James Cameron: He's an overachieving mutant

摘要

Is James Cameron a mutant? That's what we were all wondering on the set of Avatar, as we flew and fought our way through 18-hour days of filming with Jim behind a 3-D camera that he'd also invented. When we got a rare break, what did the guy do? Grab a cup of coffee with the rest of us and play basketball? No, he slipped into his office to refine the design for the submersible he'd invented to take him down 36,000-plus feet into the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, a place few humans have ever gone (and, I am thinking, would ever want to go).