Avatar: The Way Of Water Is James Cameron’s Plea To Protect Our Oceans
20th Century Studios
By Walter Roberts/Dec. 17, 2022 2:47 pm EST
“I’ve had this romance with the ocean my entire life. That has involved spending thousands of hours underwater in shallow settings and hundreds of hours underwater in deep settings.”
With “The Way of Water,” Cameron’s message is not hidden.
“The reason that I went down the path of making a series of films in the same universe is because I thought that what I needed to say artistically — to communicate with people — I could do within that framework.”
Cameron’s life philosophy
“Obviously, shifting from the rainforest, which was the focus of the first film, to the ocean, [there] is, between the lines, a plea for the protection and conservation and celebration of our oceans. Hopefully we can turn back from a path that is putting the oceans under stress. I don’t even like to use the term “stress”: It’s used a lot in conservation, [but] if you consider fourth-stage cancer ‘stress’ yeah, it’s ‘stress.’”
“If people see this film, and aside from the drama of the Sully family and the relationships and all these big, dramatic conflicts, if they just love the underwater experience — and they love that sense of the profusion of life and the magic and mystery — then maybe it will reconnect them with what we are presently losing here on this planet.”
