James Cameron has maintained a fierce commitment to authenticity throughout his filmmaking career, from designing breathing apparatus and functional submersibles for his underwater odyssey “The Abyss” to reconstructing an 882-foot cruise ship down to the smallest detail on “Titanic.” Even though his 1994 film “True Lies” leans more heavily into the cartoonish tone of the 1991 French comedy “La Totale!” that inspired it, Cameron was no less dedicated to grounding its oversized thrills in a sense of reality. That includes a climactic sequence in which his hero, Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger), skillfully pilots an AV-8B Harrier jet around a Miami skyscraper in order to rescue his daughter Dana (Eliza
→ Continue reading at Variety
