Jim is not one of those guys who has the time to win hearts and minds," he said. The crew felt that Cameron had an evil alter ego, and nicknamed him "Mij" Jim spelt backwards.
In response to the criticism, Cameron stated, "Film-making is war. A great battle between business and aesthetics. During shooting on the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh , an angry crew member put the hallucinogen PCP into the soup that Cameron and various others ate one night, which sent more than 50 people to the hospital. Some of them said they were seeing streaks and psychedelics," said actor Lewis Abernathy.
Cameron managed to vomit before the drug took a full hold. Abernathy was shocked at the way he looked. A pupil, no iris, beet red. The filming schedule was intended to last days but grew to Many cast members came down with colds, flu, or kidney infections after spending hours in cold water, including Winslet. In the end, she decided she would not work with Cameron again unless she earned "a lot of money".
Several others left and three stuntmen broke their bones, but the Screen Actors Guild decided, following an investigation, that nothing was inherently unsafe about the set. Additionally, DiCaprio said there was no point when he felt he was in danger during filming.
Cameron believed in a passionate work ethic and never apologized for the way he ran his sets, although he acknowledged: I'm demanding, and I'm demanding on my crew. In terms of being kind of militaresque, I think there's an element of that in dealing with thousands of extras and big logistics and keeping people safe. I think you have to have a fairly strict methodology in dealing with a large number of people.
Fox executives panicked, and suggested an hour of specific cuts from the three-hour film. They argued the extended length would mean fewer showings, thus less money even though long epics are more likely to help directors win Oscars. Cameron refused, telling Fox, "You want to cut my movie? You're going to have to fire me! You want to fire me? You're going to have to kill me! The executives did not want to start over, because it would mean the loss of their entire investment, but they also initially rejected Cameron's offer of forfeiting his share of the profits as an empty gesture; they felt that profits would be unlikely.
Cameron explained forfeiting his share as complex. Those films went up seven or eight percent from the initial budget. Titanic also had a large budget to begin with, but it went up a lot more," said Cameron. I did that on two different occasions.
They didn't force me to do it; they were glad that I did. Cameron wanted to push back the boundary of special effects with his film, and enlisted Digital Domain to continue the developments in digital technology which the director pioneered while working on The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Many previous films about the RMS Titanic shot water in slow motion, which did not look wholly convincing.
He encouraged them to shoot their foot 14 m long miniature of the ship as if "we're making a commercial for the White Star Line" Afterwards, digital water and smoke were added, as were extras captured on a motion capture stage. Visual effects supervisor Rob Legato scanned the faces of many actors, including himself and his children, for the digital extras and stuntmen.
There was also a foot 20 m long model of the ship's stern that could break in two repeatedly, the only miniature to be used in water. For scenes set in the ship's engines, footage of the SS Jeremiah O'Brien' s engines were composited with miniature support frames and actors shot against a greenscreen. In order to save money, the first class lounge was a miniature set incorporated into a greenscreen backdrop.
An enclosed 5,, US gallons 19,, l tank was used for sinking interiors, in which the entire set could be tilted into the water. In order to sink the Grand Staircase, 90, US gallons , l of water were dumped into the set as it was lowered into the tank. Unexpectedly, the waterfall ripped the staircase from its steel-reinforced foundations, although no one was hurt.
The foot m long exterior of the RMS Titanic had its first half lowered into the tank, but being the heaviest part of the ship meant it acted as a shock absorber against the water; to get the set into the water, Cameron had much of the set emptied and even smashed some of the promenade windows himself. After submerging the dining saloon, three days were spent shooting Lovett's ROV traversing the wreck in the present. The post-sinking scenes in the freezing Atlantic were shot in a , US gallons 1,, l tank, where the frozen corpses were created by applying a powder on actors that crystallized when exposed to water, and wax was coated on hair and clothes.
The climactic scene, which features the breakup of the ship directly before it sinks, as well as its final plunge to the bottom of the Atlantic, involved a tilting full-sized set, extras and stunt performers. Cameron criticized previous Titanic films for depicting the final plunge of the liner as sliding gracefully underwater.
He "wanted to depict it as the terrifyingly chaotic event that it really was". When carrying out the sequence, people needed to fall off the increasingly tilting deck, plunging hundreds of feet below and bouncing off of railings and propellers on the way down.
A few attempts to film this sequence with stunt people resulted in some minor injuries and Cameron halted the more dangerous stunts. The risks were eventually minimized "by using computer generated people for the dangerous falls".
There was one "crucial historical fact" Cameron chose to omit from the film — the ship that was close to the Titanic , but had turned off its radio for the night and did not hear their SOS calls. That wasn't a compromise to mainstream filmmaking. That was really more about emphasis, creating an emotional truth to the film," stated Cameron. He said there were aspects of retelling the sinking that seemed important in pre and post-production, but turned out to be less important as the film evolved.
