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- 0:00Speaker 1: On the Bedel cast, the questions asked if movies have
- 0:04Speaker 1: women in them, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands,
- 0:08Speaker 1: or do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef and best
- 0:12Speaker 1: start changing it with the Bechdel cast. Oh, I was
- 0:17Speaker 1: gonna try to quote Titanic, but but you couldn't, Like,
- 0:21Speaker 1: I just couldn't choose. I just couldn't choose which I
- 0:25Speaker 1: was like, Wait, what's going on? I was gonna say, like, oh,
- 0:28Speaker 1: I'm King of the World. But that's like, honestly, maybe
- 0:31Speaker 1: the worst quote from the movie whoa. I mean, I
- 0:36Speaker 1: can't say I agree with that. Okay, that seems sick
- 0:42Speaker 1: and right. I think the worst quote from the movie
- 0:44Speaker 1: would be, oh, something that you don't even remember, like
- 0:48Speaker 1: something you don't Oh, here it is, gotcha? Who oh
- 0:52Speaker 1: when exactly? Not memorable? Not memorable? No, but I know
- 0:56Speaker 1: what you're talking about. It's when the guys were looking
- 0:58Speaker 1: for Jack and Rose in the cargo hold and they
- 1:01Speaker 1: open the door and they're like they think they're going
- 1:03Speaker 1: to see them like mid coitus. Yes, oh okay, So,
- 1:07Speaker 1: first of all, welcome to the vessel cast Um. Yes, hello,
- 1:10Speaker 1: my name's Jamie Loftus. My name is Caitlin Durante and
- 1:13Speaker 1: this is our Normally it's our podcast where we give
- 1:16Speaker 1: in intersectional feminist analysis of your favorite movies. This week,
- 1:20Speaker 1: we are, for the second week in the row, once
- 1:22Speaker 1: again covering Titanic for I believe the seventh time. So
- 1:25Speaker 1: it is the most wonderful time of the year. And
- 1:28Speaker 1: as we briefed you on in last week's episode, we
- 1:31Speaker 1: are doing a two parter for this is a way
- 1:34Speaker 1: to both say that first the episode was unexpectedly so
- 1:37Speaker 1: long because we will never run out of things to
- 1:39Speaker 1: say about this, and to to just sort of pay
- 1:43Speaker 1: a homage to the two VHS Titanic collection. So this
- 1:49Speaker 1: is VHS two, Yes, but I feel like we should update.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Do we have Titanic news since last semis we record
- 1:56Speaker 1: yea an episode. I had my wedding so to speak,
- 2:02Speaker 1: which is I invited all my friends to an AMC
- 2:06Speaker 1: in Burbank, California to watch Titanics like any good wedding, Zach,
- 2:13Speaker 1: thank you, and a lot of people came and we
- 2:17Speaker 1: had the best time. There was cheering, it was beautiful.
- 2:20Speaker 1: A friend of the cast, Sara June, booed the iceberg
- 2:23Speaker 1: when it came on screen and we all loved it.
- 2:26Speaker 1: It was an extremely titanic screening that it was, is
- 2:31Speaker 1: how I felt about it. And yes, Caitlin, thank you
- 2:34Speaker 1: for coordinating it. I will say of Titanic three D,
- 2:38Speaker 1: it doesn't need to be three D there, thank you.
- 2:40Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of three D. I wanted to
- 2:43Speaker 1: see every pore on Bruce's May's face. Wow, I just didn't. Yeah,
- 2:49Speaker 1: I know, well that's a me thing. Sure, that's because
- 2:51Speaker 1: I'm a little perfect. I don't love three D movies.
- 2:55Speaker 1: In fact, I avoid them, and I was worried that
- 3:00Speaker 1: it was going to be like headache inducing. But the
- 3:03Speaker 1: three D was like kind of underwhelming, which I actually
- 3:06Speaker 1: liked because I was like, oh, I'm not being given
- 3:08Speaker 1: a headache. I would but but you wouldn't have liked
- 3:11Speaker 1: it if you had paid a premium and didn't have
- 3:13Speaker 1: an AMC Stubbs pass. Sure that's what I was thinking
- 3:16Speaker 1: of the non stubs heads. If I were a non
- 3:18Speaker 1: stubs head, which of course I'm not, I would be
- 3:21Speaker 1: fucking pissed if I paid twenty six dollars to not
- 3:24Speaker 1: even be hit in the face with an iceberg, which
- 3:27Speaker 1: I think is like low key kind of morbid and disrespectable.
- 3:30Speaker 1: But anyways, we want we didn't do that, yes, And
- 3:35Speaker 1: speaking of stubs, I mean we would be remiss not
- 3:40Speaker 1: to acknowledge that we come to this place for magic,
- 3:44Speaker 1: we come to this place to laugh, to cry, to care, etc.
- 3:48Speaker 1: And also AMC can eat shit recently, But I mean,
- 3:51Speaker 1: obviously we're not based on what I just said, We're
- 3:54Speaker 1: obviously not sponsored by them. They can eat it. Did
- 3:56Speaker 1: you see how they are trying to introduce a t
- 4:00Speaker 1: heard yes movie seed program that is the most elitest
- 4:04Speaker 1: garbage peepie poopoo thing I've ever seen in my life.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Like movies are supposed to be in equal space for
- 4:11Speaker 1: the pay, you know, twelve dollars times for three these days,
- 4:16Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm a step hit, so I don't know.
- 4:19Speaker 1: And then you know, I just think that's so fucking ridiculous, infuriated,
- 4:24Speaker 1: kisses me off. We're not sponsored by them, so we're
- 4:27Speaker 1: saying that, Yeah, anyone who doesn't sponsor us, we have
- 4:29Speaker 1: to find an active insult forth. Anyways, it rocked, We laughed,
- 4:33Speaker 1: we cried, we cared, Sara boot in the iceberg. It
- 4:37Speaker 1: was it was really special. It was wonderful. I had
- 4:40Speaker 1: the best time. Thank you for coming with me, Jamie, Oh,
- 4:43Speaker 1: I mean, and thanks to all who attended indeed Titanic.
- 4:47Speaker 1: And that resulted in a little bit of James Cameron
- 4:49Speaker 1: history where Titanic has now eclipsed Avatar. Avatar two overtook
- 4:55Speaker 1: Titanic as a higher grossing movie, but then when Titanic rereleased,
- 4:58Speaker 1: Titanic is back up on top overtook Avatar two. Okay, now,
- 5:03Speaker 1: who knows what will happen. I just James Cameron's kind
- 5:06Speaker 1: of like the Joey Chestnut of movie grosses, like he's
- 5:08Speaker 1: really mostly in competition with himself, and you're just like, well, yes,
- 5:12Speaker 1: good for that white guy. In any case, shall we
- 5:16Speaker 1: get to the episode? Yes, So, without much further ado,
- 5:21Speaker 1: here is VHS tape number two, And by that we
- 5:24Speaker 1: mean the rest of the episode that we didn't have
- 5:28Speaker 1: time to include last week. So it's a recap of
- 5:32Speaker 1: the movie plus Jamie's fun facts corner. So the recap
- 5:38Speaker 1: of Titanic that I never have done before. I will
- 5:48Speaker 1: include a content slash trigger warning for suicide at the
- 5:53Speaker 1: top of this recap and sinking boat and for a
- 5:58Speaker 1: sinking boat, yes right, and then I'm gonna pipe in.
- 6:01Speaker 1: It's kind of hard because I have two long lists
- 6:03Speaker 1: of notes for the two different three hour commentary tracks.
- 6:08Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my best, but I'll try to interject
- 6:12Speaker 1: with useful information and not just having a meltdown. And
- 6:17Speaker 1: anything that you don't get to during the recap we
- 6:20Speaker 1: can touch on afterward. We can zip through. Yeah, oh yeah, Okay,
- 6:25Speaker 1: here we go. The movie begins in present day with
- 6:30Speaker 1: Brock love It, played by Bill Paxton, who Jim Cameron
- 6:33Speaker 1: admits is his self insert character. I mean, he says,
- 6:37Speaker 1: that makes he's like Brock on the phone with his financiers,
- 6:42Speaker 1: more like me on the phone with paramount. He he
- 6:45Speaker 1: ha ha. He also says that he edited the intro sequence,
- 6:51Speaker 1: like with the title and like the waves and stuff.
- 6:54Speaker 1: He edited that himself. Wow, in the space of twenty
- 6:59Speaker 1: hours and one bottle of tequila. Whoa, I know he
- 7:04Speaker 1: drunk edited the opening sequence Love that, Okay, love that
- 7:09Speaker 1: So Brock love It is in speaking of love It.
- 7:13Speaker 1: Brock love It is in a submarine searching the wreckage
- 7:18Speaker 1: of the Titanic because he is trying to find a
- 7:22Speaker 1: diamond necklace called the Heart of the ocean. He believes
- 7:27Speaker 1: it went down with the ship when it sunk in
- 7:29Speaker 1: nineteen twelve. Yes, he finds this safe, he brings it
- 7:35Speaker 1: to the surface, he opens it, but oops, the diamond
- 7:38Speaker 1: is not in the safe. I learned a little bit
- 7:41Speaker 1: about how they shot the underwater sequences, and that was
- 7:44Speaker 1: really interesting because it was kind of like whatever, a
- 7:48Speaker 1: combination of crew members sort of telling you exactly what
- 7:51Speaker 1: shots were actually from the wreckage of Titanic and which
- 7:56Speaker 1: ones were reproductions that they did match shots for in
- 8:00Speaker 1: eskindido fun facts that I learned included and I think
- 8:06Speaker 1: I sort of knew that, but I don't know this,
- 8:07Speaker 1: but I don't know if like we've ever talked about
- 8:09Speaker 1: on the show. So like all of those, like the
- 8:12Speaker 1: underwater cameras, like they're called ROVs, they had to develop
- 8:16Speaker 1: a version of existing technology that could be used for
- 8:20Speaker 1: the movies because there's so few of that equipment available
- 8:24Speaker 1: that they wouldn't lend it to James Cameron for his
- 8:27Speaker 1: little movie. It reminded me of how like Initia, like
- 8:31Speaker 1: famous figure skaters wouldn't be stunt people because they're like, yeah,
- 8:35Speaker 1: it's not worth it. Sorry, movie it's well because It's
- 8:39Speaker 1: like if you're doing a triple axle in figure skating
- 8:41Speaker 1: and then you fuck your ankle up, then your career
- 8:43Speaker 1: is over and all you did was a stunt on itonia,
- 8:47Speaker 1: you know. I think that that's how they're like, these
- 8:49Speaker 1: cameras are so valuable that like, if you break it
- 8:53Speaker 1: making a movie, we will kill you. Like so they
- 8:56Speaker 1: had to like develop technology for the movie specifically, and
- 9:02Speaker 1: then also that piano that they see. James Cameron sometimes
- 9:07Speaker 1: he claims to have done things where I'm just like,
- 9:10Speaker 1: I don't believe you. But anyways, he that piano, He's like,
- 9:14Speaker 1: I made that myself. I took a drill to it
- 9:17Speaker 1: and it took all night and I was like, what
- 9:19Speaker 1: are you talking about? But he started in the art
- 9:23Speaker 1: department and he claims to just really have like raw
- 9:26Speaker 1: dog that piano and made it look old and threw
- 9:28Speaker 1: an underwater Wow. Okay, all right, who knows? Well, so
- 9:34Speaker 1: Brock has opened the safe. The diamond is not there,
- 9:38Speaker 1: But what is there is a nude drawing of a
- 9:41Speaker 1: woman who is wearing the diamond necklace in the drawing,
- 9:45Speaker 1: So we know that James Cameron drew that. What I'd
- 9:48Speaker 1: never heard before this was that he drew it semi
- 9:53Speaker 1: from life, like it wasn't just like and not from
- 9:58Speaker 1: the scene in the movie. The drawing was like done
- 10:01Speaker 1: or like storyboarded before Kate Winslet, ever, you know, posed
- 10:06Speaker 1: for it in the movie. Sure, but yeah, he said that,
- 10:10Speaker 1: like he had Kate Winslett pose for him and a
- 10:14Speaker 1: few artists from a few different angles. But she was
- 10:16Speaker 1: wearing she was not nude. She was wearing a bikini.
- 10:19Speaker 1: And then he sounded really creepy, dad, and he was like,
- 10:22Speaker 1: I had to use my imagination to draw her nude.
- 10:26Speaker 1: We didn't know each other well enough for her to
- 10:28Speaker 1: pose nude for me, which I'm like, yeah, true, but
- 10:32Speaker 1: why did you say that? You know? But there's a
- 10:35Speaker 1: lot of like bizarre I don't know, there's a lot
- 10:37Speaker 1: of like nineties because the two commentary tracks I listened
- 10:41Speaker 1: to were recorded for the ten b anniversary DVD, so
- 10:45Speaker 1: it was recorded sometime in like two thousand and six
- 10:48Speaker 1: for the two thousand and seven release. But there's all
- 10:51Speaker 1: sorts of like bizarre nineties sounding like there's a story
- 10:54Speaker 1: about how like when Kate Winslet like she didn't want
- 10:57Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio to see her naked for the first time,
- 11:00Speaker 1: like on the set for that scene. So she, according
- 11:04Speaker 1: to her, like left her makeup trailer door unlocked and
- 11:10Speaker 1: like called him in while she was getting full body
- 11:13Speaker 1: makeup for that scene and like didn't tell him she
- 11:15Speaker 1: was going to be naked, and like jump scared him
- 11:19Speaker 1: and then he was like whoa and she's like, ha
- 11:21Speaker 1: ha ha, It's it's more comfortable this way. We're just
- 11:25Speaker 1: co workers. And then Leonardo DiCaprio was like cool, and
- 11:30Speaker 1: I guess everyone was fine with it, but I was like,
- 11:33Speaker 1: this is a weird you guys are most stories about
- 11:37Speaker 1: Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio are weird. Like she just
- 11:41Speaker 1: says it like it's a I mean, whenever they had
- 11:44Speaker 1: a jokey relationships. They're obviously still friends, but she was like,
- 11:47Speaker 1: ha ha ha. This is where Leo would fart in
- 11:50Speaker 1: his jacket and stick into my face. I was like, yucky,
- 11:54Speaker 1: but she's like, we'd love to have a laugh. I'm like, wow,
- 11:58Speaker 1: you know they really found each other because I would
- 12:00Speaker 1: hate that. What a bunch of goofs. I guess. Okay,
- 12:06Speaker 1: So this exploring of the wreckage of Titanic, this whole
- 12:10Speaker 1: thing is like being televised. Yes, And an old woman
- 12:14Speaker 1: sees the drawing that brock loove It has uncovered from
- 12:18Speaker 1: the safe. She sees it on TV and she says, well,
- 12:22Speaker 1: I'll be goddamned. She then we're trying. Yeah. She then
- 12:28Speaker 1: calls brock loove It and says the woman in the
- 12:31Speaker 1: picture is me, and yeah, I know all about the
- 12:35Speaker 1: diamond you're looking for. Okay, I definitely didn't know this.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Let me know if you do this. So, when James
- 12:41Speaker 1: Cameron was writing this iconically okay script, he was looking for,
- 12:47Speaker 1: like to build out Old Rose. He was looking for
- 12:50Speaker 1: like a oh god, I never say this word right,
- 12:54Speaker 1: like sent centenarian, someone who was around a hundred who
- 12:58Speaker 1: he like wanted to find a really interesting older woman
- 13:01Speaker 1: who had lived a wild life to sort of like
- 13:05Speaker 1: build Old Rose around or do just like have in mind.
