Thursday, Feb. 4

Cameron Brilliant Writer of Genre

Truby expresses his respect for Avatar:

In all the visual splendor of James Cameron’s Avatar, it’s easy to overlook the script. In fact, the Avatar screenplay has come in for the same abuse Cameron’s Titanic script earned. You’ve heard the complaints: the story is a Pocahontas rip-off. The bad guys are just evil villains. The dialogue is stilted. In short, great visuals, bad screenwriting. The critics aren’t so much wrong as irrelevant.

He goes on to explain how the film is a combo of the “eco-myth” and the “disaster” genre and how Cameron is a “brilliant writer of pop culture.” Expect to see several new specs that purport the love of trees and all things nature within the next year.