Exactly 100 years after the ship tragically sank, the Titanic will sail its way into theatres in all its new refurbished 3D glory.
When TITANIC came out in 1997, many predicted that the movie would be an over-sentimental, kitschy flop. Instead, it won an Oscar for best movie and captured the hearts of audiences worldwide.
The real Titanic was a passenger liner ship from Southampton, England, that sank on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg in the Atlantic, near Newfoundland. A total of 1514 people died, most of them third class passengers, as their bunks were lower down in the ship and they were the last to be told to get out to the lifeboats.
Director James Cameron spent 18 million dollars adding the third dimension on his original flick. His excuse for the squandering of a fortune: TITANIC 3D would almost force the audience to watch it in a theater, which was where the film was intended to be watched. While this may sound like a cash-grab off the top, we’re going to think positively and understand that hey, if we made one of the highest grossing films of all time, we’d want it seen properly as well.
The 3D effects make a stunning movie even more breathtaking! Details in the sets and costumes that were lost and went unnoticed in the original can be seen clearly in the 3D version and add a luxurious look to the scenes.
So, whether you’re excited to re-watch a favoured classic, or you just want to see what all the hype is about, don’t miss TITANIC 3D when it hits theaters tonight!
Things we bet you didn’t know about the Titanic:
-The Titanic is still at the bottom of the Atlantic. James Cameron dived to the ship’s wreckage several times to get the design of the Titanic just right (he’s done quite a bit of diving since)
-On April 10th, a new museum dedicated to the Titanic will open in Southampton, England
-Historians say that while Cameron got the details of the disaster right, the love story between Jack and Rose is historically inaccurate. There was practically no way that a man from the third class and a woman from the first class would have ever fallen in love because both would have considered it to be “improper.” Bummer.
– Other than the 3D effect, nothing about the film has changed… except for this one little thing. For years, astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson lived with the frustration of an improper and inaccurate sky in one of the shots of the movie. Tyson wrote a letter to Cameron, explaining “at that time of year, in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen.” Rather than ignore the email, Cameron contacted Tyson and he changed the star field so the sky was astronomically accurate.
Here’s Tyson telling the story below: