Getting published sucks, doesn't it? Publishers won't accept things from people who have nothing published on their resumes. So to get published, you have to get published. Its wonder anyone bothers to write books these days.
Yeah...seeing someone who can't do their job worth a darn get millions while I can't get a local newspaper to look at my stuff is frustrating. I'm not a great writer, but I don't think I suck, either. I'm sure that if I can just published, that my works would turn in a buck.
I guess thinking of everyone else on the project is a good consideration, too, though they only get net pay most of the time.
Its true that the topics Cameron preaches are not irrelevent, but its way he does it, like we've just said. What's worse is that these weird soap boxes will suddenly come in at the oddest of moments when you weren't expecting them...like in Abyss. It just about floored me when the alien started in with that, and that was before it registered just how much in bad taste that was.
Now, I can understand his concern over automated industry, though(and thankfully, the studio made him keep the message down to more minimal level), because it takes the human element out of the picture. I've had similar feelings, like when a local train railroad shipping companies at the town where I used to live replaced human engine car operators with A.I.'s in the trains. THey didn't have anyone in the engine car with controls anymore. I was scared stiff to cross railraod tracks in that town and in the surrounding areas after that because I was sure that the A.I.'s would malfunction and tragedy would strike.
Unfortunately, I was right, and I will spare you the grim details of an accident in which the A.I. on one of the trains DID fail on a bridge that has to open to let barges pass through it...
...While the train was carrying explosive and flammable materials....
The point being, at the end of all of this, is that if a message, outside of one in a children's film, must be presented, moderation and subtly should be employed, but have it just obvious enough that the audience picks up that the theme is even there. Its a fine line, but when its played right by the film I'm watching, I actually feel like my brain has been stimulated because I actually had to think in order "get it" which led to me thinking more about the issue and coming to deeper conclusions that I did before, and that my intelligence was respected by the filmmakers.
