Posted on 02/03/2023 3:59:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
Just like Rose, James Cameron can’t let go. After decades of debate about whether his “Titanic” heroine actually could have enabled Jack to survive in the Oscar-winning blockbuster, the director has finally settled the score.
For the staunch believers who are convinced Rose could have spared some room on the floating door for her maritime fling, their hearts might sink when they learn the truth.
In the preview for his upcoming celebration of the film with National Geographic, dubbed “Titanic: 25 years Later With James Cameron,” the “Avatar” filmmaker heads a science experiment to determine if there was really enough room for the lovebirds aboard the floating piece of debris. “We’ll find out once and for all whether Jack could’ve survived the sinking of Titanic,” Cameron says in the teaser for the special, which will debut next week.
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“First off, I was a Titanic nut before they found it.”
As was I.
“In middle school I read the “Night to Remember” Bible of the disaster.”
I first read it in, I think, 7th grade. I’ve re-read it over the years.
I’ll tell you who was a big hero that night: The captain and crew of the Carpathia. I became almost as interested in the Carpathia as I was in the Titanic. Even after all these years (I am in my 70s), I still remember the page about the Carpathia feeding her boilers beyond anything that had previously been done, to build up speed to race to the rescue. The “old girl” shook and rumbled and creaked and groaned on her mad dash north. Anyway, one of the Carpathia’s officers was asked by a passenger what all the racket was, and why the ship had changed course. The officer told him about the Titanic’s distress call, and said, “We’re going north like hell!”
The Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat in 1918, in WWI.
Rose was safe onboard the makeshift raft when Jack swam over and tried to climb on. He said to Rose that even though he was poor he would always love her.
All Rose heard was he was poor and then she pushed him under the water.... : )
True story.
I clapped so hard when that little dip**** drowned...
My capsule review of Titanic: Adventures of 1997 people on a 1912 ship.
Yes, the Carpathia was something.
I was also impressed that sister ship, Olympic, turned around so far down the US coast to try to respond. It was too far away.
Another fascinating thing I ran across on 1 of those documentaries was about a German ship sending out messages about ice (IIRC). It apparently had run across this field and likewise as the Californian, had stopped and tried to signal.
I will say this for the CAian, as I recall (I used to be so into this but I’ve forgotten many things, so forgive errors), they tried to send out warnings. The Titanic wireless operator ignored it and even put them off as just being in the way of his telegraphs. So I have some hard feelings for the wireless guys.
Another bit of Titanic history: Titanic’s Second Officer Charles Lightoller later in life sailed his private boat to Dunkirk to evacuate British troops in 1940.
I would’ve clapped more if Rose also froze/drowned. (He froze.)
That is very problematic.
One of the reasons that I’m not enamored of re-marriage.
OTOH, it’s often said that Heaven is NOT what we think - worrying about the people we knew on earth. “Soul mates” are not sexual mates on earth, but souls who truly match well, regardless of sex or sexuality. So it could be your earthly spouse is just another soul in Heaven.
And thus, it wouldn’t matter how many you marry. (It certainly didn’t seem to faze the old guys, many of whom the last century + married many times.)
Off-topic even more, but tangential to talking about Walter Lord.
He also wrote a very good book, “the Dawn’s Early Light”. Excellent reading about the battle of Baltimore (no, not “Ft. McHenry”, the entire thing, plus Bladensburg and DC).
If you haven’t, you should.
He was a Baltimore guy, as I recall.
My favorite DiCaprio movie was “Catch Me If You Can.”
He could have remembered that he just met her a few hours ago and took the door away from her. The perfect crime.
When I was a teenager my mom and sisters went to see a movie called Elvira Madigan. My Dad and I went along because that’s what you did in those days.
The movie is a guy and a girl staring at each other for two hours. A lot of that time they are rowing in a boat. Then he shoots her and himself.
By that time Dad and I were bored out of our skulls. When the guy shot the girl, everyone in the theater was crying - except my Dad, who burst out laughing, couldn’t stop, and started clapping.
My Dad was a real man.
They aren’t HER her boobies anymore. They belong to us now. Those nice tits are ours now. She shared them and that’s that.
“Just think of all the hot chicks he’s slimed like Jabba the Hutt over his lifetime...”
Hey, if they’re willing, who am I to judge? The same could be said of Harvey Weinstein, though the women complained, (eventually).
So basically, It doesn't even matter because in Heaven, everyone loves everyone...
Or something like that?
I'm not being flippant. That's actually a good explanation.
I should read my Bible more.
Back in 1996, the computer game "Titanic: Adventure Out of Time" was released. I bought it for my Mac. I liked it because of the detailed interiors of the ship. Wish someone would revise it, and re-release it. Cryo Interactive Entertainment, a French company (now defunct), produced several interesting computer games in the late 90's. One of them was "Versailles 1685," which consisted of a mystery, and you were able to wander all around the palace and grounds. They even included the original Aesop Fables maze that Louis XIV had put in. Cryo released a second Versailles game titled "Versailles II: Testament of the King." This one I believe was just for PC's, and it was in French. I'm not a shoot-'em-up, or building cities, armies etc., game player. I prefer adventure games of a historical nature that require me to solve puzzles. Unfortunately, there are few and far of those games today, that you can play on a computer. I wouldn't waste my time buying a game console since I rarely play them, but it would be nice if they were updated and made available for purchase. The last game I purchased for my MacBook Air was the revised HD version of "Riddle of the Sphinx - The Awakening." I had the game years ago when it first came out. Can't remember if I ever finished it back then, and was surprised that the company had updated it.
“Double”. heh heh heh
Mythbusters did that several years ago. Is Cameron stealing that and claiming it for himself?
The German ship was the Frankfurt. The Californian was stopped in the ice field, and was only about ten miles from the Titanic. It saw the distress flares the Titanic sent aloft, but the Californian knew the ship was the Titanic, and assumed they were just company flares. The Californian did have wireless, but not a 24-hour watch on wireless duty. Its wireless operator signed off before the Titanic sent a CQD or SOS. Interestingly, the Carpathia didn’t have a 24-hour wireless watch, either, and it was just a lucky break its wireless operator picked up the SOS before he shut down the system for the night.
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