Titanic: Forget Kate Winslet, she’s the real rose!

Titanic: Forget Kate Winslet, she’s the real rose!

If James Cameron’s classic Titanic is a fictional love story set during the sinking of the famous liner, one of its main characters is inspired by a real person. In Rose DeWitt Bukater, played on screen by Kate Winslet, there is indeed a bit of American artist Beatrice Wood, as she recalls. ScreenRant website.

A key figure in Dadaism, a subversive intellectual and artistic movement that emerged in New York and Zurich in the 1910s, Beatrice Wood is like a Titanic rose, from a wealthy and traditional American family. And like him, he has a great passion for art. He is devoted not only to painting like Rose (a common taste of Monet), but also to work on ceramics and sculpture.

According to James Cameron, avant-garde painter Beatrice Wood mainly influenced the older version of Rose, played by Gloria Stewart in the eleven-time Oscar-winning classic. The director, who pays tribute to him at the beginning of the film with 101-year-old potter Rose, met him in person after reading the biography.

in the sign James Cameron: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) Published in 2011, Brent Dunham’s Canadian director states: “He was kind of the inspiration for the Titanic character. It had nothing to do with Titanic.”

Indeed, rebel artist Beatrice Wood was never a passenger on the Titanic. in the interview Credited to Firstpost siteThe American admitted he had never seen Cameron’s film when the latter sent him a copy, believing he didn’t want to experience sadness so late in life. Beatrice Wood died in 1998, just shy of her 105th birthday.

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