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James Cameron, director of the amazing movie Terminator 2 and Space Smurfs, has made a new 9 part documentary about the health of our oceans and how climate change is affecting them so negatively. The series is called “Years of Living Dangerously,” and it appears on the Showtime channel, the same place that airs Oliver Stone’s series.
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The film has a plethora of A-list celebs like Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jessica Alba, Don Cheadle, Olivia Munn, Michael C. Hall, America Ferrera, and Chris Hayes for some reason. With such a huge cast carrying the global warming torch and the disastrous effects it can have on everything you’ve ever known and don’t know, Cameron hopes that it will inspire people to get out there and really get to know nature.
Recently he sat down with NBC and did a little Q&A with them about his documentary and had some very interesting things to say. Things like how no one should listen to his documentary.
Okay he didn’t say that exactly, but he might as well have. During the interview, Cameron was asked how getting names like Damon’s and Schwarzenegger’s in the film had helped it. His response was pretty surprising.
“They are not climate change experts and people should not get their facts from celebrities.”
So James Cameron essentially said that James Cameron’s new documentary can be passed over because James Cameron and all of James Cameron’s cast are celebrities like James Cameron.
You can make the argument that none of these celebs had actually sat down to talk about it themselves as talking heads. Cameron said as much, and explains he sends these celebrities out as “investigative journalists” getting stories and facts from various places. It would be a good argument if anyone with half a brain believed that these interviews and statistics were objective for half a second.
Anyone who sinks as much money into anything as much as James Cameron does wouldn’t go making a documentary using A-list celebs without making a point. “Years of Living Dangerously” not only had an A-list celebrity cast, it also had an A-list budget to the tune of $20,000,000. That kind of money doesn’t go invested without some kind of expectation of a result, and judging from the past leanings of Cameron and his cast you can safely bet the result is agenda driven somewhere left of center.
Furthermore, you don’t bring Matt Damon or Jessica Alba on for anything but sell power. If you wanted investigative journalism done you’d bring in investigative journalists, not the cast of the “I’m F*cking Ben Affleck” skit. Instead he sends Cheadle out to small town America and gets a southern good ol’ boy on camera talking about how he don’t believe the scientists because God is in control.
Hilariously, Jethro Bob here might be slightly more correct than Cameron. Whether it be God, Gaia, or Ganondorf, nature itself seems to be arguing with Cameron’s film as discussed by this guy here who puts forth something we call science.
Thanks for the warning James Cameron. You’ve possibly saved thousands a lot of time.
