James Cameron is currently very busy with the promotional campaign for ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’, a film that has already scored its first big triumph without having been released yet. Now the filmmaker has resolved a question of many moviegoers by explaining why he decided that the Na’vi were blue.
The director of ‘Titanic’ also answered that question in an interview with Empire magazine, first explaining what was the process by which he was discarding other colors until finally staying with blue:
About the color, the green was taken. There is a long history of green aliens. Also, Hulk. And the human colors, pink and brown, are not alien. Spongebob is yellow. Basically, that left us blue and purple. Purple is my favorite color, but I figured we would use it for one of our main bioluminescence colors, so we did, associating it with Eywa and everything sacred to the Navi.
Cameron’s mother’s dream
Of course, that was not the only reason why Cameron decided on blue. In fact, the additional explanation he gives is very surprising and It is linked to a dream his mother had.:
Also, my mother told me a dream she had in which there was a ten-foot-tall blue woman with six breasts. A great image. I drew her, but the six breasts thing didn’t turn out as well as it seems, plus it would mess up the age rating. So, anyway… blue.
That surely was not expected by anyone and that will make us all see these creatures differently from now on. By the way, I remind you that the premiere of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ will take place on December 16. That’s when we find out if Cameron was right to describe it as “the worst deal in movie history“.