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Daily Mirror
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Leonardo DiCaprio's 'telling' two-word comment about iconic Titanic scene
Some 27 years after the release of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio has shared a comment about an iconic scene from the movie, which has become controversial among film fans Despite having been released over 27 years ago, Titanic continues to be described as one of the greatest films in modern cinema. The movie tells the story of Jack and Rose, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet respectively, as they sail aboard the Titanic ship before it sinks. In one of the most famous scenes of the film, which is still talked about as a big 'controversy' within the movie world, Jack and Rose are seen swimming in the ice cold water after having jumped off the sinking ship. They then find an empty raft from a door which Rose climbs up on, leaving Jack to freeze in the water. While many people are still taking about this scene, with people arguing about whether or not Jack could have fitted on the door with Rose and thereby saving his life, Leonardo DiCaprio has now shared his own thoughts on the matter after being asked about it in an interview. In an interview with All the Right Movies, Leonardo, along with his 'Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood' co-stars Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, was asked about the famous ending of the Titanic movie. "Okay, biggest movie controversy of all time," the interview started before jumping in to ask his question. "Could Jack have fit on that door at the end of Titanic?" "Oh my god," Margot immediately said. "I remember bawling my eyes out when I was a girl." As to the question, Leonardo just replied with a smile on his face: "I have no comment." "That is telling I think," the interviewer said, to which Margot quickly agreed to, saying: "That is the biggest controversy in modern cinema." "When would you [comment on it]?" Brad asked Leonardo, which he quickly said he'd never comment on the matter. "No comment," he said again as the rest of the group laughed as he seemed uncomfortable about the question, not wanting to say anything else about it. "Did you mention it at the time? Were you like 'should we make the door smaller?'" Margot then asked the actor. Leonardo then once again replied: "Like I said, I have no comment." Director James Cameron has previously been open about his decision of letting Jack die in the movie, claiming he 'had to die' for the plot to work. Talking in a press interview for Avatar: The Way of Water, James said: "No, [Jack] needed to die. It's like Romeo and Juliet, right? It's only poignant. It's a movie about, you know, love and sacrifice and mortality. "The love is measured by the sacrifice. Now, maybe I didn't do it in a way that everybody agrees with, but Jack had to die. It's that simple. If I had to make the raft a little bit smaller, I'd make it smaller. "Now, incidentally, we have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert, reproducing the raft from the movie [...] where we took two stunt people but with the exact body mass of Kate and Leo. And we put censors all over them and inside them," he explained. "And we put them in ice water, and we tested to see whether they could have survived by this method, or that method, or that method. And the answer was there was no way they could both survive. Only one could survive."
Euronews
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Euronews
Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher and Brad Pitt teaming up for ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' sequel
ADVERTISEMENT Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood is reportedly getting a sequel directed by David Fincher ( Se7en , Zodiac , The Killer ). Brad Pitt is set to reprise his Oscar-winning role as stuntman Cliff Booth. Considering that too-good-to-be-true billing; the rare occurance of a high-profile director helming the follow-up to another high-profile director's film; the fact that the last time Tarantino wrote a film that he didn't direct was 1996's From Dusk Til Dawn ; and that the filmmaker has been a vocal critic of streamers such as Netflix – on which this sequel would debut considering Fincher's ongoing contract with the streamer - this sounds like an April Fools. Still, several sources have corroborated the initial report by Playlist , which states that Fincher is looking to shoot this summer, that the film likely has a $200million budget (with Tarantino receiving $20million for his screenplay) and that Leonardo DiCaprio might appear in a small cameo. Once Upon A Hollwyood Sony Pictures Releasing Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood , written and directed by Tarantino, was released in 2019 and followed the adventures of a fading TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman Cliff Booth (Pitt) who navigate the changing film industry and the threat of the Mansion family in an alternative version of 1960s Hollywood. Tarantino published a 'novelisation' of the film in 2021, which included further details of Booth's backstory and life episodes. Cliff Booth Sony Pictures Releasing It is believed that the newly announced sequel is actually a derivative of the original rather than a direct follow-up - and very possibly an evolution of Quentin Tarantino's script The Movie Critic , which was intended to be the director's tenth and final film until he abandoned the idea . Tarantino had previously revealed that The Movie Critic was about a real-life film journalist for a 'porno rag', who he often read growing up. 'He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic,' Tarantino shared. 'I think he was a very good critic. He was as cynical as hell. His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle might be if he were a film critic.' It was set to be set in 1977 Southern California, and Brad Pitt had already signed on to star for the third time with Tarantino, after Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood . Reports suggest that Pitt loved the script so much he wouldn't let it go. And it seems that he now got his (retooled) wish. Brad Pitt winning his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Once Upon A Hollywood AP Photo Pitt and Fincher have collaborated several times before, in the seminal serial killer thriller Se7en , the cult satire Fight Club and F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation The Curious Case of Benjamin Button . Fincher recently renewed his Netflix contract until 2027 and has at least four different projects in various stages of development, including Squid Game: America and his Chinatown prequel. He has already released two films with the streamer: Mank in 2020 and The Killer in 2023.
