Titanic was indeed a huge hit when it was released in movie theaters December 12 1997. Records search shows it to have obtained the highest grossing film in history. Critics take it to be an ambitious and something that may flop which came out to be a big success winning not only the hearts of people worldwide but also eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture. After this titanic hit of a movie director James Cameron went for other fields in filming before coming back with yet another major blockbuster which after three weeks since its first release came out as number one for movie goers—Avatar.

Avatar is set in a planet called Pandora which is inhabited by the people called Navi. In order for humans to gain peaceful negotiations regarding their land  they have devised human controlled bodies which are designed to be like that of the Navi people—the avatar. To control the said genetic breakthrough, an instant people search happens which involves volunteers to take training before facing the said tribe. Unfortunately one of these those who took the training died leaving its twin brother Jake Sully, a former marine to take his place.

Titanic and the Avatar are the clearest examples of what James Cameron is all about: one great talent in movie making. This Canadian film director manages to make great quality movies although there are people who question his strategies. Some of his writings and directing stints are for movies the Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, and True Lies; all of which characters have become part of man’s vocabulary and history. With such spectacular movies people began doing background check on how he became the James Cameron we all know.

James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada on August 16, 1954. His father, Phillip, was an electrical engineer while his mother, Shirley, was a nurse. His early interest in filming came about while studying in Fullerton College as he would visit the film archive in the University of Southern California. There he would spend time pulling out graduate thesis and either make copies whenever possible or makes notes instead.

After dropping out and taking several jobs including as a truck driver, he had continued on his writing whenever he had gotten the time. It was when Star Wars hit the big screen that inspired Cameron thus letting him quit his job and pursue directing.

James Cameron went nonstop studying and devising new strategies which opened ideas to filming. One idea was used in Terminator which he later applied to Alien. During those times the people in Alien was questioning him and seem to have trouble agreeing to his tactics, however when the movie was through it had won awards and acknowledgement including their lead actress wining the best actress award in the Academy and making it to the cover of TIMES.

Titanic was perhaps well noted to be James Cameron’s biggest success (especially with that undeniable fact that continued to find a person falling in love over and over again with Jack and Rose), however 12 years and many documentaries and studying 3D Fusion Camera System, he returned to make a blockbuster hit in The Avatar. At present there’s a big possibility that this Cameron movie will take another top grossing position in history. James Cameron is definitely the hit maker whose movies we would want to look out for.