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[@G3rnsback]

I remember James Cameron saying that he wanted to make this movie because he knew the studio would pay for him to dive to the wreck of the Titanic. So one of the highest-grossing films of all time happened because a guy wanted to fund his hobby.

[@andrewfiorini8169]

To me that proves the man was passionate about it. He was the right man to make this movie. It’s an all time classic

[@G3rnsback]

@@andrewfiorini8169 No argument here. Most other directors' brains would have melted when they started contemplating the special effects. But I think it took quite a toll on James Cameron as well, since it was 12 years before he made his next movie.

[@JoeXTheXJuggalo1]

Well if it works it works

[@shag139]

That is basically how the Titanic was found. Ballard was contracted by the Navy to dive to on the US submarine wrecks of the Scorpion and Thresher while using finding the Titanic as a cover story. Ballard only had several days to find it and what he saw at the sub wrecks helped him find titanic by looking for a debris field.

[@G3rnsback]

@@shag139 That’s interesting. I knew Ballard found the Titanic, but I didn’t know he found it when he was looking for other wrecks.

[@itsmeyourfren]

The nice guy with moustache in white clothes who said "I've got you miss" that George noticed was actually a real person - survivor with an incredible story. He was accurately portrayed as a man who stayed at the top of the ship till the very end. In the movie you can see him hanging on at the top next to Rose and drinking alcohol. His name was Charles Joughin and he was the chief baker aboard the Titanic. Joughin's actions during the sinking became notable, as he survived by employing a rather unorthodox and controversial survival strategy. When it became clear that the Titanic was going to sink, he reportedly went back to his cabin, drank a considerable amount of alcohol, and then made his way to the deck. Eyewitness accounts suggest that he remained calm and even continued to help others as the situation grew more dire. It is believed that he didn't freeze to death due to the amount of alcohol in his system.

[@GlennWH26]

More a matter of he didn't go into shock from the pain of the freezing water thanks to all the alcohol numbing him. At the hearings he testified that he stepped off at the last second 'and didn't even get my head wet.' He found a wooden deck chair to hold onto, which kept his head and upper chest out of the water. He then decided to paddle away from the ship both to get away from the screaming mob and because he thought 'a bit of exercise might help keep me warm.' Shortly afterward, the people in one of the lifeboats saw him paddling along and pulled him out of the water. Even better, after the Carpathian picked up the survivors just after daybreak, he went to the bakery and volunteered to help, as 'a few hours around warm ovens seemed to be just what I needed. ' So, booze plus a massive amount of level-headedness- a rare combination.

[@otterpoet]

Yep. Charles was the last survivor to leave Titanic. People watched him literally ride the ship down like an elevator and step off without even getting his head wet (probably another reason he lived). Freakin' legend of a man XD

[@fredfredburger5150]

It's counter-intuitive that alcohol helps people survive cold temperatures since it's a vasodilator (opens your blood vessels) which should lead to you losing body heat quicker. However there's numerous stories of survivors claiming being drunk saved their lives up to the modern day. Weird.

[@Ghost112387]

@@fredfredburger5150 I wonder if it has anything to do with it increasing heart rate/blood flow, maybe keeping people more active and alert in the water fighting against the cold slowing things down

[@fredfredburger5150]

@@Ghost112387 Could well be that. Or maybe it gives people a certain amount of courage/IDGAF attitude that allows them to persevere. I'd love to know if any research has been done on the subject.

[@Cucchulainnn]

Kathy Bates character Molly Brown, after she survived the Titanic was known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. Molly Brown is a fascinating person. She came from a poor family and made her money in mining in Colorado in the 1890's, She was a suffragette and ran for office before women where allowed to vote. During WW1 she worked with red cross. There have been several movies and tv show made about this woman.

[@GrisbaneAddams]

She was "the Unsinkable Molly Brown" only after she *also* survived the sinking of the Lusitania in 1917 (a musical of that title mythologizing her also became popular a little later on). But, yes: a remarkable woman whom, I believe, legitimately was threatened at gunpoint when she demanded they turn the lifeboat around to save more people.

