PALOS VERDES, Calif (Reuters) \u2013 Film director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron said on Wednesday that BP Plc turned down his offer to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
“Over the last few weeks I’ve watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don’t know what they’re doing,” Cameron said at the All Things Digital technology conference.<\/p>\n
Cameron, the director of “Avatar” and “Titanic,” has worked extensively with robot submarines and is considered an expert in undersea filming. He did not say explicitly who he meant when he referred to “those morons.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think BP made a massive mistake in this decision for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n
First, I have worked with Cameron and his folks and they are the best in the world at what they do. And one of the very critical things they do is to adapt current sophisticated gear or create all new stuff for their underwater work which includes a great deal of robotics.<\/p>\n
More importantly, this guy is obviously a light bender.<\/p>\n
He made Leonardo DiCaprio a believable masculine hero! That was no small feat.<\/p>\n
Then he stole the entire screenplay for \u201cDances with Wolves\u201d, threw in a bunch blue NBA second round draft picks and just like that over a $billion!<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just saying, that\u2019s a guy I want on my team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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