After reading the great book Hitchcock/Truffaut, I found out something very interesting about the career of one of the world's greatest directors of all time, Alfred Hitchcock. For those of you who don't know, Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense and has made many of America's greatest films such as Vertigo, The Birds, and of course Psycho.

In this interview, he stated that the first Hollywood film that he was suppose to direct was going to be a version of the Titanic. Hitchcock was going to be under contract in a Hollywood studio which was run by David O. Selznick and the first film he was going to make was about the sinking of the Titanic. This was back in 1939 when the anniversary was only 27 years from when the ship sank. Instead, that year Selznick bought the rights to another story in which Hitchcock directed in 1940 called Rebecca, which was very beneficial to Alfred Hitchcock's career because it was the only film he directed that won Best Picture.

Having said that, the film was pushed back for a very long time until 1997 when Director James Cameron picked it up and made the film into a blockbuster success. Of course this film was more about the romance between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and focused more on there love affair on the ship then the actual sinking of the Titanic. However, the film was a huge hit and did go on to win 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture. According to statistics from Boxofficemojo.com, the film made over $600 million at the box office which is amazing.

So the 1997 film Titanic did deserve the wait that it got after Hitchcock and Selznick ended up passing on it in 1939. But when I think about it, I could only imagine what Alfred Hitchcock would have done with that film if he was given the opportunity to direct it.

Just think about it. If that film was made in 1939 instead of 1997, I feel that it could have had a cultural impact just because of how close it was to the original date of the sinking. I also feel that Hitchcock would have made this film into more of a drama and suspense film instead of making it a romance, which would have been even more interesting.

I also wonder what kind of characters Hitchcock would have made on screen and how the real life people would have been portrayed. The suspense of knowing when the Iceberg was going to hit the ship or even when the women and children were getting on the boats.

For me personally, this is just crazy to think about knowing what Hitchcock was like as a director. Of course, I will definitely say that it would have been very hard for Hitchcock to pull off some of the things that James Cameron did with the sinking of the ship and we have no way of knowing how much of a success the film could have been.

It is hard for me to write this knowing that the 1997 film was a huge success and James Cameron went home with three Oscars that night in editing, directing, and Best Picture. Plus he also wrote the script, which just shows how much range he has as a filmmaker and how much effort he put in this film. So maybe it was right for the studios to wait for this film to be made.

I just like pointing out the idea that Hitchcock did have an opportunity to make a film about the sinking of the Titanic and trying to figure out how he would have done it. No matter what, if he made this film, I feel that it could have been a hit and his career may have still gone the way it did. In fact, I truly believe that he still would have remained one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, no doubt about it.