Main Ideas: 1. Cameron’s original inspiration comes from literature., True, False, Main Ideas 2. Using cutting-edge technology is important to his vision of filmmaking., True, False, Main Ideas 3. He was inspired by current events to do the movies he directed., True, False, Main Ideas 4: Cameron is not competitive with other filmmakers., True, False, Main Ideas 5: Cameron writes as well as directs his films., True, False, Synonyms 2: He never accepted the conventional PARAMETERS that dictate what could and could not be done on film., limitations, unity of opinion, at bargain prices, Synonyms 3: Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) is difficult to use in movies because you need a very successful movie to make the expense worthwhile. CGI can't be made ON THE CHEAP., money-oriented, at bargain prices, financial, Synonyms 4: Even though most specialists thought that expressive human faces were impossible to do in CGI, Cameron wanted to disprove the CONSENSUS in the profession and do it successfully., limitations, massacre, unity of opinion, Synonyms 5: Cameron was always a very visual person; even as a child he was always DOODLING AROUND in class..., crouching, sketching, propelling, Synonyms 5: Cameron was always a very visual person; even as a child he was always doodling around in class, HUNKERING DOWN behind his book to hide from the teacher., crouching, sketching, limiting, Synonyms 6: FISCAL considerations are very important in his career., emotional and instinctive, financial, money-oriented, Synonyms 7: Cameron is very honest about the limits of his inspiration: He has very MERCENARY reasons to choose certain stories, but then he weaves emotion into the film., money-oriented, financial, at bargain prices, Synonyms 8: He wants the viewer to have a very VISCERAL reaction to his movies, conventional, financial, emotional and instinctive, Synonyms 9: Avatar was a fictional story, but it reminded us of the SLAUGHTER of native peoples in the Americas., massacre, crouching, limitations, Using the Dicitonary B: In her essay, Susan Sontag tried to PUSH young people into learning more about the history of cinema., ENCOURAGE/PERSUADE, MOVE, ADVERTISE, Using the Dictionary C: The studio is PUSHING this film as science fiction, but it's really a horror movie., TRY TO GET PAST, ENCOURAGE/PERSUADE, ADVERTISE, Using the Dictionary D: Star Wars was the highest grossing movie until Titanic PUSHED ahead of the competition., TRY TO GET PAST, MOVE, ADVERTISE, Using the Dictionary E: Tolstoy felt that films would PUSH writers to write in a more modern and exciting way., INCREASE/DECREASE, ENCOURAGE/PERSUADE, MOVE, Using the Dictionary F: In the second film, the Terminator PUSHED the evil cyborg into a vat of acid., MOVE, ADVERTISE, Referents and Expletives: Paragraph 2: In the sentence (line 8) “My job is to make the movie and make IT as excellent a film experience as you can have...”, what does “it” refer to?, Cameron's job, The movie, Expletive, Which sentence contains an EXPLETIVE “it”?, Cameron made Avatar, and it required advanced technology., Cameron had an idea, but it was too complicated., It was difficult to create photo-realistic CGI characters at that time., Parts of Speech: Paragraph 7: In “EVERYTHING is done for a reason,” what part of speech is “everything”?, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Parts of Speech: Paragraph 2: In “I don't want to be OVERLY involved...”, what part of speech is “overly”?, Adjective, Adverb, Preposition, Word Formation: Paragraph 6: Look at the word “IMPOSSIBLE.” How is this word formed?, Prefix, Root, Both, Word Formation: In the introduction, look at the word “FILMMAKER.” How is this word formed?, P, B, CW

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