Film Director James Cameron has told that he cut out at least 10 minutes of gun brutality from his film Avatar: The Way of Water as he desired ‘to find a balance between light and dark’.
At least 10 minutes of gun brutality was cut down from the new Hollywood film Avatar: The Way of Water, filmmaker James Cameron told. The new Avatar film is making huge numbers at the box office worldwide and has been driving successfully in theatres across the world for two weeks currently.
Avatar: The Way of Water is one of the most pricey movies ever created. James had expressed that the movie must take in at least $2 billion in ticket sales to make money. He lately also talked about why he had to cleanse out gun violence in the movie.
“I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action. I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. You have to have conflict, of course. Violence and action are the same things, depending on how you look at them. This is the plight of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an action filmmaker,” James told Esquire Middle East.
He counted, “The first film has the good guys and the bad guys seemingly equally opposed, and then the good guys get crushed and defeated and many of the heroes die. Then there’s this almost ‘Deus ex Machina where Jake invokes the forces of nature — a ‘Deus ex Machina I think is earned by the way. The second film doesn’t work that way at all. The battle is not even a battle, it’s a rout. It’s the revenge of the Na’vi and the Tulkun. The real challenge, and the real defeat, and the thing that must be recovered from, happens after the battle,”
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The first Avatar made nearly $3 billion at the international box office. The sequel has crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide in just 14 days. Nevertheless, the original 2009 movie still stays the highest-grossing film of all time.
The film pursues the story of the indigenous Na’vi humanoid race that occupies the Pandora moon and its colonization endangers them. One of the reviews for the film said, “Avatar: The Way Of Water is a ravishing sensation that is ascended by a vibrant filmmaker who knows precisely how to materialize action and emotion together for a delightful time at the movies.”