- 13:08Speaker 1: And Bill Paxton's his wife Louise Paxton, suggested this artist
- 13:16Speaker 1: she knew of who lived in oh High, who was
- 13:20Speaker 1: like in her night. I think she was like one
- 13:22Speaker 1: hundred and one when the movie came out, and she
- 13:25Speaker 1: was like, oh, you should check out this artist, Beatrice Wood.
- 13:28Speaker 1: She sounds exactly like the kind of person you're looking for.
- 13:31Speaker 1: And she gave James Cameron a copy of Beatrice Wood's autobiography,
- 13:35Speaker 1: which is called I Shocked Myself, and James Cameron met
- 13:39Speaker 1: with her before writing a character of Old Rose. Gotta
- 13:42Speaker 1: feel for who she was. A lot of the like
- 13:45Speaker 1: lines that Old Rose has were based on her cadence
- 13:49Speaker 1: and jokeyness. The fact that Rose does pottery is based
- 13:53Speaker 1: on Beatrice Wood because that was what Beatrice Wood was
- 13:56Speaker 1: most famous for in her later career, And Gloria Stewart
- 14:00Speaker 1: met with her too, Like she's just like this fascinating
- 14:03Speaker 1: person and if you're into art history at all, listeners
- 14:07Speaker 1: she was like she was like a really important artist
- 14:10Speaker 1: who had never heard of but she like was with
- 14:13Speaker 1: like Marcel Duchamp, like championing his work at like the
- 14:18Speaker 1: very very beginning of his work. Like she's considered like
- 14:23Speaker 1: the mother of data art, but is obviously not brought
- 14:27Speaker 1: up half as much as Duchamp was. But she was
- 14:29Speaker 1: a huge advocate and like she worked alongside him. She
- 14:32Speaker 1: did a lot of drawings and then later did like
- 14:35Speaker 1: sculpture and then even later in her career to pottery.
- 14:39Speaker 1: She was like the subject of this famous data art
- 14:44Speaker 1: love triangle with Duchamp and this other artist I don't know.
- 14:49Speaker 1: She was really really fascinating and I was excited to
- 14:53Speaker 1: even get to Like, I ordered a copy of her
- 14:56Speaker 1: autobiography because she just sounds really free king cool, and
- 15:02Speaker 1: I love that Louise Paxton was the one that was
- 15:05Speaker 1: just like, hey, check this out. And then I think
- 15:08Speaker 1: most iconically, after Titanic came out, Beatrice Wood awarded the
- 15:14Speaker 1: fifth Annual Beatrice Wood Film Award to James Cameron Reciprocity.
- 15:21Speaker 1: But yeah, so okay, last and so, like, Gloria Stewart
- 15:25Speaker 1: and James Cameron went to Beatrice Wood's one hundred and
- 15:28Speaker 1: first birthday luncheon when they were getting to know her,
- 15:31Speaker 1: and I guess that she turned down dessert at the table,
- 15:36Speaker 1: and everyone's like, why didn't you want dessert, Beatrice? And
- 15:40Speaker 1: she said, I only like chocolate and young men. So wow,
- 15:48Speaker 1: I know, shout out Beatrice Wood. I just had like
- 15:51Speaker 1: a really fun side quest learning about her. She's really cool.
- 15:55Speaker 1: Hell yeah, yeah, I didn't know. Okay, So brock Lovett
- 16:01Speaker 1: invites this woman who had called him Rose Calvert, played
- 16:05Speaker 1: by Gloria Stewart, and he invites her aboard the kel Dish,
- 16:10Speaker 1: which is the ship they are operating this search of
- 16:13Speaker 1: the Titanic wreckage from a real ship, so that Rose
- 16:17Speaker 1: can tell him what she knows about the diamond. And
- 16:22Speaker 1: she starts to tell her story. She iconically says, it's
- 16:26Speaker 1: been eighty four years and I can still smell the
- 16:30Speaker 1: fresh paint. That China had never been used, she had
- 16:34Speaker 1: never been slept in. Titanic was called the ship of
- 16:38Speaker 1: dream of and was it really he was? Also another
- 16:45Speaker 1: fun meeting was Gloria Stewart requested to meet with Kate
- 16:49Speaker 1: Winslet when they first got cast as Rose, so that
- 16:52Speaker 1: Gloria Stewart would know how to like whatever, like the
- 16:55Speaker 1: way that you would, but liked to fix her mannerisms.
- 16:59Speaker 1: And there's like video footage of that meeting, and it's
- 17:01Speaker 1: really really sweet, and it's Glorious Stewart showing they're both
- 17:06Speaker 1: like drinking champagne and their little tipsy, and Glorious Stewart
- 17:09Speaker 1: is showing because she was like an old Hollywood star,
- 17:11Speaker 1: She's showing Kate Winslet these pictures of her when she
- 17:14Speaker 1: was like She's like, I was having sex without every
- 17:18Speaker 1: Marx brother and none of that is my real hair,
- 17:21Speaker 1: and Kate Winslet's like, I want to be just like
- 17:24Speaker 1: you someday is very sweet. Oh that's awesome, you know.
- 17:28Speaker 1: So as old Rose starts to tell her story, we
- 17:32Speaker 1: flash back to nineteen twelve. Titanic is about to embark
- 17:36Speaker 1: on its maiden voyage. People are boarding the ship, including
- 17:41Speaker 1: Rose played by Kate Winslet, her fiance Cal fiance Cal
- 17:47Speaker 1: Hockley played by Billy Zane, her mother Ruth. That's Francis Fisher,
- 17:54Speaker 1: and they are all fabulously wealthy with first class tickets.
- 18:00Speaker 1: M We cut to Jack Dawson played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Of course, he's playing poker with his best friend for Brizzio.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's Danny Nucci. I have a fund,
- 18:12Speaker 1: I have two fun Danny Nucci facts hit me. Danny
- 18:15Speaker 1: Nucci is also in the commentary track, and he's just
- 18:18Speaker 1: a kick. Things about Danny Nucci include he was able
- 18:22Speaker 1: to so Danny Nucci lived in Italy for the first
- 18:25Speaker 1: seven years of his life but did not speak Italian.
- 18:29Speaker 1: I personally, I think what I've learned in the last
- 18:31Speaker 1: couple of years is that, like sometimes when Italian accents
- 18:34Speaker 1: sound fake, they're actually not. Case in point, Lady Gaga
- 18:38Speaker 1: and House of Gucci. Her accent sounds extremely fake, but
- 18:41Speaker 1: then if you listen to the person that she's playing,
- 18:45Speaker 1: it's sometimes they just sound weird. I don't know, but
- 18:50Speaker 1: like apparently Danny Nucci like fudged a little bit and
- 18:54Speaker 1: like Little White Lie was like, yeah, I'm Italian, but
- 18:57Speaker 1: like spoke in an accent at his addition, and was
- 19:01Speaker 1: able to fool James Cameron and the producers, and then
- 19:04Speaker 1: when he got the part, he was like, I'm not
- 19:07Speaker 1: actually Italian, and they're like, well, can you speak Italian?
- 19:10Speaker 1: And then he had to like take classes really abruptly
- 19:13Speaker 1: so he could do the because he occasionally speaks at
- 19:15Speaker 1: Italian in the movie. Also another evil James Cameron anecdote,
- 19:21Speaker 1: Danny Nucci had his first kid while Titanic was in
- 19:25Speaker 1: production and he was given one and a half days
- 19:27Speaker 1: off yikes, And finally iconic Danny Knucci said, there's good
- 19:36Speaker 1: anecdotes about the two bands that appear in this movie.
- 19:39Speaker 1: The Irish band below decks and then the band that
- 19:43Speaker 1: plays to the end on the top deck, and they're
- 19:45Speaker 1: like a Swiss band, but apparently like Danny Nucci and
- 19:50Speaker 1: the Irish Band got along famously, and Danny Knucci would
- 19:54Speaker 1: bring out his guitar and they would play Oasis together
- 19:58Speaker 1: like between takes. Okay, it's great love it yeah, oh okay.
- 20:04Speaker 1: So Jack and Fabrizio are playing poker against these two
- 20:08Speaker 1: Swedish guys who have bet their third class tickets too Titanic,
- 20:14Speaker 1: and Jack wins the hand of poker because he's got
- 20:17Speaker 1: a full house boys whoa, and so he wins the tickets.
- 20:22Speaker 1: But Titanic is leaving in five minutes, so Jack and
- 20:27Speaker 1: Fabrizio make a mad dash and board the Titanic. We
- 20:32Speaker 1: are also seeing the extravagance of Rose and Cal in
- 20:38Speaker 1: first class juxtaposed against the bare bones conditions of third class,
- 20:44Speaker 1: where Jack and Fabrizio are. Yeah, there's a fun little
- 20:47Speaker 1: acta about like just I don't know, like little things
- 20:50Speaker 1: that I was like, oh, I wouldn't think about who
- 20:52Speaker 1: would be doing that, But like James Cameron, because he's
- 20:55Speaker 1: just like kind of a weird guy, was really like
- 21:00Speaker 1: there's a scene where it's like Rose has her picassos
- 21:03Speaker 1: and her day gauze and all this stuff, and like
- 21:05Speaker 1: James Cameron like spent a bizarre amount of time looking
- 21:09Speaker 1: for someone to do that, and like ended up finding
- 21:12Speaker 1: this obscure artist that lived in the middle of Canada
- 21:15Speaker 1: and like hired her to do It's like all the
- 21:17Speaker 1: same artists who did all of those paintings. Interesting. Also,
- 21:22Speaker 1: the dog Old Rose has the dog of the little Pomeranian, Yeah,
- 21:26Speaker 1: which I guess is a nod to there were three
- 21:30Speaker 1: dogs that survived the Titanic and the two of them
- 21:33Speaker 1: were Pomeranians and one was a Pekinese. And no one
- 21:39Speaker 1: ever talks about the Titanic dogs. It might be the
- 21:42Speaker 1: only angle from which that story has not been exploited. Wow,
- 21:46Speaker 1: Titanic puppies. I guess I've got a screenplay of write
- 21:49Speaker 1: who would be the Titanic puppies. It would be like
- 21:53Speaker 1: Anna Taylor, Joy, Kevin Hard, and Dave Batista are the
- 21:59Speaker 1: Titanic puppies. Wow, food for thought. Okay, I'm not mad
- 22:03Speaker 1: about it, yep. Oh okay. So we see first class passengers,
- 22:09Speaker 1: third class passengers. We also see no second class passengers.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Really not a lot of interests class wow, second class eraser,
- 22:21Speaker 1: middle class eraser much Hello? Well heyy you're telling me
- 22:26Speaker 1: folks um. We also see the people in the boiler
- 22:31Speaker 1: rooms who are like shoveling coal to power the ship.
- 22:34Speaker 1: We're seeing wild fact about the boiler room. Due to
- 22:37Speaker 1: something something the budget, they couldn't afford to build the
- 22:42Speaker 1: boiler room to the full size they wanted to. So
- 22:45Speaker 1: there's like a lot of things done in the boiler
- 22:47Speaker 1: room set to make the boilers appear like there's more
- 22:51Speaker 1: of They use like a mirror effect to make it
- 22:52Speaker 1: seem like they're twice as many as there actually were.
- 22:54Speaker 1: But also they couldn't afford to build the boilers as
- 22:57Speaker 1: big as they should have been, so instead they hired
- 23:01Speaker 1: shorter actors to play the boiler room guys. So they
- 23:06Speaker 1: were like, I don't know if this was hyperbole or not,
- 23:08Speaker 1: but like John Landau was like, yeah, we we just
- 23:11Speaker 1: had to make the boilers like we were positioning the
- 23:14Speaker 1: camera as if the actors were like six foot four.
- 23:17Speaker 1: But I don't think we hired an actor who was
- 23:19Speaker 1: like above five foot three. We just hired a lot
- 23:23Speaker 1: of like shorter actors so that the boilers would look bigger.
- 23:27Speaker 1: That's some like forced perspective, hobbit, Lord of the Ring stuff.
- 23:33Speaker 1: It's pretty brilliant, but that's boiler room facts with Jamie
- 23:39Speaker 1: Beautiful love it. So yeah, we're seeing just like the
- 23:43Speaker 1: scale and the glory that is Titanic. Shortly after this
- 23:49Speaker 1: is when we see the scene where Jack is like
- 23:52Speaker 1: looking at dolphins and then he goes, I'm king of
- 23:54Speaker 1: the world. Woooo And on that note, let's take a
- 23:59Speaker 1: quick break and then we will come right back. And
- 24:08Speaker 1: we are back, okay. So then we meet the unsinkable
- 24:13Speaker 1: Molly Brown played by Kathy Bates. We meet mister Andrews.
- 24:18Speaker 1: That's Victor Garber, who almost didn't get the part because
- 24:21Speaker 1: the casting director sent was like, Jim, you gotta check
- 24:25Speaker 1: out this guy. He looks like Thomas Andrews and he's
- 24:27Speaker 1: very talented, and then she sent him the wrong video.
- 24:30Speaker 1: She sent him like a video of some guy in
- 24:32Speaker 1: a bow tie that looked nothing like Thomas Andrews, and
- 24:35Speaker 1: James Camramon was like, um, I'm not seeing it, and
- 24:40Speaker 1: she was like, oh, no, wrong video. And then he
- 24:42Speaker 1: got the part. Oh, and we're so glad. Mister Andrews,
- 24:46Speaker 1: of course, is the like engineer who designed the ship.
