The sinking of the Grand Staircase in the 1997 film Titanic was filmed in a single take because the set was destroyed by the water during the shot.
by Willing-Musician-696
The sinking of the Grand Staircase in the 1997 film Titanic was filmed in a single take because the set was destroyed by the water during the shot.
by Willing-Musician-696
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This is because the boat sank, so they couldn’t get to the staircase to film a second take.
Makes perfect sense to me tbh. This happens more frequently than people would expect. Not to this scale but wet downs such as shooting a burst pipe inside an interior scene or having a scene where the sprinklers get pulled in a building will often more or less destroy your set, which is why they’ll put these at the end of a shoot if it’s a hero set or whatever.
You’re saying the wood was so thin that it liquified in the ocean?