Скачать или смотреть Everyone expected AVATAR to flop... but it earned MILLIONS

Imagine wanting to make the most personal movie of your life… but you’re such a perfectionist that you spend decades on it — and somehow, it still isn’t enough. Yes, we’re talking about James Cameron and Avatar. A massive box-office success, sure… but one that cost its director more than 30 years of extreme commitment. He had to walk away from other projects, become the butt of Hollywood jokes, and even risk going broke. All of it to chase a vision where calling him a perfectionist honestly feels like an understatement.

00:00 - Intro
00:42 - The Dream of a Superfan
02:46 - A Dream Project
04:15 - The Titanic That Delayed Avatar
06:50 - Obstacles
07:30 - Creating Pandora
12:15 - The final story
14:50 - Casting
17:20 - On Set With James Cameron
21:30 - Post-Production
25:00 - Screenings and More Pressure
27:46 - The World Meets Pandora
31:00 - Lawsuits
32:55 - Sequels

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is the first installment in the Avatar film series. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the valuable unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor mineral. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to a genetically engineered Na'vi body operated from the brain of a remotely located human that is used to interact with the natives of Pandora called an "Avatar".