Everyone is wrong about this Titanic line!

We are at the beginning of Titanic, a cinematic monument directed by James Cameron in 1997. The legendary liner known as the Sinking has just left the port of Southampton and is heading full steam towards the horizon.

As the giant ship breaks through the water at breakneck speed, young Jack Dawson – who won a third-class ticket in poker before setting sail – stands at the end of the bow, arms outstretched like wings. bird. Carried by the sea air, which suddenly gives the impression of flight, he screams at the top of his lungs: “I am…”

“…King of the world” ? Are you sure?

Not so! Contrary to what we often hear when audiences are amused by the repetition of this famous line, which is mentioned over and over again, these are not exactly the words that Jack utters in the French version of James Cameron’s film.

Indeed, if Leonardo DiCaprio calls “I am the king of the universe!” In the original version of the feature film, the sentence that rang in the ears of the French public when the film was released in cinemas is actually the following: “I am the master of the universe!”

“I am the master of the universe!”

As for the French subtitles of Cameron’s film, they choose a third wording that is even more removed from the original version: “The world belongs to me!”

For reasons unknown to us, the auditory memory of many French viewers failed them and forced them to change “Master” by “the king” When they sing the famous line.

This is the case, for example, in the scene of Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, which tries to parody Titanic. When attacking an Egyptian ship, the pirate captain Redbeard actually makes a traditional mistake, and so the scream… “I am the king of the world!”

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