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Titanic (1997) |
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Directed by:
James Cameron
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane as Cal Hockley
Kathy Bates as Molly Brown
Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater
Gloria Stuart as Old Rose
Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett
Bernard Hill as Captain Smith
David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy
Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews |
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In the film, the captain
speeds the ship up because a man said
that it would make headlines and make
the captain a hero. Although this did
actually happen, the main reason is
that the one of the boilers below had
exploded. - casamann
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Correction:
Wwhat???? Captain Smith was going
fast to try and break a record.
There has never been any information
that a boiler exploded ( in reality
or in the movie ). there was a coal
fire in one of the coal bunkers
that someone theorized had exploded
and contributed to the sinking but
Dr. Ballard and subsequent expeditions
found no evidence of the explosion.
(Source: Research) - felix
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Correct me if I'm wrong,
but at the part when the titanic is
sinking, and the grand staircase is
filling with water, it's sucking people
through the windows. Now at one point,
you hear a very familiar scream, you
then see a dark-haired man being pulled
by the current towards the statue at
the base of the grand staircase; which
he grabs and holds on to when it does
a semi-close up on him. I believe that
this man is the famed comedian, Adam
Sandler. Supposedly, many of the extras
in this film were actual Hollywood stars.
Like I said, correct me if I'm wrong.
- Joe
Toler
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Comment:
I have heard the same. Correct me
if I'm wrong but after the ship has
sunk and the lifeboats turn around
to look for any survivors, one of
the dead people in the water looks
like Harrison Ford. Again correct
me if I'm wrong. If this is him, its
where one of the crew in the lifeboat
starts picking up people and moving
them, its one of the people right
next to the boat. - Ashley
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I'm not sure if I'm
right on this, but I heard it somewhere.
After the scene where Rose and Jack
had returned the screaming boy to his
father down the flooded hallway and
the water breaks through the doors,
it shows them turning down the next
hallway, trying to escape from the rushing
water in slow motion. This "Rose"
and "Jack" running down the
hall are not suppose to be the original
"Rose" and "Jack"
played by Winslet and DiCaprio, but
their stunt doubles. I have a hard time
believing this, and if they did have
other people playing the roles for that
scene, I have to say they would have
been virtual clones. - kyara
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Correction:
On the subject of Rose and Jack
running down the hallway with
water chasing them, it is, in
fact, their stunt doubles. The
faces of Leo DiCaprio and Kate
Winslet were digitally inserted
over the stunt doubles faces in
post production. - Andy
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Comment:
In the disputed scene with the
stunt doubles, it has been established
that the two running are in fact
stunt doubles with Jack and Rose's
faces superimposed over the doubles'.
Look closely, you can still see
the faces of the stunt doubles!
- Chrisse
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Correction:
I still have a copy of a special
taped about Titanic and it shows
the real Rose and Jack running
in the slow motion scene when
they were taping it. I still
even have the copy of the special.
(Source: TV special) - jojo
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Explanation:
I am actually friends with
the lady Sarah Franzell
who played Kate Winslet's
stunt double, and I can
assure you that it is her
running down the corridor
away from the water, and
that the actors faces were
indeed superimposed in post
production. She also stood
in for the scene where they
hit the iceberg and the
crew are watching Rose and
Jack kiss. It is infact
Sarah kissing Leo, as Kate
was sick that day. Kate
attended her New Years eve
party that year and I met
her myself!Need more proof?
(Source: Acquaintance with
stunt double) - Sandy
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When Rose is staring
up at the stars after the sinking, and
she's singing the 'Josephine' song,
you'll notice that the stars are somewhat
lined up. As a matter of fact, in some
formats, you'll notice that the stars
are actually set up in the form of the
Heart of the Ocean. - Chrisse
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James Cameron
makes more than one cameo
in this movie. Beside the
infamous hand shot, he also
plays the third-class passenger
being inspected for lice as
everyone boards the ship.
- Chrisse
- Comment:
Are you sure he's the
passenger being checked
for lice? James Cameron
has pretty graying hair,
and not such a thick beard.
He's older, too. He does,
however, make a very clear
cameo in the dance scene.
When two people step onto
the platform (it might
be Fabrizio and his girl),
you can catch him behind
them for a second if you
look between them. He's
standing with his back
to the post and is just
looking on in our direction.
- Jane
- Comment:
James Cameron also does
the biggest cameo at the
end when Rose and Jack
kissed by the stairs and
everyone applauds their
(eternal reunion) including
the famous director located
upstairs to the left by
himself with a brown jacket.
This is just another way
to immortalize himself
in the celluloid canvas
of life. (very clever)
I wish George Lucas do
the same. - Stanley
Coolbrick
- Near the start of the movie when Jack
shows Rose some of his art work. What he
is actually showing her is drawings based
on some photographs by Brassai shot in Paris
in 1932, 20 years after the sinking of the
Titanic. - Dangerous2know
- This may sound stupid, but I swear that
I saw Bruce Willis making a cameo during
the Irish party in third class. - kyara
- Comment:
I believe the comment about Bruce Willis
at the party. Because I read earlier
Harrison Ford and Adam Sandler where
in Titanic. - violinist
- Jack and Rose are in the car having sex.
When the hand reaches up and rubs against
the steamed window, look at the impression
left on the window. It turns into a heart
(awwwww) :) - wingedsoulja
- I heard that there was actually a man
on board the real Titanic with the initials
JT or JK can't remember, and that is the
initials of Jack from the movie. - Prisca_Greenleaf
- Hmm, but Jack's last
name is Dawson...
