Im really starting to question James Cameron's film writing. He was sued over Terminator, lawsuits have popped up over Avatar and a comparison between his Titanic and the Nazi propaganda Titanic film does reveal some similarities. Cant say I believe it all but it does make me stop and think
The was a Titanic film made to show how inferior the british were at ship building or something
"Several commentators have expressed their personal conviction that James Cameron must have plagiarized the 1943 German film when writing and filming his own Titanic.
These commentators claim that several story aspects are in both films, but not in any other version of Titanic:
A group of first class passengers are given a tour of the ship in both films.
The salt of the earth non-British "hero" orders his girlfriend into a lifeboat. She hesitantly complies and watches her lover disappear behind the railing as the lifeboat is lowered. In the 1997 film, Rose is urged into the lifeboat by both Cal and Jack, and watches her lover begin to disappear behind the ship's forward bulwark before jumping back on to the ship.
A male character tells the girl he loves that she should not marry the man preferred by her parents for whom she feels nothing. The character of Jack Dawson feels the same towards Rose in the 1997 version, although that plot line is far more prevalent in the film. This theme can also be noted in numerous other Titanic films.
A First Class couple fight in their stateroom over the woman's alleged infidelity, only to have a Steward interrupt their squabble and order them to put on lifebelts and proceed to the boat deck. In the 1997 film, Cal Hockley and Rose were both in their stateroom, after others had left due to the commotion, where Hockley slaps Rose after her actual infidelity, before a Steward comes in.
A scene of a character being informed by another character of the ship sinking while both are standing on the grand staircase as people are rushing up the stairs is used in both films, as well as in A Night to Remember.
A character is rescued from the ship's jail during the sinking with an emergency axe, however this event was based on an actual incident during the sinking.
Some have even drawn connection between the Heart of the Ocean, a major element in the plot of the 1997 film, and a subplot in the 1943 one where a minor character is wrongfully accused of the theft of a blue diamond. Additionally, many of the scene compositions and camera angles are said to be similar to the 1943 film."
*gasp* you mean two movies based around an event that REALLY HAPPENED might have similarities?
Yes I realize the main story of Jack and Rose is fictional, but a lot of the stuff that happened in the movie apparently really did happen. Remember, there WERE survivors and eyewitnesses to events on the Titanic. Instead of saying Cameron ripped off another film is it not just as easy to say both filmakers did their research?
Wait...what about the Titanic Nazi propaganda? I never heard about that one.