[@pete_lind]

Only one that was unsinkable was Violet Jessop (1887-1971) nurse who survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic and worked on ships to her retirement Then again she was not some rich person , she was working class so who cares, specially because she was Irish and everyone knows how Irish were treated . People think Mel Brooks joke in Blazing Saddles "but not Irish" as random, comes from the fact that shop windows had signs "Not hiring blacks or Irish" still in 1980s.

[@shallowgal462]

Kathy Bates really, really looked like her too!

[@Kaplunco]

There was also a man who survived the Titanic because he got shitfaced drunk, and that stopped him from freezing in the water! He was able to stay afloat for hours until help arrived.

[@joshuagrover795]

In fact, Molly Brown was travelling alone on Titanic in first class and had her own money thanks to her 1909 separation from James (Jim) Joseph Brown. She loved "Jim" to death, but Molly liked to travel around the world, whereas Jim wasn't a good traveller, hence why they separated but on mutual terms. She had two children with Jim but was mostly self educated, including in multiple languages, so for the time, she had a very strong, independent minded personality. Which may have been influenced by her parents being divorced at her birth in 1867, something really frown upon in the first half of the 20th century.

[@evanthompson5416]

I think it was Lindsay Ellis in her video essay on Titanic that said what truly makes the movie great is that for the entire story in the first half, you actually forget the ship is going to sink. When the iceberg appears, a small part of you always wonders if this time maybe it won't hit.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Wow, really? I thought Rose was quite insufferable and couldn't wait for it to sink.

[@asperhes]

Mr. Plinkett says this too.

[@MK-sw7do]

​@@Cheepchipsable Weird, she's one of the few good people in the first class in this movie.

[@HelloXrancidkitteh]

@@Cheepchipsable this is the first time I'm hearing someone not liking Rose. what makes her insufferable to you? she was raised first class with a very judgemental mother and she's become bored of her life and is just wanting to have passion in her life for the first time ever. I think the character and Kate portrayed that well. I guess its just my opinion.

[@movieatorfilms]

@@CheepchipsableYou’re very edgy and cool.

[@Bringmethehorizondude]

I could be wrong but, after watching the reaction for the second time, I get the feeling that George went into this thinking he wasn’t going to be very impressed. But the further along they go, you can tell he really, really enjoyed this and was impressed with a lot the story telling and directorial choices. It even made him about as emotional as ever I ever recall seeing him during a reaction. Makes me happy.

[@DCComicsGamer]

It is a very well-known popular movie and is seemingly known more for its slightly OTT love story than being an accurate portrayal of the tragedy of the Titanic - which is not fair. There will never be another movie that does the Titanic story as well as this, and I was in tears more than once (and none of those were for Rose/Jack).

[@Joshy.Want.Wingyy]

​​@@DCComicsGamer"none of those were for rose and jack" he'll cry over other people but "NOT ROSE AND JACK" 😂 Thanks for telling us you dont have a relationship and are probably sexist lol

[@rybock]

Bill Paxton is an obvious "Oh, yeah, this is a Cameron movie" casting, but always props for Jenette Goldstein. She played the Irish mom tucking her kids in as the boat sank. But she was also John Connor's foster mother in T2 and Vasquez, the female marine in Aliens...

[@Dan-Ellis]

Haha - that’s what I came here to say! She was also killed in Lethal Weapon 2 by a diving-board explosion!

[@bikingchupei2447]

you could go listen to the "i was there too" podcast, the host had jenette goldstein on for an episode to talk about all those movies.

[@beppo2814]

The problem with Jennette Goldstein is that she aged so badly in less than ten years that she was unrecognizable. Vasquez from Aliens vs T2 foster mom look like two completely different people.

[@clevelandcbi]

​@@beppo2814Respectfully disagree. "Aging badly" is the reason Top Gun 2 needed a new love interest. The extra 200 pounds and a crew cut helped too. I 100% recognized the actress from Aliens and T2. Jmho.

