James Cameron’s mother inspires blue hue for ‘Avatar’ characters
James Cameron’s mother inspires blue hue for ‘Avatar’ characters – The protagonists of the highest-grossing films in history are blue because of the strange dream that kept James Cameron’s mother awake.
By Megan Sauer
It took a while, but when the mouse house managed to reorganize its release schedule in theaters and Disney+ , the billboard experienced a new blue Christmas with ‘ Avatar: The Sense of Water ‘ (2022) , the sequel with which James Cameron returned to the universe of ‘ Avatar ‘ (2009) to break all records again.
It seems incredible, but more than ten years have passed since the premiere of what was one of the highest-grossing films in the history of cinema , a decade in which the fandom dreamed of taking a new look at that world of eternal vines, fluorescent bugs , immense oceans and stretched Na’vi, the race of humanoid natives who inhabit Pandora.
” Some of the design choices revolved around colors affecting us psychologically , which is why the film has such a striking color palette, like the early days of color cinematography, where everything had to be bright and vibrant,” explained James Cameron. He explained the reason why aliens were given bluish tones.
It was the representations of the Hindu divine like Rama, Vishnu, or Krishna. Besides, additional reasons were also there.
” As for the color, green was initially chosen, but there was already a long history of green aliens and, in addition, there is the Hulk ,” recalls the filmmaker himself. “The human colors, pinks and browns, weren’t alien, and SpongeBob was already yellow. That pretty much left us with blue and purple.”
“Purple is my favorite color,” she continues. “But I thought we would use it for one of our main bioluminescence colors, which we did, associating it with Eywa and anything sacred to the Na’vi.
That’s when my mother told me about a dream she had where there was a three-year-old blue woman. meters tall with six breasts, it was a great image. I made a drawing, but the six breasts thing didn’t turn out as well as it seems and, besides, it would affect the grade. So yeah, blue.”
It may seem like a whim, but we’re talking about James Cameron, the guy who has broken all world box office records twice, first with ‘Titanic’ (1997) and then with ‘Avatar’ (2009).
This ex-truck driver, who made his film debut in 1981 with ‘Piranha II: The Vampires of the Sea’, later gave us 5 consecutive instant classics: ‘Terminator’ (1984), ‘Aliens: The Return’ (1986), ‘Abyss’ (1989), ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (1991) and ‘Risky Lies’ (1994) , his reasons will be for choosing blue as the fundamental color in a saga that will return with the future ‘Avatar 3’ (2025), ‘Avatar 4’ (2029) and ‘Avatar 5’ (2031).
