James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian and American film director who is nicknamed "Kashin".
It has been 9 years since Ka Shen's last work, "Avatar", and the audience's memory and expectations for him have not diminished, but have become more and more intense, which is the charm of Ka Shen.
Man is not in the jianghu, but there are legends of him everywhere in the jianghu.
Today, Xiaobian will give you 11 details that are not so well known, do you know how many of them?
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Cameron excels at making action movies and sci-fi movies on a very high budget, and the themes often try to explore the relationship between people and technology.
From the beginning of 1984 to today, in the past 34 years, he has directed only 7 films, of which Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009) are still the top two grossing works in the history of world cinema.
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Cameron was born in a place called "Kapuskasing" in Ontario, Canada.
His father, Phillip Cameron, was an electronics engineer and his mother, Shirley Cameron, was an artist.
The family moved to the southern city of Beria in California in 1971.
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Cameron studied physics at a two-year community college in California, but soon changed to Majoring in English, but took a break from school before the start of the school year.
He went to the library of the University of Southern California to find materials to learn film special effects techniques for himself, and wrote scripts with the gap in driving trucks to make money.
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He began his career as a screenwriter and later moved on to art directing and special effects processing for films (e.g., in the films Battle of the Century and The Great Escape from New York). Before beginning his directorial career in 1981, he was also a producer for Roger Corman, the film's famous B-list film director.
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Cameron's breakthrough began with his special effects team, whose work began with Terminator (the film's special effects, while somewhat outdated today, were very advanced at the time).
Later, his "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" used a lot of computer stunts, and the film eventually won four Oscars for best visual effects, best mixing, best makeup and best sound editing.
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Cameron's 1997 film Titanic also used computer stunts on a wide scale and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Titanic became the most expensive, highest-grossing, and most lucrative film of its time. Of the eleven awards for a film that equalized the Oscar-winning record of Bing Hu (1959), three belonged to Cameron: Best Director, Best Picture (of which he was one of the producers), and Best Editing.
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He has been married five times, and his ex-wives include Kathryn Bigelow (1989–91), the only woman to win an Oscar for best director, two-time actress Linda Hamilton (1997–99), and his current wife, Suzy Amis, who starred as Rose's granddaughter in Titanic, who married in June 2000 and have three children.
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Cameron is a diving maniac who has made 72 deep-sea dives, 33 of which were to the site of the Titanic's shipwreck.
During the filming of titanic in 1997, he dived to the bottom of the sea 12 times to shoot the shipwreck.
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On March 25, 2012, he took two hours alone on the submarine "Deep Sea Challenger" to reach the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, at a depth of nearly 11 kilometers.
He stayed at the bottom of the sea for three hours, becoming the second time in human history that he had reached the deepest seabed dive, and the first person to arrive there alone.
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Cameron wrote the script for the first Spider-Man film, but was rejected because it was "too violent."
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In 1977, after watching the first Star Wars movie, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver and moved into the film industry.