[@lanemyer774]

don't forget Diamondback in "Near Dark"

[@jacobtroupe4926]

When Leo says, "Over there on the bed, I mean the couch" was a legitimate mistake, but James Cameron thought it was hilarious and kept it.

[@shawn.champagne]

I mean yeah especially being in Jack’s position I’d be fumbling my words too 😅😂

[@coreyortiz9913]

@@shawn.champagne true

[@Armandthevampire]

A+ to George’s acting in the ad.

[@nikkimacaulay3831]

My favourite ad yet ❤

[@csabagall8811]

We finally got to see his legs.😆

[@jeffk.9075]

The band really did play until the end. Wallace Hartley, the violinist, was found 2 weeks later with the violin still on his person. It was returned to his fiance who bought it for him and had it engraved in 1910 with 'For Wallace on the occasion of our engagement from Maria.' It's been passed around a bit since his fiance's sister gave it to the Salvation Army before it finally ended up in the Titanic Museum in Belfast.

[@DCComicsGamer]

Yeah. That song specifically, too, 'Nearer My God To Thee'. Really brings me to tears thinking about it.

[@MothproofKT]

I didn’t know this. Thank you for sharing

[@tiffanyfreeman6411]

37:55 hearing the screaming would have been one thing, but imagine how much worse it would be to hear the screams slowly stop until there was silence. Saw this movie in theaters when I was 13 yrs old and it still makes me tear up.

[@joehoy9242]

Survivor Eva Hart, only a little girl at the time, explicitly said that the screams were terrifying, but the following silence was worse.

[@Bluemgwes]

The impact this movie had on the world when it came out was INSANE. A masterpiece of a film, a pop culture phenomenon, and I don’t care what anyone says, it deserved every single Oscar it received in 1998.

[@cafeabasedecinema]

L.A Confidential is a better film by a low margin but Titanic hit you in the heart. And it's very hard to do that.

[@jonrazo7912]

I was 19 and with my first serious post high school gf and I saw that movie once a week for about 5 straight months. she was obsessed with Leo, which I never minded, as she thought I looked like him :) I look back on this movie with a lot of youthful fondness.

[@electronics-girl]

I was 22 and still in college, and this film wrecked me emotionally. Along with "Schindler's List", this is one of the films that I don't think I could ever watch again. "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) is also on that list: another movie about a sinking ship, although completely fictional and not as good as Titanic, it's still quite a tearjerker.

[@cgbleak]

@@cafeabasedecinema I'm not sure how low that margin is. Titanic may have been the best "filmed entertainment" of the year, but LA Confidential is the much better movie.

[@thejoeschmoshow]

The song “My Heart Will Go On” was huge too. You couldn’t turn the radio on without hearing it for a year.

[@NetanelWorthy]

The entire reason she went out to the spot where Titanic went down, was not to tell the story, but to put the diamond back. She also mentions in a deleted scene why she never used it. She says that the hardest part about being so poor was being so rich. But every time she thought of selling it, she thought of Cal, and somehow she got by without his help. She wanted to be independent. She did not want to rely on him or his money. And if she sold the diamond, it would’ve been like he had helped her. She came out to that spot to put it back in the ocean

[@kristianberg4264]

Well, it’s still a ridiculous reason, they could have had her sell it and donate the money to the heirs of the deceased, that would have been a better F*you to Cal’s legacy.

[@houseofaction]

she wouldn't have been able to legally sell it@@kristianberg4264

[@electronics-girl]

The Britney Spears song "Oops... I Did It Again" alludes to this with the spoken lyric, "I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end."

[@demetriusreynolds8178]

I don’t know why everyone gives rose a pass. I know everyone hates cal but it’s 1912 and he’s a rich businessman, that’s how they were taught to act. But he met rose through the mom who set it up and fell for instantly just for her to accept a proposal from a man she didn’t love and cheat on him with a man she just met on a boat and then tell him she’s leaving with him. Don’t wanna hear she was helping her mom because that’s no reason for cal to be lied to about everything

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

@demetriusreynolds8178 As you pointed out, that is just how it was done back then.

