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Avatar director James Cameron finally tempers his temper and channels his inner Na’vi
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James Cameron thinks of Avatar as a family saga, like crime trilogy The Godfather (1972 to 1990), with intergenerational drama and warring clans.
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Maureen Dowd
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MANHATTAN BEACH, California – When James Cameron swept the Oscars in 1998 for Titanic (1997), he got onstage and crowed that he was “the king of the world”.
Going overboard is his modus vivendi. Many in Hollywood had expected his shipwreck movie to be the new Cleopatra, a sodden US$200 million (S$258 million) bust.
