This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy, and with it will come James Cameron's 3D version of his Oscar-winning flick documenting the doomed voyage. Last month he screened the revamped film, which contains one altered scene. The change came after Neil deGrasse Tyson informed him that the astral pattern was inaccurate for the night the ship sank in 1912. The scene comes when Kate Winslet’s character, Rose, is floating on a piece of wood and staring at the sky. Cameron told Culture magazine:
“Oh, there is one shot that I fixed. It’s because Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is one of the U.S.’ leading astronomers, sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year, in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen, and with my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known that and I should have put the right star field in. So I said, ‘All right, you son of a bitch, send me the right stars for the exact time, 4:20 a.m. on April 15th, 1912, and I’ll put it in the movie.’ So that’s the one shot that has been changed.”
Couldn't he have also changed the soundtrack while he was in there? [Contact Music via Videogum]
