The long-awaited premiere of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ will take place next Friday, December 16. The highly anticipated sequel has received very positive feedback from those who have already had the chance to see it, but the rest of us still have a few days to go. Of course, you just have to take a look at the filmography of James Cameron to have full confidence that it will be well worth it.
Cameron’s credentials
For now, Cameron He has already demonstrated his ability to make such great sequels on two occasions which are one of the few that are usually mentioned when someone talks about those rare exceptions that surpass the original. I am referring to two titles as celebrated and iconic as ‘Aliens: The Return’ and ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’.
In addition, the also director of ‘Risky Lies’ -of which he still owes us a sequel that we will probably never see anymore- proved then that he had the capacity to expand someone else’s work as well as to do it with his own. In the case of ‘Aliens: The return’ he opted for empower actionincluding more fearsome creatures and pitting them against professionalized marines for combat.
For my part, I have always preferred the more terrifying approach that Ridley Scott to ‘Alien, the eighth passenger’, but that doesn’t mean that ‘Aliens: The Return’ is a wonderful sequel that offers an overdose of adrenaline to the viewer. In fact, it is not difficult for me to understand who prefers it, since each viewer has different concerns and preferences.
The curious thing is that with ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ he made a similar move, since he took the same plot skeleton of ‘Terminator’ to offer a luxurious action movie that was a milestone in the field of special effects. However, his virtues went far beyond that, playing wonderfully with the change of sides of the character played by arnold schwarzeneggerconverting to Linda Hamilton in a whole icon of the genre already robert patrick into one of the most celebrated villains in movie history.
However, it should be fair and recognize that ‘Terminator 2: The Last Judgment’ comes to be a kind of undercover remake of the first installment, the only thing that its most terrifying component is sacrificed here, almost more typical of a slasher than the movie of science fiction and action that really is, to, again, boost the adrenaline above all else.
Then there is the peculiar case of ‘Piranha II: Vampires of the Sea’, a film that Cameron himself has recognized as his film debut, joking that it is about “the best movie with flying piranhas ever“, but the truth is that he was fired a few days after filming began. And the final result after all this was quite disastrous.
And ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ what?
Given the precedents, one would expect Cameron to limit himself in ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ to further enhancing the action to offer an audiovisual spectacle that is even better than what he offered in the first part. And he did not doubt that there will be something of that as well, but he himself has made it clear that your main goal here is going to be another.
The filmmaker himself came to confess that he threw away the first script of the film because it was not up to what he himself demanded, while during his promotional campaign he highlighted that the great axis of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ is the family, because “You learn to be afraid when you have children, because you have something more important than yourself that you can lose.”
Let’s not forget that Cameron himself has stated that the film has to be so long because “the goal is to tell an extremely absorbing story in emotional terms. I would say the emphasis in the new film is more on the characters, more on the story, more on the relationships, more on the emotion.Come on, there is more story to tell here and everything indicates that dubious accusations of plagiarism such as those suffered by the first installment will not proceed.
Taking all this into account, the confidence towards ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ should be quite high, since there are even viewers who did not enjoy the first one too much who have ended up delighted with the sequel. Plus, James Cameron still hasn’t given us any real reason to doubt him. Let’s see who has the best credentials when it comes to making sequels.
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