[@fromdarknesscomeslight6894]

46:40 Back in the day there was a commercial where Rose drops the diamond in the ocean, thinks about it, then jumps in after it. Cut to a pawn shop where she's counting a huge stack of bills. 😂 I think George will like that ending better.

[@jculver1674]

I think it would've been more meaningful if she'd kept the diamond and it was shown laying on her nightstand next to her at the end, as a way of showing that Jack was still with her in her heart. But movies always have to show characters rejecting money, even though they're made by people who are richer than any of us will ever be.

[@chadjenkins4876]

"It belongs in a museum!" -Harrison Ford, probably

[@JackRabbitSlim]

@@chadjenkins4876 Ok there's a crossover movie that should've happened: Indiana Jones tracks down Rose Dawson before she dies, asking her about the diamond and persuading her it belongs in a museum, she confesses what she did with it, Indy goes to find it but some jewel thieves have been on a deep dive to the Titanic to steal it first, then an epic chase across the world ensues.

[@MDavidWalker]

Check out the alternate ending, its wild! It turns into a hostage situation with Rose and the diamond.

[@jerodast]

@@JackRabbitSlim And the diamond brings people back from the dead. Probably.

[@Badner83]

A really tragic fact about this event: Simulations later showed, that if the Titanic wouldn't have tried to steer away from the iceberg but instead would have hit it straight on, of course a pretty large section of the front would have been destroyed, killing some people on board, but even with this damage the ship would have survived and could have been towed to New York for repairs.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

Makes sense. Fewer of the lower compartments would have been breached.

[@Cheepchipsable]

All very easy to determine in hindsight.

[@stephenkehl7158]

It would have been completely counterintuitive to steer into the iceberg. Murdoch had a split second to determine a course of action, and had he had a few more seconds, steering away would absolutely been the better option. He had no way of knowing it was too late.

[@adityaakaul]

The problem, as stated in the movie, was that no one on board had any experience with such a massive ship. The rudder and propeller systems were not designed for fast evasive maneuvers, and the crew had no idea how much distance they would need to avoid obstacles. They allude to this experience when the lookouts say, "why aren't they turning?!" when in fact, the ship was locked at full steer left.

[@SeverStreams]

They did determine that but there is zero reason to expect Murdoch to steer directly into an iceberg. He made the correct call given the information he had.

[@indiatastic]

You're actually on point about winslet's physique. She was absolutely called "fat" in this role, as crazy as that seems now.

[@XeonAlpha]

The reason it looks so impressive is they built an actual friggin replica of the Titanic and sunk it in a giant pool.

[@mastixencounter]

It wasnt a whole replica. only one half of the side was built and it was smaller than the actual boat

[@wwoods66]

@@mastixencounter But still....

[@pistonburner6448]

Yeah...no they didn't. As mastixencounter said they only made a small piece.

[@XeonAlpha]

@@pistonburner6448 admittedly there’s a lot of conflicting information on how big each of the sets actually are but it’s all agreed that that Cameron built at least a near scale sized model of half the Titanic for filming. Whether is was “complete” or not it was by no means a “small piece”. Oh and by “smaller” it was something like 80% scale 🙄

[@gokulgopan4397]

@@XeonAlpha the replica set was 60 feet short.

[@RedPandaGirl002]

Rose: "I'm flying!" Me: That's not flying. That's *standing* ...with STYLE!

[@liamisaac1152]

Interesting fact: The elderly couple we see holding eachother in bed were based off real life couple: Isidor and Ida Straus. Isidor was the co-owner of Macy’s. He refused to leave the titanic until every last woman and child were safely on a lifeboat. His wife refused to leave his side. There’s a scene of them talking in the extended version where he’s trying to convince her to go without him. In real life she reportedly said “As we have lived, so will we die, together.” Ida gave her own coat to her maid and saved the maid’s life by giving her that spot on the lifeboat. Also I remember watching an interview with one of the survivors, who was I think 7 years old, said she remembers hearing the screams in the darkness. But according to her mom, the most haunting thing was the pure silence that came after the screams.

