On the anniversary of Titanic, as James Cameron takes us back to Pandora, rockmarooned looks at the filmmaker's representative, goofy, snarky work with Bill Paxton:
, Jesse Hassenger examines collaborations between actors and directors that have lasted for three or more non-sequel films.
When James Cameron won the Academy Award for Best Director back in 1998, he clutched his award in his hand and declared, “I’m the king of the world!” The moment was subsequently derided as cringeworthy hubris—as Cameron meeting the moment of histriumph with the same unchecked ego that he’d become known for as the director of the most expensive movie ever made and the most successful movie ever made .
Not literally, of course, and maybe not even with the symbolic clarity of certain directors using certain actors as their obvious proxy. I don’t think Cameron actively thinks of himself as the punk who gets killed by the T-800 early in, or, especially, as Simon, the used car salesman pretending to be a spy in. In these roles—the majority of his work for Cameron—Paxton ranges from major doofus to mild buffoon, and Cameron doesn’t seem like he’d place himself on that spectrum.
The Bill Paxton of 1994 didn’t need to wet his pants and twitch his mustache for our amusement. He was about to star in
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