Film Theory: Titanic is about Time Travel... No REALLY!

a silver lining for fewer movies being released this year a chance to theorize about some of the best classics of yesteryear, for example the most popular movie from when I was in high school, Titanic, has everything you'd expect from a blockbuster summer box office. Iconic lines. romance

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hello internet welcome to

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the show where i will never let go i will never let go of theories about movies that were released before they were born most people who watch this video seem like every year I have a good excuse to use this tweet, I can't do this anymore and who, boy, was 2020, the peak year to exemplify that feeling, so this holiday season I wanted to take us all on a quick trip back in time. until 1997.

Things were just simpler back then, games had only just begun to break into the third dimension, it was literally impossible to be on your phone and on the Internet at the same time and there were only three Star Wars movies, too. It was a time when I didn't have any pair of jeans. It doesn't mean that jeans weren't commonly available, there was just a period in my life where I thought it was a good idea to wear suit pants, but it's hard to do anyway. Say how big James Cameron's Titanic movie was back in 1997. When this was released, Titanic was the most expensive movie ever made, but it also became the highest-grossing movie ever made, being the first movie to break $1 billion. of dollars earned at the box office and remember what we are talking about. circa 1997 money here and remained at the top of that ranking until a different James Cameron

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about strange blue aliens came along to surpass it.

He holds the record for being nominated for the most Oscars, winning the most Oscars. The theme song My Heart'll Go. on was the most played song on the radio for 10 weeks in a row, which honestly feels

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low in my memory because you couldn't walk into a city circuit in the late '90s and not hear that song and even though

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It lasts a considerable three hours and 14 minutes, the fun fact of which was a very specific time because it was the exact time it took for the ship to synchronize in real life. They are also the digits of pi.

People still went to see it in theaters over and over again even though there were no supervillains unless, of course, you count the iceberg hashtag historical spoilers. My point is that Titanic was a dominant cultural force and I understand that this channel tends to do better when I focus on animated stuff and superheroes, but man, this is a movie we have to talk about and it's not like I haven't been asked to either . I get a lot of requests to cover whether leonardo dicaprio's jack character could have fit on the floating debris that saved his girlfriend rose from him, but i have avoided it. that

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because one of the mythbusters already delved into the topic.

I've seen enough episodes of Deadliest Catch to know that when you go into cold water without a survival suit, you'll freeze to death pretty soon, but that's also number two. the question completely misses the point jack had to die jack wanted to die because jack is a time traveler i know, i know it sounds crazy but it's true jack on the

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is a time traveler who was there on the ship to make sure the Titanic sank and if you think that's a good choice, hold on because this episode is going to get steamier than Jack and Rose's kissing mobile window, so put on your life jackets, theorists, because today we're diving in in icy waters infested with icebergs.

Titanic Time Travel Now to follow this theory and several of the references I just made to Titanic, you should have a good idea of ​​how the movie goes, so here's a quick, spoiler-filled recap on the 1970s. 1990, a team of scientists. is excavating the remains of the Titanic, a huge passenger ship that crashed 85 years earlier, during their search, they find an old and unsafe drawing of a lady named Rose wearing a necklace containing a huge diamond called the heart of the ocean and, luckily, she's still alive and can tell him the story of the Titanic's cursed voyage from there, most of the rest of the movie boils down to Rose telling him the story of how she boarded the Titanic with her rich fiancé Cal, who is just the worst human being and how to get out of her miserable relationship she decided to jump overboard to commit suicide, however, when she is about to do so, she is discovered by Jack, a poor third class passenger who is only on the Titanic because he won a ticket in a poker game.

Jack is charming enough to make Rose not want to die, and it doesn't take her long to realize that she likes Jack's nude illustrations and below-deck parties much more than her fiancé's misogyny, so the ship crashes. against a huge ice cube and it breaks. halfway through there aren't enough lifeboats for everyone so rose ends up floating on a piece of rubble while jack relaxes in the water it literally turns out that diving into freezing water is bad for you so jack freezes to death while rose is rescued when one of the lifeboats turns around and picks her up at the end of her life, she throws the ocean heart back into the sea because it's a symbol or something of her love for Jack and then she dies because she's too old. end now titanic overall is an entertaining love story and has the added bonus of leonardo dicaprio pursuing a young woman like in his real life, only this time it's age appropriate but which isn't as immediately apparent in this story is that jack is not just a poor steerage passenger jack is a time traveler specifically on the ship to complete a mission oh yeah now we're getting into the crazy pills territory of this theory but it's not nothing crazy when you think about things. that jack says that no one from 1912 could know, let's look at some examples while he's freezing to death in the north atlantic jack accurately predicts rose's fate you're going to die a hot old lady in her bed okay, okay, that's a a Unironic, it's a last minute pep talk since you're on the verge of death, no problem, but how about one of the first things Jack mentions to Rose when he discovers her hanging from the ship's railing?

