History of film became famous. These Hong Kong action trends were later adopted by many Hollywood action films in the 1990s and 2000s. The early 1990s saw the development of a commercially successful independent cinema in the United States. Although cinema was increasingly dominated by special-effects films such as "" (1991), "Jurassic Park" (1993) and "Titanic" (1997), the latter of which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time up until "Avatar" (2009), also directed by James Cameron, independent films like Steven Soderbergh's "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" (1989) and Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) had significant commercial success both at the
James Cameron the main characters usually get into dramatic crisis situations with significant threats to their own life or even the threat of an impending apocalypse. "The Abyss" dealt with deep sea exploration (shot in an unfinished nuclear reactor filled with water) and Cameron himself became an expert in the field of deep-sea wreckage exploration, exploring the wreckage of the "Titanic" and the "Bismarck". Cameron will return to this theme with "The Dive", shooting from a minisub. Cameron has written the scripts to all the movies that he has directed. He has contributed to many more projects as a writer, director, and