Academy Award-winning director James Cameron for “Titanic” knows the dangers of deep-sea exploration. An experienced underwater explorer himself, in 2012 he prepared to plunge nearly 11 miles into the world’s deepest known ocean trench.
“You’re going to one of the most brutal places on earth. You can’t call AAA to pick you up,” he said in an interview with The New York Times shortly before leaving.
Still he wanted to take the risk. In another interview that year, he said seeing “something mankind had never seen before” was more thrilling than making a film. “Forget the red carpet and other glamorous things,” he added.
Since a submarine carrying five people went missing this week during an expedition to see the wreckage of the Titanic, many moviegoers have been waiting for Cameron’s take on the situation.
Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic grossed over $2 billion at the box office. One of the highest-grossing movies of all time, rekindled interest in the story of the ill-fated luxury liner, the mystique driving those who follow the experiences of the wealthy to go miles underwater to see the wreck site.Cameron is visited that place in the North Atlantic dozens of timesknow the terrain well.
Cameron didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment through Disney, which distributed Avatar: The Way of Water.
But in past interviews, Cameron has revealed many of the psychological factors that drive explorers to visit the wreck despite the danger, and feels the need for adventurers to see the Titanic’s ruins with their own eyes. He also explained why.
“I love shipwrecks,” he said. Documentary released with the DVD version of “Titanic”. And the RMS Titanic was the “ultimate shipwreck.”
Cameron said that as a boy he was obsessed with going to the bottom of the ocean. “I can’t think of a greater dream than being an explorer and seeing things the human eye has never seen before,” he said in a 2011 Times interview.
In 1988, while making The Abyss, about a sunken nuclear submarine, Cameron learned how to pilot a remotely controlled submarine. And in 1995, before he wrote the script for “Titanic,” he visited the shipwreck to shoot the movie.
Prime Minister Cameron went underwater in a Russian-owned submarine to capture footage. His brother Michael is a mechanical engineer, and he built a special case for his 35mm motion picture camera to withstand the pressure of 2.5 miles below sea level.
Since then, the director has made repeated trips to the wreckage of the Titanic and has become a major figure in the field of deep-sea exploration. “I own and operate my own submarine, and I know pretty much everyone in the deep water world outside the oil business,” he told The Times in 2010. That year he assembled a panel of underwater technology experts. advise the Obama administration Response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cameron also directed the documentary film Deepsea Challenge 3D, about a 2012 trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, and the exploration of strange sub-aquatic creatures living in the deep sea, Aliens of the Deep. supervised. .
In February, he released the documentary Titanic: 25 Years After James Cameron. Streaming on HuluThe film explores whether or not characters Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) managed to survive a key scene by scaling a floating wooden door. I’m trying to answer some of the most discussed fan questions about the movie. .
In a documentary, Mr Cameron says there is value in such thought experiments. “At least it helps them understand what they went through,” he said.
