We all know one of the stand-out performances in the epic blockbuster Titanic was... Kate Winslet’s hair. Whether she was reclining on the top desk of the ship or wading waist-high through icy water, it was always so bouncy, glossy and red. But 25 years after the film premiered an injustice has been done to those gorgeous locks.
To mark the anniversary, the film has been re-released, and that original poster of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, who played lead characters Rose Dewitt Bukater and Jack Dawson in the film, has had a glow up.
But - and this is putting it lightly - something’s up with Kate’s hair. It looks like the stylist couldn’t decide whether to curl or straighten it, so they did both. Or, more likely, something went seriously wrong at the image editing stage.
Fans on Twitter quickly jumped to point it out. 'why does she have two different hairstyles[?],' writer Hunter Harris tweeted, garnering hundreds of thousands likes. Another suggested: 'She was getting a perm then the iceberg hit?'
Someone else said the weird hair ‘represents the duality of her having to portray her societal role and the life she wishes to have, free, with Jack’. Others weren’t quite so generous, with one commenting: 'Where's the goddamn boat!?', referring to the fact other elements of the poster have also been rejigged.
In the original poster the bow of the Titanic is in the background, but this has now been removed. Jack’s arm has been added, so they look like they’re hugging, rather than floating heads in space.
This examination follows another recent Titanic-related debate, after director James Cameron announced last month that he had commissioned a scientific study to find out once and for all if both Jack and Rose could have fit on the door. Some believe Rose could have budged along and saved Jack’s life by letting him perch alongside her, instead of leaving him to tread water in the sub-zero North Atlantic Ocean.
NPR reported that Cameron joined forces with a hypothermia expert to do a forensic analysis on it.
‘We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate (Winslet) and Leo (DiCaprio) and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water, and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods,’ Cameron said. ‘And the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive.’
The digitally remastered version of the blockbuster will return to cinemas in the UK from 10 February. Kate and Leo, meanwhile, have stayed good friends since they starred in the film - although we doubt Kate’s on speaking terms with whoever edited her hair...