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I love Titanic. It remains one of my favourite films, even though certain aspects of it have taken some shine off in the intervening years.
This edit has been created to remove the things that now bother me, and give me something I can rewatch without occasionally cringing. The edit removes the bookends of the treasure hunt. This is about Titanic, Rose, and Jack, so all ‘present day’ scenes are cut. And also to make the ‘Jack - Rose’ drinking game a little less painful.
The concept is not new. An edit was created in 2007 called Ship Of Dreams that stayed in 1912. I haven't seen it, but considering I have also added back some deleted content to aid the storytelling and my running time is 20 minutes over SteveJo86's cut this will be a different experience. And it is in HD.
These are the detailed changes I have made, with some info on how and why in some cases. It also includes a video clip of the altered ending - thoughts and suggestions welcome, but please use spoiler tags.
Running time 170 minutes. I'll be releasing on MP4 initially, 5.1 sound.
This edit has been created to remove the things that now bother me, and give me something I can rewatch without occasionally cringing. The edit removes the bookends of the treasure hunt. This is about Titanic, Rose, and Jack, so all ‘present day’ scenes are cut. And also to make the ‘Jack - Rose’ drinking game a little less painful.
The concept is not new. An edit was created in 2007 called Ship Of Dreams that stayed in 1912. I haven't seen it, but considering I have also added back some deleted content to aid the storytelling and my running time is 20 minutes over SteveJo86's cut this will be a different experience. And it is in HD.
These are the detailed changes I have made, with some info on how and why in some cases. It also includes a video clip of the altered ending - thoughts and suggestions welcome, but please use spoiler tags.
So we start on Titanic, 1912, everything previous is cut.
New titles added.
Rose’s entrance to Titanic, trimmed and VO removed.
Deleted scene added - Rose and her maid talking about the ship being new. This was added to show she is not happy in the engagement, previously we relied on VO to tell us. Audio of Cal interrupting them was bad, so audio trimmed to remove the worst of it.
Fade from that scene to Titanic at sea. Arrival of Molly Brown removed as it is mostly VO.
Jack and Fabrizio at prow of boat trimmed to remove excessive ‘woohoo’ing.
Rose at dinner audio altered to remove VO saying how trapped she was.
Deleted scene added - Rose having a meltdown in her stateroom. This is again to emphasise what has been removed from the VO.
Ruth meeting Jack for first time trimmed and audio reworked to remove VO.
Jack being introduced in the dinning room trimmed to remove VO.
Deleted scene added - Singing Josephine and discussing how insignificant the ‘powerful men’ on Titanic are compared to the stars. Nice scene that has some nice foreshadowing of the fallibility of man.
Jack and Rose in the gym. Trimmed and slightly reworked to minimise repetition and names.
Transition from Jack and Rose kissing on prow of Titanic to the stateroom where Rose wants to be drawn. This removes ‘present day’ interlude.
Transition from Rose being drawn to Jack signing the drawing. Again, to remove ‘present day’ interlude.
Jack’s ‘arrest’ trimmed to remove repetition and names.
Rose’s finding and rescue of Jack trimmed and audio reworked to remove repetitive name calling and Jack being too bossy. Also removed ‘how did you know?’ moment, because it was corny.
Trimmed the axe taking off the handcuffs, removing another name call.
Audio edit as Jack and Rose emerge on deck, removing a ‘come on Rose’.
Trimmed Rose jumping back onto Titanic to remove more Name shouting.
Trimmed Jack and Rose reuniting to remove the condescending ‘you’re so stupid, Rose’.
Audio edit as Jack and Rose run from gunfire to remove another ‘Come on, Rose’.
And again as they leave the dining room.
Audio edits to remove name calling as they’re swept up in water.
The gate scene slightly trimmed and rejigged to give Rose more active role.
Deleted scene added - Cora’s fate. We opened on Cora and even though this scene is hard to watch it felt right, and powerful, to see what became of her.
Audio edit to remove another Jack urging Rose on moment as they climb up Titanic.
