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Joe Buck and His Feet Found a Continuity Error In the 1997 Film 'Titanic'
31 May 24 Jimm Sallivan

Joe Buck and His Feet Found a Continuity Error In the 1997 Film ‘Titanic’

James Cameron's Titanic came out in theaters on December 19, 1997. It made billions of dollars at the box office. It was released on VHS in September 1998 and DVD in August 1999. For nearly three decades it's been one of the most enduring pieces of popular culture, based on one of the most famous events in history. For 26 years it's been referenced, parodied, celebrated and rewatched. It's hard to believe there's a way to talk about this movie that hasn't already been covered.

And yet Joe Buck may have done it.

On Friday afternoon Buck was watching Titanic, as most people are wont to do. Near the end of the film, while Buck sat in a chair next to his neatly made bed, the former longtime voice of the World Series and current voice of ESPN's Monday Night Football, posted a video to his X / Twitter account pointing out a continuity error.

It turns out Buck really doesn't like how James Cameron sunk that boat and he could no longer keep it inside. So he made a video explaining his issues with the way this famous scene was shot. He did this while recording his television from across the room. Buck is completely off camera. Except for his feet.

"This shot doesn't make any sense," Buck says. "It's going in and now it's flat? Now you see the back of the ship. Going... There's no continuity there. This thing is going in nose down. The Titanic piece that is written there—hould be up in the air. Going in. This way. Instead all of a sudden it goes this way? What? It's always bothered me. One more time. It's going in vertically. K? The back of the ship's in the air. So if you're going to have the writing of the Titanic—it can't be that way! Now it's flat into the water? Now watch, it's going to be flat again... with the back. No! That would have been pointed up the other way. It would have been pointed away. Terrible."

We are not here to litigate the movie Titanic, which made $2.2 billion dollars in theaters on a budget of $200 million and was the highest grossing movie of all-time until Cameron released Avatar more than a decade later.

What we are here to litigate is the gratuitous shots of Joe Buck's feet in this video. Do you know how distracting something has to be to take people's eyes of Kate and Leo here? His toes have more screen time than Bill Paxton. If you were ever looking for an argument against vertical video, this is it.

Football season can't come soon enough. We need Buck and his bare feet grinding game tape, not crushing plot holes.

At the very least we need socks.

ESPN, Joe Buck, Media, Movies, NFL, Titanic
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Daisy Ridley on 'Young Woman and the Sea'
29 May 24 Jimm Sallivan

Daisy Ridley on ‘Young Woman and the Sea’

Daisy Ridley's next film is called Young Woman and the Sea, which shares the story of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Ridley plays the main character, Trudy, who was one of the best swimmers in the world when she swam the Channel in 1926. Along with her historical achievement of swimming from France to England, Ederle was an Olympic gold medalist in the 1924 games.

In an interview with SI Kids, Ridley explained that she was "inspired" playing the role of Ederle.

"I felt very inspired by what she did," Ridley said. "I felt very loved by the people I was working with, and I feel very proud to be telling that story."

It was not a natural role for Ridley through one lens, though. The actress known for her role in Star Wars revealed she was not a big swimmer before filming Young Woman and the Sea, and there were challenges as a result.

"No," Ridley said when asked if she was a swimmer going into filming. "I could not do the front crawl before this... I didn't know how to do any of that. Sometimes I did hold my breath competitions and sort of did a bit of breaststroke, but I didn't really know how to front crawl before this."

Another challenge came in the form of where the scenes were being filmed. Ridley told SI Kids that she does not like to swim in the open ocean, but seeing as the movie is about doing just that, she had to step out of her comfort zone.

"I usually don't like swimming out in the open water," she explained. "I like being in pools, and I like having my feet in the sea. So it was quite scary. I knew there were no sharks, but there were jellyfish, so I was scared I was going to be eaten by something."

Just like with anything in life, though, filming Young Woman and the Sea had plenty of high points. Ridley specifically highlighted the enjoyment she got out of working with her co-star while speaking with SI Kids.

"The most fun part about making the movie was probably working with my sister in it (Margaret Ederle, played by Tilda Cobham-Hervey)," said Ridley. "We got on really, really well and it was really fun to act with her. We also became really good friends with our swimming coach. So that was great."

Young Woman and the Sea will be released on Friday, May 31.

Movies, SI Kids, Swimming
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