James Cameron
Some scenes are embarrassing for the “Terminator” director today
James Cameron created three of the four most commercially successful films.
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Star director James Cameron finds some parts of his first film “Terminator” embarrassing today, as he revealed in an interview.
For James Cameron (70), it is sometimes difficult to watch his 1984 “Terminator” film again today. “I don’t consider it the Holy Grail, that’s for sure,” Deadline quotes the director as saying from a new interview with Empire. “When I look at it today, there are parts that are pretty embarrassing and parts where I think, ‘Yeah, we did a pretty good job with the resources we had.'”
The dialogues are not the problem
However, Cameron is only concerned with the production of the film – not with sentences like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (77) cult line “I’ll be back”, which have repeatedly caused ridicule. “I’m not ashamed of any of the dialogue, but I have a lower shame factor than apparently many other people when it comes to the dialogue I write.”
The Terminator grossed over $78 million worldwide when it was released in 1984 and launched the careers of James Cameron and lead actor Schwarzenegger. Cameron also emphasizes in the interview that his success proves him right: “Let me see your three of the four highest-grossing films – then we’ll talk about the effectiveness of dialogue.” In fact, three of the four most commercially successful films were made under his direction: “Titanic” (1997), “Avatar – The Way of Water” (2009) and “Avatar: The Way of Water” (2022).
Cameron was “a punk who was just starting out”
The blockbuster director also explains that when he first worked on the film, he was “just a punk” who was “just starting out.” He continued: “I think I was 29 years old at the time and it was my first time directing. Terminator was my first film and that’s why it’s very dear to me.”
Not only him: The “Terminator” has now developed into a franchise with five films and a television series.