James Cameron is experiencing unprecedented success with Avatar: The Sense of Water, a real hit at the box office that is close to surpassing another of his works, Titanic. It is about this film, which he will soon be releasing a new version in 3D and 4K in theaters to celebrate its 25th anniversary, that he has revealed a lot of details about in the new documentary Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron. Along with the famous Jack and Rose chart, Cameron now claims his tape is not entirely historically accurate and that he was simply “half right” in recreating the shipwreck.
Cameron used the latest scale model replicas and computer simulations to determine that after colliding with the iceberg, the ship eventually separated into two parts before sinking forever below the seabed. In the film, the Titanic’s bow plunged underwater following its collision, flooding all compartments and lower levels. It remained like this for a few minutes, but when its pressure in this part reached an unbearable limit due to the structure of the ship, the weight caused it to split in two and sink.
“The movie Titanic shows what we thought was an accurate depiction of the ship’s final hours. We showed it sinking bows first, lifting its stern into the air, before its enormous weight split the ship in two,” Cameron explains. in the special. “For the last 20 years, I’ve been trying to figure out if we got it right,” he continues. “I can’t say what really happened, but I would like to say that we did it right and thus rule out other possibilities, because I have no intention of redoing the fucking movie,” he confirmed in the documentary.
“I don’t know, we were as precise as we could at the time,” he says. The National Geographic special determined that the stern could have fallen back into the water and the stern could have subsided vertically on the part of her, but it could not have done both. “We found that you can have the tail sink vertically and the tail drop back creating a big wave, but you can’t and can’t have both,” Cameron said. “So the film is wrong on one point or another; I tend to think it’s wrong on the ‘stern retreat’ because of what we see at the bow of the wreck,” continued the filmmaker, who thinks his version of the sinking is 50% true.
“I think we can rule out the possibility of her stern going down vertically, and I think we can rule out the possibility of her going back and then going down vertically. I mean, we were kind of right about what we showed in the movie.” , concluded the director, who will soon be releasing the film in theaters again.
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