- 24:50Speaker 1: We also meet Bruce Ismay played by Jonathan Hyde. He
- 24:55Speaker 1: was the chairman and managing director of the White Star Line,
- 24:59Speaker 1: who the two historical characters that both the producers and
- 25:04Speaker 1: James Cameron seemed to have like repeatedly acknowledged that they
- 25:06Speaker 1: felt like the only historical figures that they felt that
- 25:10Speaker 1: they potentially did a disservice too were Bruce Asmey, who
- 25:15Speaker 1: I think was like a bad guy but not as
- 25:18Speaker 1: bad as the movie makes him out to be. And
- 25:21Speaker 1: James Cameron sort of was like, yeah, I took a
- 25:23Speaker 1: lot of dramatic license there. Like he did get into
- 25:26Speaker 1: a boat. It was rumored that he had put some
- 25:29Speaker 1: pressure to make the boat go faster, but also he
- 25:32Speaker 1: stayed on the boat until the very last minute and
- 25:35Speaker 1: rescued a lot of people, and like there were like
- 25:39Speaker 1: there's a lot of gray area. I guess, so, which
- 25:42Speaker 1: I don't really care about. The Officer Murdoch conversations a
- 25:46Speaker 1: little more interesting because Officer Murdoch is for I mean,
- 25:51Speaker 1: I guess for the it's hard to keep all the
- 25:53Speaker 1: officers straight. He's the one that kills Tommy and then
- 25:56Speaker 1: takes his own life in the movie. Is also a
- 26:00Speaker 1: lot of creative license. And his family reached out to
- 26:03Speaker 1: James Cameron and was like, what the fuck and James
- 26:06Speaker 1: Cameron was like, um, yeah, like it technically could have happened,
- 26:11Speaker 1: because apparently, historically usually when something's like creative license, James
- 26:17Speaker 1: Cameron has done the work to make it like, well,
- 26:21Speaker 1: you can't say it didn't happen. Like even the room
- 26:25Speaker 1: that Rose stays in in the movie was technically empty,
- 26:30Speaker 1: so it's like, well, that's where I'm going to put
- 26:32Speaker 1: them because you can't prove someone else was there. But
- 26:34Speaker 1: in that case, it was like there were rumors of
- 26:37Speaker 1: like several gunshots that went off in an area where
- 26:41Speaker 1: Officer Murdoch was but obviously Tommy Ryan as a fictional character,
- 26:47Speaker 1: so he was not killed by Officer Murdock. He didn't exist,
- 26:51Speaker 1: but there is like no I think that there was
- 26:54Speaker 1: like one speculation that Murdoch may have taken his own life,
- 26:58Speaker 1: but there's like basically no historical precedent for it. So
- 27:02Speaker 1: his family was rather upset that that was the narrative
- 27:07Speaker 1: imposed on him. Yeah, and taking bribes as well, There
- 27:10Speaker 1: was no evidence that he took bribes. Sure, he kind
- 27:13Speaker 1: of he kind of got fucked a little thought sucks,
- 27:17Speaker 1: but yeah, Hollywood loves embellishing facts. Yeah, I mean, it
- 27:22Speaker 1: is a dramatic effect. But as far as like, as
- 27:26Speaker 1: far as historical movies getting things right, this movie gets
- 27:29Speaker 1: more right than it does. So there you got and
- 27:32Speaker 1: we love that. Yeah. Speaking of Tommy, we meet Tommy.
- 27:38Speaker 1: He befriends Jack and Fabricio. He's played by Jason Barry.
- 27:42Speaker 1: I never bothered to look up who played Tommy before this,
- 27:46Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, that's a good named Jason Barry.
- 27:48Speaker 1: He was on the commentary track and he just said
- 27:51Speaker 1: like he's actually Irish. Wow, authenticity. Yeah, unlike Danny Nucci
- 27:57Speaker 1: over here, who's like um bon Jorg Showork like um okay.
- 28:03Speaker 1: So we meet a few of these characters. We're hanging
- 28:07Speaker 1: out with Jack and Fabrizio on deck, and this is
- 28:11Speaker 1: when Jack sees Rose across the deck of the ship
- 28:14Speaker 1: and he's like hubba hubba schwing o wouga speaking of
- 28:21Speaker 1: a wooga. Oh my god. That's a James Cameron story
- 28:25Speaker 1: that has nothing I thought. I thought. I thought Caitlin
- 28:30Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Titanic. I thought that there
- 28:32Speaker 1: is listeners there is. I think I probably referenced it
- 28:35Speaker 1: in our Avatar episode as well. James Cameron, whenever he
- 28:39Speaker 1: goes on a press tour, he says a bunch of
- 28:41Speaker 1: stuff that's awful, and then a bunch of stuff that
- 28:43Speaker 1: is incoherent. One of the things he said on this
- 28:45Speaker 1: press tour that was incoherent, wasn't that At times when
- 28:49Speaker 1: he's on set the set for Avatar, he will not
- 28:52Speaker 1: respond to anyone unless they first use a deafening a
- 28:55Speaker 1: wooga sound. And that's how he knows that it's important
- 28:58Speaker 1: enough that it requires his precious baby boy attention. So
- 29:04Speaker 1: when I was watching behind the scene featurettes of this movie,
- 29:07Speaker 1: I can't prove that the Aluga thing has been true
- 29:10Speaker 1: for a long time. But in the big the ship
- 29:14Speaker 1: is sunk, everyone's flailing around. That was filmed I think
- 29:17Speaker 1: in like a I think it was Burbank, like it
- 29:20Speaker 1: was somewhere close by, Like it was just a large
- 29:23Speaker 1: tank in Burbank with like four feet of water. And
- 29:26Speaker 1: that's where the I'll Never Let Go scene was filled.
- 29:29Speaker 1: In all that, there is a moment in the featurette
- 29:32Speaker 1: it's not called attention to, but knowing what we know
- 29:35Speaker 1: now about James Cameron and Ouga, James Cameron is not
- 29:40Speaker 1: talking to anybody. Allowed auga sounds scent like is sounded
- 29:45Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, he goes, what, I
- 29:48Speaker 1: think the AUGA system has been in place for decades? Wow, Look,
- 29:54Speaker 1: is there any or any of James Cameron's long time
- 29:57Speaker 1: employees listening to this show? Can we get some confirm
- 30:00Speaker 1: on the AUG I was shocked. I was knocked on
- 30:04Speaker 1: my ass by this. That's fascinating. I'm not surprised though,
- 30:08Speaker 1: it's it sounds like he's been an absolute tyrant for
- 30:11Speaker 1: a very long time. But but the AUGA system specifically,
- 30:14Speaker 1: I'm like, that is some evil genius shit, Like, what
- 30:18Speaker 1: on earth? I think we can date Auga back to
- 30:22Speaker 1: ninety six. I support it. Yeah. So Jack is seeing
- 30:27Speaker 1: Rose and he's like, hubba, hubba, who's that? And his
- 30:31Speaker 1: friends are like, yeah, right, dude, she's rich and you're poor.
- 30:36Speaker 1: It'll never work out. You'll have angels flying out of
- 30:39Speaker 1: your ars, etc. Before you get next to the likes
- 30:43Speaker 1: of her, says Tommy. Um, classic Tommy. There's also there
- 30:49Speaker 1: was like a fight with James Cameron and the costume
- 30:52Speaker 1: designer for that scene where I guess Rose like woman
- 30:56Speaker 1: would wear hat if outside that is like a thing
- 31:01Speaker 1: of the time, and so they were kind of getting
- 31:03Speaker 1: into it because James Caramon's like, I don't want a
- 31:05Speaker 1: floppy old hat on Kate Winslet's head, Like it would
- 31:08Speaker 1: look goofy if she was wearing a big floppy hat
- 31:10Speaker 1: when Jack sees her, but he said, well, she's already
- 31:15Speaker 1: rebelled against everything else. And then he took the hat
- 31:18Speaker 1: off Kate Winslet's head and threw it into the ocean
- 31:21Speaker 1: because he's a drama queen. And the costume designer, I think,
- 31:25Speaker 1: was like, okay, that was and then they shot the scene.
- 31:32Speaker 1: I know he's a he's a piece of work. I
- 31:35Speaker 1: don't know what to make of the man. He's really
- 31:38Speaker 1: a piece of work. Into the ocean, like so not necessary,
- 31:42Speaker 1: very dramatic. Yeah, okay. So Jack has spotted Rose, but
- 31:48Speaker 1: they don't meet until that night when Rose attempts suicide
- 31:53Speaker 1: by jumping off the ship. Yeah. She feels trapped by
- 31:57Speaker 1: her position in life. She feels trapped in this relationship
- 32:01Speaker 1: with cal who is controlling and abusive, so she makes
- 32:06Speaker 1: this attempt but Jack sees her, realizes what's happening, and
- 32:11Speaker 1: he stops her. He saves her. Here's what James Cameron
- 32:15Speaker 1: had to say about this. It made me laugh. When
- 32:17Speaker 1: you think about it, it's sort of a risky proposition
- 32:20Speaker 1: for two people to meet in the middle of an
- 32:22Speaker 1: attempted suicide. But that's long pause, that's what happens here.
- 32:30Speaker 1: I mean, there's no arguing that. Sometimes he talks about
- 32:34Speaker 1: his own movies as if he has no control over
- 32:36Speaker 1: what happens in them, and a way that makes me life.
- 32:41Speaker 1: He's like, I don't know, I guess that's just how
- 32:43Speaker 1: it went. His argument for a long time before he
- 32:46Speaker 1: commissioned this scientific study to figure out if two people
- 32:51Speaker 1: could have actually fit on the door and survived. His
- 32:55Speaker 1: argument before that was Jack dies in the script, so
- 32:59Speaker 1: he to Dot, She's like, yeah, you wrote that in
- 33:03Speaker 1: the script. You literally have control over this, But like,
- 33:08Speaker 1: I guess, whatever you want. There was also kind of
- 33:12Speaker 1: a because I think at the time this movie came out,
- 33:15Speaker 1: It's it's kind of interesting how like Kate Winslet and
- 33:17Speaker 1: James Cameron's relationship seems to have changed over time, because
- 33:21Speaker 1: at the time the movie came out, I kind of forgot,
- 33:22Speaker 1: like it was like heavily rumored that, like Kate Winslett
- 33:26Speaker 1: hated him, never wanted to work with him again because
- 33:29Speaker 1: she got hypothermia on set, Like who would want to
- 33:32Speaker 1: work with him again after that, but then time passed
- 33:34Speaker 1: and now she's an avatar too, like they made she
- 33:37Speaker 1: got into a tank for the man again. So it
- 33:41Speaker 1: seems like the relationship repaired over time. But it's interesting
- 33:45Speaker 1: to hear, like there are a couple of anecdotes that
- 33:48Speaker 1: Kate Winslett shares on this commentary track where you're like
- 33:51Speaker 1: she was not having a good time with the scene
- 33:55Speaker 1: where she is attempting suicide. She's talking about how how
- 34:00Speaker 1: they had to shoot it so many times because that
- 34:03Speaker 1: was a green screen in a way that you can
- 34:05Speaker 1: tell too, but like whatever was nineteen ninety seven, but
- 34:08Speaker 1: they had to shoot it over and over and over
- 34:10Speaker 1: to the point where she couldn't get herself to cry
- 34:14Speaker 1: as much, Like she just was like spent and couldn't
- 34:17Speaker 1: get herself to cry. And so someone on the production
- 34:20Speaker 1: I have a guess as to who was like just
- 34:23Speaker 1: blow air in her face until she starts crying, and
- 34:27Speaker 1: so they like blew a fan in her face until
- 34:29Speaker 1: her eyes watered and then they're like all right, start again,
- 34:32Speaker 1: and you're like, Jesus Christ is poor and she's like
- 34:36Speaker 1: twenty years old. You know, it's like they're no one
- 34:39Speaker 1: talks back in those situations, and I just was like,
- 34:42Speaker 1: bless her, that's not my Mara veast Town. Tell you what,
- 34:48Speaker 1: I love that lady. She seems so great. Yeah. The
- 34:51Speaker 1: abuse that actors and performers have to endure not cool. Yeah, okay,
- 34:58Speaker 1: So Jack saves Rose saying if you jump, I'm going
- 35:02Speaker 1: to have to jump in there after you because that's absurd.
- 35:05Speaker 1: Then Cal and some of the crew show up to
- 35:09Speaker 1: the scene and they're like, what's going on? And Rose
- 35:12Speaker 1: is like, oh, I was just leaning over and I
- 35:15Speaker 1: slipped and Jack saved me. I was leaning far over
- 35:18Speaker 1: for the propellers, they had a hard time finding Cal.
- 35:22Speaker 1: And then you know what they did? What they saw
- 35:25Speaker 1: The Phantom Is that a movie that Billy Zane. It
- 35:27Speaker 1: is a movie that Billy Zane was in which he
- 35:30Speaker 1: plays a super He plays a superhero called the Phantom.
- 35:33Speaker 1: And then I've never seen it either. I just think
- 35:36Speaker 1: it is a very if you look at like the
- 35:38Speaker 1: visuals and like the trailer for that movie, it's very
- 35:41Speaker 1: weird to be like I would see that movie and
- 35:44Speaker 1: be like, yep, he should be in Titanic because it's
- 35:46Speaker 1: like just a super campy superhero movie. Where he's like,
- 35:50Speaker 1: I am the Phantom, like it's very it's so Billy
- 35:54Speaker 1: Zane is so iconic, like I'll never get over it.
- 35:58Speaker 1: He was, Oh, wait, I need to tell you the
- 36:01Speaker 1: Billy Zane arts and crafts story. He was just really
- 36:05Speaker 1: like people seemed to everyone who talked about Billy Zane
- 36:09Speaker 1: seemed to be like, and he is just what a character.
- 36:13Speaker 1: They're like, Leo and Billy just had us roll. In
- 36:17Speaker 1: twenty five eight, John Lando said Billy isn't artiste, and
- 36:22Speaker 1: then Billy Zane says that he turned so like the
- 36:26Speaker 1: whole as you know, Caitlin and maybe some of our
- 36:29Speaker 1: listeners know, the way that the Titanic set was built
- 36:32Speaker 1: was that they built half of it in Mexico and
- 36:36Speaker 1: then a lot of it is like reverse shots. But
- 36:38Speaker 1: so they had to like move the entire cast and
- 36:40Speaker 1: crew to Mexico for months. So Billy Zane turned his
- 36:44Speaker 1: apartment in Mexico into it sounds sort of like he's
- 36:49Speaker 1: slowly losing his grasp on reality. But you let me know,
- 36:53Speaker 1: he sort of seems to feel that way too. He's like, yeah,
- 36:56Speaker 1: you know, just these long days are in a place
- 36:58Speaker 1: you don't know anybody, and I I just sort of like,
- 37:01Speaker 1: I like to express myself, and I turned my apartment
- 37:03Speaker 1: into an art studio and I started mates. I started
- 37:06Speaker 1: quote doing a lot of abstract expressionism, okay, And he says, like,
- 37:12Speaker 1: I was going very polic at the time. It was rough,
- 37:16Speaker 1: you know, it got a little weird out there, but
- 37:18Speaker 1: arts and crafts pulled me through, which I think is
- 37:21Speaker 1: a beautiful outlook on life. And a lot of people
- 37:24Speaker 1: Billy's I think we sent them to each other at
- 37:26Speaker 1: the time. But Billy Zane took all these amazing candids
- 37:31Speaker 1: on the set of Titanic because he was an artiste,
- 37:33Speaker 1: and he like will occasionally post them to Instagram, and
- 37:36Speaker 1: they're all the best. Oh, Billy King, King of the
- 37:42Speaker 1: world even Okay, So they're like, wow, Jack, you've saved Rose.
- 37:48Speaker 1: You're a hero, and you should come have dinner with
- 37:51Speaker 1: us tomorrow night. And he's like okay. And then later
- 37:56Speaker 1: that evening, when Cal and Rose are back in their rooms,
- 38:03Speaker 1: Cow gives Rose the heart of the Ocean and he's like,
- 38:07Speaker 1: I know you've been melancholy, and I don't pretend to
- 38:09Speaker 1: understand why, but here's a very expensive diamond necklace. And
- 38:14Speaker 1: she's like oh. The next day, Rose pays Jack a
- 38:19Speaker 1: visit to thank him for saving her and for his discretion,
- 38:25Speaker 1: and he's like, do you even love cow? And she's like, ah,
- 38:30Speaker 1: you're being very rude, and then they argue a bit,
- 38:33Speaker 1: but then she sees his drawings because Jack is an
- 38:38Speaker 1: artiste and they are drawings of naked sex workers in Paris.
