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    James Cameron weist Kritiker zurück, die seine Drehbücher für peinlich halten: „Zeigen Sie mir Ihre umsatzstärksten Filme – dann sprechen wir über die Wirksamkeit der Dialoge“


    James Cameron weist Kritiker zurück, die seine Drehbücher für peinlich halten: „Zeigen Sie mir Ihre umsatzstärksten Filme – dann sprechen wir über die Wirksamkeit der Dialoge“

    https://variety.com/2024/film/news/james-cameron-critics-hate-cringe-dialogue-1236151104/

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    1. mcfw31 on

      > “I don’t cringe on any of the dialogue, but I have a lower cringe factor than, apparently, a lot of people do around the dialogue that I write,” Cameron added. “You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness.”

    3. CalvinYHobbes on

      He’s one of the few people that can talk shit like this and you just have to accept it.

    5. wonkeykong on

      I thoroughly enjoy each of these movies specifically because they are such unique visual experiences. There was nothing like them before, and I can’t really think of anything else since that comes close. For that reason they are, to me, the essence of cinema.

      But I will not pretend that the scripts are more then average at best. And that’s okay. They didn’t need to be in order to be successful. He is being defensive.

    6. poo-rag on

      What’s he so pissy about?

      The selling points of those films aren’t dialogue, they’re:

      Avatar: see a hollywood budget 3D (brand new technology at the time) action film.

      Titanic: watch a man hit a gigantic propeller and spin 20 times before he hits the water

      Avatar 2: i guess, nostalgia (remember 3d??). Definitely the hype machine

      Dialogue was never the selling point of those films. It was always spectacle.

    7. Now_Wait-4-Last_Year on

      I’ve said before including just yesterday on another post that my favourite scene by him of all time is the one where Ripley faces off against the Alien Queen for the first time, the Alien Queen gets her Praetorian Guard to back of with a gesture and Ripley uses a show of force with the flamethrower. The truce holds until a facehugger breaks out and Ripley cocks her head with an Oh You Did Mot Look.

      The entire scene has no dialogue at all.

    11. InconspicuousD on

      *meme of the guy standing up in court to speak*

      I don’t think the dialogue is that bad

    12. Sagebea on

      Whenever I hear about him being kind of a dick I always think of the Tina Fey Amy Poehler golden globes monologue joke. Something along the lines of “Kathryn Bigelow has been nominated for zero dark thirty (some line I don’t remember). I don’t know, when it comes to torture I trust the woman who was married to James Cameron for a few years”

    14. saturngtr81 on

      Two things can be true: a lot of his films are all-timers and also some of the dialogue delivered by his male characters especially makes it pretty clear why he’s been divorced 4 times.

      “Hey Vasquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?”

    15. Whooptidooh on

      All I remember from Avatar 2 is the amount of “bro” that was used. Once they start, it’s all I hear.

    19. Tiki-Jedi on

      McDonald’s sells a billion burgers every year.

      Doesn’t mean they aren’t still shit anyways.

    20. PromptAcademic4954 on

      I hate that shit. He basically said the same thing to a critic who didn’t like the Titanic. Basically, we are obligated to love whatever he put out because our opinions are meaningless.

    21. LeeOfTheStone on

      These films are as successful as they are *in spite of* their dialogue. He knows how to craft something in a visual medium (and in a way most don’t), and how to hire very well across departments in general. The *Avatar* series is amazing, but not because it’s particularly riveting as a story.

    22. Ok_Formal5857 on

      You have F you money, why do you care what some keyboard warriors have to say

    24. Nerdlinger on

      Congratulations, James! You’re the McDonald’s of scriptwriting.

      Is that what you want to hear?

    25. ThirstyOne on

      Financial success is not a measure of quality. Case in point, there are McDonalds restaurants all over the world and they’re not exactly known for their food quality.

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