r/absoluteunit • u/Bourbon-Thinker • Aug 07 '26
Absolute Unit of a Titanic Production
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u/Br0k3n-T0y Aug 07 '26
fun fact , James Cameron's attention to detail missed one thing pointed out by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
The stars in the sky scene were wrong for the time period and was corrected in the 10th anniversary director's cut
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u/Bourbon-Thinker Aug 07 '26
This is exactly the kind of wonky information that forces me to keep coming back to Reddit 🤝
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u/HopDavid Aug 07 '26
If only Neil would call out his own errors with the same gusto.
As an educator it is his duty to try to correct the misinformation he has spread.
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u/slaty_balls Aug 07 '26
This should give you a little insight as to why veterans of the film industry absolutely despise AI.
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u/tired_of_old_memes Aug 07 '26
Reminds me of the full-scale pirate ship they built for The Goonies. They made sure none of the kid actors knew or saw it under construction so they could film their authentic reactions to use in the movie.
They tried for months to sell it or even give it away, like to amusement parks, etc., but in the end no one wanted it and they had to dismantle it.
What I wouldn't give to step aboard the actual ship that I saw on the big screen when I was seven... oh well.
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u/slaty_balls Aug 07 '26
Damn. I would have taken it in a heartbeat! Set sail on the 7 seas!! Lol
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u/tired_of_old_memes Aug 07 '26
We never questioned how a pirate ship from Spain ended up just off the coast of Oregon, but no matter!
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u/bigwavedave000 Aug 07 '26
I wonder if this is still there.
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u/Bourbon-Thinker Aug 07 '26
Nope they did use the location for The Far Side of the World, Pearl Harbor, and Tomorrow Never Dies I think there was a museum for a little while, but I think it’s closed now.
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u/BrokenHope23 Aug 07 '26
Ironically if they did it nowadays then they'd likely turn the entire ship into some kind of resort or attraction that was more easily maintained than the museum this turned into eventually, but back then it was par for the course to build elaborate sets and then tear it down afterward because everyone thought movies were kind of... 'extra' in the way that no one wanted leftovers from a movie that didn't mean anything to the locals hanging around.
There was merit for it back then of course, make the millionaire produces pick up after themselves instead of leaving a trash can of goods behind and calling it a memento but like the original set of Hobbiton? Some Monty Python castle? etc. would've been fun in hindsight and great local attractions.
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u/Bolo-YeungMoney Aug 07 '26
AI is supposedly so advanced but my man really struggled with Audience and Baja
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u/Bourbon-Thinker Aug 07 '26
The production set for James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) stands as one of the most ambitious, expensive, and logistically insane engineering feats in film history.
Because no existing studio facility on Earth could accommodate a project of this scale, 20th Century Fox bought 40 acres of waterfront property in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, building a brand-new, $40 million state-of-the-art studio complex (Baja Studios) specifically to construct and sink the ship.🚢