I remember when I was a kid, my dad and I would go ice fishing on a lake with soda, it seems pretty plausible, there's nothing out of the ordinary. Well, this conversation between Jack and Rose occurred in April 1912, but Lake Wisoda is a man. he made a lake that was created between 1915 and 1917. Even if Jack lies about remembering, there is no way he can know the name of a lake that doesn't exist yet and this isn't the only time it happens that he does either. . again when he tells Rose about his imaginary trip to the Santa Monica Pier on the roller coaster until we launch into not necessarily the most charming speech for a date, but that's missing the point where he's referring to the roller coaster. blue striped racer that wasn't on the santa monica pier until 1917 and it's not just things jack says when he and fabrizio rush to board the titanic we see fabrizio carrying this bag that bag is called a moose sack and this is where I'll pause to let you laugh at that and we'll also give you a moment to subscribe to the channel.

Help us surpass the 10 million subscriber mark. We're okay, so the backpack became popular after its initial use as a backpack for the Swedish army in World War II starting in 1939. Even if Jack had been guessing about future roller coasters and artificial lakes, how the hell does he have a physical object that wasn't produced until 27 years after his death, unless you're jumping timelines? How does Jack have this power? Why would he turn back? in time and the most important question of all, why did he choose that haircut if he was trying to blend into the landscape in 1912?

Now, wait, the hardcore defenders of Occam's Razor are probably saying: isn't there a simpler explanation here that Rose is After all, I'm just making up Jack, as one of the researchers mentions Rose at the end of the movie, we never find out anything about Jack, there is no record of him, but since Rose says there should be no records of him because Jack never bought his own ticket, which he didn't win playing poker in a bar five minutes before the ship is going to sail, all the more reason the guy is a time traveler, he leaves no trace of his existence, he boards the ship by a lucky coincidence just before it takes off and let's be honest, if Rose was inventing who made the sexy drawing of her that they found in the safe, he definitely existed and he's definitely a time traveler, hell if you need more proof look no further than the film's director, James.

Cameron writer and director of iconic sci-fi movies like Aliens The Abyss Avatar Elita Battle Angel brains behind other time travel classics like Terminator and Terminator 2. Look at the guy's entire filmography, it's all sci-fi and action, you know , the only movie that doesn't make sense Titanic until you consider it's a low-key sci-fi time travel movie, so whether you believe it or not, just stick with me on this, why would a time traveler go back to the Titanic and just have an adventure? with this rich girl only to die in the end and why wouldn't he choose to do so.

I don't know how to save the damn ship if I knew what would come in handy. You see, one thing that is undeniable is that Jack saving Rose changes the course of history. If Jack doesn't see Rose going over the railing and she actually jumps, the Titanic doesn't sink. Consider this once her fiancé Cal or her mother realize she's missing, they'll report it to the crew, at which point standard procedure is to turn around. the boat and attempt a search and rescue, but the titanic is a big ship that can't just be thrown back, so to go back and look for rose they would probably need to do what is called a williamson turn, which is a maneuver in the form of tear that large ships use to reverse course and requires a significant detour and then there is the actual search, what matters here is not whether the search and rescue is successful, what matters is the change in weather, changing course of the ship is only time.

The official investigation into the accident found that it took the ship more than 30 seconds and almost half a kilometer to turn 22 and a half degrees in an attempt to avoid the iceberg, so making a full 180-degree turn will take the ship several minutes. then he has to retrace his way back once they discover that Rose is missing and then there's the moment of the actual search and rescue, it's impossible to come up with an exact figure for how much delay Rose's jump overboard would cause, but if we are looking at the bare minimum of 15 minutes to turn the ship around and return to the point of rose's disappearance a surprisingly cursory 30 minute search and then another 15 minutes to get back on course we are looking at at least an hour delay which again being Realistically, I think it would have been much longer than that, even an hour, although that changes the story because icebergs travel in water on average about 0.7 kilometers every hour and often faster depending on the current, so it is It's safe to say that the iceberg that sank the Titanic in real life would have been thousands of feet away if the Titanic had been delayed an hour or more without an iceberg hitting.

