#7 | The Action Movie Guy

Blockbuster

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

James appears on Late Night with David Letterman, as The Abyss disappoints. The Terminator finally finds its fanbase. James rediscovers his passion in a documentary screening, and pitches Titanic.

This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios.

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0:00.0	Morning folks. What's the purpose of your visit?
0:09.6	Recreation, I'm taking my son for scuba lessons.
0:13.0	Is that true son?
0:15.0	Yes sir, in Buffalo.
0:16.0	Just a day trip.
0:19.0	Very good.
0:20.0	There you go.
0:22.0	Welcome to the United States of America. Thank you.
0:27.0	February 1969.
0:40.0	Teenage James Cameron is in the car with his dad heading 26 miles across the U.S. Canada border to take scuba lessons at a YMCA in Buffalo, New York.
0:45.6	It would be a rare bonding experience between Philip and his oldest son,
0:49.5	who had recently been inspired after seeing 2001 a Space Odyssey to start filming with the friend's
0:55.1	Super 8 camera shooting rudimentary spaceship battles against a black velvet background in their
1:00.4	garage.
1:01.4	Jim, how'd you know how to build that spaceship?
1:06.0	I just thought about how it would probably work.
1:08.0	Struts, propulsion, pipes, you know, and just glue those on.
1:13.0	Oh.
1:15.0	Phillips still didn't take kindly to James interest in science fiction worlds.
1:19.0	It was a waste of his time and potential and Philip believed it was irresponsible parenting
1:24.0	to condone such fantastical pursuits. You could be an engineer someday you know Jim?
1:29.7	Yeah I know that dad. You have a knack for it like I did but it takes a lot of hard work here
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