- 38:43Speaker 1: He was not getting into abstract expressionist. He was pretty straightforward. Oh,
- 38:47Speaker 1: Tho'd be so funny if they if you cut to
- 38:49Speaker 1: like Billy's AND's abstract expressionist paintings, like in his binder
- 38:54Speaker 1: you mean in Jack's binders. Yeah, He's like, Um, I
- 38:56Speaker 1: don't know. I guess I just sort of don't know
- 38:58Speaker 1: anyone here and I'm just trying stuff out. That deck scene,
- 39:03Speaker 1: I guess that. I mean, I've seen I'm sure we've
- 39:06Speaker 1: both seen audition tastes like that was like the audition
- 39:08Speaker 1: scene for Titanic for one of them, But the way
- 39:13Speaker 1: that the scene is was rewritten the night before, and
- 39:17Speaker 1: there were all of these cool like for every peepee
- 39:21Speaker 1: poopoo naked story that Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio share,
- 39:25Speaker 1: of which there are many, there's fart in the jacket,
- 39:27Speaker 1: stick it in the face, surprise naked at him. There's
- 39:31Speaker 1: we would pee in the tanks all the time, like
- 39:35Speaker 1: she was, like Leo would eat a ton of garlic
- 39:37Speaker 1: on days we had to kiss to prank me. I
- 39:40Speaker 1: was just like, you guys are weird? You guys are
- 39:43Speaker 1: you guys are? It sounds very like weird sibling kind
- 39:47Speaker 1: of like antagonism. But but they also it was kind
- 39:50Speaker 1: of cool to like they were always especially Kate Winslett,
- 39:54Speaker 1: who I just love her so much, but like they
- 39:56Speaker 1: were always trying to like add in little things into
- 40:00Speaker 1: the movie. Because it sounds like Kate and Leonardo DiCaprio
- 40:05Speaker 1: both felt that the movie. They were worried that the
- 40:09Speaker 1: movie was going to be too corny and too earnest.
- 40:12Speaker 1: And I think that especially because it was like whatever.
- 40:15Speaker 1: DiCaprio was like like he almost didn't take the part
- 40:17Speaker 1: because he's like he's too perfect, Like we're's just damage
- 40:21Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And like Kate Winslet have played a
- 40:23Speaker 1: bunch of like complicated roles and it's not I mean,
- 40:26Speaker 1: ros is kind of a meteor role in Jack, but whatever.
- 40:30Speaker 1: Like I think that they were both trying to add in.
- 40:32Speaker 1: They're trying to get their little gen X two cents
- 40:35Speaker 1: in where they could, and so they went to James
- 40:38Speaker 1: Cameron when that scene was being like in the process
- 40:41Speaker 1: of being rewritten, and I guess that it was at
- 40:43Speaker 1: their insistence that Jack says like, well do you love
- 40:47Speaker 1: the guy or not? Like stuff like that, Like there's
- 40:50Speaker 1: a few lines in this movie that the way they
- 40:52Speaker 1: would rehearse. I also loved the way that they would
- 40:54Speaker 1: rehearse them, where like they would do it as written
- 40:57Speaker 1: and then James Cameron would have them do scene again.
- 41:01Speaker 1: The way that they would just talk to each other
- 41:04Speaker 1: to get like the cadence down for like, well, how
- 41:06Speaker 1: would you actually have this conversation, and then you would
- 41:08Speaker 1: do it as written again with the correct cadence, which
- 41:11Speaker 1: is pretty smart way to rehearse people. But like they
- 41:14Speaker 1: occasionally would like Caitlin's like got like a lot of
- 41:17Speaker 1: stuff into this movie. She is the person who said
- 41:21Speaker 1: that Rose should spit in Cal's face. Originally she was
- 41:24Speaker 1: poking him with a hairpin, but she was like, I
- 41:27Speaker 1: already learned how to spit, and then James Caermon was like, shit,
- 41:30Speaker 1: that should have been my idea. She and Francis Fisher
- 41:33Speaker 1: also suggest in their scene together where Francis Fisher's like
- 41:36Speaker 1: tying the corset, originally it was the reverse and Kate
- 41:41Speaker 1: Winslett was tying Francis Fisher's this corset and they were like,
- 41:44Speaker 1: it makes way more sense thematically if it's the other
- 41:46Speaker 1: way around, and James Carramon was like, Ash, maybe I'm
- 41:49Speaker 1: could have a screenwriter. It's like, yeah, not really, but
- 41:54Speaker 1: like I just thought it was fun where every time
- 41:56Speaker 1: there was a point where it's like, oh I got
- 41:58Speaker 1: that in, I was like, that's so cool. That is
- 42:00Speaker 1: very cool, And I'm glad that James Cameron like listens
- 42:03Speaker 1: to reason and lets his Yeah, he seems grouchy, but
- 42:07Speaker 1: it's like it seems like when someone else has a
- 42:10Speaker 1: better idea. This is like not a huge compet but
- 42:12Speaker 1: it's like if someone else has a better idea, he
- 42:15Speaker 1: will go with that idea. That's good. Yeah, let's take
- 42:19Speaker 1: another quick break and then we will come back for
- 42:22Speaker 1: more Titanic and we're back. Okay. So we have this
- 42:32Speaker 1: scene with Jack and Rose and it's a little rocky
- 42:36Speaker 1: here and there, but then she's like, let me look
- 42:38Speaker 1: at your sexy drawings and then she's like a wooga.
- 42:42Speaker 1: And then they're kind of like bonding and flirting, and
- 42:45Speaker 1: he teaches her how to spit. Speaking of spitting, I
- 42:49Speaker 1: guess that they were spitting that the water seaged in
- 42:52Speaker 1: and that scene and they were spitting onto like the
- 42:55Speaker 1: floor of a parking lot, and Leonardo DiCaprio like set
- 42:59Speaker 1: up these little targets on the ground. Would like to
- 43:03Speaker 1: hit my little target. Wow. I love fun facts. Okay.
- 43:10Speaker 1: So meanwhile, Bruce Ismay is pressuring Captain EJ. Smith played
- 43:16Speaker 1: by Bernard Hill. I want them to model her speed. Yeah,
- 43:19Speaker 1: And he wants the captain to light the last four
- 43:22Speaker 1: boilers so that the ship goes really fast and gets
- 43:26Speaker 1: to New York City early ever heard of New York City? Yeah,
- 43:30Speaker 1: because the maiden voyage of Titanic must make headlines. That
- 43:35Speaker 1: actor fucking rules. Apparently, like he and Francis Fisher are
- 43:39Speaker 1: good friends, and so even in scenes that he wasn't
- 43:43Speaker 1: in that Francis Fisher was in, he would like come
- 43:46Speaker 1: to set those days and watch her work. He was,
- 43:50Speaker 1: so I was like, oh, it's kind of fun. Mister
- 43:52Speaker 1: Ame was sitting just off screen for that whole mother daughter.
- 43:57Speaker 1: Of course, it's seen he's there. That's nice. I know
- 44:01Speaker 1: he's just supporting his friend. Okay, So then it's time
- 44:05Speaker 1: for dinner. Molly Brown dresses Jack in her son's tuxedo,
- 44:09Speaker 1: and then Jack joins Rose and Cow and Ruth and
- 44:13Speaker 1: a bunch of other rich, first class people for dinner.
- 44:17Speaker 1: Ruth and Cal think Jack is gross, but Rose is like, wow,
- 44:23Speaker 1: I like him, a free spirit. Here's a Molly Brown fact, please,
- 44:29Speaker 1: So Molly Brown. She's very characterized as new money and
- 44:35Speaker 1: James Cameron takes a little bit of creative license with
- 44:38Speaker 1: her in this where it's like she was a big personality,
- 44:43Speaker 1: but also she was I guess in real life was
- 44:46Speaker 1: like pretty dead set on fitting in and would not
- 44:50Speaker 1: speak out as quite as much as she does in
- 44:52Speaker 1: the movie. I'm glad she does in the movie. But
- 44:54Speaker 1: there is like a fun and not finding who cares.
- 44:57Speaker 1: It's just like rich people shit. But there's like a
- 44:59Speaker 1: brief converse station with John Jacob Astar, who is like
- 45:01Speaker 1: the richest man in America at the time, and his
- 45:04Speaker 1: teenage wife, and every account is like he doated on
- 45:08Speaker 1: his wife, and you're like, okay, like she was a teenager,
- 45:12Speaker 1: but I guess he died, but apparently they were like
- 45:15Speaker 1: really good friends, and so, like James Cameron tried to
- 45:18Speaker 1: add in, like there's like a scene, there's like an
- 45:21Speaker 1: exchange where Kathy Bates is like, hey asked her? Yeah,
- 45:25Speaker 1: so that is a reference to like how she used
- 45:27Speaker 1: to talk to him, And I guess that, like the
- 45:29Speaker 1: reason that he liked her was because everyone treated him like,
- 45:33Speaker 1: you know, god, and she was like really she treated
- 45:37Speaker 1: him like a person, and he's like, go on, They'd
- 45:39Speaker 1: like been on vacations together. There's a picture of them
- 45:42Speaker 1: on camels. So it turns out, I mean, it's like,
- 45:46Speaker 1: I know whatever, you know that like people knew each
- 45:48Speaker 1: other on this boat. But I was like, oh, Molly
- 45:50Speaker 1: Brown actually lost like a dear friend and it was
- 45:54Speaker 1: just some rich guy with a teenage wife. So ultimately,
- 45:57Speaker 1: who cares. Estimately I don't feel that bad, but personally
- 46:01Speaker 1: must have been heard for her. Yeah that's true, Yeah,
- 46:04Speaker 1: poor Molly. Yeah, um okay. So after dinner, Jack to
- 46:09Speaker 1: Rose is like, so you want to go to a
- 46:11Speaker 1: real party, and he invites Rose to a third class
- 46:17Speaker 1: party below deck and it's a good ass time. Rose
- 46:23Speaker 1: is chugging beer, she's smoking cigarettes, she's doing this tippytoe
- 46:28Speaker 1: ballet thing where she was on wires for that. Oh okay,
- 46:32Speaker 1: quick dancing facts with Jamie. Kate Winslett and Dicabrio had
- 46:37Speaker 1: to be trained to dance, and this is them doing
- 46:40Speaker 1: all the dancing. Kate Winslett. All of these stories are like,
- 46:44Speaker 1: Kate Winslett was lovely and so great. Leonardo DiCaprio was
- 46:48Speaker 1: like pretty good, which I would also describe their caliber
- 46:52Speaker 1: of performances in this movie. Yeah, but apparently, like again,
- 46:56Speaker 1: I don't know, it just sounds like Leonardo DiCaprio is
- 46:58Speaker 1: in his like pussy posse. I'm a little shit era
- 47:01Speaker 1: during this because he, like I guess, would really avoid
- 47:05Speaker 1: the dance lessons. He like didn't want to do them.
- 47:08Speaker 1: And I know, I'm just like you fucking brat, But
- 47:10Speaker 1: this is a fun story where the dance coach also
- 47:15Speaker 1: like the dance coaches on the commentary track, it's very comprehensive. Wow,
- 47:19Speaker 1: but the dance coach was like, yeah, like Kate was
- 47:21Speaker 1: having a hard time, but she worked really hard at
- 47:23Speaker 1: it and she picked up on it pretty quickly. I
- 47:25Speaker 1: was proud of her, and I was like, Leo was
- 47:28Speaker 1: always avoiding me and he didn't want to go to
- 47:31Speaker 1: the lessons and every time and she was like, I
- 47:33Speaker 1: would have to come to his trailer between takes to
- 47:36Speaker 1: like help him learn like the clogging dance that he does,
- 47:40Speaker 1: because that was, like, I mean, it wouldn't have been easy.
- 47:42Speaker 1: And she was like, and he eventually learned, but I
- 47:46Speaker 1: would always have to knock on his trailer for a
- 47:49Speaker 1: while and tell him to put his pet lizard away
- 47:52Speaker 1: before I could come in. He had a pet lizard
- 47:55Speaker 1: on set all the time. He had a lizard named
- 47:59Speaker 1: Blizzard that like lived with him in Mexico. And I
- 48:03Speaker 1: guess that the dance. Every time the dancing startor came by,
- 48:06Speaker 1: she'd have to like pound on his trailer door and
- 48:08Speaker 1: be like, put the lizard away, it's dancing time. And
- 48:11Speaker 1: he'd be like no, They're like what it really like,
- 48:18Speaker 1: I don't. I have no particular attachment to Leonardo DiCaprio.
- 48:23Speaker 1: I'm too old for him, but I was really endeared
- 48:27Speaker 1: to him when I found out that he had a
- 48:29Speaker 1: lizard friend with him the whole time. I'm like, wow,
- 48:31Speaker 1: people really were. It sounds like people were really in
- 48:35Speaker 1: a strange place mentally on the set of Billy Zane's
- 48:38Speaker 1: making abstract art. Leo is spooning his lizard Lizard. It
- 48:46Speaker 1: sounds like everyone's in a very, very like weird place
- 48:50Speaker 1: with here. But I was like, I wonder whatever became
- 48:52Speaker 1: a Blizzard the Lizard. I haven't been able to find
- 48:55Speaker 1: pictures of him, damn her. I don't know, I don't
- 48:58Speaker 1: know them, I don't I don't know what was going
- 49:01Speaker 1: on with Blizzard. But I just wanted to say, of
- 49:04Speaker 1: course there wouldn't be a record of Blizzard. Blizzard, but
- 49:07Speaker 1: he saved Leonardo DiCaprio in every way a person can
- 49:11Speaker 1: be saved. Okay, Okay, so we're belowdeck at the party.
- 49:20Speaker 1: Jack and Rose are really having a blast. They're spinning.
- 49:24Speaker 1: The scene ends and what is essentially a congo line.
- 49:28Speaker 1: The next day, Wait, Kaitlyn, I found a picture of
- 49:31Speaker 1: Leo and Blizzard. Whoa, I'm texting it to you right now. Okay, Wait,
- 49:35Speaker 1: they're actually Oh god, why was he so hot during
- 49:39Speaker 1: this time? Why is the picture of him and Blizzard sexy? Wow?
- 49:45Speaker 1: He actually there's actually like a bunch of pictures of
- 49:48Speaker 1: him on the set of Titanic with Blizzard. Okay, he
- 49:51Speaker 1: like loves this. It reminds me of men are so
- 49:56Speaker 1: like something is so wrong with them, where like I
- 49:59Speaker 1: read I read recently, I forget what I watched. Oh
- 50:03Speaker 1: I watched Ticket to Paradise with Julia Roberts and George Clooney.
