{"id":172723,"date":"2022-12-28T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=172723"},"modified":"2022-12-28T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T13:49:56","slug":"avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Avatar&#8217; Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Cameron regrets the extent to which he used gunplay in his past films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron spoke about his change of heart on the matter in a recent interview with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquireme.com\/culture\/interviews\/james-cameron-i-wouldnt-make-terminator-today\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\" title=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\">Esquire Middle East<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI look back on some films that I\u2019ve made, and I don\u2019t know if I would want to make that film now. I don\u2019t 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,\u201d said the legendary movie director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d9MyW72ELq0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019m happy to be living in New Zealand where they just banned all assault rifles two weeks after that horrific mosque shooting a couple of years ago,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with \u201cTerminator,\u201d Cameron\u2019s directed other box-office hits including: \u201cAliens,\u201d \u201cThe Abyss,\u201d \u201cTrue Lies,\u201d \u201cTitanic,\u201d and \u201cAvatar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His new movie, \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water,\u201d is playing at movie theaters now.\u00a0 Cameron said that while editing the film, he made a conscious effort to remove scenes depicting firearms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VIDEO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/video-cops-shoot-murder-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\" title=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\">Cops Shoot Man Who Allegedly Murdered Woman at Daycare Center<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action. 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 on how you look at it. This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I\u2019m known as an action filmmaker,\u201d Cameron explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" title=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Marshall_Project-1024x585.png\" alt=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-172725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Marshall_Project-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Marshall_Project-400x229.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Marshall_Project-150x86.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Marshall_Project-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Marshall_Project.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(<em>Graph: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2022\/11\/05\/ahead-of-midterms-most-americans-say-crime-is-up-what-does-the-data-say\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\" title=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\"><em>The Marshall Projec<\/em>t<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that violent crime and property crime have declined since the \u201980s and \u201890s when Cameron was making his foray into the movie business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back then, gun control <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_law_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\" title=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\">laws were far more stringent <\/a>at both the state and federal levels.  Yet, our country was more violent.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron&#8217;s &#8220;stomach-turning&#8221; implication that \u201cgun violence\u201d is more of a threat today than it was back then is a myth.  As too is his notion that banning black rifles, vis a vis New Zealand, increases public safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have far more permissive gun laws today and crime remains well below what we witnessed a few decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put things in perspective, half the states in this country now have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gov-kemp-signs-georgia-constitutional-carry-act-into-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\" title=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\">Constitutional carry laws<\/a> on the books and there are more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/nssf-24-million-modern-sporting-rifles-in-circulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\" title=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\">24 million modern sporting rifles in circulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never before have so many Americans been free to carry concealed handguns outside the home or own any number of semiautomatic firearms.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out that the consequence of millions of responsibly armed Americans exercising their 2A rights is not a more dangerous society.  It&#8217;s a safer one.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\" title=\"'Avatar' Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cameron regrets the extent to which he used gunplay in his past films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":172733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,240,1],"tags":[132,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events","8":"category-this-week","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Avatar&#039; Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Movie Director James Cameron regrets the extent to which he used gunplay in his past films, including &quot;Terminator.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Avatar&#039; Director James Cameron Regrets Gunplay in Past Films, Happy to Live in New Zealand Where \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Are Banned\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"James Cameron regrets the extent to which he used gunplay in his past films.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/avatar-director-james-cameron-regrets-gunplay-in-past-films-happy-to-live-in-new-zealand-where-assault-weapons-are-banned\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-28T20:18:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-08T13:49:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Avatar_Cameron.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"778\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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