- Comment:
Well, actually, I haven't heard about
the man with Jack's initials, but there
was a man aboard the actually named
Jack Dawson--there was a documentary
on him. - kyara
- Correction:
Actually, the person on the Titanic
with the initials J. Dawson, wasn't
'Jack'. His first name was Joseph,
he was a crew member. (Source: History
Channel) - Nikky
- Addition:
J. Dawson e was a trimmer, which
means he worked below deck,
and he did die. I know this
because after I had seen the
movie about a million times,
my aunt, who workes with a decendent
of one of the passengers, got
me a copy of "The Daily
Mirror" that was printed
the day after the ship sank,
so then I was into it more and
I got passenger lists, and sure
enough, I found him. J. Dawson,
Trimmer. So both of you are
partially right. (Source: Me,
Internet, Newspaper) - TheaterGeek
- The nude picture of Rose was actually
drawn by the director James Cameron not
Leonardo DiCaprio. - Smiley
- At the end of the taping of Titanic, Kate
and Leonardo poured ice water down James
Cameron's back, payback for what they had
to endure for seven months. - kirila
- The chef that was on the ship during when
it was sinking did exist. He did survive
and told about his experience when he was
on the ship when before it sunk all the
way. He also said that he survived because
he was drunk and that made his body warm
enough to survive. - TAZ
- When Rose undressed so that Jack could
draw her, Jack said: "The bed, the
couch." It was supposed to be The couch
only. Cameron liked it so much he left it
in there. (Source: A book) - Meg
- The sunset in the backround when Jack
and Rose are kissing for the first time
is a real sunset not fake. (Source: http://dicaprio.8m.com/titanic/movfacts.htm)
- TAZ
- Kate (Rose) flashed Leo (Jack) on the
first day to prepare him for the nude scene.
(Source: http://dicaprio.8m.com/titanic/movfacts.htm)
- TAZ
- In the spitting scene, thae spit Rose
spits isnt really spit, it was KY jelly
because she couldnt spit that good. (Source:
http://dicaprio.8m.com/titanic/movfacts.htm)
- TAZ
- In the end, when Rose reunites with Jack
in the balcony, in a dream or afterlife,
the clock says 2:20, the time when the Titanic
sunk. (Source: http://dicaprio.8m.com/titanic/movfacts.htm)
- TAZ
- In reality, the state rooms occupied by
Rose, Cal and Ruth (cabins B 52, 54, 56)
in the film was occupied by the White Star
Line's chairman, Bruce Ismay, on Titanic's
maiden voyage. Mr. Ismay survived the sinking
and was persecuted for abandoning ship and
blamed for the sinking for the remainder
of his life (apparently he told Captain
Smith to increase the speed of Titanic despite
warnings from Smith that it was not a good
idea). (Source: Through my own research)
- Kristen
Brownelle
- It has also been said that the portrait
of the young woman covering her face with
her arm (he head is almost submerged into
her armpit) is a copy of a photograph of
actress Natasha Kinski from 1985. (Source:
Through my own research) - Kristen
B.
- The dime that Rose gives Jack right before
he sketches her nude portrait is a modern-day
coin and was not even issued until 1922-10
years after the sinking! (Source: Through
my own research) - Kristen
B.
- In the film, Bill Paxton's character claims
"The Heart of the Ocean" diamond
necklace would worth more than the Hope
Diamond if found. What a lot of people don't
know is that "The Heart of the Ocean"
diamond, which Cal tells Rose was once worn
by Louis the sixteenth, is in fact true.
Louis the sixteenth once wore a heart-shaped
diamond which was actually called "The
Crowning of the Ocean". It was later
re-cut into an oval shape and became known
as the Hope Diamond. So while some of the
facts about the diamond in the film are
true, the "Heart of the Ocean"
and the Hope Diamond are one in the same.
However, at the time Titanic made it's maiden
voyage in 1912 the Hope Diamond was resting
safely in the Smithsonian Museum, which
would have made it historically impossible
for the diamond to be on the Titanic. (Source:
Through my own research) - Kristen
B.
- Correction:
In Reality: (....Cartiers sold The Hope
Diamond to Evalyn Walsh McLean, a daughter
of Irish migrants who'd struck it gold-rich
in the 1890s Colorado goldfields. She
married Ned McLean (d.1941), heir to
newspaper, Washington Post, whose debts
became so large the newspaper had to
be sold. The diamond was found stuck
in the back of Evelyn's bedside radio
when she died, then stored in a bank
vault. In 1949 The Hope Diamond was
bought by New York jeweler, Harry Winston,
who in 1958 donated it to Smithsonian
Institute, which has had care of it
ever since.) (Source: http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/merchants/merchants7a.htm)
- Big
Willie
- During construction of the Titanic film
set in Mexico, only the starboard side of
the ship was built to cut film expenses.
All portside scenes, such as the scene when
Titanic is docked in Southampton before
setting sail at the beginning of the movie,
were actually flipped scenes shot on the
starboard side. "Flipping" in
film terms means to reverse one scene to
the opposite direction in order to get a
different view. If you watch the scene where
the passengers onboard the ship are waving
goodbye to the onlookers below, you can
see a mirror image of the same passengers
on both sides of the decks. (Source: Through
my own research) - Kristen
B.
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