- 50:09Speaker 1: I didn't finish it, to be honest, but I was
- 50:11Speaker 1: reading about George Clooney and George Clooney ended a marriage
- 50:17Speaker 1: because one of his why and one of his ex
- 50:20Speaker 1: wives was like, I'm really sick of your pet pig,
- 50:24Speaker 1: and I guess that it reached the he has I
- 50:26Speaker 1: think the pig is no longer with us. But he
- 50:29Speaker 1: had a pet pig forever and it was big, and
- 50:33Speaker 1: at one point, allegedly one of his marriages pre amal,
- 50:38Speaker 1: someone said it's me or the pig, and he said
- 50:41Speaker 1: get out. He said, I choose the pig. He chose
- 50:45Speaker 1: the pig. Wow, which I would never recover from that.
- 50:51Speaker 1: But all that to say, yeah, Leo and his lizard,
- 50:54Speaker 1: George and his pig. Great love that. There's pictures of
- 51:00Speaker 1: Leo and Blizzard that actually makes me happy. They're very nice.
- 51:04Speaker 1: Oh no, well, we'll post the pictures on the Instagram
- 51:07Speaker 1: when this episode comes out. Oh okay, so sorry. The
- 51:12Speaker 1: next morning after this party, Cal and Rose are having breakfast,
- 51:17Speaker 1: and Cal screams at her and he flips a table
- 51:22Speaker 1: for hanging out with Jack instead of him, because he
- 51:26Speaker 1: had his undertaker of a man servant follow Rose, this
- 51:30Speaker 1: guy named love Joy. Yeah. Ruth also gets on Rose's case, saying,
- 51:36Speaker 1: you cannot see that boy again because it turns out
- 51:40Speaker 1: that Rose and Ruth's family money is gone and that
- 51:43Speaker 1: Rose needs to marry Cal and like have access to
- 51:47Speaker 1: his fortune to ensure Rose and Ruth's survival. R So,
- 51:52Speaker 1: basically Rose needs to stop jeopardizing her relationship with Cal.
- 51:57Speaker 1: Frances Fisher had like a really nice or I guess
- 52:00Speaker 1: like it just like a very thoughtful kind of like
- 52:02Speaker 1: meditation on that scene, and she like, she seems really sweet.
- 52:07Speaker 1: She's saying that, how like in the ten years since
- 52:10Speaker 1: Titanic could come out, there were a lot of like
- 52:13Speaker 1: younger fans, and I know I was in this. I
- 52:16Speaker 1: think that like early in this show, we weren't even
- 52:19Speaker 1: quite a like comprehension place where it's like, why is
- 52:23Speaker 1: that mom so mean? And like Frances Fisher was like
- 52:26Speaker 1: fielding questions like this from young fans of Titanic for
- 52:29Speaker 1: years who viewed her as a villain, which there are
- 52:32Speaker 1: villain as, you know whatever. But she she did a
- 52:36Speaker 1: really I think, like concise way of just like talking
- 52:40Speaker 1: about how she would talk to younger fans of the movie.
- 52:42Speaker 1: And she's like, no, I understand why you feel that way.
- 52:45Speaker 1: You have to understand. Like she's like, it doesn't make
- 52:47Speaker 1: what she did right. But women had no options at
- 52:51Speaker 1: this time, they couldn't vote, they were already in a
- 52:54Speaker 1: precarious position. She should have been thinking about her daughter's
- 52:58Speaker 1: mental well being, but she was thinking about immediacy. And
- 53:02Speaker 1: she said, quote, Ruth's pain is that her daughter will
- 53:05Speaker 1: not be able to experience safety unquote. And I thought
- 53:10Speaker 1: that was a very empathetic view of that character. Yeah,
- 53:14Speaker 1: I agree. Yeah, Okay, So with all this pressure from
- 53:19Speaker 1: her mom, Rose relents and she tells Jack that she
- 53:23Speaker 1: cannot see him again. And he is like, oh, they've
- 53:26Speaker 1: got you trapped, Rose, and you need to break free.
- 53:29Speaker 1: You can do it. You're the most amazing, wonderful girl
- 53:33Speaker 1: I've never known. And then we're like wow, King, but
- 53:42Speaker 1: she's not having it and she leaves. Meanwhile, mister Andrews
- 53:47Speaker 1: is giving a little tour to the rich people, and
- 53:51Speaker 1: Rose figures out that there are not enough lifeboats on
- 53:54Speaker 1: board for all the passengers. Also, Captain E. J. Smith
- 53:58Speaker 1: is getting Iceberg warnings and were like, um foreshadowing much
- 54:05Speaker 1: and history fat apparently for this for this movie, the
- 54:10Speaker 1: original like manufacturers of the Titanic, Harland and Wolf or
- 54:15Speaker 1: one of the original manufacturers, gave James Cameron access to
- 54:20Speaker 1: Thomas Andrews earlier drawings and gave him access to his
- 54:24Speaker 1: journals and process and so this production was the first
- 54:29Speaker 1: to confirm, even before history books, that there had been
- 54:33Speaker 1: versions of the Titanic in which there were enough lifeboats,
- 54:36Speaker 1: but that like, like he says in the movie, like
- 54:38Speaker 1: it was considered to make the deck look too cluttered,
- 54:40Speaker 1: and so they were gotten rid of. So that was
- 54:42Speaker 1: actually breaking freaking news. Wow, I know, kind of cool.
- 54:48Speaker 1: Um Okay. So then after having told Jack that she
- 54:52Speaker 1: can't see him anymore, she's like, wait a minute, fuck this,
- 54:56Speaker 1: and then she goes back to Jack. He's at the
- 55:00Speaker 1: I believe the bowl of the ship, the front of it.
- 55:03Speaker 1: He's brooding. But she's like, Jack, changed my mind, and
- 55:08Speaker 1: it's sunset, and he's like, get up here. So she
- 55:11Speaker 1: like hims on the railing of the ship. And he's
- 55:14Speaker 1: like close your eyes, and then he like spreads out
- 55:16Speaker 1: her arms and she opens her eyes and she's like,
- 55:19Speaker 1: I'm flying and then then I'm and then I'm crying
- 55:23Speaker 1: and it's all a lot. This is a very commonly
- 55:28Speaker 1: circulated anecdote, but for that scene, some of the shots
- 55:32Speaker 1: are done with a Matt painting of the sunset, but
- 55:35Speaker 1: the big kissing shot was done with an actual sunset
- 55:39Speaker 1: and they waited for forever. They were like whatever. It
- 55:42Speaker 1: was like they had two chances at the shot, and
- 55:45Speaker 1: Kate Winslet it was what, I don't know. I feel
- 55:48Speaker 1: like Kate Winslet and James Cameron, their relationship is so confusing,
- 55:51Speaker 1: but like this was a positive anecdote with them, where
- 55:55Speaker 1: Kate and Lee are up on the railing and then
- 55:57Speaker 1: there's one one of the takes where Kate Win's was
- 56:00Speaker 1: like we need to go right now, and James Cameron
- 56:02Speaker 1: like listened to her and started shooting, and that is
- 56:06Speaker 1: the shot that's used in the movie. And apparently it's
- 56:09Speaker 1: a little bit out of focus because it was so
- 56:12Speaker 1: like she was like, you need to do it right now,
- 56:14Speaker 1: and he had them start shooting before they were fully focused. Checked. Yeah,
- 56:18Speaker 1: I can't tell, like I couldn't tell, but like apparently
- 56:21Speaker 1: that shot is a little bit out of focus. But
- 56:22Speaker 1: they both talk about that and they're like, that was
- 56:25Speaker 1: a beautiful collaborative moment, I know. And then she and
- 56:30Speaker 1: Jack kiss, kiss, kiss, yeah, and it's nice. And then
- 56:35Speaker 1: they go to her room and she shows him the
- 56:39Speaker 1: heart of the ocean and she's like, I want you
- 56:41Speaker 1: to draw me like one of your French girls wearing this,
- 56:45Speaker 1: wearing only this. And then he goes, yo woga sounds.
- 56:52Speaker 1: And then James Cameron goes, what what fun fact about
- 56:58Speaker 1: the drawing scene? M So Rose's nude, Jack's drawing her?
- 57:02Speaker 1: Everyone knows that's actually James Cameron drawing. We will not
- 57:06Speaker 1: rehash that. A new thing I learned was that, you
- 57:09Speaker 1: know how like in the music in that scene is
- 57:12Speaker 1: like just a single piano playing the Rose theme A
- 57:17Speaker 1: fun uh. I love fun facts. So James Horner may
- 57:22Speaker 1: he rest in peace, huge collaborator of James Cameron, amongst others.
- 57:27Speaker 1: But there was like a file confusion where so I
- 57:33Speaker 1: guess that like James Horner had recorded himself playing this
- 57:38Speaker 1: track on the piano himself as like a test of
- 57:44Speaker 1: like it would sound something like this, and like, I
- 57:47Speaker 1: don't know what the nineteen ninety six version of the
- 57:49Speaker 1: Cloud was, but uploaded it to like a mutual server
- 57:53Speaker 1: with the file names sketch sketch meaning this isn't finished,
- 57:59Speaker 1: this is a rough draft, right, James Cameron sees a
- 58:02Speaker 1: final named sketch and thinks it's for the sketching scene.
- 58:05Speaker 1: And so because I guess James Cameron did a lot
- 58:08Speaker 1: of editing or like pre editing for this movie, and
- 58:12Speaker 1: there was like he was trying to get this scene
- 58:15Speaker 1: together and was like, oh, this isn't quite syncing up,
- 58:17Speaker 1: like I don't really know what he's thinking with this,
- 58:19Speaker 1: but then figures it out and then it's like, wait,
- 58:22Speaker 1: I love this. This like is perfect. It's so like
- 58:25Speaker 1: spare and beautiful, and he like called James Horner and
- 58:27Speaker 1: he's like, I love sketch and James Harder's like, what
- 58:32Speaker 1: are you talking about? And I guess that, like James
- 58:36Speaker 1: Horner like had to really be talked into like letting
- 58:39Speaker 1: them use that in the final cut of the movie,
- 58:41Speaker 1: because he was like, I had a whole plan and
- 58:44Speaker 1: James Cameron's like, no, this is good. I love sketch. Wow,
- 58:49Speaker 1: I know it isn't that sweet. It's very sweet. Yeah,
- 58:52Speaker 1: the movies, the movie really feeling like a movie in
- 58:56Speaker 1: this scene, tell you what it really is. Okay. So
- 59:01Speaker 1: she's like, draw me like one of your French girls,
- 59:04Speaker 1: and then he draws her like one of his French girls.
- 59:07Speaker 1: It's the drawing we saw at the beginning, and it
- 59:09Speaker 1: was the most erratic moment of Rose's life up until
- 59:14Speaker 1: that at least. And then you cut to Bill Paxson horny. Okay.
- 59:21Speaker 1: Then love Joy, who is still following Rose at Cal's behest,
- 59:28Speaker 1: comes in and starts chasing Rose and Jack around the ship.
- 59:32Speaker 1: They end up in like the storage compartments where all
- 59:36Speaker 1: of like the big crates and cars are being stored,
- 59:39Speaker 1: and they get into a car and Jack is like
- 59:42Speaker 1: bebe where to miss and She's like into the stars.
- 59:47Speaker 1: And then she pulls him into the back seat and
- 59:49Speaker 1: she says, put your hands on me, Jack, and then she,
- 59:52Speaker 1: cheering to quote the script, slides under his welcome weight.
- 59:56Speaker 1: Now that's something that comes up in all seven episodes,
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: and it should It is just not okay that that's
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: the way that that was written down. No one should
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: have said that. No one should have thought that and
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: James Cameron should have had to pay some sort of fine,
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: He should have to chop all of his fingers off.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: He Oh my god, what is give me James Cameron's
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: Banshees of Innisharon? Honestly? Like who is he sending his
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: damn fingers too? Like? Who? I wonder if there has
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: to be a director that James Cameron can't stand right,
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: Like I know that Del Toro is one of his
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: best friends and he has a lot of good seems
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: like in terms of like I mean, and this means
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: nothing because it's like among male otours, he seems to
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: be pretty well liked. But I'm like, there has to
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: be someone who's on his shit list? Oh who is
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: he mail in those fingers too? I want to know?
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: Or Banshees of Innisharon where El Toro is Colin Farrell
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: and James Cameron is Brendan Gleeson, where one day James
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: Cameron's like, I don't want to be your friend anymore
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: and Del Toro was like, why that would be so sad? Well,
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: it was so sad, but it happened to Colin Farrell,
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: I know, And it's always so sad. It's the saddest
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: story about friends who are boys. Okay, So, so Jack
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: and Rose have sex in the back of the car
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: and this is when we get the hand slapping the
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: steamy window moment, iconic love it. Then they go back
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: up to the deck of the ship and Rose is like,
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: when the ship doks, I'm getting off with you, and
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: he's like, oh my god, what. And then they're kissing
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: and they're giggling and it's distracting the two lookouts who
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: are in like the crow's nest area. And that is
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: like a brilliant writing decision of like, um, they saw
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: people kissing and they got a horny. Therefore there they
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: have blood on their hands for the Titanic sunk um. Yeah. Yeah,
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: So they're too distracted to notice the iceberg that is
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: directly ahead of them. But then they look up and
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: they see the iceberg and they sound the alarm. Then
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: there is, in my opinion, maybe the best and most
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: tension filled sequence ever committed to film. For all of
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: the crew is scrambling around. They're trying to prevent the
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: ship from hitting the iceberg. There's this moment of is
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: it gonna hit is it gonna miss? Well, I don't
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: know which is well because you know how it is,
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: but it still makes you feel that way. But like
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: it so good, and my already very high opinion of
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: the sequence was further improved. There's like a million little
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: bit It's like that scene is also full of like
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: historical references too. Like that sequence specifically, there was a
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: lot of care taken to like reference survivors who were
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: very helpful in piecing together He's an account of what
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: actually happened. And so there's like one of the men
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: that worked in the engine room who is like a
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: huge source for like giving insight into what was going
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: on there. He like appears and like has a line
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: of dialogue. And then like there's just like all of
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: these like incidental players in the story that like helped
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: build out this clear picture that this movie is even
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: able to exist because of And I just I just
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: I love shit like that. I'm so glad that it's
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: like you take the time to like have this or
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: even shit like the fucking Pomeranian. You're like movie feels
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: like a movie, folks. I love it. James Cameron does
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: his research. He goes to the library and he reads
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: those books. He stays, he and he stays for more
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: than a day. I actually don't think he goes to
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: the library. Someone goes on his behalf and a photocopy,
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I don't know how much he
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: leaves his house brings a library to him, but he
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: consumes it is the point. Yes, yes, so anyway, so
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: there's this very tension filled moment and ultimately, historically famously
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: the Titanic hits the iceberg and it is blink chaos.
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: It goes Yeah. The fully artist was on the thing
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: being like, so it not a lot of people know this,
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: but when they hit the iceberg it kind of went boink.
