LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 165 Never has blue made so much green.
I’m talking about the Na’vi, of course—the blue-skinned folks in James Cameron’s Avatar movies, the latest of which has been on the top of the box-office charts for five-straight weeks. And it’s not like Cameron hasn’t had success before. Before the Avatar films, he directed a little film called Titanic. He launched the Terminator series, been behind Aliens and The Abyss and even directed the action comedy True Lies. Why, of the world’s top-10 grossing films of all time, Cameron’s directed three of them. Not a bad track record.
So what makes Cameron’s films so popular? And what makes so many moviegoers want to see them again and again? We dig into the heart of the matter in our rollicking...