[@tribefan9112003]

@@liamisaac1152 that survivor was Eva Hart

[@SeanHendy]

I just remembered, in terms of the accuracy of the recreation of Titanic, not only did James Cameron painstakingly research the Titanic, its passengers etc, but also Titanic itself. He built full scale parts of the ship as sets, and was able to do so by going to Harland and Wolff, the shipyard that built Titanic who opened their archives and schematics. I remember reading he even went to the company that made the carpet and they reproduced the exact same design, at a significant cost. The attention to detail was meticulous. It was Cameron himself that sketched the drawing of Rose that features prominently at the beginning and middle of the film.

[@missjenna6449]

Many of the small, background characters were based on real people. The man who chooses to sit and wait to sink dresses in his best was based on the richest man in the world at the time. The woman telling a bedtime story to her children was based on a woman named Margaret Cross. The chef you see briefly may have inspired Jack and Rose in the back of the ship, which the chef claimed to do alone without even getting his hair wet (his stories changed over the years, and obviously there’s no way he did that without getting his hair wet - the one thing we know for sure is that he was very drunk). James Cameron did so much research into the ship and the passengers, it’s incredible.

[@robbob5302]

Yes. That was Cameron’s hand we saw doing the sketch. Which makes me wonder, when we saw Rose stand on her toes, were those Cameron’s feet? 😜

[@Dreveryn]

In the iconic drawing scene, Jack draws Rose and it flips between watching Jack sketch, and his hands actually drawing her. Every shot of Jack's hands in that scene were James Cameron himself drawing Kate Winslet and his original work is the portrait you see throughout the movie. Also the quartet band that played during the crisis were real. There were actually eight members and they continued to play until the very end. Some survivors claimed their last song was "Nearer, My God, To Thee" which is the last song they're playing at 37:00. None of them survived.

[@adamlancaster77]

In that scene Leo was suppose to just say couch but mates naked body made him nervous so he forgot his lines 😂

[@agp11001]

@@adamlancaster77 Well I'm not blaming him.

[@juliocesarg.r.1238]

exactly cuz Leonardo is left-handed

[@michaelwoods3651]

Billy Zane was fantastic in this! He does such a great job getting the viewer to hate him. A seriously underrated actor, IMO.

[@anthonyjimenez5270]

Fun Fact: Dorothy Gibson, a true survivor of the Titanic, co-wrote and starred in a film called "Saved from the Titanic", released only 1 MONTH after the ship sank. In the movie, she returns to New York after having survived and tells her story to her parents and fiancé (they even used stock footage of icebergs in the film). It was a silent movie, and to promote it, she did a photo session with the same clothes she was wearing while abandoning the ship.

[@murciadoxial8056]

was she the one that had the mental breakdown, or was it another survivor?

[@billybigballs196]

Stop saying fun fact, it's a douche bag comment

[@Peg__]

​ Was that the woman who explained to investigators, journalists, and others, That the Titanic had its lights on and the ship had broke in two when it sank.. They told her, "That's impossible, you must be remembering incorrectly." 😬 I'll be honest, I've had a breakdown. It came after a traumatic event and then being gaslit, that what I experienced wasn't possible. I couldn't imagine surviving a shipwreck and then for 72 years being told I was wrong.. That's f🤬

[@xeres14]

That scene with the elderly couple in the bed and the water rushing in gets me every time.

[@jessecortez9449]

They were based on real life people that decided to go out together. The man was the founder of Macy's department store.

[@SidewaysTA]

@@jessecortez9449 Isador and Ida Straus

[@TukaihaHithlec]

“How do you get back on any ship after that?” Violet Jessop was a nurse who was on Titanic and both of her sister ships during their relative disasters. Not only did she get back on a ship, but identical ships, and survived every time.

