Friday, May 14, 2010

The Secret Of James Cameron's Avatar's Success





When Avatar was released in the theaters worldwide on 18th December of 2009,It was certain that the film will climb success and regain its budget,BUT THIS,this kind of success was never expected by the movie world,not even James Cameron and he admitted that in an interview held in Los Angeles.The film is on its way to break the records of all time,knocking James Cameron's only TITANIC,is just a few days far in the domestic as well as in the worldwide gross collection.According to the box office report,the film has already collected $1,689,833,529 world wide and still on the top ten list of daily box office even after its five weeks of its release.So what made it to climb the history?what was the secret for this colossal success of Avatar?

1) The Name 'JAMES CAMERON'


When we hear these names like Steven Spielberg,Martin Scorsese Or James Cameron,is making a movie the expectation is always very high among the people.That these directors had created history,so we believe that they will make this happen again.From James Cameron,we saw the movie world industry changing its way of presenting story on the screen,that he goes even to minute details to make it perfect.From the tough protector cyborg called Terminator to the fairy tale love inside a sinking ship,we saw his magic.And for an extra advantage ,Steven Spielberg and James Cameron has the maximum number of fans around the globe,that they are even worshiped as the Gods of world movies.

2) The 'HYPE' It Created


After the grand success of his 1997 epic flick Titanic,James Cameron vanished from the movie industry,the reason was unknown till he announced his forthcoming project after ten years.And the answer he told to the media was,that he took twelve years to this project for the technology to develop.After he saw the character 'Gollum' from the epic trilogy 'Lord Of The Rings',that he decided to make it happen.With his crew engineer Jeffrey Katzenberg,together they developed the ultimate technology that will change the viewing experience of the audience around the world,the 3-D Fusion Digital Camera.When the movie started filming the budget went sky high,with its best crew members and artists from the Weta Digital and Industrial Lights and Magic,which made it one of the most expensive movie ever made,with an estimated of $237 million.And as a result the people expectation started booming with time.

3) Cutting Edge Visual Effects,Sound Effects And Editing



Brace yourself if you haven't seen it,instead of watching Avatar, you are in a journey to the 5 million light year far to an unknown moon of the planet Polyphemus,PANDORA.Now big surprises awaits you there.This is the milestone to the entire movie industry,that proved anything can possible to create with a strong imagination.The Pandora is lush,beautiful and full of surprises even an intelligent human cant imagine.Every frames was detailed with perfect editing of the sound,which makes one to sit on the edge,while watching.This is the first time Hollywood is having a big scale and depth Production Designing for a movie.Each scenes cut to the next,perfectly to high adrenalin breath taking action sequences without even feeling it.Every character and situation developed simple and smooth,without creating a havoc inside the viewers mind,that even five year old children can understand and enjoy it fully.Dialogues was up to the level of an laymen's understanding,which made it completely uncomplicated.


4) Music


What made the grip between each character's emotion to the viewers,unthinkably it is the music of the movie.James Horner did it again,and it is not a surprise from a maestro like him,whom always amazed us and gave goosebumps.


5) The New 3-D Technology Cameron Developed


Till 2009,3-D for a movie was considered as headache.Moreover,B grade movies took the advantage for spilling blood and axe out of the screen,and 3-D was shelved as an primitive cinematic technique,until Avatar came.This movie,showed the world,how this technology can be used to create more depth for the story,for that Cameron and his crew recycled the whole technology to a new dimension.Instead of feeling gory,we saw the beauty,and got mesmerized when the seed of the soul tree flew near to us.

6) Simple And Straight Way Of Story Telling.


What was it,that was not in this movie,So one may ask the question like,Was it adventurous?Yes it was.Was it with thrilling action?Yes indeed.And what about romance?Oh,yes offcourse.Everything was there for every kind of viewers.And most importantly,the simplest form of story telling without chaos.When one visual cut to another,you will smoothly travel to the current visual without confusion.And this 'Cameron' way of story telling triggers smoothness to the flow of watching it from the beginning till the end.And finally, everything in this movie was captured with undisturbed camera movements which Cameron always does(except 2-3 shots of shift focuses),which gave chance to the audience to explore and enjoy Pandora more.

7) The Final Battle Sequence-War Between Good And Evil




When we look back,we see a dozens of movies which had walked in to the history of box office records,with huge battle sequences in the climax,between the Good and the Evil.Like Lord Of The Rings trilogy,Star Wars Series,Narnia trilogy and the list goes on.This grand mass massacre,was always loved by people around the world,even they want to set peace upon world they are seeing.When the Omatticaya Nav'i clan was viped out from their living habitat,the audiences heart staid upon them against the human.They want this suffering to end,so a hero was born.And this hero led the Nav'i to peace after a grand war,moreover this war was between the audience and the human,where they rejoiced at the end more than Nav'i

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