DID YOU KNOW?


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.

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. A first class dog had a better chance of surviving then a third class passenger.
6. If the TITANIC had struck the iceberg head-on, it would not have sunk.
7. 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.
8. 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.


9. James Cameron is the one who actually drew the sketch of Rose. He is also the artist of all Jack's other drawings.

10. There was a J. Dawson on the actual TITANIC. Only his first name was James, not Jack.
11. This is the first film ever to make $1 Billion at the world box office. However, due to the inflation in ticket prices, the biggest money maker of all time is still GONE WITH THE WIND.
12. Kate Winslet is actually floating on a piece of drift wood at the end of the film.
13. As Jack and Rose experience their first kiss, the sunset in the background is real and not computer generated.
14. 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.

15. 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."
16. 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.
17. Most of TITANIC'S victims did not drown, they froze to death.
18. 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.
19. The doll that Little Cora has throughout the film is identical to the one seen at the beginning of the film in the wreckage.
20. 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.


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