[@van8ryan]

Cameron says there's only two or three things he would've changed if he'd done the movie over again. One would've been less of the "steerage" being blocked from going up by the gates (as there was little to no testimony of this being the case) and he would've made it an unknown officer shooting the gun accidentally (as there was no evidence of Murdoch doing such a thing, although gunshots were heard by passengers that night). Cameron felt it was just too insensitive to his descendants. There's also been testimony recently found that Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews (the architect of Titanic) were last seen together right as the bow began sinking and they both jumped off the TITANIC together. No less tragic, but their fates are clearer known today.

[@casmatori]

I agree. I highly doubt the ships' stewards would have deliberately kept people (especially women and children) trapped below decks when they know the ship is sinking. It's just something I cannot imagine a regular British sailor would do or allow others to do.

[@joelwillems4081]

People did give testimony afterwards that it was Murdoch though. It wasn't in keeping with his nature, but it was also a panic. Probably a version of the bystander effect in the testimony though. If you read it, there are people who swore the lights on the ship never went off or that it didn't briefly right itself before it finally went down. They can't even agree on what was the final song the quartet played. When they found the wreck it finally settled the question of if the bow section broke off or not. Speaking of the bow, since it went under first, there was no way Smith and Andrews jumped off of it together. Perhaps you meant the stern, the rear part where the propellers are. But since very few of those onboard at the end survived, that isn't much of a testimony sampling. What Cameron actually should change is to make that door smaller as they both could have easily fit on it. Oh, and the lake he talks about ice fishing on near Chippewa Falls didn't exist until several years after Titanic sunk as it was created by a dam.

[@van8ryan]

@@joelwillems4081 Well, I heard of it from a video done by Historic Travels, who's done a ton of Titanic-related videos. Haven't seen any other information about it, so could easily have been misunderstood. And yeah, it wasn't a door, but a piece of door arc paneling. In recent years, Cameron conducted a test for one of the anniversary specials where test subjects had their body temperature and oxygen levels tested in the conditions of the water that night. They tested once as depicted in the movie and also tested for the conditions where both had been out of the water. It showed that, because Rose had on the jacket and Jack was in only his shirt and trousers, his body temperature was still dropping. Yeah, neither one of them really existed anyway and even people in the flooded collapsable boat still died, even in as little water as that).

[@Krobra91]

actually the accounts of the captain are different. some say he also saved a baby from the water but refused to get on the boat and swam away

[@jeanscuissiato135]

@@joelwillems4081 Smith and Andrews did jumped off the bridge together, that's when the wave came and washed of lots of people there. There is some very reliable testemony of this.

[@CMT_-tt4iv]

Titanic is one of those movies that is greater than the sum of its parts. The villain is almost cartoonish, the love story is very basic, rich people bad, poor people good. But it’s just pure cinema magic. It’s such a immersive experience, taking you to a time and a place and making you care deeply about the characters

[@mattnar3865]

@@unclefester6501 I haven't heard of anyone being annoyed at the villains being English, we're not as thin skinned as you seem to think. If we were then we'd all have a hate-on for Mel Gibson.

[@neilbiggs1353]

@@mattnar3865 To be fair, there is some hate for Gibson for just being an absolute bell-end!

[@neilbiggs1353]

It's the garbage, caricature level writing that wrecks this film for me. The visuals are great, James Horner's score is brilliant (apart from the leitmotif used for "My Heart Will Go On" standing out a bit more than you'd want a score to do), the structure is great... but at the core you have Dick Dastardly, Penelope Pitstop, and other crappy stock melodrama characters. It's a shame Cameron didn't used a screenwriter, it's something that I've come to realise is that he has only written one good character (Sarah Connor) across all the projects he has been involved in

[@CMT_-tt4iv]

@@Stogie2112 In my opinion all the characters in this movie is painted with a very broad brush. Especially the main villain. At one point I was expecting him to twirl his mustache. However I don’t think it’s to the detriment of the movie. It’s not a character study, it’s a epic tragedy, and using stereotypes as a shorthand is effective storytelling.

[@happyapple4269]

​@@unclefester6501all the characters were more or less just stereotypes.

