James Cameron on Terminator's True Meaning, the Film's Origins and More | On Directing

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[@baftaguru]

Are you looking forward to Terminator: Dark Fate?

[@robleeming4815]

Yes, the new trailers are an improvement from the early teaser, but I was looking forward to it despite that.

[@haczabim]

Now I am! I was hesitant after the first trailer, but the second was convincing

[@rixenjacob]

Absolutely. Can't wait 😬

[@bradhouston4734]

I just saw the trailer last night and can’t wait! Looks epic and like a solid return to T2 glory! 😀🕺🏻🎥🏖🇦🇺

[@liamdhardy]

No

[@haczabim]

I am one of those people who always complain and criticise. So now I have to say I loved this interview! The interviewer was phenomenal, what an interesting, smart and agreeable woman. Watch and learn people!

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

The making of the first Terminator is incredible story in itself, they shot the movie without permits to the places in guerrilla style, Cameron just prepped by himself studying and then pretty much just making a movie. Brilliant choices made like they looked for certain kinda streets to shot, because there was at the time used these certain kinda lamps that made the blueish hue to the many of the shots. Tons of little details like that which makes the movie creditable with it's budget and so the little they had could be mostly used for the couple big set-pieces. Just the casting of Arnold was so smart choice even tho it wasn't a thing to cast someone with such heavy accent to any movie (still really isn't).

[@seferino]

Cameron is definitely a MASTER director. 💯💯💯 His movies are like magic 🪄

[@MaheshWalatara]

Greatest Action Director.

[@selfelements8037]

2:00, 4:33 This is why "Terminator" is the most relevant movie franchise. It has to be!

[@maskurhasan325]

Best Director ...

[@erikfldt390]

Don't get me wrong, I loved Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2, pretty much all of Cameron's oeuvre, but I wish he'd just admit that his inspiration for Terminator was from reading X-Men comics. He lifted the idea from the 'Days of Future Past' (Uncanny X-Men 141-142) storyline then even lifted the concept of living metal being frozen by liquid nitrogen (Uncanny X-Men 177). He's got talent, I just wish he'd admit that he was just following the old adage 'talent borrows, genius steals.'

[@ECLECTRIC_EDITS]

He didnt. If anything he was influenced by Harlan Ellisons Outer Limits episode: Soldier. Besides, I think re-interpretation is always okay as long as new novel and creative concepts are introduced and influenced by what came before.

[@erikfldt390]

@@ECLECTRIC_EDITS Cameron himself said he absolutely didn't steal the idea from Ellison and denied any inspiration, maybe that was to avoid a lawsuit, but sure, maybe he did find inspiration from that. Even if that's the case, there's too much a coincidence that he stole two very pivotal concepts from X-Men storylines and he himself admitted he was an avid comic reader.

[@dafrog491]

Jim Cameron's not only talented & cool, He's funny.

[@Stygian360]

He's subtly flirting with the host. Masterful

[@ssl3546]

Virile. And. Potent.

[@natashaburton5240]

Sophia Stewart

[@anavilla7134]

THE MOST BEATIFUL AND ROMANTIC FILM OF CAMERON, IS TITANIC....

[@brittniclayton8401]

He’s not the creator of the terminator

[@cookiesandpie4837]

Right, Sophia Stewart is❤

[@lostsoul2184]

What falls?!

[@AC-LING666]

James Cameron should marry the woman interviewing him , they've got the same noses

[@veryunusual126]

Goodness, you're right😲

[@DanJackson1977]

I guess we dont talk about Harlan Ellison anymore, do we Jimmy 🤣

[@southlondon86]

He was a parasite my man. Cameron took a couple of ideas and made them far better than Ellison could ever have.

[@TheDripGodz]

Sad . He didn’t get the credit he deserves. I think they were intimidated by his abrasive/ crazy personality. Only respected his talent

[@DeltaAssaultGaming]

That Outer Limits episode isn’t like The Terminator at all, outside of the very broad general premise.

[@lostsoul2184]

The Michael bay of baymichealing

[@77sergiocon]

Is this before he got skinny and started wearing Fox shirts?

[@bloodlinefilms]

This is not bearded sea explorer james cameron.

[@evoken1216]

Jimmy was in his bulk phase.

[@lesleyrussell8200]

terminator wasnt a dream , you copied from yul bryners android in its movie westworld 1973 and many other things......

[@TheDripGodz]

Facts . I don’t know why people lie about simple things like that

[@lesleyrussell8200]

@@TheDripGodz the pride perhaps of wanting to be the creators

[@bloodlinefilms]

I dont doubt he had a dream about a metal skeleton chasing him with a knife when he was rocking a fever on the Piranha II set. Its a simple enough notion.