The ship now safely enters New York Harbor and Rose's death ends up saving 1,500 lives. Learn that butterfly effect. Ashton Kutcher So Jack was real, but he was also a time traveler who saved Rose to make sure 1,500 other innocent people died, so why would he travel back in time to ensure the ship's destruction instead of preventing it? Maybe it's not that simple, maybe Jack Dawson. I was sacrificing the 1,500 lives lost on the Titanic to save a million lives and preserve the course of history listen to me on this let's say that the Titanic had not sunk the rose jumps overboard the ship is delayed the iceberg fails and the Titanic is already is the new fad in transatlantic travel traveling back and forth between New York and Southampton carrying thousands and thousands of passengers until one day in 1914 or 1915 it is torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine killing the thousands of people on board now, Although that may seem like it's coming out of nowhere like it's completely random, we actually have a historical comparison in May 1915, the British passenger ship Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine killing over a thousand people, including 128 Americans, and The Lusitania was attacked just off the south coast of Ireland, which is right on the route the Titanic was taking between Southampton and New York, so we know that the German navy would have been in the area with the opportunity to sink the Titanic now, in 1915, the United States was neutral in the newly started. during the first world war, although they were helping to supply the british using ships like the lusitania to do so, but germany declared thewaters around the United Kingdom and Ireland as a war zone and although there is speculation that they would have torpedoed the Titanic, let's just say that their history of being perfectly honorable in the world wars was not exactly stellar.

The sinking of the Lusitania increased anti-German sentiment among Americans. , but the United States stayed out of the war until 1917 as part of a surge that ultimately won the war for the Allies But if it had been the Titanic instead of the Lusitania, there probably would have been many more Americans on board and if there was no material war on board, the unprovoked nature of the attack would have been too egregious for President Woodrow Wilson to keep the United States out. After all, history has shown us that American sentiment can turn to war when it perceives an unprovoked attack on a country like Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the capital ship, or the entry into war in Iraq, so the sinking of the Titanic through the iceberg kept us out of the world.

First war, perhaps, how important was the United States? It was instrumental in the Allied forces winning the war, so why should it matter? It is true that the United States was more successful in World War I, but most historians agree that joining World War I in its early stages, say 1914 or 1915, rather than when we actually entered it in 1917. It would have been disastrous for the united states the standing army of the united states in 1915 was smaller and less experienced than the forces of the main actors in world war i, but also smaller and less experienced than the forces of bulgaria and greece, the main opponents of the United States in the war Germany had a military 20 times larger than that of the United States at the time to position the United States as an international power many American politicians led a campaign known as the readiness movement in the early days of the first world war to increase the size of the army trains them more thoroughly and invests in equipment and machinery upgrades.

The gradual start of this program proved useful to the United States in the final days of the war, but if the United States had entered the war in its early stages, it would likely be preparation. The movement would have launched its plan to recruit 600,000 young men annually and send them to the front immediately without enough time to prepare them with the proper equipment to send them into battle and only a rudimentary exploration of the war front in Western Europe, American casualties likely would have occurred. have skyrocketed as World War I unfolded in history, the United States lost approximately 116,000 men in the latter stages of the war had it joined earlier, although with mobilized but untrained troops fighting in the trenches, it is likely that the number of casualties would have been higher. closer to Austria-Hungary's 1.1 million deaths, France's 1.4 million, or Germany's 2 million - heck, the war may even have been lost as American troops and supplies burn early rather than giving the Allied forces a late boost to bring them to the victory line. so let's all go back to the Titanic, although Jack's decision to save Rose caused the Titanic to sink and cost the lives of 1,500 people.

He may have done it to save the United States from a timeline that would have cost them over 1 million lives and with that. kind of decimation, who knows how America will turn out for the rest of the 20th century, maybe Americans will never land on the moon, never become world leaders in information technology, or worse, never develop the world's largest movie market. world that can afford to finance an investment of 200 million. movie to give leonardo dicaprio his big break, that's right folks, leonardo dicaprio's character is a time traveler who made sure the titanic sinks to prevent an alternate history where actor leonardo dicaprio's career never exists, but hey, that's just a theory, a cinematographic theory and it cuts you off.