“STRANGE” COINCIDENCE
8 Feb
During the audience Q&A portion of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s annual directors panel on Sunday, I seized a rare opportunity to pose a question to both Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) and James Cameron (“Avatar”) about a striking similarity that I observed on this blog a few weeks ago between “Strange Days,” a 1995 film that Bigelow directed and Cameron co-wrote and produced, and “Avatar,” which Cameron says he first thought of in — you guessed it — 1995. (The attached video, which features a portion of my question and the entirey of their response, was captured by Jeff Wells of Hollywood-Elsewhere, unbeknownst to me. Thanks Jeff!)
Video: Scott Feinberg asks Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron about a possible connection between “Strange Days” and “Avatar.” Credit: Jeff Wells.
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