General Notice: titanic has been released in cinemas throughout France, in a restored copy but also in a 3D version, please! What better occasion to rediscover one of the most cult films of all time in a new light, and to notice all its small hidden details and other manufacturing secrets ?
of the more Amazing to the utmost crazy passing more unlikelyhere are 7 anecdotes about James Cameron’s film that prove that sometimes the most beautiful works are only neededsome budgetsure, but also technical resourcefulness and small amusing coincidences!
James Cameron agreed to build the Titanic… to pay for diving excursions
Abyss, titanic, Avatar: The Way of Water : we no longer count the number of underwater sequences in James Cameron’s cinema.
And for good reason: the director is great fan Immersion. The latter even enjoyed saying if he had enough money to finance his passion for scuba diving, he’d stop making movies!
Second Daily TelegraphJames Cameron has stated that he has agreed to direct titanic just because 20th Century Fox would help fund deep sea exploration. The director took advantage of this offer: in September 1995, would visit the wreck located on the bottom of the Atlantic not less than… 12 times.
You too have seen Titanic (the real Titanic)
Once immersed 4,000 meters into the abyss, James Cameron was not satisfied with observing the landscape. The director has Captured footage of the wreck of the Titanic thanks to a special camera can withstand pressure up to 2000 kg per cm².
On screen, these images were complemented by a sunken stage setting. Keep an eye out next time you watch the film again — we see these images of the real ocean liner as Brock Lovett’s team sets off to explore the remains.
Did you think Leonardo DiCaprio could draw? You put your finger in your eye
He is handsome, interesting, romantic and what’s more he knows how to draw… Jack’s charm has melted many hearts, to the point that sometimes it becomes difficult to come back to reality and differentiate him from Leonardo DiCaprio.
Because we wants to believe it and because editing deceives us without difficultywe are convinced that it is the actor who draws Kate Winslet in one of the most cult scenes of the film. However, there is nothing.
The hands we see drawing are not those of a professional designer but rather those of… james cameron ! Also, another illusion it hides in the plane: being Left handed, the director reversed the shot during editing.
The portrait a $16,000
What happened to this famous drawing? Was it forgotten in a corner? Launched?
For nothing : it was sold at auction for the modest sum of $16,000. Hopefully, the buyer stumbles across this item and discovers that DiCaprio’s drawing is actually that of good old James Cameron..
The plan from a few seconds to $1 million
James Cameron has never been afraid to invest when needed. Even when a handful of seconds costs a million dollars. That’s roughly the amount the director spent one and the same floor nicknamed “The Million Dollar Plan” from the team.
The first time you saw the film, you were blown away by this roundup that begins with Jack shouting to the world that he is king, then reveals the ocean liner in all its immensity. It’s normal: this piano is a technological, visual and artistic miraclemade in combining different techniques. Indeed, Jack and his partner were filmed for the first time Green backgroundstanding on a rotating platformthen replaced by synthesized images when the camera moves away. The Titanic rising right now is only one reduced model of the liner, on which the passengers, the effects of the water, of the light, the various passengers, the seabirds and the flag they have been added digitally.
25 years later, this plan is still astounding. We understand why titanic it has remained in the third place among the most profitable films in history over the decades!
Titanic without Leonardo?
You could imagine titanic without Lenardo DiCaprio? NO ! Yet, the story was very close to being very different, because of the young actor’s attitude. In an interview with HQ, James Cameron recalled the first casting with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Upon learning that he he had to read the lines and exchanging with his playmate to test their chemistry, DiCaprio would respond more normally to the world“who hasn’t read”. Without wasting any more time, James Cameron would later reply:
“It’s a gigantic film that will take up two years of my life. I’m not going to spoil it by taking it the wrong decision during the casting. If you don’t read, you don’t have the role. »
The end of this funny story, we can guess: faced with this ultimatum, Leonardo DiCaprio wisely read his text, “lighting up” in the eyes of the director. He then exclaimed: “Okay, it’s him”.
Technically, Jack could have survived… but “he had to die. »
We learned in February that James Cameron had decided to close the debate surrounding Jack’s death, realizing ” an in-depth forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the film”. In a swimming pool, the director reproduced the tragic scene identically, with two stuntmen of the same build as Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
If he had first concluded that it was impossible for Jack to survive, the director ended up going back on his words! During the science experiment, he implemented a scenario where Rose gives her life jacket to Jack :
“He might have managed to survive until the lifeboat arrived. But there are many variables. I think his belief was “I’m not going to do anything that would put her in danger,” is 100% in her character. »
In summary: from a purely technical point of view, Jack may have managed to survive. But romantically, impossible. TO Toronto sunJames Cameron confident last December:
“No, he had to die. It’s like Romeo and Juliet. It is a film about love, sacrifice and mortality. Love is measured by sacrifice. »
Featured Image Credit: Fox
Source: Madmoizelle
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