Movie Facts
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1. The scene in which Ruth is tying Rose's corset was originally written the other way around. However, Cameron and the actors decided the scene would be more powerful if Rose was the one getting the corset tied. It is suppossed to symbolize Ruth "tightening both the laces and the confines of Rose's gilded cage."
2. The spitting scene in which Rose spits in Cal's face was entirely Kate Winslet's idea. The first spitting scene took 27 takes before it was "just" right.
3. Everything at the Southampton Pier was filmed "mirror image reversed." Words on the sides of vehicles were written backwards and on the seamen's hats the words read "ENIL RATS ETIHW." Filming these scenes became confusing for the actors as well as the director because they were always wondering if they were looking the right way.
4. The room which Cal, Rose, and Ruth occupy were actually commissioned for J.P. Morgan. This room is only one of two "Millionaire Suites." The other suite was occuppied by John Jacob Astor.
5. Kate Winslet had to lobby very hard for the part of Rose because James Cameron was originally skeptical of her playing the part. However, he saw how passionate she was about the part and gave it to her.
6. At the end of the movie, when Rose joins Jack in the afterlife, the hands on the clock Jack is looking at are stopped at 2:20 a.m., a very significant time for it was the time that TITANIC sank.
7. James Cameron is the one who actually drew the sketch of Rose. He is also the artist of all Jack's other drawings.
8. There was a J. Dawson on the actual TITANIC. Only his first name was James, not Jack.
9. Kate Winslet is actually floating on a piece of drift wood at the end of the film.
10. As Jack and Rose experience their first kiss, the sunset in the background is real and not computer generated.
11. James Cameron went farther into the TITANIC wreck with his specially made cameras then anyone had before. Some of the footage that he took, had not been seen by human eyes since 1912.
12. James Cameron vowed not to make this film "unless he could successfully dive to the wreck himself and bring back motion picture footage for use in the film."
13. Gloria Stuart, who plays Old Rose, actually retired from films in 1939 and had been working as a printer and a painter before she got this role of a lifetime. She says "I don't think I'll act after this. After all the years and all my films, this one is the frosting on the cake.
14. In the scenes where the ship was sinking, breath from the passengers had to be added by computer. This was because they had to create the feeling that it was absolutely freezing and filming had actually been done in 80 degree weather in Mexico.
15. The doll that Little Cora has throughout the film is identical to the one seen at the beginning of the film in the wreckage.
16. Cameron found the companies that made the original lifeboat davits and carpet pieces and had the recreate it for the film. The company took original blueprints of the davits and got a very close to the original recreation.
17. The "drawing" scene is the first scene Kate and Leonardo did together. Can you imagine meeting for the first time and having to be naked!! Poor Kate!
18. Remember when Molly Brown is telling the story about burning money in the stove? That's one of the famous tall tales she always told except it wasn't a fortune, a mere $75 and it was in coins, not bills.
19. When the ship started to go down, it sent up flares. During the real disaster, there were no red emergency flares on Titanic, so instead the celebration flares were used. A ship did happen to see the flares but thought nothing more of them than a party on a ship.
20. All of the extras in the film went through an etiquette class so they would know how people in 1912 talked, acted and moved. The waiters learned how to serve and what to say.
21. James Cameron did many of the camera shots in the film. Some were even shot using a vintage hand-cranked camera. "They used to keep time on the hand crank by humming a familiar tune. 'Turkey in the Straw' yields a pretty consistent sixteen frames per second."
22. Every woman in the film wore a corset, even if they were extras that were barely able to be seen.
23. The faces of the "frozen" people in the ocean were covered with a medical adhesive powder that crystallizes when water touches it. The hair and clothing were covered with wax.
24. Kate Winslet flashed Leo the first day so they could brake the ice for the nude scene. (Tweety9300)
25. Leo is water sensitive so he wouldn't go in really cold water. (Tweety9300)
26. The replica of the Titanic was 775 ft. long and floated in a 17-million-gallon tank! (Efig12)
27. James Cameron's brother designed the camera that was actually used that went down in the dive for the movie TITANIC. (BluRoses)
28. Kate started to run a little dry in the saliva during the spit scene so make up whipped a bowl of egg whites for her to use but in the end she ended up having a blob of k-y jelly put on her tongue to make it look more dramatic. (Michael Wozney)
29. James Cameron is actually the man getting his beard combed for lice. (Michael Wozney)
30. In some of the cold water scenes Leo would wear a wetsuit. James Cameron offered to let Kate do that but she refused, because she feels she hasn't done her job properly unless she has suffered a bit. (Michael Wozney)
31. Kate asked Jim Cameron not to heat the water (for a more real effect). (Michael Wozney)
32. Kate refused to wear a wetsuit because she said her dress was too thin and you might have been able to see it through her wet dress! (Michael Wozney)
33. During the steerage party scene when Jack and Rose are going around in circles holding hands, the camera man had to run circles with them to get the view. (CombatKW)
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