[@lesleyrussell8200]

@@bloodlinefilms look, coscarelly said the same thing on his phantasm 79 sphere, ah dream of a hunting flying sphere chasing him, but the truth is he copied the spheres from the imperial fighters of star wars...and his little hooded dwarves too.

[@Realraphistorian]

He stole it from a block woman

[@lostsoul2184]

2:25 maybe if you listen , james , used some of that instinct , you wouldn't have made that so called " Ava tar " in the first place . And maybe then you would've made some real movies

[@TheDripGodz]

Harlan Ellison??? He needs his credit for Terminator as well it was his idea .

[@love_cdrama]

tell me you haven't read "demon with a glass hand" without telling me you haven't read demon with a glass hand. the two stories have as much in common as Back to the Future has with HG Wells "The Time Machine". Cameron was a new comer in Hollywood - this was literally his first film and he sold the script for a dollar in exchange for the chance to direct it. He took the easy way out by not fighting the lawsuit - something that he probably regrets to this day.

[@CarLo-ip6dd]

Sophia Stewart just entered the group chat with evidence of her winning the legal battle in court and she got paid MEGA also for Both the Terminator theft and The Matrix

[@dankeplace]

The true meaning of Terminator, which I stole from someone else.

[@garyphisher7375]

No he didn't. Terminator was unique and original. Harlan Ellison was a serial litigant - the studio caved - Cameron wanted to fight the suit. Imagine you write a story about someone in the future, using time travel to go back to change history - and then you claim that every story that does the same, is ripping you off. Ridiculous!

[@dankeplace]

@@garyphisher7375 Oh please, Cameron is even on record that he stole the content, and why is Elison's name on the credits?

[@cjuare123]

@@garyphisher7375Sophia Stewart wrote it. They stole it from her

[@garyphisher7375]

@@cjuare123 Is she the b4tsh it crazy woman who also claimed she wrote the Matrix too?

[@RELLO94]

@@garyphisher7375Yup and got paid for those creations too

[@geert574]

Cameron is not a writer he stole Terminator and needs writers to help him with every movie

[@tronam]

Oh yeah? Who co-wrote The Abyss, Aliens, Titanic or Avatar?

[@nicholasjanke3476]

1. Ok NO admittedly Aliens was not Cameroon's original idea, but was created by two other sci fi writers (whose names escape me at the moment). But Aliens is a far scarier film than the first one. And it's still a great film. 2. The Terminator plots-a guy pursueing a villain through through time had been done before (Dracula A.D. 1972 (there was no time travel in that one but the same sort of concept), Time After Time, an Outer Limits episode-but Terminator is great film

[@nicholasjanke3476]

At one point Cameroon considered a Spider-Man film starring Micheal Biehn as the hero and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the villain (the two of them have great chemistry). The first issue is that Micheal Biehn was too old to play Spider-Man (the character is like 17 in high school).

[@kdscool1536]

That's simply not true. He took some elements from Harlan Ellison's work, but he co-wrote both Terminator films with William Wisher Jr. And Cameron wrote most of his films himself.

[@TheDripGodz]

@@kdscool1536so true . They settled with Harlan Ellison and gave him $70,000 and his name on end of movie credits.

[@prophetsnake]

short version: he stole it from Harlan Ellison.

[@voteDC]

To be honest Ray Harryhausen's effects are still pretty good today. The skeleton battle (children of the hydra's teeth) in Jason and the Argonauts remains absolutely amazing to my eyes.

[@MultiWalrus1]

Such an unassuming guy. And a true visionary and creative genius. There are not many on his level in Hollywood.

[@Jucelegario]

In order to have "vision" you have to assume. Please stop vaping, its killing your 2 neurons.

[@MultiWalrus1]

J.C. L. Speaking as a language pedant myself, I’d be the first to congratulate you if you were making some kind of annoying, clever remark. But that just doesn’t make any sense. Look up the meaning of “unassuming” and report back.

[@Jucelegario]

@@MultiWalrus1 well you are still stupid if you can't understand that vision and creativity means you have to assume. Buy a brain buddy.

[@MultiWalrus1]

J.C. L. Buy a dictionary! 🤓

[@Jucelegario]

@@MultiWalrus1 Dude, brain cells should be on sale just for people like you!

[@mervinsmith7507]

you make Canada proud so gifted

[@ravishingravi]

What a brilliant interviewer !

