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James Cameron ‘Knew Nothing About Guns’ When Making ‘The Terminator,’ but Then He Remembered: ‘This Is America, I Can Just Go Buy Them!’
James Cameron reflected on the making of 'The Terminator' during a Paris masterclass on Thursday night.
James Cameron delivered a masterclass in Paris on Thursday night following a sold-out screening of his 1984 breakout “ The Terminator.” With the title so fresh in his mind, the filmmaker spent much of the session sharing stories from the project’s improbable making of. Now armed with a camera, a roommate (in fact, co-screenwriter William Wisher Jr.) and a newfound arsenal, Cameron went out rolling and shooting, working out each and every action beat and shot choice before production ever started. During that same eight-month wait before “The Terminator” filming started, Cameron also delivered scripts for “Aliens” and “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (“I was much faster then,” he laughed), but the filmmaker was still beset with a nagging uncertainty about his choice of leading man.
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