[@NetanelWorthy]

Titanic actually exceeded the board of trade with lifeboats. She was only required to have 16 and she actually carried 20. Back then lifeboats were based on the tonnage of a vessel, not passenger capacity. It was an old standard, and they were not expecting ships to get that big. So titanic met the letter of the law.after the sinking, they obviously changed it that you must have a lifeboat for every person aboard.

[@MrHws5mp]

Known as "The Tombstone Principle" in the air transport world. You only change the regs to add an expensive safety feature after enough expensively embarrassing tombstones have built up that it's worth the cost to not be blamed for any more...😡

[@AustrianA340]

More to the story is that lifeboats back then were more meant to ferry passengers from the "crippled" vessel to the "rescuing" vessel. Also back then lifeboats were not popular at all, not even during an emergency. In previous events people died on life-boats, while passengers that remained on the main ship survived. I've read the crew had a hard time filling the boats, because so many passengers refused to get on them, because they felt safer on the ship, while it was sinking slowly. The silver lining to all this is, even if they had enough life-boats for all passengers on board. On that night it wouldn't have made much of a difference, because they just barely were able to launch all the ones they did have. Any more would have gone down with the ship.

[@pc_buildyb0i935]

@@AustrianA340 Correct! In fact, the wrecks of both the SS Atlantic and the SS Norge would still have been in the back of people's minds at the time - in both cases, lifeboats had been overturned during launch (spilling people into the sea, where they would die), smashed against the side of the sinking ship by waves (again, killing all occupants) and just being swamped/rolled over by heavy waves. The Atlantic Ocean is notoriously stormy, lifeboats back then were absolutely NOT a lifesaving feature. The night the Titanic sank was unusually calm, the weather out there is RARELY like that. And you're totally correct about the timing issue. The crew didn't even manage to get all 20 of the boats off that they DID have. They had to cut the last two lifeboats free mid-launch because suddenly everybody was waist-deep in water as the ship sank from under them, and the boats would have been pulled down. By the time both were freed, one was upside down and the other was half-flooded.

[@DCComicsGamer]

It is very important to remember that last bit, obvious or not. Out of this tragedy came the law that forced ships to have enough lifeboats for everyone on board, saving a lot of lives most likely in the process.

[@pc_buildyb0i935]

@@DCComicsGamer Generally, yes. But most ships capsize when they sink, which negates the use of all lifeboats on one side of the ship (in modern times, see Oceanos, Costa Concordia, Estonia, etc) Lifeboats are, and have always been, a last resort

[@thormelsted]

Neil DeGrasse Tyson told James Cameron that the stars in the sky were not historically accurate for that specific location and date in 1912. Cameron, ever the perfectionist, replaced the stars with period and position accurate star maps when the film was remastered for the 15th anniversary of its release (and the 100th anniversary of the ship sinking) in 2012.

[@rowenatulley852]

Can you imagine watching a movie with Tyson? Instead of sitting back and enjoying the flick, he'd nit-pick it to death . . .

[@mobiusflammel9372]

@@rowenatulley852 IIRC, he said he only tends to actually care if a movie is presenting itself as being accurate, otherwise he just lets it be. I think he actually stopped doing his movie takes for a while because people became pissed/borderline hostile about it IIRC, which he said wasn't what he was trying to do. I think it was Colbert that convinced him to do it anyway despite that, or something along those lines. My memory of all of that is hazy, this was years ago.

[@MariusWales]

Does anyone like Tyson anymore?😆

[@Mabe456]

it wasn't only that it was the wrong stars to everyone's favorite pedantic astrophysicist, it was a star texture image that didn't even cover the screen space so it was repeated and mirrored. It looked like a windows 95 tiled wallpaper.

[@baronsengir187]

@@chrisfofficial Were do you got that from that it is wrong?

[@pavel1kometa]

Fun fact: Bernard Hill is the only actor in a history and alive that starred in 2 out of 3 movies that won 11 Oscars. (Ben Hur 1959, Titanic 1997, LOTR:Return of the King 2003) Dude is a living legend! :D

[@BJBee]

I'll never forget his transformation scene in LOTR, when Saruman was exorcised from him by Grandad. I was struck by his beauty.