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: What if it was like, what's the like I'm thinking
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: of like a like a an old tiny like a
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: Hannah barbera sound effect of like k like when Fred
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: flint Stone gets hit on the head, was like, that
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: should be a thing. Maybe that's a project I will
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: undergo where I because I'm already oh yeah, knee deep
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: in my re editing the endings of movies to make
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: them far more shrekky. And maybe I will read and
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: fully work re edit famous scenes of movies, changing the
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: fully around to make it really well exciting. That's what
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: I did with figure skaters during the Olympics, and it
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: got it ruined my life for a while. So just
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: be careful who you're fucking with, Okay, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: yeah yeah. I watched an interview with James Camp. I'm
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: just I'm in the zone, like I know, he's not
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: a good person. I cannot stop watching there. I was
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: watching an interview he did at the time. Yeah, in
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: like ninety seven with famously disgraced Charlie Rose. But there
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: were two things he said in the interview that made
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: me laugh with then because I'm from the future and
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: they're not. But two things he said in the interview
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: that made me laugh was that he said several times
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: like oh, like he was talking about how whatever, like
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: you will not get engaged into the story of the
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: Titanic unless you care about the characters, and you also
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: can fully appreciate what the ship was in its heyday,
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: like what it meant. And he was like, well, you know,
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: like you can go on and on and on about
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: the power of the love between two people until you're
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: blue in the face. But I don't know why you
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: do that. And I was like, blue in the face interesting,
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: until you're blue in the face. Yeah, and thus Avatar
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: was born, and that he was foreshadowing himself hard and
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: then like at the end, famously disgraced Charlie, Rose asks like, oh,
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: are you going to keep making epics after this? And
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: he says he it's pretty funny. He was like, yeah, No,
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: I don't think I'm ever going to make another like
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: three hour movie. I don't think that I would do that.
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, well you're gonna say that
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: until you're blue in the face, my friend, because you're
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: about to make Avatar one and then two, and then three,
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: other four and then five. We're never going to escape,
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: all right, Okay? Moving on. So the ship hits the iceberg.
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: It's chaos as water starts cascading into the lower decks
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: of the ship and into the boiler room where the
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: workers are trying desperately to escape. Water starts seeping onto
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: the floors of the third classrooms. Meanwhile, first class people
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: are like teh, what's going on? Then Jack and Rose
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: go to tell Ruth and Cal about the ship hitting
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: the iceberg and the gravity of the situation, but Cal
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: is busy framing Jack for stealing the heart of the Ocean,
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: and Jack gets arrested and handcuffed to a pipe in
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: the Master at Arms office, and Rose is like, damn,
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: I guess my boyfriend who I met two days ago
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: is a thief that sucks. Life comes at you fast,
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: like yeah, And then mister Andrews is having a meeting
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: with Bruce Ismay and the Captain and a VHS tape
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: one We're in it, baby, saying the ship will sink.
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: It's a mathematical certainty. We've got an hour two of
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: the most and then the captain turns to Bruce's million says,
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: I believe you make it your headlines mysteries may and
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: then we go because it's like the most iconic. I maybe,
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: like there are so many amazing lines, but I do
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: think that that's my favorite. It's really good because it
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: has like this like generational significance too, Like I understand
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: like if a seventeen year old watched this movie, there's
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: no way that would be their favorite line. But I
- 1:08:35Speaker 1: feel like the VHS split it has a generational significance.
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: It's true, it's my favorite line in the movie. And
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: also I'm like Bitchie much Captain Smith, what do you like?
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: You did it? Like? Okay? Quick fun fact. I think
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: maybe we've I feel like maybe we've referenced this before.
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: But Bernard Hill, who plays Captain Smith, was the only
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: cast member, which is like, this makes sense, but he
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: was the only cast member to have previously also been
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: in a different Titanic movie. Have we ever talked about that?
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: Whoa oh, you mean kind of like how oh, what's
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: the SpongeBob voice actor who was in both Pinocchio, Tom
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: Kenny Tom Kenny. Yes, it's Tom Kenny. It's the Tom
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: Kenny Pinocchio syndrome. The ground was set by Bernard Hill
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: and Titanic properties. But other Titanic movie was he in?
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: He was in A Night to Remember, I think, the
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: second most famous Titanic movie that came out. I believe
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: in the fifties he would have been a small child. Yeah, no,
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: he was a young man. I think that he is
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: like in the because this is the nineties. It's like
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: forty years later. So I think, you know, Bernard Hills
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: like in his maybe late sixties or like sometimes somewhere
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: in his sixties, Susan his early twenties. But he plays
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: the part of Officer Fleet, who I believe is one
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: of the guys that spots the iceberg in A Night
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: to Remember and he, I guess there's like a fun
- 1:09:59Speaker 1: I keep saying there's a fun anecdote, but but I'm right.
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: One of the producers was talking about how like Bernard Hill,
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: you know, he was like, he'd played Officer Fleet and
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: now he's playing the captain forty five years later. How wild?
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: And so he spoke with the actor who plays Officer
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: Fleet in this movie, and again, I just I'm like,
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: the more you just hear about the actors, it just
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: sounds like they are really like it felt like it
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: sounds like they were going through what we as a
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: world would go through during lockdown, where you're just like
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: kind of stuck somewhere and you're just kind of like
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: something is different in your brain but you can't but
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: there's no one like completely with it to verify that with.
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: So the guy who played Officer Fleet had been in
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: Mexico where he didn't know anybody for six weeks and
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: then met Bernard Hill and he was like, Hey, how
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: long were you on set waiting to do your scenes
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: for A Night to Remember? And Bernard Hill was like,
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: m two hours. You all this poor guy is like
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: losing it and it's like not himself anymore, and Bernard
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: Hills like, I don't know, kind of back then you
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: would just kind of go to burbank and like say
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: your lines and get the fuck out, like and it
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: just sounded very I don't know. I guess if I
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: was an older actor, I would um, I would clown
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: on younger actors in a similar way. I'd be like, yeah,
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: must suck for you. Anyways, Anyways, the part that I
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: formerly played Justice or else, I'm gonna bully you. I
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: don't know. Why don't they turning? I wonder if it
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: was that guy or the other guy. I don't know,
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, okay, So the crew starts loading
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: the first class passengers into the lifeboats, women and children first,
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: of course, which was not maritime law. That was usual.
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: Oh generally it was every man for himself. Oh yeah,
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: so so that's happening. The string quartet is playing. Rose
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: is about to get on a lifeboat with her mom
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: and Molly and the other rich women, and then Cal
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: says something very cow and shitty is this one? He says,
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: I should have kept that drawing. It would have been
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: worth a lot more by morning. Yeah, and so once
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: again she's like, fuck this. She says my favorite line
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: of the movie to Cal, which is you unimaginable bastard,
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: you bits in his face. Kate winslet baby, Oh, it
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: wouldn't have worked with it with a hairpin. Grow up right. Oh,
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: it's so good the way she does it, it's so cathartic,
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: it's wonderful. And then she runs off to go find Jack,
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: who is still handcuffed to a pipe and the room
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: that he's in is filling with water. Rose finds him,
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: but oh no, there's no key to the handcuffs, so
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: she goes and gets an axe. She chops the handcuff chain,
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: freeing him, and then they have to swim through the
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: freezing cold water back to safety. Jack and Rose then
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: link up with fabrit Ceo and Tommy. They're still below deck.
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: Wait at this point, has she already punched the employee
- 1:13:24Speaker 1: in the face. Yes, she does that right before she
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: finds the axe. Right, Okay. I wanted to just share
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: a quick anecdote about that before we get because the
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: third class fact that is like included in the movie
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: is that in the movie, it's like Tommy runs the
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: charge of like the bench through the Yea. So apparently
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: that actually did happen, and there was a bunch of
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: Irish third class passengers who did something very similar, which
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: I didn't know. I thought that was really cool that
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: they included that, but I wanted to share fun. James
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: Cameron another just James Cameron sitting in a room talking line,
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: because again he talks about all of his characters as
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: if someone else has written them, but in a way
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: where it's like he really likes the movie, he enjoys
- 1:14:12Speaker 1: watching it. So after Rose whatever, when Rose is coming
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: back down looking for the axe and there's like a
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: panicked employee, he's like, you have to come with me,
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: and she punches him in the face. James Cameron says,
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: quote Rose is all about getting people to listen to her,
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: and that's what you get, long pause if you don't
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: listen to Rose. He's kind of he's kind of talking
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: about nothing for most of it. But I was just
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: I was so delighted. I was like, you just sound
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: like a guy watching the movie. I mean, I imagine
- 1:14:47Speaker 1: it's very difficult to have to comment basically NonStop during
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: a three hour and fourteen minute movie, but you just
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: insisted on doing it by himself, Like I'm just like,
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: why didn't you just like invite a second purse? You know,
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: why are there fourteen people on one commentary track and
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: then you doing this for the other one. Yeah, but
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: it was but it was literally just like random things
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: like that. And then just like facts James Cameron knows
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: about the Titanic because ultimately that is why he did it.
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: He really just wanted an excuse to go explore the
- 1:15:23Speaker 1: wreckage of Titanic, and that is why the movie exists. Dude,
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of that as like, as
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: someone who has made their living just like getting other
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: people to pay for things that I wanted to do
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: anyways and then making something about it. It is the
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: perfect crime. Pretty cool. Yeah, works for everyone. Okay, So
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: Jack and Rose link up with Fabrizio and Tommy. They
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: are still below deck because while the first class people
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: are being loaded onto the lifeboats, the third class passengers
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: are being locked behind gates. So Jack and Tommy and
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: the other guys break down a gate back on deck.
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: It's chaos as people are trying to get on lifeboats
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: because there are famously not enough. Jack gets Rose to
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: a lifeboat and kl is there and he's like, I've
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: arranged for both Jack and I to get on a boat.
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: So she's like, okay, I'll get on this lifeboat. But
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: then she looks up at Jack and once again she's
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: like fuck this and she jumps and then Billy Zanne
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: gives another one of my like top ten line reads
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: of the movie. He's pretty heavily featured in my top
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: ten line reads. He goes one way or another. By
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: the way he says one way or another, I'm like,
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: how did you even do that? With your mouth? I
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: always win Jack one way or another? He says one
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: way or another as if it is like a single word,
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: Like you're just like, how did he do that? That
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: is so well? Okay, quick thing about DiCaprio that based
- 1:16:59Speaker 1: on because we've covered a number of Leonardo DiCaprio flimsy
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: on this podcast. We I believe it was the summer
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. I remember where it was when we
- 1:17:10Speaker 1: covered Inception, and we bravely made the connection that Leonardo
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: DiCaprio is constantly wet in clothes in his movies all
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: the time. It happens with alarming frequency. It happens in
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: almost every single one. It's kind of like it's in
- 1:17:25Speaker 1: his contract or something like I have to be in
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: clothes submerged in water. So imagine my shock when I'm
- 1:17:34Speaker 1: listening to the producer slash everybody Who's not James Cameron
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: commentary track that like, Leonardo DiCaprio is glaringly missing. He
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: was not available. He was inside of a bear or
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: whatever he was doing. Like yeah, but producer John Landau says,
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: very matter of factly, Leonardo DiCaprio hates acting in the water.
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, that's a shock from all
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: of his movies. And then Kate Winslet jumps onto that
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: and says that he was such a baby every time
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: he had to be in the water, and she I
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: think she was like a little she sounded ten years
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: later annoyed about it because she was just like She's like,
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: and it's just interesting because you know, he was in
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: the water for a lot of scenes, but not even
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: half as many scenes as I was in the water,
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: and I got hypothermia and I just like kind of
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: really didn't complain as much as he did on set.
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: But apparently, like even though the water scenes were interesting
- 1:18:32Speaker 1: to hear about again, it's like Kate Winslet is just
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: like left in the fucking trenches in this because in
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: spite of not lighting king to act in the water.
- 1:18:40Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio is scuba certified for some reason. Okay, probably
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: because he's in the water all the time even before
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: this movie, so he's already scuba certified. But Kate Winslet,
- 1:18:52Speaker 1: there's like an anecdote in the scene where they're trying
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: to unlock the gate so that they don't drown. Yes,
- 1:18:59Speaker 1: in that scene, Kate Winslet had like a panic attack
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: on set because they were filling the set with water
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: like practical effects style, and so there were only a
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: couple of inches to breathe. But to James Cameron's credit,
- 1:19:12Speaker 1: like it seems like he did everything he could to
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: set up safety protocols and like there were rescue divers,
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: Like no one was significantly injured or died. It sounds
- 1:19:21Speaker 1: like the PCP thing was about as bad as it got.
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: But like the safety instructor showed Kate Winslett, like it
- 1:19:28Speaker 1: is gonna feel scary because there only will be a
- 1:19:30Speaker 1: couple of inches to breathe. But if you push up
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: on the ceiling, there is a ton of space and
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: you're fine, and that was like how the scene was
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: set up, and so she felt comfortable with that. But
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: then it happened that, like when they were doing a take,
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: she pushed up on the scene and the ceiling stuck
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: and so there was not infinite space and she had
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: like a panic attack. And then like I had to
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: take some time during the day like, yeah, I know,
- 1:19:58Speaker 1: it just this movie sounded like it sounded like everything
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: was done that was possible, but still it's like you're
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: sinking a boat every day. It just sounded terrible. Yeah,
- 1:20:11Speaker 1: I could not. Sorry, I was looking through our Instagram
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: to find the post that we made of all of
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: the like screen grabs from movies where Leonardo DiCaprio was
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: in water. He had been in water many times at
- 1:20:25Speaker 1: this point. The fact that he's still complaining about it
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: is unprofessional. And many times after Oh yeah, because we've
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: got Inception obviously Titanic, the Beach, Shutter, Island, Great gats Be,
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet. He's in the water, is he not
- 1:20:40Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet? That was pretty Titanic. He falls in
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: a pool in Wolf of Wall Street, he's in water.
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: In the Revenant, he falls into water and what's eat
- 1:20:49Speaker 1: and Gilbert Grape. It's just like he's always in water,
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: and he's always in his clothes in water. It's honestly, like,
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: with that in mind, it's absolutely shocking that Kate Winslet
- 1:21:01Speaker 1: is an avatar way of water and he isn't right, Like,
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: if there's anyone who's primed for being in the water,
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: it's dicapria. But apparently I was just I was truly
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: like shocked into Paul to hear that he didn't like it,
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: because not to empathize with him, because who cares, but
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: you're also like, wow, if he really truly doesn't like
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: acting in water, his life is a nightmare. Like he
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: literally does he know he's going to be in the
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: water for another fifteen years minimum, you know, like they're
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: not going to take him out of the tank. Like
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: I assumed he liked being in the water or why
- 1:21:39Speaker 1: would this be happening to him so much? But apparently
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: as of ninety seven, he did not like being the water.
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: He was peeing in the water, he was complaining about
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: the water. Blizzard starving to death off screen. Who knows
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: what's going on with Blizzard Blizzard the Lizard Blizzard the Lizard. Yeah, okay,
- 1:22:01Speaker 1: so roses in this lifeboat. But then she's looking up
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: at Jack and she's like, actually, no, I'm going to
- 1:22:08Speaker 1: jump off the lifeboat, jump onto Titanic and be with Jack.
