Seven movies that pushed the boundaries of storytelling.
Something struck me when reading Cameron's typical hubristic declarations in his conversation with Peter Jackson over at Slate. He said "Filmmaking is not going to ever fundamentally change... It's about those actors somehow saying the words and playing the moment in a way that gets in contact with the audience's hearts. I don't think that changes. I don't think that's changed in the last century... [The studios have] also lost the courage to make, frankly, a movie like 'Avatar,' which is a blockbuster-scaled movie not based on prior arc." But just because a film's not part of a franchise doesn't mean it's a radical break with the hero-cycle past. And Cameron is way out there if he really thinks "Avatar" is all that different, when it comes to plot freshness, from the "Transformers" and "Harry Potter"s of the world. Leaving aside the avant-garde, there've been plenty of movies that re-orient...
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