Recently, James Horner, the composer responsible for the scores of films like Titanic and Avatar, passed away in a plane crash. The director of those films, James Cameron, reflected on his experience with working with him, which was originally published on The Hollywood Reporter. Cameron described hearing Horner’s score on Battle Beyond the Stars, a film that both of them worked on, as “the best thing about the film.” Therefore, he wanted to work with Horner on Aliens, but things did not go as planned, since Horner spent less than two days on the score and Cameron had to be involved in editing the score because of that. However, Cameron and Horner worked with each other again on Titanic, initially trying to pretend that the falling out never happened. Unlike Aliens, Horner fully committed to composing the score for Titanic, and once Cameron heard it, he cried. Cameron continued by explaining the hard work Horner put in the score for Avatar, where he did “an awful lot of experimentation.” Cameron ends by saying that he was happy with their interaction when he saw him for the last time, where there was a live orchestra playing the score of Titanic in sync with the movie. When E! Online repackaged this story, they did not paint the entire picture. While they talked about Horner’s contribution for Titanic, they brushed over Avatar and made no mention of the falling out the two had after Aliens, making their relationship seem completely friendly the whole time they knew each other.