- 1:22:12Speaker 1: And then she and Jack are running toward each other
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: and they so much meet up, and then they're kissing
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: and so beautiful. She's like, you jump by jump and
- 1:22:22Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, God, they're so ridiculous. I really I
- 1:22:27Speaker 1: really love them. That sequence never doesn't get me big time. See,
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: I'm just like, romance is dead. I have no feelings
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: and I only have feelings as ruined my life. It
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: gets me every time. If you want to feel some
- 1:22:43Speaker 1: technical distance from it. There's a fun they had to
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: like shoot that upshot of Leonardo DiCaprio, like when the
- 1:22:50Speaker 1: boat is lowering from both angles, because they only have
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: one side of the boat right and so apparently there's
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: a few cuts in the back and forth where or
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: DiCaprio's part will shift just so because so much of
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: this movie was shot in reverse, that I sent to
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: you something that I think should be back to cast
- 1:23:09Speaker 1: merch where something that wasn't completely symmetrical in its costuming
- 1:23:14Speaker 1: or whatever it was, such as lettering lettering, so like
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: a White star Line uniform that says white star Line.
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: They would have to shoot it not but for certain
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: scenes they would have to shoot it with a regular costume,
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: and then they would also have to shoot it with
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: a costume that just everything backwards, because they're like, oh,
- 1:23:31Speaker 1: well this is for this side of the boat, so
- 1:23:33Speaker 1: we're just going to reverse shot everything, so this will
- 1:23:36Speaker 1: make things easier. And I want a backwards White star
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: Line sweatshirt so bad. I really you can design that,
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: I know, and I feel like our listeners will value
- 1:23:47Speaker 1: it as well, and it's it's the best kind of
- 1:23:49Speaker 1: piece of clothing because it's like a little annoying but
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: not too annoying, which is my favorite, my favorite, and
- 1:23:57Speaker 1: it's like when you know, you know, yeah, And it's
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: also a conversation starter. But if you don't like, that's
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: fine and I'll keep walking. Yeah, I'm an adult, right, Okay.
- 1:24:07Speaker 1: So Rose has jumped off the lifeboat and met back
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: up with Jack, which makes cal Very upset that Rose
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: chose Jack over him. I hope you're all happy together.
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: He grabs love Joy's gun and starts shooting at them,
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: so they have to escape and run back down into
- 1:24:25Speaker 1: the bowels of the ship which are very full of water,
- 1:24:29Speaker 1: and there's this little boy that Jack and Rose try
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: to save. They almost get trapped behind another gate, but
- 1:24:36Speaker 1: they make it out at the last second. Quick thing
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: about the little boy that was shot obviously so that
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: there was no little boy stunt double that was knocked
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: over by fifty thousand tons of water, But in any case,
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: like the way that that scene was shot, I just
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: thought it was so interesting where in that scene a
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: stunt man and a little dummy of a little boy
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: are knocked over by a ton of water, and then
- 1:24:59Speaker 1: the cast off of that water, like a ton of water,
- 1:25:02Speaker 1: also hits Jack and Rose. That shot is one of
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: the first face swapping like deep fake shots ever committed
- 1:25:11Speaker 1: to film. That is not the actors, that's their stunt doubles,
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: because it was like, you couldn't ask an actor to
- 1:25:18Speaker 1: be hit with that amount of force. Those are stunt doubles.
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: And yeah, Leonardo DiCaprio and Caitlin's let's face Our Deep
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: faked onto that and I watched it to try to
- 1:25:28Speaker 1: see if, like how obvious it was. It didn't feel
- 1:25:31Speaker 1: super obvious to me. But I think we should go
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: back and watch it together sometime. But apparently that's like
- 1:25:36Speaker 1: one of the first deep fake shots ever done. Interesting,
- 1:25:40Speaker 1: I know it's mild. Well, Jamie come over literally whenever
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: to watch Titanic. I mean, like we will probably watch
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: it on tour and then also at the movies. The movies. Yeah,
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: we come to this place for Titanic. Oh baby, we'll
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: go into that place to laugh, to cry, to watch Titanic.
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: We are going to that place, okay. Meanwhile, cal is
- 1:26:02Speaker 1: trying to get on a lifeboat and he uses a
- 1:26:05Speaker 1: lost child as an excuse to get on. I have
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: a child, so iconic. Nearby, Captain E. J. Smith is disassociating, yes,
- 1:26:17Speaker 1: which is a creative choice by Bernard Hill. Mmmmmm. Interesting.
- 1:26:21Speaker 1: The band stops playing, but then one of them keeps
- 1:26:25Speaker 1: playing by himself, and then they all joined back in
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: It's beautiful. Then there's this montage where you see the
- 1:26:32Speaker 1: old couple in bed together is a door Strauss and
- 1:26:36Speaker 1: his wife real people, yes, In the scene with the
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: Irish woman and her children, that is we've talked about
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: this before. That was an actor named I don't remember,
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: but she was like a James Cameron you stand by character.
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: She had previously acted in brown face for him, which
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: is alien. We had that discussion in Aliens our Aliens episode.
- 1:27:01Speaker 1: But fun fact for Titanic, I feel like it is
- 1:27:04Speaker 1: very very well remembered that she talks to her children
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: about the land of tier Nanogue and an Irish folktale,
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: and she came up with that that was not a
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: James Cameron original. That was her doing research on a
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: bedtime story that an Irish woman of that time would
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: have told her kids, which I thought was really sweet cool,
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: that was nice. Yes, um, Okay, so we seeah, we
- 1:27:30Speaker 1: see the old couple, We see the Irish mummy with
- 1:27:34Speaker 1: her kids. We see all this chaos continuing to ensue
- 1:27:40Speaker 1: as half of the boat is now completely underwater. People
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: are falling off the ship into the water. The captain's
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: room floods, a smokestack falls over and crushes for Brizzio. Okay,
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: quick thing there. I'm sorry. I know we've been recording
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: this for nine hundred years. It's been eighty four years. Yes, okay,
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: So are you aware of the alternate Fabrizio death? Yes,
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: because it's in the screenplay. Okay, So I just wanted
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: to rehash it Fabrizio. Apparently it was shot so that
- 1:28:10Speaker 1: they had multiple options for Fabrizio to die, so by
- 1:28:14Speaker 1: the time between the script and the shooting, they were like,
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: we're not sure. We know this character is gonna die,
- 1:28:20Speaker 1: We're not sure how. Danny Nucci had some fun quotes
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: about it. He was just like, I died five or
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: six different times, and then I just had to go
- 1:28:29Speaker 1: see the movie and see what they chose. Wow, because
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: in the original, like the smokestack is cged in, so
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: like that shot very easily could have been him being like,
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: oh no, it's so wet, or like whatever. You know. Okay,
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: this did sound familiar, so you've probably told me before,
- 1:28:46Speaker 1: but it was just like fun to revisit. There is
- 1:28:49Speaker 1: a version of it that they shot that I haven't
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: seen before, but I'm sure he's just somewhere of Fabrizio
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: gets out of the wreck, paddles over to the lifeboat.
- 1:29:03Speaker 1: The cal is in gets up and says, you don't understand,
- 1:29:08Speaker 1: I have to go to a medica, like in his
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: Italian accent, that's definitely real. Whatever, and then cal wax
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: him with an oar on the head and says it's
- 1:29:20Speaker 1: that way and that's how he dies. He dies via
- 1:29:23Speaker 1: blunt trauma with Cal, and I think that everyone decided
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: that like Cal was maybe bad enough already and that
- 1:29:32Speaker 1: was maybe not need to commit murder, even though he
- 1:29:36Speaker 1: already tried to murder his fiancee and Jack Um, Yeah,
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: he was bad enough, But that was, like, I just
- 1:29:44Speaker 1: was wild. I think I had forgotten about that and
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: it was a wild thing to revisit. That's the version
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: that's in the draft of the screenplay that's readily available. Okay,
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: if you download the screenplay of Titanic, which you can
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: find online. It's very similar to the finished movie that
- 1:30:04Speaker 1: we all know and love, but there are a few scenes,
- 1:30:08Speaker 1: such as the Fabrizio death scene, that are pretty different
- 1:30:11Speaker 1: in this version of the script than what ends up
- 1:30:15Speaker 1: in the movie. But yeah, that's the version of his
- 1:30:17Speaker 1: death that is in that draft of the script. Pretty funny. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: So Fabrizio tragically dies via smoke stuck. Also, Tommy had
- 1:30:29Speaker 1: been shot a while back. I didn't put that in
- 1:30:32Speaker 1: when it actually happened. Yeah, Jack and Rose are running
- 1:30:36Speaker 1: to the other end of the ship the stern, trying
- 1:30:40Speaker 1: to stay on the ship as long as possible, and
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: Rose is like Jack. This is where we first met
- 1:30:48Speaker 1: Kate for those scenes because they were like chained or
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: like harnessed to the side of the boat. Like there
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: was like a set that was called like the rotating
- 1:30:57Speaker 1: poop deck for like those ending scenes where it would
- 1:31:01Speaker 1: just be like mechanically up and down. But it was
- 1:31:04Speaker 1: so difficult to navigate that Kate Winslet took it upon
- 1:31:07Speaker 1: herself again icon to put like basically a full makeup
- 1:31:12Speaker 1: kit in the pocket of her the big jacket where
- 1:31:15Speaker 1: the heart of the ocean is supposed to be, and
- 1:31:17Speaker 1: she would do her makeup touchups and Leonardo DiCaprio's makeup
- 1:31:23Speaker 1: touchups so that a makeup artist wouldn't have to get
- 1:31:26Speaker 1: like harnessed up onto the boat to fix them before shots.
- 1:31:31Speaker 1: She's the best. She rocks, I know, She's so cool.
- 1:31:35Speaker 1: Love it, brock, love it Okay. The stern. The stern
- 1:31:42Speaker 1: is rising up and up as the bow sinks. This
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: is when a guy falls off the ship and hits
- 1:31:48Speaker 1: the propeller and spins, which everyone I cannot even count. Yeah,
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: how many people I've been like I love the movie
- 1:31:55Speaker 1: Titanic and someone will be like, wow, the only thing
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: I remember from that movie is when the guy hits
- 1:31:59Speaker 1: the propeller. We talked about this very briefly in our
- 1:32:03Speaker 1: Avatar episode where like when push comes to shove, James
- 1:32:07Speaker 1: Cameron knows how to kill someone in an interesting way, Yeah,
- 1:32:11Speaker 1: because I didn't because Avatar. I think this is not
- 1:32:15Speaker 1: controversial at all, but like it's just like not as
- 1:32:17Speaker 1: memorable a movie as Titanic is, But there are a
- 1:32:21Speaker 1: number of kills at the peak of Avatar's action that
- 1:32:25Speaker 1: are equally like oh my god, what Like people are
- 1:32:30Speaker 1: being ripped in a half and you're just like, holy shit, Like, yeah,
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: when when the moment comes, he is not afraid to
- 1:32:38Speaker 1: really let people die, I mean, the guilty and the innocent,
- 1:32:42Speaker 1: because it's not like I mean, at least an Avatar,
- 1:32:45Speaker 1: it's a little more cathartic because it's like the colonizers,
- 1:32:49Speaker 1: so they're asking for it, they're asking to be torn
- 1:32:52Speaker 1: in half. Propeller guy, I mean, tell me what he
- 1:32:56Speaker 1: did wrong? We don't know, we don't know, we don't
- 1:32:59Speaker 1: know who that is. Can you imagine how horrific? I mean,
- 1:33:03Speaker 1: I don't think this would be the stronger creative choice,
- 1:33:05Speaker 1: but like in a world where we had met like
- 1:33:09Speaker 1: there had been some plant in payoff with Propeller guy,
- 1:33:12Speaker 1: like we had met him before. Oh my god, I
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: would be devastated. Yeah, yeah, I know. I know. Fabrizio's
- 1:33:20Speaker 1: girlfriend she's nuked. Yeah, you know, she got on the
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: wrong side of the rails. Sorry, babe, it's so sad.
- 1:33:28Speaker 1: It's sad. M okay. Then the ship breaks in half
- 1:33:32Speaker 1: and the back half of the ship sinks and Rose
- 1:33:37Speaker 1: and Jack end up in the water among hundreds of
- 1:33:40Speaker 1: other people. They swim over to a door and they
- 1:33:45Speaker 1: both try to get on it. It flips over because
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: it's not about size, it's about BWENI as we've said,
- 1:33:51Speaker 1: so just Rose ends up on the door. Jack is
- 1:33:56Speaker 1: in the freezing water. They are waiting for the lifeboats
- 1:33:59Speaker 1: to come back and save the people in the water.
- 1:34:02Speaker 1: Rose is like, I'm really cold and I can't feel
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: my body and I feel like I might die. And
- 1:34:08Speaker 1: Jack is like, You're not going to die here. You're
- 1:34:10Speaker 1: going to live a full life. Promise me you'll do that,
- 1:34:14Speaker 1: and never let go of that promise, almost like that's
- 1:34:17Speaker 1: setting it up for a scene that's going to happen
- 1:34:19Speaker 1: shortly where she does that and then she dies and
- 1:34:22Speaker 1: I don't. But you know it's hard to say, I
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: do have one. Quickly, I want to add in that
- 1:34:27Speaker 1: I forgot I I just am toggling between my commentary notes.
