James Cameron Makes One Tiny Change To Titanic 3D - The Stars...

The Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 3/04/2012 07:30 Updated: 3/04/2012 07:31

James Cameron is known for his perfectionism, but even he didn't get Titanic completely right the first time around.

The Oscar-winning director has revealed that when his blockbuster was originally released, an astronomer wrote to him to tell him he got the stars wrong at the end.

According to Gawker.com, when Rose looks up at the sky from her position on the raft, it's the wrong star field she's gazing at.

So Cameron decided to fix it - more details here.

No other changes were made during the film's adaptation for 3D, due for release this week, although the stars themselves have.

MORE: Titanic stars on the red carpet for the world premiere of the film in 3D

Kate Winslet has revealed she now cringes when she watches the love scenes between her and Leonardo DiCaprio, that the famous theme song by Celine Dion makes her want to throw up, and that she's a lot thinner than she used to be, while her co-star DiCaprio is the opposite.

WATCH the stars at the film's world premiere in London last week...

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James Cameron is known for his perfectionism, but even he didn't get Titanic completely right the first time around. The Oscar-winning director has revealed that when his blockbuster was originall...
James Cameron is known for his perfectionism, but even he didn't get Titanic completely right the first time around. The Oscar-winning director has revealed that when his blockbuster was originall...
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justlw
Have you checked xkcd 1190 lately?
03:17 AM on 04/09/2012
What fresh hell...?

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justlw
Have you checked xkcd 1190 lately?
03:17 AM on 04/09/2012
The iceberg shoots first.
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invisbl
same as it ever was
02:56 AM on 04/04/2012
Wasn't it Neil deGrasse Tyson who contacted him about the stars? I thought for sure I heard him tell that story a while ago.
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OurSaySo
discern the very subtle things
01:12 PM on 04/04/2012
Mr. Neil recently told Jon Stewart that the Earth is spinning the wrong way in the opening credits. :-)

I wanna be like Neil!!!
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Andrea Blackwell
Why watch the news? The truth's on Comedy Central!
10:49 AM on 04/05/2012
Oh yeah, he's the kewliest blerd on the planet! I wanted so much to do that kind of work....but it wasn't in the stars for me.
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Leadsled
Love-child of the ghosts of FDR and Napoleon
09:27 PM on 04/03/2012
The real question is: Is it worth sitting through 3 hours of horrible movie for the few seconds of 3-D nude Kate Winslet?
10:44 PM on 04/03/2012
Actually leadsled the film is pretty damn good and before Avatar was the highest grossing film of all time...but of course if you're only capable of comprehending a film based on how many women get naked in it then you're better off watching some "free videos" online and leave the real movies to the adults
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Leadsled
Love-child of the ghosts of FDR and Napoleon
11:24 PM on 04/03/2012
Umm...no. First off, sales figures do not dictate quality when it comes to artistic endeavors. I am fully allowed to think that 2 and a half men is horrible, despite its popularity. Similarly I'm allowed to find both Titanic and Avatar horrible.

Secondly, I find it quite bad as movies go. You have your opinion and I have my own. You are allowed to like the movie just as much as I am allowed to dislike it.

Thirdly, not "how many women get naked" don't be crude. It isn't a question of numbers. It is a question of Kate Winslet.
07:52 PM on 04/03/2012
James Cameron and his team tried their best to make the film as to what actually happened in 1912.

I don't think that many of the people who were on the Titanic are even with us today, and if they are they are a 100 years of age or more so I don't think James and the crew would go seeking the actual passengers of the ship to ask what really happened, as I wouldn't of thought these poor people would want to hold onto the awful memories of that tragic day.
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drjekyll38
07:03 PM on 04/04/2012
Seeking the actual passengers? By 1997, 90% of the Titanic's survivors were dead, and those left were probably children at the time who mercifully had no memory of it at all!

And let's not forget that there never actually was a Jack Dawson or Rose... whatever in the passenger lists. Come to think of it, Gloria Stuart(Old Rose) would probably be angry that this is being released 2 years after her passing, so she will see no additional publicity or royalty from it as well! Except for the technology of finding the wreck and the physics of the sinking, this film had about as much reality to it as a Sport Goofy cartoon!
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vividrick
I came, I saw...I had a cup of tea!
06:49 PM on 04/03/2012
I don't think he got anything right. One of the most depressing times I had in cinema!
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mfa11e
Tell the truth ,regardless
04:47 PM on 04/03/2012
Thought it might have been filmed in the west indies so they didnt freeze to death,they bounced off the iceberg so it didnt sink or the sea was only 100 feet deep so it rested on the bottom,but stars ?