Titanic Sinking Supercut Edits Together 5 Different Movie Versions

A Titanic fan has shared a new video that seamlessly edits together five different movie scenes into one sinking supercut. The tragedy that befell the RMS Titanic in 1912 after it collided with an iceberg and sunk in the North Atlantic ocean has been the subject of a number of films over the years. With many of the movies having their own fictional elements added in order to fill the theatrical run time, the most notable of all is James Cameron’s 1997 iteration of the disaster, Titanic, which is often considered to be one of the greatest love stories of all time, and was the first film to gross $1 billion worldwide, a feat that took Cameron just 74 days in theatres across the globe.

Prior to the release of Cameron’s beloved classic, a number of other retellings of the RMS Titanic’s damned maiden voyage had been released, each with varying levels of success at the box office. Often considered to be one of the stronger iterations is 1958’s A Night To Remember, which is believed to have served as inspiration for Cameron himself, with many regarding it as the most historically accurate portrayal of the ship’s fateful night. Across the years, the ship’s story has been brought to both the big and small screen on numerous occasions, and now one particular fan has edited together a supercut of some of these more impressive onscreen sinking scenes.

Taking to Youtube, user Yoitzsunny shared their edit that shows the Titanic (and its sister ship, the Britannic) sinking across five different movies, blended seamlessly together into one running sequence. The video, which features clips from Titanic (1953), A Night to Remember (1958), SOS Titanic (1979), Titanic (1997), and Britannic (2000) shows the more modern clips in black and white alongside the pre-color scenes, making many of the switches between each film indistinguishable from the next. Viewers were quick to praise Yoitzsunny on how well the clips were edited together, with some sharing their initial confusion in thinking it was simply a scene from just one film. Check out the video below.

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With such a wealth of footage centered around the sinking of the Titanic, Cameron’s film, in particular, is often the subject of some impressive fan recreations. One editor recently created a spot-on recreation of the film’s ‘flying’ scene, in which the original film sees Jack and Rose (played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) embrace on the bow of the ship. While the two characters of Jack and Rose are not based on real-life passengers aboard the Titanic, a woman named Liz Smith recently revealed that by pure coincidence, she had begun to write a near-identical script to that of Cameron’s Titanic prior to the film’s release, in which two star-crossed lovers boarded the doomed ship.

While the story of the Titanic may have been retold time and time again, it’s likely that this historic event will continue to be fictionalized over the years. Having come a long way with regards to special effects advancements in the past decade, it’s fair to say that audiences could certainly see another big-budget retelling at some point in the future. As for now, Yoitzsunny‘s video simply highlights some of the incredible special effects that could be achieved in 1953, with only some minor details distinguishing the different ships as the video cycles through each Titanic film.

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