Ten years ago we all packed into cinemas to watch the trailblazing film Avatar, but a decade on it has failed to withstand the test of time. Here’s why.
, which until this year was the highest grossing film of all time, winning a slew of Academy Awards and revolutionising technology that had never before been seen in film.let alone its four planned sequels.In the early ’90s, Cameron had written an 80-page summary for his ultimate passion project,Cameron, who was 40, needed $US100 million to make– an astronomical budget at the time. He envisioned his alien characters “who appear to be real but do not exist in the physical world”.
Naturally, the process was lengthy, with several delays and budget issues before filming began in 2007 in LA and New Zealand. Cameron described the film as a hybrid with a full live-action shoot in combination with computer-generated characters and live environments. “Ideally at the end of the day the audience has no idea which they’re looking at,” Cameron said at the time.was around the 3D experience, Cameron also pioneered significant CGI advancements, particularly in facial performance capture, with the help of visual effects studio Weta Digital.,” Cameron said after it came out.
Cameron insisted every plant, tree and speck be rendered one by one. To put the enormity of this task into perspective, a single plant in Pandora comprised a million CG polygons, whereas Gollum in– which ended up costing $237 million to make – worthy of the hype. And paired with the marketing muscle of 20th Century Fox, it was destined to be a hit., starring Australian actor Sam Worthington and now streaming on Disney+, crossed the $1 billion mark 19 days after it was released.
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