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...line would drop back with their fill after a set time, allowing those behind a chance, but it is not, and anyway, shrimpers, like hawks, do not share. Thus feelings are bitter within the fleet, and the bitterness is exacerbated by a parochial rivalry between the shrimpers from Cameron, the port town nearest the Firing Line, and the shrimpers from the lakes, like Captain Cretini...
...month-old, that he is living in an Airstream trailer trying to "scrape it together to build a home" and that his tax statement showed he earned $4,200 last year. He indicts the state wildlife-and-fisheries commission for "selective enforcement," saying, "They don't cut the Cameron boys' nets off." Next he attacks his fellow shrimpers: "The Vietnamese stick together. Even the coloreds stick together. These coon asses, though, it's every man for himself. They could have said I wasn't out of line. I wasn't. But they just watched, and I got my nets...
This sensibility begins, perhaps, with Cameron's willingness to let his wife "delete" what she calls his "truck driver" language and their desire to make their action films "intense, uncompromising, but with the amount of gore restrained and deaths inferred offstage -- even those of people you'd like to see torn limb from limb," as he puts it. It proceeds through the fact that in both The Terminator and Aliens, evil is symbolized by nonhuman characters; it continues with the demonstration, in both pictures, that "it's more interesting to see a normal person in abnormal circumstances than a highly...
There is plenty to be grateful for in James Cameron's electrifying parable of two righteous single mothers, one an earthling in her mid-80s (after 57 years of floating in hypersleep), the other a mammoth uggy bug. Among these perks is a golden opportunity for Hollywood. It can finally discover in Weaver the stellar creature that Ivan Reitman, her director in Ghostbusters, has already proclaimed her: "the perfect contemporary heroine...
...found exotic soulmates: "I secretly structured myself to play Ripley like Henry V and like the women warriors of classic Chinese literature." Aliens was no take-the-money-and-run proposition (though she was paid $1 million, about 30 times her salary for the 1979 original). As Cameron remarks, "She's intensely prepared. Her copy of the script was marked with 17 different colors of ink. The margin notes were incredible: she got the dramatic significance of almost every line of dialogue and how each one might tie in with a later scene...