At a press conference in London yesterday, director James Cameron and the cast of his new science fiction epic “Avatar”, including Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, were on hand to answer journalists’ questions about the new blockbuster movie.
Weaver says that she saw the movie for the first time “with a wonderful huge audience and what really impressed me was that there are a lot of big movies that involve special effects (but) Jim Cameron is the only one I know who understands that special effects are not for affect. He uses them to enhance the emotional story and to make even sharper in this case through 3D the sensory experience of the audience experiencing the story… I think (this) is the true accomplishment of the movie and I really felt it last night.” Saldana says that she is “overwhelmed and excited and proud of the work that Jim and his team and the cast and all of us did because on every frame I saw the entire collaboration, but I also saw the vision that this gentleman (Cameron) had and it was absolutely outstanding.”
“”Avatar” is kind of about living vicariously,” Cameron himself notes. “Obviously as a society we’re spending more and more time on the internet with social networking and so on… We have to see the world through other people’s eyes… or you’re never going to get anywhere.” As for the film’s groundbreaking 3D, Cameron says “We didn’t want it to feel like a gimmick… I wanted you to go to Pandora.”
