{"id":15319,"date":"2023-12-19T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15319"},"modified":"2023-12-17T22:36:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T04:36:45","slug":"correcting-the-ap-on-the-titanic-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/12\/correcting-the-ap-on-the-titanic-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Correcting the AP on the ‘Titanic’ script"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Associated Press article<\/a>\u00a0relating to the phrase “women and children first” that uses current events in the Middle East as a hook references the Titanic<\/em> disaster. Of course I’m going to have to weigh in \u2014 and today happens to be the 26th anniversary of the movie’s release.<\/p>\n

“Accounts differ, but testimony from the inquiries afterward indicates that someone or someones \u2014 from Capt. Edward Smith to various passengers \u2014 prioritized putting women and children into the lifeboats, of which there were not enough to evacuate everyone aboard. … The 1997 movie \u201cTitanic\u201d immortalized the order when actor Leonardo DiCaprio says the words \u201cwomen and children first\u201d during a key scene.”<\/p>\n

That last sentence is wrong. DiCaprio’s character never says that. I say that not just because I can recite the whole movie by heart, but because the script IS AVAILABLE ONLINE<\/a>. There are multiple differences between the final script and finished product due to last-minute rewrites, scenes left on the cutting room floor, and even improv.<\/p>\n

All that had to be done, if the movie was going to be referenced at all, was to cite this scene<\/a>:<\/p>\n