Sigourney Weaver spricht über die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Aliens-Crew und Regisseur James Cameron: „Sie hatten eine Einstellung“
https://ew.com/sigourney-weaver-aliens-james-cameron-crew-drama-they-did-have-attitude-11828311
Sigourney Weaver spricht über die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Aliens-Crew und Regisseur James Cameron: „Sie hatten eine Einstellung“
https://ew.com/sigourney-weaver-aliens-james-cameron-crew-drama-they-did-have-attitude-11828311
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> “What I remember is that they really loved Ridley, and they wanted Ridley to be directing this second film,” Weaver explained. “They didn’t know who Jim Cameron was. I didn’t really know who he was. I just thought he wrote a great script.”
> The crew made their feelings known. During the panel, Weaver recalled how Cameron “kept setting up screenings” only for none of the crew to turn up in the end.
> “So they did have an attitude,” she said. “And it did take a while [for them to get along], actually.”
I’m sure I remember reading Jeanette Goldstein (Vasquez) said some of the camera crew were rude and condescending to her too
It may be true that the crew had an attitude, but Cameron has built a reputation as being a nightmare to work with well beyond Aliens. The Abyss shoot is infamous.
Iirc they shot in the UK in pinewood studios. Pinewood had a terrible reputation for laziness, snobbery and elitism. Find any of the documentaries about George Lucas making the original Star Wars and marvel at the crap treatment those goons at pinewood dished out to Lucas. Was the same group of people who did that to Cameron. The fact pinewood continued to get work from any studio was more studio driven budget concerns than filmmaker preference. The more I learned about the pinewood crews of that generation the more disgusted I was with them. Terrible people.
It was worth it to make Aliens, the second and FINAL film in the Alien franchise. Perhaps someday they will make a third.
I heard an ancedote about the teabreak disputes of how they were doing an complicated scene with lots of smoke so long time to set up, and suddenly the set doors open with all the smoke vanishing, and it’s the tea lady with her cart and all the crew walked over to get their afternoon cup and sandwiches which upset Cameron fiercely because as the director he decided when there would be breaks.
James Cameron is known as a complete dick. My grandpa was a stuntman on one of his films in the 90s. Said Cameron was a total asshole to anyone and everyone on set.