The 'unsinkable' Titanic, departing from Belfast
The Titanic tragedy changed the world . And the film that James Cameron dedicated to him changed him again. Premiered in 1997, still today, when 20 years have passed since its launch , the winner of 11 Oscars is still the second highest grossing film in history. To commemorate this anniversary, National Geographic has recorded what it considers the ultimate documentary about one of the events in the field of travel that shocked the planet.
In it, the director brings together a group of experts in order to analyze all the information available about the sinking, which includes the most recent discoveries. In this way, Cameron fulfills what he promised with the filming of Titanic: find the whole truth of the story , in order to honor the victims who lost their lives during the night of April 14-15, 1912.
James Cameron studies a model of the Titanic
Also, the filmmaker, taking into account the opinion of professionals and the latest technological advances, also analyzes in _ Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron _ everything that he could have done differently in his film so that it would still be more reliable . And no, save Jack It would not be something that I would change if I had to shoot it again, as our colleagues from Vanity Fair : "If Jack had climbed up with Rose to the door, a chimney would have fallen on him. Jack was going to die just the same ", he confessed to them.
The premiere of the documentary will take place in Movistar + the next Sunday December 17 at 5:09 p.m. In the meantime, you can take a look at one of his sequences, in which he explains why it is impossible to find corpses on the famous ship: