The famous email that made James Cameron change a scene from Titanic

Text adapted from the original published in Adventures in History with the title “THE ‘SARCASTIC’ EMAIL THAT MADE JAMES CAMERON CHANGE TITANIC SCENE”

Released in 1997, the film ‘Titanic’, by James Cameron, was once again commented by internet users after the tragedy of the submarine that imploded while carrying out an expedition to the wreckage of the famous shipwreck. A cinema classic, the feature contains curious stories, such as a scene that was altered by Cameron years after the film’s release.

In 2012, when the film was released in 3D in theaters, it was reported that the director made a change in one of the scenes in the film. The moment in question happens at the end of the feature, when the ship sinks and the character Rose, played by Kate Winsletadrift in Atlantic Oceanfaces a starry sky.

James Cameron received an e-mail from the American astrophysicist, writer and science popularizer Neil de Grasse Tyson. Cameronwho categorized the e-mail as ‘sarcastic’, was informed that it was not what a real passenger, at that latitude and longitude, would have witnessed in 1912.

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“Neil deGrasse Tyson sent me a rather sarcastic email saying that at that time of year, at that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose (Kate Winslet) looks up at the stars, that’s not the starry sky she would have seen,” said Cameron, as reported by the Washington Post in 2012.

The director, who carries a reputation as a perfectionist, asked that the ‘exact stars’ be informed so that the scene could be changed in the film.

“With my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known better and I should have put the correct stars in the scene. So I said, ‘Okay, send me the exact stars for that exact period and I’ll put them in the movie.”