A Picture From AvatarMabuhay Pinoy has several comments received from pinoys watching Avatar online from different points around the world. A pinoy seaman I knew e-mailed to tell me that he was profoundly touched when he watched Avatar online. A nationalist by nature, he readily compared the living humanoids of the planet Pandora to us Pinoys whose country the Philippines has been colonized by foreigners for its natural resources. Another Pinay, this time from Sydney Australia, said that she watched Avatar online from an online site where you have to fill up first a simple survey for you to continue watching the movie Avatar. She further revealed that the simple survey was nothing more than a piec e of cake compared to the joys she felt watching the movie Avatar online and free at that. And here is a real surprise for me. A Pinay living in Iceland, yes, you got it right, I said Iceland, sent in an e-mail saying she was so inspired by the unbelievable graphics of Avatar that she is now focusing her sight on making a short film with a footnote saying "the graphics you see was inspired by Avatar".
Alright, Avatar did raised a lot of critic eyebrows worldwide when it overtook sales of Titanic, knowing for a fact that the writer director of both the Titanic and Avatar is one and the same person. My goodness, how did James Cameron got to think of these ideas? And why did I not think of it before he did? And because I was so dumbfounded by his creation, I google searched the name James Cameron. This is what I found out about James Cameron. He is a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and inventor rolled into one. Wow! He is a native of Canada and a noted biographer described James Cameron as a scientist artist. Well I think I can be him. I was able to construct a rubberband powered flying model plane and I also was able to write a dozen of poems. Anyway, back to James.
James Cameron was the writer director of The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), and his last film before Avatar was Titanic (1997) and finally Avatar (2009). Now, in terms of earnings, James Cameron is said to be one of the highest income earner director of all time. Imagine him grossing US$ 1.75 billion in the US alone and a whooping US$ 4.91 billion worldwide. My goodness, I am cross-eyed with all those billions pouring into the bank account of James Francis Cameron. At age 56, you see James was born August 16, 1954, he is already a billionaire several times over. Actually, most of his billions would come from Titanic and Avatar, now considered as the two highest grossing films ever produced.
