Assignment 17 - Stephanie Bailey

James Cameron directed two of my all-time favorite movies: The Titanic and Avatar. These films are both extremely different but they have a couple of subtle similarities. One movie is about the sinking of a big ship and the other is about a big blue alien race fighting for their planet. These obviously don’t seem like they would have any parallels but James Cameron threw a couple of the same aspects into these films without making the similarity too obvious. While the plots, at first glance, look nothing alike.  But when you look carefully they both have a romance with characters who come from completely different places and pasts. In the Titanic, Jack is a poor poker player who narrowly makes it onto the Titanic. Avatar is about a disabled human who has to fill in for his brother in a scientific breakthrough and help save a native race. These films are still far from predictable though because their endings are both very different and the overall motivation of the character’s conflict is much different. One is tortured by an iceberg while the other has militant humans after a new element killing mercilessly.  In conclusion, the Works of James Cameron may not be noticeably connected at first glance, but they have some hidden similarities that trademark them as his movies.