Titanic (1997) : revisionism, after the fact ?

Titanic (1997) : revisionism, after the fact ?

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10 February

Titanic (1997) : revisionism, after the fact ?

Via AOL [https://t.co/Dhzj97VAlp]

‘Titanic fans have long wondered why Jack (DiCaprio) couldn't climb aboard Rose's (Winslet's) door-turned-raft at the end of the 1997 movie.

‘Now, director James Cameron is addressing those "dumb-ass arguments" on BBC's Movies That Made Me.’

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'Plumb interjected "It's called...", as James added, "writing". The pair then laughed.'

To get shot (if omitted), the scene had been written. Decades on from Titanic, one can be revisionist of the director's career / films - but not let him unfairly bemoan 'dumb-ass arguments' ? https://t.co/ZFUQUT3AcC

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In the RMS Titanic version of Verona, a member of the Montague family would not have been travelling steerage, and, although Cameron believes that his lovers, Jack and Rose, somehow mirror Shakespeare's couple, it is hard to see how :

Act V, Scene 1 (ll. 34-86), is spent on obtaining the poison. Shakespeare follows the source The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (Bandell trans. Brooke), Seeing Juliet (Scene 3, ll. 85-120), he does as planned, and takes the poison.

2 / 3

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Shakespeare omits detail from Brooke, including a prayer (ll. 2670-2688). Does Cameron ask Romeo to be 'smart' by knowing what only Friar Laurence does, that his wife is not dead, and that she could use his dagger ?

3 / 3

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