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: Something I thought was interesting about when the ship is
- 1:34:34Speaker 1: going down, like all those poop deck shots. Yeah, when
- 1:34:38Speaker 1: the ship is like submerging for the final time. Again,
- 1:34:41Speaker 1: just like there's so many like early I don't know,
- 1:34:45Speaker 1: like again, he's a batman, but but but boy did
- 1:34:50Speaker 1: he get results. You know, like there are all of
- 1:34:53Speaker 1: these like CG things that are now so normal in
- 1:34:57Speaker 1: movies that like James Cameron was like innovative on the
- 1:35:00Speaker 1: set of Titanic where instead of because like CG was
- 1:35:04Speaker 1: still very much whatever in process, Like there were all
- 1:35:08Speaker 1: of these shots when the boat was straight up and
- 1:35:12Speaker 1: sinking the last section of it that they would call
- 1:35:15Speaker 1: toilet paper shots because they would have the human extras
- 1:35:21Speaker 1: and like you know, Jack and Rosen and the chef
- 1:35:23Speaker 1: and the girlfriend and all this stuff for actors who
- 1:35:27Speaker 1: would have to fall and get hurt in CG that
- 1:35:32Speaker 1: you couldn't do in a way that was safe for
- 1:35:34Speaker 1: a stunt actor. They would have an actor sometimes actually
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: Kate winslet drop a roll of toilet paper from their mark,
- 1:35:44Speaker 1: so that the post production editor could go back and
- 1:35:47Speaker 1: cg in the green screen shot of someone falling and
- 1:35:52Speaker 1: like hitting something or whatever it was. And so there
- 1:35:55Speaker 1: were all these things called toilet paper shots, and you
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: could see some of them on line of just like
- 1:36:01Speaker 1: famous actors dropping a roll of toilet paper. It's kind
- 1:36:07Speaker 1: of fun. That's fun. I like it. Okay. So Jack
- 1:36:11Speaker 1: is like, never let go of that promise, and she says,
- 1:36:14Speaker 1: I'll never let go. Jack. Some time passes, a lifeboat
- 1:36:19Speaker 1: finally shows up with sexy crew member number twelve or whatever,
- 1:36:25Speaker 1: played by Ione Griffith as fifth Officer Harold Lowe. Yes,
- 1:36:31Speaker 1: he's the person I have a story about. So like, oh,
- 1:36:34Speaker 1: Kathy Bates in the commentary, because he goes on to
- 1:36:38Speaker 1: have a bit of a career, which even James Cameron
- 1:36:41Speaker 1: says in his commentary, he's like, this guy's he's he's
- 1:36:44Speaker 1: a fantastic before. I mean, I think that that's about it,
- 1:36:47Speaker 1: but you know he's done a thing or two, right,
- 1:36:49Speaker 1: And Kathy Bates said, like in the day, like where
- 1:36:53Speaker 1: they're in the fucking tank in Burbank, but that day
- 1:36:58Speaker 1: specifically where it's a bunch of extras literally lying motionless,
- 1:37:01Speaker 1: pretending to be dead, and that was like a really
- 1:37:03Speaker 1: emotional day, and that she was so moved by his
- 1:37:09Speaker 1: performance that she was like sobbing on set in a
- 1:37:13Speaker 1: way that was like she wasn't supposed to be and
- 1:37:16Speaker 1: it isn't in the movie, but like she just had
- 1:37:18Speaker 1: a really emotionally difficult time and she said that like
- 1:37:21Speaker 1: she she just she was like, I gotta hand it
- 1:37:23Speaker 1: to him. I cried myself to sleep that night when
- 1:37:25Speaker 1: he's like doing thee can never be my Hammie, And
- 1:37:32Speaker 1: you're just like, oh, they freaking can't except for rows
- 1:37:36Speaker 1: of course, and she's not real and those pop and
- 1:37:39Speaker 1: the two poperanians fucking dog paddling for their Oh my god,
- 1:37:45Speaker 1: I feel like if honestly I mean and I say
- 1:37:48Speaker 1: that because he's in my lap right now. But like
- 1:37:50Speaker 1: if we was on the Titanic, I would die and
- 1:37:53Speaker 1: he would live. You would put him on the door
- 1:37:55Speaker 1: and you would sacrifice yourself. No, I would get on
- 1:37:59Speaker 1: the door and leave him for dead and I would
- 1:38:01Speaker 1: still die and he would still live. He's just very strong.
- 1:38:05Speaker 1: I would be like, listen, catch survivor. I'd expected ze wise,
- 1:38:09Speaker 1: you gotta go and he'd be like, I understand, but
- 1:38:12Speaker 1: then I would I would just not be strong enough.
- 1:38:13Speaker 1: I would die and he would be like, all right,
- 1:38:16Speaker 1: let me hop up on this. Also, if it was
- 1:38:18Speaker 1: me and Flee on the door, I feel like the
- 1:38:21Speaker 1: boy and c would you know, Flee weighs nine pounds,
- 1:38:23Speaker 1: he'd be fine. That's true. That's so true. Yeah, um, okay,
- 1:38:28Speaker 1: so you and Grifolts, you and McGregor all over again.
- 1:38:35Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I bullshitted my way through it,
- 1:38:38Speaker 1: and you did not call me out, which I thought
- 1:38:40Speaker 1: was really kind of you. I said my aunt will
- 1:38:45Speaker 1: be something kind of close to that. I feel like
- 1:38:47Speaker 1: people have tried to tell us what it is before
- 1:38:49Speaker 1: it because it's a Welsh name spelled yes I O
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: A N. That's his first name, g r u f
- 1:38:57Speaker 1: f u d D. I simply don't know how it's
- 1:39:00Speaker 1: pronounced anyway. He's just a lot of vowels. It's hard
- 1:39:04Speaker 1: to know. Yeah. But he shows up on a lifeboat
- 1:39:07Speaker 1: and Rose is like, Jack, there's a boat, but Jack
- 1:39:12Speaker 1: is dead. Oops, and she calls out. She says that
- 1:39:17Speaker 1: she goes oops, and then she's like, I'll never like, oh,
- 1:39:20Speaker 1: my promise, And then she tries to call out and
- 1:39:23Speaker 1: get mister Lifeboat's attention. Then she swims over and blows
- 1:39:27Speaker 1: on a whistle and she is saved. Cut back to
- 1:39:31Speaker 1: the kell Dish where Old Rose and Broc love it
- 1:39:34Speaker 1: and all those people. Brock is having a feeling for
- 1:39:37Speaker 1: the first time in his life. He's having a hard
- 1:39:40Speaker 1: time yeah, and Rose says, I never spoke about Jack
- 1:39:43Speaker 1: before this, because a woman's heart is a deep ocean
- 1:39:46Speaker 1: of secrets, and Brok is like, damn, I never really
- 1:39:49Speaker 1: appreciated Titanic before. I never let it in, but now
- 1:39:52Speaker 1: I get it. Then we see Rose on the deck
- 1:39:57Speaker 1: of the Kellydish. She has the heart of the ocean
- 1:40:00Speaker 1: in her hand. We have talked through previously the alternate
- 1:40:03Speaker 1: ending to this movie, which sucks. We will not rehash
- 1:40:06Speaker 1: it here. There's a long garbagee Susie Amos, Bill Paxton like,
- 1:40:13Speaker 1: what what hey, Old Rose, please restate the moral of
- 1:40:18Speaker 1: the movie. Version that absolutely sucks. But this version, I
- 1:40:24Speaker 1: just feel like this just happens to be the one
- 1:40:27Speaker 1: movie where every right choice was made because the ending
- 1:40:29Speaker 1: to this movie is perfect. I do hate that she
- 1:40:32Speaker 1: throws the necklace in the water, but I mean, ideally
- 1:40:37Speaker 1: would she, you know, like sell it and then redistribute
- 1:40:41Speaker 1: the funds. Yes, symbolically for a person who never existed
- 1:40:47Speaker 1: with a mcguffin, it doesn't bother me and it makes
- 1:40:50Speaker 1: me cry. Yeah, because she was like, ultimately this one,
- 1:40:53Speaker 1: because it was like whatever, ultimately this was meaningless. It
- 1:40:57Speaker 1: was the love that mattered. And now having done this,
- 1:41:00Speaker 1: I can die or I can fall asleep and have
- 1:41:05Speaker 1: a dream about it. Okay. So Rose has the heart
- 1:41:08Speaker 1: of the ocean. Boring because of that scene earlier where
- 1:41:11Speaker 1: Cal is like, I put the diamond in the coat,
- 1:41:14Speaker 1: and I put the coat on her. Put the coat
- 1:41:16Speaker 1: on her. So Rose, and then let's not forget that
- 1:41:20Speaker 1: the depression hit him pretty hard and he put a
- 1:41:22Speaker 1: pistol in his mouth this year or so she read, yeah,
- 1:41:25Speaker 1: or so she read. We don't know, we don't know. Yeah,
- 1:41:28Speaker 1: he could be like a Pomeranian. He could still be.
- 1:41:31Speaker 1: So Rose has the heart of the ocean, and she's
- 1:41:35Speaker 1: had it this whole time, and she throws it in
- 1:41:39Speaker 1: the water and she goes, ah, God, I'm annoyed. Then no,
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: she's like con Then we see Rose in bed with
- 1:41:48Speaker 1: all of her pictures of the full life that she lived,
- 1:41:51Speaker 1: because she never let go of her promise to Jack.
- 1:41:54Speaker 1: All of these photos were photoshopped except for Kate Winslet
- 1:41:57Speaker 1: on the horse because Kate and which James Cameron pointed
- 1:42:00Speaker 1: out because he's like and Kate is afraid of horses. Oh,
- 1:42:04Speaker 1: I know, my friend. And then what happens? Okay. So
- 1:42:09Speaker 1: some people will interpret this as Rose dying and going
- 1:42:13Speaker 1: to heaven. Other really cool and really smart people will
- 1:42:16Speaker 1: interpret this as Rose falling asleep and having a dream.
- 1:42:19Speaker 1: But what we saw orch just people who haven't really
- 1:42:21Speaker 1: grappled with their mortality. I have something to I have
- 1:42:24Speaker 1: something to share her because James Cameron has a bonanza
- 1:42:29Speaker 1: with this thing. He makes it. He has a little
- 1:42:33Speaker 1: bit of fun, okay with this, so he says, quote
- 1:42:37Speaker 1: the big ambiguity here is is she alive and dreaming
- 1:42:42Speaker 1: or is she dead and on her way to Titanic heaven? Here?
- 1:42:45Speaker 1: And of course I'll never tell. I mean, I know
- 1:42:51Speaker 1: what was intended at the time, but that doesn't mean
- 1:42:55Speaker 1: I have to go blurting it out. I know you
- 1:42:58Speaker 1: bought this expensive special edition DVD, which I did, and
- 1:43:03Speaker 1: you were hoping for the answer. But the answer is
- 1:43:07Speaker 1: that has to be something that you supply personally and
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: as an individual. Wow, isn't that awesome? And so it
- 1:43:15Speaker 1: says something about people based on their interpretation of what happens.
- 1:43:21Speaker 1: It says that everyone. It says that he, I think
- 1:43:24Speaker 1: what in my opinion, like genuinely in my opinion. It
- 1:43:29Speaker 1: says that whatever creative choice he made didn't read as
- 1:43:32Speaker 1: strongly as he thought it would. And then he's like,
- 1:43:35Speaker 1: um so that's kind of art right, like, which is
- 1:43:38Speaker 1: what I would do in the same situation where I'm like, oh, yeah,
- 1:43:41Speaker 1: I made an unclear choice. Um that was on purpose,
- 1:43:45Speaker 1: and I think it's kind of iconic that And I
- 1:43:46Speaker 1: hope he never tells us. And I hope that we
- 1:43:48Speaker 1: both think that we're right until we either fall asleep
- 1:43:51Speaker 1: or die, which means I'm right, we will die one day.
- 1:43:54Speaker 1: We will not just keep falling asleep. But but I
- 1:43:58Speaker 1: liked I was. I was free entically transcribing that because
- 1:44:01Speaker 1: I was so excited to be like he said something
- 1:44:04Speaker 1: and it was not it was. I love that he
- 1:44:07Speaker 1: refuses to be clearer. It's it's great. Um So the
- 1:44:13Speaker 1: dream or heaven, based on your interpretation is And James
- 1:44:17Speaker 1: Cameron says this scene I cry at my own movie,
- 1:44:20Speaker 1: which is so which is I was like, I cry
- 1:44:25Speaker 1: at your own movie. So good for you, Good for you.
- 1:44:28Speaker 1: So we see young Rose. She's like entering the big
- 1:44:32Speaker 1: like grand staircase area of Titanic. Jack is waiting for
- 1:44:36Speaker 1: her at the top of the staircase just like you said,
- 1:44:39Speaker 1: they're surrounded by everyone who was on the ship. Rose
- 1:44:42Speaker 1: walks up the staircase and she and Jack kiss the end. Yay,
- 1:44:48Speaker 1: I love Caitlin, great job, I loved. My last fun
- 1:44:52Speaker 1: fact to share is that James Cameron's well, actually, no,
- 1:44:56Speaker 1: I have two more fun I'm okay, okay. My last
- 1:44:59Speaker 1: James Cameron fun fact is that they shot that last
- 1:45:03Speaker 1: The first of all, everyone who shot the staircase dream
- 1:45:06Speaker 1: slash death sequence did not think it would be included
- 1:45:10Speaker 1: in the final cut. It was something that Kate Winslet
- 1:45:13Speaker 1: and Leonardo DiCaprio thought was far too corny to make
- 1:45:16Speaker 1: the final cut. But then it did. But they also
- 1:45:19Speaker 1: shot it with them applauding and without them applauding, and
- 1:45:22Speaker 1: we're back and forth pretty close. But they chose applauding,
- 1:45:25Speaker 1: and I think that was the right choice. The final
- 1:45:28Speaker 1: thing is the last, the true last sequence in this
- 1:45:30Speaker 1: movie is the celine dion my heart will go on sequence.
- 1:45:36Speaker 1: I did not know the story attached to this, and
- 1:45:39Speaker 1: I love it, so tell me. I'm going to share
- 1:45:42Speaker 1: it and then we can explode, we can sink into
- 1:45:45Speaker 1: the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. I'm ready. So I
- 1:45:50Speaker 1: guess that there was like a shared opinion of James
- 1:45:53Speaker 1: Cameron and James Horner that they did not like when
- 1:45:57Speaker 1: movies ended with a song. They both thought it was
- 1:46:01Speaker 1: goofy and corny and they didn't like it. But when
- 1:46:05Speaker 1: James Horner was thinking about ways to end the movie,
- 1:46:08Speaker 1: he started thinking about a song and so he like
- 1:46:11Speaker 1: privately started working on something he privately not telling James Cameron,
- 1:46:16Speaker 1: hired a lyricist put together this song. He went to Vegas,
- 1:46:22Speaker 1: he saw Selene and he was like, I'm gonna hit
- 1:46:26Speaker 1: her up. I have enough, like and they secretly recorded
- 1:46:30Speaker 1: this song unbeknownst to James Cameron in New York, and
- 1:46:35Speaker 1: James Horner was like, hey, like it's pretty like unlikely
- 1:46:39Speaker 1: that this will be included in the movie, but like
- 1:46:41Speaker 1: here's your money, and like thanks for doing this. Like
- 1:46:45Speaker 1: then after it was recorded, James Horner, who sounded like
- 1:46:48Speaker 1: a very like quiet man who like chose his moments
- 1:46:53Speaker 1: kind of person. So once he has the Song of
- 1:46:57Speaker 1: the Century like V recording, he sits on it for
- 1:47:01Speaker 1: six weeks, waiting for James Cameron to be in the
- 1:47:06Speaker 1: right mood to be receptive to the idea of a
- 1:47:12Speaker 1: song ending the movie. Yeah, And then six weeks later
- 1:47:16Speaker 1: James Horner's like, so I tried something out and like,
- 1:47:22Speaker 1: just let me know what you think. He plays a
- 1:47:24Speaker 1: song and then James Cameron's like, is this Selene Dion
- 1:47:29Speaker 1: And James Horner's like, yeah, Selene Deon. I just kind
- 1:47:33Speaker 1: of threw it together over the course of several months,
- 1:47:37Speaker 1: and James Cameron to his again, I feel like when
- 1:47:40Speaker 1: the idea is really good, he will acknowledge it. And
- 1:47:43Speaker 1: he was like, let me just think about this, and
- 1:47:45Speaker 1: then he brought the song to his I guess at
- 1:47:48Speaker 1: that time teenage daughter and was like, what do you
- 1:47:51Speaker 1: think And his teenage daughter was like, it's the Song
- 1:47:54Speaker 1: of the Century, you fool. And that's how the song
- 1:47:57Speaker 1: got it into the movie. Wow, isn't that wild? Get
- 1:48:00Speaker 1: like there were so many everything perfect happened with Titanic.
- 1:48:05Speaker 1: It's the best movie ever, moviemaking is magical and horrible
- 1:48:10Speaker 1: and yes, two things can be true. That's our seventh
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- 1:48:49Speaker 1: we will talk about a movie we watched the full
- 1:48:51Speaker 1: year ago, Titanic sixty six six. Yeah, and that's a
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