James Cameron Finally Addresses Titanic ‘They Both Could Have Fit’ Complaint

September 12, 2012

By Tom Blunt

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in 'Titanic'/Image © 1997 Twentieth Century Fox

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In a video promoting “Titanic 3-D,” James Cameron finally addressed the longstanding fan complaint that there was room for both Rose AND Jack on that floating debris at the end of the film (these folks even staged a demonstration). At the end of the video, Cameron points out that it’s not about room, it’s about buoyancy — if they’d both been on it, it would not have kept either of them above the surface of the water.

Any reservations I might have had about James Franco adapting William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying to the screen have been erased now that he’s had the good sense to cast Beth Grant in the film. Grant’s made her career out of playing intense, salt-of-the-earth women in films like “Donnie Darko” and “No Country for Old Men” (here’s a great interview with her about the weird trajectory of her career, from “Rain Man” to “The Artist”). The fact that she’s on Franco’s radar can only be seen as an encouraging sign.

What would the “Monsters Inc.” gang have looked like if the film had been made by Sam Raimi instead of Pixar? Probably something like these gritty action figures that were custom designed by Panzer Vargas. While he’s at it, I’d love to see a version of “Wall-E” in which the lovable robot looks more like something from “Virus,” that schlocky 1999 film starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

Feel like a ride in a time machine? The AVClub takes a nice, long, nostalgic look back at the oeuvre of young adult author Judy Blume, particularly her novel Forever, a tale of sexual awakening that was pretty intense by 1975 standards, and was aimed at a slightly older audience than most other Blume classics such as Blubber or Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Tags: As I Lay Dying, Beth Grant, Blubber, James Cameron, Judy Blume, No Country for Old Men, Titanic, Virus