Boosh Hall of Fame: James Cameron

"You mean the Titanic guy?" Yes, "The Titanic Guy." If you call him that, I would put my money on you getting beaten half to death by a director's chair...with spikes...and flamethrowers attached to it, because this grade-A cocky badass wouldn't settle for a less-awesome director's chair to save his dying mother.

As we all know, Avatar made it's theater debut this past Friday. What you don't know is that Avatar is based on 30 years of angst... Here's the abridged story. A 22 year old James Cameron sees Star Wars, and hates every second of it. He knew that he should have made that film...Little did George Lucas know, he had a nemesis. Cameron went on to direct some Sci-fi classics such as Alien and Terminator. Though he is best known for Titanic, that was his, and I quote "Fuck-You Money."

After Titanic, Cameron traveled the world doing bad-ass stuff like swimming with Sharks and sailing through hurricanes (I'm not lying). Until one day, when the stars lined up, he made a few phone calls. One was to the CEO of Sony, basically telling them to make a 3D camera to HIS specifications, and the others were to movie theaters, demanding they use said technology. Have you seen a 3D movie in the past 5 years? Thank James Cameron...or don't...because you are a pawn in his master plan to bend George Lucas over an X-Wing and rail him with his own special-edition "Director's Lightsaber."

Fast forward to today, James Cameron has two words for Lucas..."Check" and "Mate." Avatar was planned to the T for the past 20 years, and he doesn't have to take anything from anyone...

Fox: "Do the Aliens need to have tails?"
Cameron: "Yes, they have to have tails"

For the aliens' language, Cameron hired a famous linguist to invent it...and Cameron was there for every step. "He didn’t just tell me to build a language from scratch. He actually wanted to discuss points of grammar." The world was pieced together bit-by-bit. Cameron invented dozens of plants and hired a botanist to give them names in three languages, one of which is alien language invented for the movie, and write descriptions for them. Like, legit scientific descriptions, one of which took 5 weeks to build a biological plausibility scenario. He also hired an archeologist, astrophysicist and anthropologist to further refine his vision.

Here at The Boosh, we honor bad-assery such as hurricane chasing and manly adventures, but not as much as spending exorbitant amounts of money to make highly regarded professionals carry out your imaginative biddings for your amusement.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_avatar_cameron/