pivotal concepts from X-Men storylines and he himself admitted he was an avid comic reader.

  • @lostsoul2184
    @lostsoul2184 Рік тому +2

    The Michael bay of baymichealing

  • @lostsoul2184
    @lostsoul2184 Рік тому

    What falls?!

  • @ACXIAO666
    @ACXIAO666 Рік тому +3

    James Cameron should marry the woman interviewing him , they've got the same noses

  • @DanJackson1977
    @DanJackson1977 Рік тому +6

    I guess we dont talk about Harlan Ellison anymore, do we Jimmy 🤣

    • @southlondon86
      @southlondon86 Рік тому

      He was a parasite my man. Cameron took a couple of ideas and made them far better than Ellison could ever have.

    • @TheDripGodz
      @TheDripGodz 10 місяців тому +1

      Sad . He didn’t get the credit he deserves. I think they were intimidated by his abrasive/ crazy personality. Only respected his talent

    • @DeltaAssaultGaming
      @DeltaAssaultGaming 10 місяців тому

      That Outer Limits episode isn’t like The Terminator at all, outside of the very broad general premise.

  • @77sergiocon
    @77sergiocon 10 місяців тому +2

    Is this before he got skinny and started wearing Fox shirts?

    • @bloodlinefilms
      @bloodlinefilms 10 місяців тому +1

      This is not bearded sea explorer james cameron.

  • @evoken1216
    @evoken1216 Рік тому +1

    Jimmy was in his bulk phase.

  • @lostsoul2184
    @lostsoul2184 Рік тому

    2:25 maybe if you listen , james , used some of that instinct , you wouldn't have made that so called " Ava tar " in the first place . And maybe then you would've made some real movies

  • @lesleyrussell8200
    @lesleyrussell8200 11 місяців тому +2

    terminator wasnt a dream , you copied from yul bryners android in its movie westworld 1973 and many other things......

    • @TheDripGodz
      @TheDripGodz 10 місяців тому

      Facts . I don’t know why people lie about simple things like that

    • @lesleyrussell8200
      @lesleyrussell8200 10 місяців тому +1

      @@TheDripGodz the pride perhaps of wanting to be the creators

    • @bloodlinefilms
      @bloodlinefilms 10 місяців тому

      I dont doubt he had a dream about a metal skeleton chasing him with a knife when he was rocking a fever on the Piranha II set. Its a simple enough notion.

    • @lesleyrussell8200
      @lesleyrussell8200 10 місяців тому

      @@bloodlinefilms look, coscarelly said the same thing on his phantasm 79 sphere, ah dream of a hunting flying sphere chasing him, but the truth is he copied the spheres from the imperial fighters of star wars...and his little hooded dwarves too.

    • @Realraphistorian
      @Realraphistorian 13 днів тому

      He stole it from a block woman

  • @TheDripGodz
    @TheDripGodz 10 місяців тому +1

    Harlan Ellison??? He needs his credit for Terminator as well it was his idea .

    • @love_cdrama
      @love_cdrama 10 місяців тому

      tell me you haven't read "demon with a glass hand" without telling me you haven't read demon with a glass hand. the two stories have as much in common as Back to the Future has with HG Wells "The Time Machine". Cameron was a new comer in Hollywood - this was literally his first film and he sold the script for a dollar in exchange for the chance to direct it. He took the easy way out by not fighting the lawsuit - something that he probably regrets to this day.

  • @dankeplace
    @dankeplace 10 місяців тому +3

    The true meaning of Terminator, which I stole from someone else.

    • @garyphisher7375
      @garyphisher7375 8 місяців тому +2

      No he didn't. Terminator was unique and original.
      Harlan Ellison was a serial litigant - the studio caved - Cameron wanted to fight the suit.
      Imagine you write a story about someone in the future, using time travel to go back to change history - and then you claim that every story that does the same, is ripping you off. Ridiculous!

    • @dankeplace
      @dankeplace 8 місяців тому

      @@garyphisher7375 Oh please, Cameron is even on record that he stole the content, and why is Elison's name on the credits?

    • @cjuare123
      @cjuare123 3 місяці тому +1

      @@garyphisher7375Sophia Stewart wrote it. They stole it from her

    • @garyphisher7375
      @garyphisher7375 3 місяці тому

      @@cjuare123 Is she the b4tsh it crazy woman who also claimed she wrote the Matrix too?

