Don’t know if I would still do the “Terminator” movies today: James Cameron has problems with his greatest classics

He not only talks about his new film, but also about his old ones – with which he definitely has problems.

“I look back on some films that I’ve done and I don’t know if I would still want to do this film today,” explains James Cameron in an interview with Esquire , then names “The Terminator” and the sequel ” Terminator 2 – Days of Reckoning ” as examples of films he doesn’t know if he would still make today.

But why does James Cameron have a problem with his two celebrated classics? The answer: gun violence. I don’t know if, in today’s world, I would want to fetish the gun like I did in the two ‘Terminator’ films over 30 years ago. to live in New Zealand, where assault rifles were last banned.

Firearms and their depiction have long played an important role in James Cameron’s films. In the “Terminator” films mentioned, for example, the sequences in which the machines sent back from the future supply themselves with weapons are staged in such a way that this also gives them a certain coolness – which Cameron probably means by “fetishization”. In films like ” Aliens ” or ” True Lies “, too, firearms are not only portrayed as a useful tool, but also staged with a lot of style – although it has to be said that Cameron breaks this again and again.

Not only in “Aliens”, but also in ” Abyss ” as well as the first ” Avatar “, the tough, weapon-loving elite soldiers are deconstructed, in “True Lies” a pistol tumbling down the stairs and hitting the mark leads the previous one Super agent’s accuracy a little ridiculous.

JAMES CAMERON EVEN CUT 10 MINUTES FROM “AVATAR 2”

And James Cameron doesn’t completely ban guns from his films even today. They also play such a role in “ Avatar 2: The Way Of Water ”. Jake Sully ( Sam Worthington ) is now a Na’vi, but still prefers to fight with his old machine gun and even armed his people with modern human weapons after a train robbery. For Cameron, too, violence and action are a must in such a film, as he reveals to Esquire. Nevertheless, he even cut ten minutes from “Avatar 2” because of his developed aversion to guns, as he further reveals:

“I wanted to get rid of a bit of that ugliness,” he explains, explaining why “ten minutes of the film that focused on gunplay were cut out.”