It was a clean cut, because it focuses you back onto that world. If Titanic is powerful as a metaphor, as a microcosm, for the end of the world in a sense, then that world must be self-contained.
During the first assembly cut, Cameron altered the planned ending, which had given resolution to Brock Lovett's story. In the original version of the ending, Brock and Lizzy see the elderly Rose at the stern of the boat, and fear she is going to jump.
Rose then reveals that she had the "Heart of the Ocean" diamond all along, but never sold it, in order to live on her own without Cal's money. She tells Brock that life is priceless and throws the diamond into the ocean, after allowing him to hold it. After accepting that treasure is worthless, Brock laughs at his stupidity. Rose then goes back to her cabin to sleep, whereupon the film ends in the same way as the final version. In the editing room, Cameron decided that by this point, the audience would no longer be interested in Brock Lovett and cut the resolution to his story, so that Rose is alone when she drops the diamond.
He also did not want to disrupt the audience's melancholy after the Titanic' s sinking. The version used for the first test screening featured a fight between Jack and Lovejoy which takes place after Jack and Rose escape into the flooded dining saloon, but the test audiences disliked it. The scene was written to give the film more suspense, and featured Cal falsely offering to give Lovejoy, his valet, the "Heart of the Ocean" if he can get it from Jack and Rose.
Lovejoy goes after the pair in the sinking first class dining room. Just as they are about to escape him, Lovejoy notices Rose's hand slap the water as it slips off the table behind which she is hiding. In revenge for framing him for the "theft" of the necklace, Jack attacks him and smashes his head against a glass window, which explains the gash on Lovejoy's head that can be seen when he dies in the completed version of the film.
In their reactions to the scene, test audiences said it would be unrealistic to risk one's life for wealth, and Cameron cut it for this reason, as well as for timing and pacing reasons.
Many other scenes were cut for similar reasons. The soundtrack album for Titanic was composed by James Horner. But part of that runtime actually has a significant meaning. First off, if you watched Titanic and thought it looked like an expensive movie, it definitely was. However, because of the effects and the overall production, the finances kept rising. The deleted scenes are interesting when viewed on their own but the story works fine without them.
Cameron later put together an extended cut of Avatar for its home video releases but didn't label it a director's cut either because he was satisfied with the original edit. Instead, this extended edition was put together for fans to enjoy. A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games — he even arguably had a little bit of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU - where Hawkeye is clearly the best character - to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle.
He wasn't reeling in huge paycheques, either: because the film went so far over in both time and budget, he only accepted a six-figure writing fee so he could keep financiers from souring on the project. Titanic also had a large budget to begin with, but it went up a lot more. As the producer and director, I take responsibility for the studio that's writing the checks, so I made it less painful for them.
I did that on two different occasions. They didn't force me to do it; they were glad that I did. Titanic is one of Hollywood's biggest films, but it also had plenty of Canadian connections. Many scenes were also shot in Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Then, after the film was released, fans flocked to Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, where many of those killed in the real Titanic disaster were buried.
In particular, many wanted to see the grave of J. Dawson — never mind that it was the grave of Joseph Dawson, a worker on the ship, and not the fictional Jack Dawson, Leonardo DiCaprio's character. The film producers say they didn't even know the grave existed, that it was pure coincidence. Still, that did not deter the throngs of weeping girls. For two or three years that lasted.
Instead of spring break, fathers would bring their daughters here to see J. While shooting in Dartmouth, N. At first, food poisoning was suspected, but police later confirmed a different culprit: the chowder had been laced with phencyclidine — better known as PCP or angel dust. Some people were laughing, some people were crying, some people were throwing up," said actor Bill Paxton, who played a modern-day treasure hunter in the film.
Thinking the problem was bad shellfish, he hopped in a van headed for Dartmouth General Hospital. The next minute I felt so goddamn anxious I wanted to breathe in a paper bag. Cameron was feeling the same way. A pupil, no iris, beet red. The other eye looked like he'd been sniffing glue since he was four. The interiors of the ship were meticulously recreated for the film; so when it came time for the scene where the water comes crashing down the grand staircase, the crew had just one chance to get it right, because everything would be destroyed in the process.
Fortunately they got it. Cameron became known as an uncompromising perfectionist, given to screaming fits through megaphones. Cameron was known for his unyielding approach and his unrestrained outbursts — many of them amplified with a megaphone — and the film solidified the director's reputation as "the scariest man in Hollywood. Winslet admitted that at some points she was genuinely afraid. Jim has a temper like you wouldn't believe.
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