the sequel plunges audiences back into the magical world of pandora. and is the visionary s most am wishous movie yet. cameron is known for turning ahead of time ideas into big screen classics with hits like the terminator . i ll be back. and titanic . i m the king of the world! earning him the title king of the box office. now we get to take a deep dive into how the drawn out dreams from his childhood transformed into some of the biggest movies ever. let s do it. james cameron, welcome back. it is so great to sit down and talk with you again. chris, it s always a pleasure. thank you for having me on. first of all, congratulations. i saw the movie last week. it is an astonishing piece of art and technical wizardry.
in the movie, you know, the leo dicaprio in that wonderful sketch scene, that that s your hand? that s actually me and i m essentially redrawing the drawing that i had done for the film because i had actually drawn all of jack s portfolio drawings but the problem is leonardo, we already shot leonardo and so he s right handed drawing with his right hand and i m left handed. so i actually had to draw a mirror image of the drawing and we had to flop the film to get it into the movie but i wanted to get the sketch lines to be the way i had done the drawing of kate. i want to show an iconic clip. i m the king of the world! woo! you won the oscar for best director and you quoted your movie ending your speech with the life, i m the king of the world. okay. we went there.
titanic is a throwback in so many ways to the big blockbusters of the 50s and 60s. not just in its scope and in its scale, but also that it was talked about in the way that we talked about cleopatra. we re putting everything we have into this giant boat and is it going to sink? the budget at that point hit a thin, unheard of, $200 million. leo dicaprio had done what s eating gilbert grape and his romeo and juliet had not come out yet. there was some nervousnesse, ca he do this thing? the studio thought they were in terrible, terrible trouble. it was going to be an enormous disaster and it turned out to be the biggest movie of all time. i m the king of the world! titanic really had eve everything. it was an epic, old fashioned movie.
something. the oasis of the seas. [bleep] the mayflower. the mayflower, she has got it. all coming back to me now it s all coming back it s all coming back to me now when the pilgrims land here, where did they land? fort lauderdale? [buzzer] it wasn t a cruise ship. [. i m the king of the world. connecticut? [buzzer] delaware? [buzzer] do you think they stopped at joe biden s house? joe biden wasn t alive then. joe biden has been alive forever. i know no think of myself as being as old as i am than fly. tell me what you are thankful for on this thanksgiving. i m thank for my weed. i m super thankful to be on fox news. you are welcome. what do you want to tell jesse watters. have fun, get high, eat a lot of turkey. happy thanksgiving. see you on christmas. i hope you don t have to teach me about that. i think i went to church enough.
is it going to sink. sits budget at that point hit a then under heard of $200 million. leo dicaprio had done what s eating gilbert grape and his romeo and juliette had not come out yet. there was nervousness on the part of some executives like can leo do this thing. the studio thought they were in terrible, terrible trouble. it was going to be an enormous disaster and it turned out to be the biggest movie of all time. i m the king of the world! titanic really had everything. it was an epic old fashioned movie. iceberg, ahead. an action movie. it also had a love story at the heart of it. i m jack dawson. rose. i have to get you to write that one down. it was irresistible. jack and rose and it was sexy. leo was absolutely gorgeous. kate winslet really captured that independent woman who would not be pinned down.