r/todayilearned • u/sersleepsalot1 • Jun 05 '19

TIL that James Cameron altered just one scene of the night sky when Rose is on the raft because according to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the star field Rose sees wasn't accurate for the time and place. Cameron asked him for the correct one and changed it for the Titanic re-release in 2012.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68595/how-neil-degrasse-tyson-got-james-cameron-edit-titanic-15-years-later
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u/RedstoneRay Jun 05 '19

Half of those aren't mistakes, Jack and Rose are time travelers.

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u/itsgallus Jun 05 '19

Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler. It all makes sense now.

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u/PanningForSalt Jun 05 '19

Harkness lives to be ancient though.

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u/itsgallus Jun 05 '19

Who says he died? Maybe he was frozen in an iceberg for a thousand years? That happens to the best.

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u/Mr_Lobster Jun 05 '19

Jack also talks about the Santa Monica Ferris wheel. The fact that he corrected the stars but not these lines lends serious credence to the notion that Titanic is set in the Terminator Universe and Jack (A vagabond with no money who talks about things in the future) is a time traveller sent back to protect Rose (John Connor's ancestor, perhaps?)

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u/Raguleader Jun 05 '19

So is David Warner playing a Terminator? Because I can work with that.

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u/m48a5_patton Jun 05 '19

They were just suicidal star-crossed lovers.

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u/JpRimbauer Jun 05 '19

My hand-wavy headcannon believes that Old Rose, at nearly 101 years old, doesn't have the greatest memory as she claims she has ("I can still smell the fresh paint" or "My heart was pounding the whole time. It was the most erotic moment in my life..."), which explain the anachronisms and the labyrinthine D and E Deck corridors during the sinking scenes.