James Cameron has revealed how he would survive the Titanic sinking if he were aboard.
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The Avatar filmmaker made cinema history with 1997’s Titanic, a fictional love story set on board the real-life ocean liner that sank April 12 1912, after a collision with an iceberg.
The tragedy cost 1,635 lives and remains an infamous moment in history, thanks partly to the success of Cameron’s film, which is still the second most successful of all time in terms of box office. The director has researched the ship and its remains extensively, and in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter shared how he believed he would survive the crash.
“I think there were interesting ways to what-if or second-guess the whole thing,” he said. “One I like to play with my Titanic experts is — with what we know now, and if you had the captain’s ear — how could you save everybody? The other is: What if you’re a time traveller, you go back and want to experience the sinking, and your little time-travel thing that gets you back fails, and you’re like, ‘Oh fuck, I’m really on the ship, I’ve got to get off it.’”
In terms of his own plan, he reveals that if he could not get into a lifeboat by the usual method (women and children were evacuated first), he would dive into the ocean early after the collision and rely on a lifeboat picking him up.
“Most people wouldn’t have had the courage to jump into the water,” he said. “They couldn’t quite believe that the ship was really going to sink. But if you knew for sure it was going to sink and you weren’t on a lifeboat, you jump in the water next to the boat the second it casts off. Once they rowed away, you were screwed.”
He argued: “Are they going to let you drown when Titanic is still there and everybody is watching? No, they’d pull you in, and the officers would go, ‘Well, fuck, there’s nothing I can do about that.’”
James Cameron is currently promoting the third Avatar film, Fire And Ash, and recently said that if the movie underperforms he would hold a press conference to reveal what the plot of the fourth and fifth movies would have been.
That seems unlikely, however, given that the movie is currently projected to make $1billion at the box office.
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