James Cameron cut 10 minutes of action from Avatar sequel in order to not 'fetishize' gun violence

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James Cameron's work as a writer and director of such films as Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009), The Abyss (1989), Aliens (1986) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) has left an indelible mark on the moviemaking industry.In most cases his epics are some of the most expensive and longest running films with no shortage of action.While his latest grand adventure Avatar: The Way of Water runs 192 minutes (3 hours and 12 minutes), this go around he actually decided to shorten the runtime, in part, as to not 'fetishize' gun violence.

Avoiding gratuitous violence: James Cameron, 68, revealed that he cut out 10 minutes from Avatar: The Way Of Water that he deemed unnecessary in order to 'not fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30+ years ago' 'I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action,' Cameron told Esquire Middle East, as reported by Huff Post. 'I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark.

You have to have conflict, of course.''Violence and action are the same thing, depending how you look at it,' he continued. 'This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I'm known as an action filmmaker.' After more than five decades of filmmaking Cameron, 68, has looked back at his catalogue of work and confessed: 'I don't know if I would want to make that film now.'He elaborated, 'I don't know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30+ years ago, in our current world.

What's happening with guns in our society turns my stomach.'  His approach: 'I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action,' Cameron said of Avatar 2 to Esquire Middle East , as reported by Huff Post. 'I wanted.