  • @geert574
    @geert574 Рік тому +3

    Cameron is not a writer he stole Terminator and needs writers to help him with every movie

    • @tronam
      @tronam Рік тому +9

      Oh yeah? Who co-wrote The Abyss, Aliens, Titanic or Avatar?

    • @nicholasjanke3476
      @nicholasjanke3476 11 місяців тому +2

      1. Ok NO admittedly Aliens was not Cameroon's original idea, but was created by two other sci fi writers (whose names escape me at the moment). But Aliens is a far scarier film than the first one. And it's still a great film. 2. The Terminator plots-a guy pursueing a villain through through time had been done before (Dracula A.D. 1972 (there was no time travel in that one but the same sort of concept), Time After Time, an Outer Limits episode-but Terminator is great film

    • @nicholasjanke3476
      @nicholasjanke3476 11 місяців тому +1

      At one point Cameroon considered a Spider-Man film starring Micheal Biehn as the hero and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the villain (the two of them have great chemistry). The first issue is that Micheal Biehn was too old to play Spider-Man (the character is like 17 in high school).

    • @kdscool1536
      @kdscool1536 11 місяців тому +7

      That's simply not true. He took some elements from Harlan Ellison's work, but he co-wrote both Terminator films with William Wisher Jr. And Cameron wrote most of his films himself.

    • @TheDripGodz
      @TheDripGodz 10 місяців тому +1

      @@kdscool1536so true . They settled with Harlan Ellison and gave him $70,000 and his name on end of movie credits.

  • @prophetsnake
    @prophetsnake 10 місяців тому

    short version: he stole it from Harlan Ellison.

  • @haczabim
    @haczabim 4 роки тому +17

    I am one of those people who always complain and criticise. So now I have to say I loved this interview! The interviewer was phenomenal, what an interesting, smart and agreeable woman. Watch and learn people!

  • @MultiWalrus1
    @MultiWalrus1 4 роки тому +7

    Such an unassuming guy. And a true visionary and creative genius. There are not many on his level in Hollywood.

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario 4 роки тому

      In order to have "vision" you have to assume. Please stop vaping, its killing your 2 neurons.

    • @MultiWalrus1
      @MultiWalrus1 4 роки тому

      J.C. L. Speaking as a language pedant myself, I’d be the first to congratulate you if you were making some kind of annoying, clever remark. But that just doesn’t make any sense. Look up the meaning of “unassuming” and report back.

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario 4 роки тому

      @@MultiWalrus1 well you are still stupid if you can't understand that vision and creativity means you have to assume. Buy a brain buddy.

    • @MultiWalrus1
      @MultiWalrus1 4 роки тому +1

      J.C. L. Buy a dictionary! 🤓

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario 4 роки тому

      @@MultiWalrus1 Dude, brain cells should be on sale just for people like you!

  • @mervinsmith7507
    @mervinsmith7507 4 роки тому +2

    you make Canada proud so gifted

  • @ravishingravi
    @ravishingravi 4 роки тому +1

    What a brilliant interviewer !

  • @trappedintime8273
    @trappedintime8273 4 роки тому +23

    I wish somebody would ask him why True Lies and the abyss or not on Blu-ray

    • @samfisher2306
      @samfisher2306 4 роки тому

      True Lies was my favorite of his

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario 4 роки тому

      Or why he isn't willing to work with his ex wife again. He probably walks out after a rude answer.

    • @jeffmint5472
      @jeffmint5472 4 роки тому +1

      Abyss to be released later this year

    • @runarvollan
      @runarvollan Рік тому

      @@Jucelegario Wasn't he the one contacting Linda for T6?

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario Рік тому +2

      @@runarvollan when they say contacting, means through a representative. It comes from his side. Remember James is a big liar, he shilled for bad Terminator movies as of they were the best ever.

  • @garycambridge5513
    @garycambridge5513 4 роки тому +18

    My favourite director - he hasn’t made one shit film yet 😍

    • @paperbagman8913
      @paperbagman8913 4 роки тому +2

      Gary Cambridge piranna 2: the spawning

    • @samokazem2211
      @samokazem2211 4 роки тому +11

      @@paperbagman8913 Some say it's a best flying piranha film ever made

    • @josephdocherty7919
      @josephdocherty7919 4 роки тому

      @@samokazem2211 Somebody just watched Howard Stern!

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario 4 роки тому +1

      I really, really didn't like Titanic. People want to feel cool and included and say its great because "everyone saw it". Guess what, its a mediocre film with great effects, CGI and practical.

    • @FabledGentleman
      @FabledGentleman 4 роки тому

      @@samokazem2211 It IS the best flying piranha movie ever made!