[@trappedintime8273]

I wish somebody would ask him why True Lies and the abyss or not on Blu-ray

[@samfisher2306]

True Lies was my favorite of his

[@Jucelegario]

Or why he isn't willing to work with his ex wife again. He probably walks out after a rude answer.

[@jeffmint5472]

Abyss to be released later this year

[@runarvollan]

@@Jucelegario Wasn't he the one contacting Linda for T6?

[@Jucelegario]

@@runarvollan when they say contacting, means through a representative. It comes from his side. Remember James is a big liar, he shilled for bad Terminator movies as of they were the best ever.

[@garycambridge5513]

My favourite director - he hasn’t made one shit film yet 😍

[@paperbagman8913]

Gary Cambridge piranna 2: the spawning

[@samokazem2211]

@@paperbagman8913 Some say it's a best flying piranha film ever made

[@josephdocherty7919]

@@samokazem2211 Somebody just watched Howard Stern!

[@Jucelegario]

I really, really didn't like Titanic. People want to feel cool and included and say its great because "everyone saw it". Guess what, its a mediocre film with great effects, CGI and practical.

[@FabledGentleman]

@@samokazem2211 It IS the best flying piranha movie ever made!

[@engitect]

James Cameron has a striking facial similarity to David Cameron.

[@AC-LING666]

LOL

[@learnenglishwithtreesongte5915]

Lol

[@lydialovato5224]

Im super Excited for the dark fate i got my tshirt and poster of them

[@AM-nz6pn]

Me too!!!!!

[@douglashoule9602]

Of Dark Fate?

[@lydialovato5224]

Yes

[@douglashoule9602]

Nice! May I ask where you get it from? If bought online

[@MuayThaiMmaXboxGeek]

James cameron was not on set ONCE for the filming of that. It's Tim Millers SECOND movie.....It will be toxic feminist SJW pro illegals garbage!

[@BlenderDumbass]

79th VIEWS... WTF

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Really looking forward to Terminator: Dark Fate.

[@tryksta7247]

True meaning, give me a break. He stole this concept from Harlan Ellison who wrote The Outer Limits episodes "Soldier" and "Demon With a Glass Hand" of which Terminator is ripped off from.

[@tryksta7247]

@wayne goodger The problem is Cameron was interviewed by a magazine and when asked where he got the idea for Terminator, he replied, "I ripped off a couple of Harlan Ellison segments." This was in the transcript and then later removed, but Ellison saw the original copy.

[@ColmJoseph1990]

Purely coincidence.

[@tryksta7247]

@wayne goodger He perpetuates the myth and still lies that he had a vision of a metal skeleton in fire during a dream. He legally was forced to add the Ellison acknowledgement only after he got caught dead to rights but before that did all he could to duck and dodge and deceive.

[@nickm5419]

@@tryksta7247 stfu you don't even really know

[@Jucelegario]

And he stole Avatar from Pocahontas.

[@jorgevasconcelosmadetomove]

what about Sophia Stewart ? is it a fraud?

[@enigma19833]

Yes, she's a fraud and a con artist and her story doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.

[@esaieprince]

we were suspeded from school warrior mentality fighting for respect -while they get rich .... gamblers ...Imagine getting high while living in the JETS- they say "get by" but in reality you BUY TO GET! I thought of an invention. A 10-20 POUND coushioned football for training puposes. but had a revelation...after payig the electric, water, and morgage bills. i cannot afford a patent ...just another wasted idea. THE MOVIE alita battle angel has the term "hunter warriors" for bounties..but, youtube esaie prince FROG&TOAD!! i coined the term 10 years ago.for real HUNTER WARRIORS BUT that movie just missed 1billion

[@nayanmipun6784]

He is Rightist or Leftist?

[@Jucelegario]

Watch his movies, he is clearly a pro gun nutjob. In his daily life: Right wing. In public: A raging liberal.

[@ANONYMOUS-tg2tq]

centralist

[@ravecrab]

​@@Jucelegario I always thought the gun shop scene in The Terminator was a subtle bit of anti-gun satire, to be honest. Rewatch it and tell me it's not a comment on how ludicrously easy it is to acquire lethal firearms in the US: Gun Shop Owner: Any one of these is perfect for home defence. Which will it be? Terminator: All. Gun Shop Owner: [Dollar signs light up in eyes] I'll close early today.

[@Jucelegario]

@@ravecrab that's a post woke era thought, is not a critique but an occurrence in Cameron's mind since he uses guns in almost all of his movies.

[@ravecrab]

@@Jucelegario It's entirely possible to use guns in films and still not agree with America's gun licensing laws.