{"id":267087,"date":"2019-02-08T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1012928"},"modified":"2019-02-08T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:53:07","slug":"the-real-story-behind-one-of-leonardo-dicaprios-most-famous-titanic-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-real-story-behind-one-of-leonardo-dicaprios-most-famous-titanic-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story Behind One of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Most Famous Titanic Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paramount Pictures \/ 20th Century Fox<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was the line that launched a thousand parodies.<\/p>\n

Oscar-winning director\u00a0James Cameron<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0recently reminisced about making his 1997 Oscar-winning movie\u00a0Titanic<\/em>\u00a0and recalled star\u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a><\/strong>‘s reaction to being asked to\u00a0shout his character Jack’s iconic line, “I’m the king of the world!” The line, which he screams from the bow of the ship, is not in the film’s script and for years, it was believed that the actor adlibbed it on his own.<\/p>\n

“It was made up on the spot,” Cameron, who was also Titanic<\/em>‘s\u00a0screenwriter, confirmed to\u00a0BBC Radio<\/a> 1’s Ali Plumb<\/strong> in an interview\u00a0released this week. “I was in a crane basket, and we were losing the light, and we had tried this and tried that and tried this line and that line, and nothing was really working, and I literally was just coming up snake eyes, and I said, ‘All right, I got one for you. Just say, ‘I’m the king of the world,’ and just spread your arms out wide and just be in the moment, and just love it and celebrate the moment.'”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“And [DiCaprio] goes, ‘What?'” Cameron continued. “I’m getting this over the walkie-talkie. ‘What?’ I said, ”I’m the king of the world,’ just say, ‘I’m the king of the world.’ But you gotta sell it.’ He goes, ‘What?’ I said, ‘Just f–king sell it!'”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Cameron would go on to win Best Director and then Best Picture for\u00a0Titanic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Paramount Pictures \/ 20th Century Fox<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In his acceptance speech for the former, he exclaimed into the microphone, “I’m the king of the world!”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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His speech was met with mixed reactions.<\/p>\n

“I now realize what was wrong with my choice to do that,” Cameron told Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>. “It wasn’t the exact content of the line as much as the fact that I was quoting my own movie, and I didn’t realize how that was wrong….There’s a hubris in assuming that everybody in the audience has seen your movie, even though you won. Or that they’re actually all fans. It was all phrased pretty carefully, but the error was that I was actually acting prideful about winning, and with a reference to my own film.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paramount Pictures \/ 20th Century Fox It was the line that launched a thousand parodies. Oscar-winning director\u00a0James Cameron\u00a0recently reminisced about making his 1997 Oscar-winning movie\u00a0Titanic\u00a0and recalled star\u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio‘s reaction to being asked to\u00a0shout his character Jack’s iconic line, “I’m the king of the world!” The line, which he screams from the bow of the ship, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 13:47:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}