After the thirteen years that have elapsed since the first film about the struggle of the na’vi for the planet Pandora (2009), the sequel will arrive next December, also directed by James Cameron (2022), who takes his new projects very calmly since he swept the box office like no one before with titanica (1997). It was he himself, in fact, who unseated her thanks to the extraterrestrial adventure film, and we will have to see what she achieves Avatar 2: The Water Sense.
On the other hand, the Canadian filmmaker is not afraid of feature films either. quite long. Aliens: The Return (1986) runs for two and a half hours; abyss (1989) and Risky lies (1994), almost as much; the aforementioned titanica he signed up for three hours and fifteen minutes, and they shouldn’t have cut an important scene; own Avatar It has two hours and forty-one minutes of footage and, according to the words of james cameronits continuation will surpass it.
But, due to the behavior of viewers in recent years in the era of binge eating in streamingwe have no right to grumble about Avatar 2. Or that’s what the director thinks, that has declared to the magazine Empire what follows: “I don’t want anyone complaining about the duration when they sit down to watch [televisión] for eight hours… I can almost write this part of the review: “The agonizingly long three-hour movie…”. It’s like, “Give me a fucking break.”
James Cameron knows Avatar 2’s length is justified
“I’ve seen my kids sit down and watch five hour long episodes in a row”, continues James Cameron, and concludes: “Here is the great social paradigm shift that has to happen: it is okay to get up and go to pee”. Well, if some of you ask us, it’s best to get into the movie theater having evacuated first. If not, we may miss important moments of Avatar 2: The Water Sense and, on the other hand, he doesn’t seem very respectful of this job that we don’t care about.
But so long and even the plan of five movies is justified. “What I said to the bosses at Fox at the time was, ‘I’ll do it, but we’ve got to play a bigger game here. I don’t want to just make a movie and make a movie and make a movie. I want to tell a bigger story »”, explains James Cameron regarding Avatar 2. “That meant a comparison with a certain literary saga.” The one of the hobbits Heading for Mount Doom, by JRR Tolkien (1955).
“I told them: ‘Imagine if there were a series of novels like The Lord of the rings and we are adapting them”. Now, that was great in theory, but then I had to go create the damn novels to adapt it from.” What follows from what the director says is that his project is ambitious and narratively elaborated and, for this reason, he refuses to cut himself off if he thinks he needs a lot of time to tell us the story of Avatar: The Water Sense. Warning received.