  • @engitect
    @engitect 4 роки тому +2

    James Cameron has a striking facial similarity to David Cameron.

  • @lydialovato5224
    @lydialovato5224 4 роки тому +5

    Im super Excited for the dark fate i got my tshirt and poster of them

    • @AM-nz6pn
      @AM-nz6pn 4 роки тому +1

      Me too!!!!!

    • @douglashoule9602
      @douglashoule9602 4 роки тому

      Of Dark Fate?

    • @lydialovato5224
      @lydialovato5224 4 роки тому +1

      Yes

    • @douglashoule9602
      @douglashoule9602 4 роки тому

      Nice! May I ask where you get it from? If bought online

    • @MuayThaiMmaXboxGeek
      @MuayThaiMmaXboxGeek 4 роки тому +1

      James cameron was not on set ONCE for the filming of that. It's Tim Millers SECOND movie.....It will be toxic feminist SJW pro illegals garbage!

  • @nicholasdickens2801
    @nicholasdickens2801 4 роки тому +1

    Really looking forward to Terminator: Dark Fate.

  • @BlenderDumbass
    @BlenderDumbass 4 роки тому

    79th VIEWS... WTF

  • @jorgevasconcelosmadetomove
    @jorgevasconcelosmadetomove 4 роки тому

    what about Sophia Stewart ? is it a fraud?

    • @enigma19833
      @enigma19833 4 роки тому +2

      Yes, she's a fraud and a con artist and her story doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.

  • @tryksta7247
    @tryksta7247 4 роки тому +9

    True meaning, give me a break. He stole this concept from Harlan Ellison who wrote The Outer Limits episodes "Soldier" and "Demon With a Glass Hand" of which Terminator is ripped off from.

    • @tryksta7247
      @tryksta7247 4 роки тому +3

      @wayne goodger The problem is Cameron was interviewed by a magazine and when asked where he got the idea for Terminator, he replied, "I ripped off a couple of Harlan Ellison segments." This was in the transcript and then later removed, but Ellison saw the original copy.

    • @ColmJoseph1990
      @ColmJoseph1990 4 роки тому

      Purely coincidence.

    • @tryksta7247
      @tryksta7247 4 роки тому +1

      @wayne goodger He perpetuates the myth and still lies that he had a vision of a metal skeleton in fire during a dream. He legally was forced to add the Ellison acknowledgement only after he got caught dead to rights but before that did all he could to duck and dodge and deceive.

    • @nickm5419
      @nickm5419 4 роки тому

      @@tryksta7247 stfu you don't even really know

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario 4 роки тому +1

      And he stole Avatar from Pocahontas.

  • @esaieprince
    @esaieprince 4 роки тому

    we were suspeded from school warrior mentality fighting for respect -while they get rich .... gamblers ...Imagine getting high while living in the JETS- they say "get by" but in reality you BUY TO GET! I thought of an invention. A 10-20 POUND coushioned football for training puposes. but had a revelation...after payig the electric, water, and morgage bills. i cannot afford a patent ...just another wasted idea. THE MOVIE alita battle angel has the term "hunter warriors" for bounties..but, youtube esaie prince FROG&TOAD!! i coined the term 10 years ago.for real HUNTER WARRIORS BUT that movie just missed 1billion

  • @nayanmipun6784
    @nayanmipun6784 4 роки тому +1

    He is Rightist or Leftist?

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario 4 роки тому +3

      Watch his movies, he is clearly a pro gun nutjob. In his daily life: Right wing. In public: A raging liberal.

    • @ANONYMOUS-tg2tq
      @ANONYMOUS-tg2tq Рік тому +2

      centralist

    • @ravecrab
      @ravecrab 10 місяців тому

      ​@@Jucelegario I always thought the gun shop scene in The Terminator was a subtle bit of anti-gun satire, to be honest. Rewatch it and tell me it's not a comment on how ludicrously easy it is to acquire lethal firearms in the US:
      Gun Shop Owner: Any one of these is perfect for home defence. Which will it be?
      Terminator: All.
      Gun Shop Owner: [Dollar signs light up in eyes] I'll close early today.

    • @Jucelegario
      @Jucelegario 10 місяців тому

      @@ravecrab that's a post woke era thought, is not a critique but an occurrence in Cameron's mind since he uses guns in almost all of his movies.

    • @ravecrab
      @ravecrab 10 місяців тому

      @@Jucelegario It's entirely possible to use guns in films and still not agree with America's gun licensing laws.