Trimmed panic in water to remove more name shouting and Jack urging Rose to keep swimming.
Audio edit to remove ‘Jack’ as she gets on door.
Deleted scene added - man suggests trying to get on the door. Added this to demonstrate that Jack felt there truly was no room on the door without risking Rose’s life - to counter the ‘he gave up too easily’ argument.
New ending (see video).
- Flashcards and extra footage from Carpathia deleted scenes used to show what happened to everyone. This is to replace VO, and have enough flashcards to feel like something deliberate.
- All audio replaced with music except Rose giving Dawson as her name which is isolated with rain sound effect added.
- Deleted scenes colour graded to more closely match the original shots.
- The final afterlife scene is removed, it felt superfluous in this cut.
Credits altered to remove actors that are no longer present and add fan editor credit.
Password is fanedit.org
New titles added.
Rose’s entrance to Titanic, trimmed and VO removed.
Deleted scene added - Rose and her maid talking about the ship being new. This was added to show she is not happy in the engagement, previously we relied on VO to tell us. Audio of Cal interrupting them was bad, so audio trimmed to remove the worst of it.
Fade from that scene to Titanic at sea. Arrival of Molly Brown removed as it is mostly VO.
Jack and Fabrizio at prow of boat trimmed to remove excessive ‘woohoo’ing.
Rose at dinner audio altered to remove VO saying how trapped she was.
Deleted scene added - Rose having a meltdown in her stateroom. This is again to emphasise what has been removed from the VO.
Ruth meeting Jack for first time trimmed and audio reworked to remove VO.
Jack being introduced in the dinning room trimmed to remove VO.
Deleted scene added - Singing Josephine and discussing how insignificant the ‘powerful men’ on Titanic are compared to the stars. Nice scene that has some nice foreshadowing of the fallibility of man.
Jack and Rose in the gym. Trimmed and slightly reworked to minimise repetition and names.
Transition from Jack and Rose kissing on prow of Titanic to the stateroom where Rose wants to be drawn. This removes ‘present day’ interlude.
Transition from Rose being drawn to Jack signing the drawing. Again, to remove ‘present day’ interlude.
Jack’s ‘arrest’ trimmed to remove repetition and names.
Rose’s finding and rescue of Jack trimmed and audio reworked to remove repetitive name calling and Jack being too bossy. Also removed ‘how did you know?’ moment, because it was corny.
Trimmed the axe taking off the handcuffs, removing another name call.
Audio edit as Jack and Rose emerge on deck, removing a ‘come on Rose’.
Trimmed Rose jumping back onto Titanic to remove more Name shouting.
Trimmed Jack and Rose reuniting to remove the condescending ‘you’re so stupid, Rose’.
Audio edit as Jack and Rose run from gunfire to remove another ‘Come on, Rose’.
And again as they leave the dining room.
Audio edits to remove name calling as they’re swept up in water.
The gate scene slightly trimmed and rejigged to give Rose more active role.
Deleted scene added - Cora’s fate. We opened on Cora and even though this scene is hard to watch it felt right, and powerful, to see what became of her.
Audio edit to remove another Jack urging Rose on moment as they climb up Titanic.
Trimmed panic in water to remove more name shouting and Jack urging Rose to keep swimming.
Audio edit to remove ‘Jack’ as she gets on door.
Deleted scene added - man suggests trying to get on the door. Added this to demonstrate that Jack felt there truly was no room on the door without risking Rose’s life - to counter the ‘he gave up too easily’ argument.
New ending (see video).
- Flashcards and extra footage from Carpathia deleted scenes used to show what happened to everyone. This is to replace VO, and have enough flashcards to feel like something deliberate.
- All audio replaced with music except Rose giving Dawson as her name which is isolated with rain sound effect added.
- Deleted scenes colour graded to more closely match the original shots.
- The final afterlife scene is removed, it felt superfluous in this cut.
Credits altered to remove actors that are no longer present and add fan editor credit.
Password is fanedit.org
Running time 170 minutes. I'll be releasing on MP4 initially, 5.1 sound.
