9 Movie Mistakes & Plot-Holes Confirmed By The Creators

2. Screwing William McMaster Murdoch - Titanic

Talking of movies that made an eye-watering amount of money, you'd be forgiven for thinking that there'd be very little James Cameron would regret about Titanic. But his fascination with the ship and the disaster means that it's a creative itch he can never stop scratching.

Even decades after it was released, Cameron continued to return to the wreck, both physically and spiritually, and special featurette Titanic: 20 Years Later With James Cameron explored his continued fascination and his quest for answers to some of the things he'd assumed to fill in gaps in the real story:

"I think they wanted something that was more movie-centric, and I was happy to continue with some of the forensic stuff we had never really resolved. So we decided that the framework of the documentary would be, ‘What did we get right and what did we get wrong?'”

It turned out that Cameron was wrong in a few details, but none he'd really remake the film for. But he did also concede that his treatment of the ship’s first officer, William McMaster Murdoch, who was seen to shoot a passenger and then himself, was a regrettable misstep:

“That still remains controversial. I suppose I took a creative liberty with that particular character, who wasn’t a character — he was a person and had living descendants at the time the film was released. I think it’s important to remember that this was relatively recent history, and there are still people affected by it.”