[@stivklif]

Never knew he was in Ben Hur! That's incredible

[@jdpc9391]

As a french canadian, I am happy to hear them speak French!

[@eholland824]

Fun fact: Billy Zane flipping the table over wasn’t part of the script. That moment was improvised by Zane himself that made Kate Winslet startled on camera.

[@andersthomsen3409]

It's not often we see George shed a tear, but I get it. When George asked Simone if she was okay, I was thinking "She might be now, but she's not going to be later... even though she's seen the movie before"

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

I was thinking Simone was thinking along those lines too. She knew what was coming.

[@pistonburner6448]

This is the movie which is a romantic movie for women...and a horror movie for men.

[@migiplayz91]

Not all Canadians are wimps. Maybe that's why George doesn't cry.

[@Cheepchipsable]

@@migiplayz91Maybe because it's kind of predictable?

[@StoneColdSteveAutism95]

@@migiplayz91 All canadians are wimps though

[@roberthansen4323]

In 2022 I happened to find myself in Tennessee for a wedding and went to the Titanic Museum. They had some interesting facts like the band did play as the people were trying to evacuate. I assumed that was definetly hollywood. It also talked about the people on the USPS side to save mail and the engine room that kept working to keep the lights on to help with the evecuation. You could also walk up different angles of the deck was at as it tipped and had an area you could feel water that was kept at the exact temp of the water that night. when you go in you get a boarding pass of an actual passanger and at the end you read about the person and found out if you were a survivor. It made this movie a little different in your reaction. Thanks

[@blakefreitas5409]

A lot of people aren't aware of this, and I don't know if someone has mentioned it in the comments already, but Harold Bryde and John Phillips, the two guys who were in charge of sending out the ship's distress signal, worked on the machine the previous day and managed to get it functional. Had it not been for that, no help would have arrived, and there likely would have been no survivors and we probably wouldn't even know for sure what happened to the Titanic. People would think it just disappeared.

[@tasnica2438]

I imagine at least one of the lifeboats might have managed to survive a few days, if other ships were traveling a similar route.

[@Littlepea2890]

Re : the screams haunting them for the rest of their lives. They actually did! Many survivors talked about hearing the screams slowly fade as people died being one of the most haunting experiences. One of the lifeboats was manned by one of the men who worked in the boiler rooms (a rare survivor as most of the men below died), he was put in charge of a boat filled with women and children and rowed them far enough out so they wouldn’t get sucked under. When he could see how badly the screams were affecting the people in the boat he led them in singing row towards the shore sailor - an old seaman’s song about dying and reaching heaven - to help drown out the cries.

[@richardb6260]

I liked George's "It belongs in a museum" moment. Dr. Jones would be proud.

[@murciadoxial8056]

obligatory 'SO DO YOU'

[@sebswede9005]

​@@murciadoxial8056"THROW HIM OVER THE SIDE"

[@jgrado3]

Mind blowing fact: Officer Lightholler (the guy that launched all those boats half full). 30 years later, he was part of the civilian fleet during the Dunkirk evacuation in WWII, getting British soldiers off the beach and across the water in combat conditions. Two of the most harrowing evacuations in maritime history in his lifetime and he was there.

[@purpleslog]

In the movie Dunkirk, the older man and his two sons who sail over to help the withdrawal is based upon him.

[@jp3813]

The ultimate James Cameron underwater film is The Abyss (1989), which is known to be perhaps the most difficult shoot in the history of cinema. Highly recommended for a reaction, preferably the special edition version.

[@madpaduk]

I second this. Directors cut only.

[@SC-gp7kt]

Great overlooked movie!!!

[@Johnny_Socko]

It's *finally* coming out in a 4K remaster, so maybe they should wait just a little bit longer for that. It'll be worth it.

[@ImDerpyDuck]

I love how in the final Jack / Rose moments in the water we see: George: He's feeling it , it's sad and he's processing and accepting of that Simone: EMOTIONAL DAMAGE 😢

[@karabearcomics]

I saw the Unsinkable Molly Brown before I ever saw this movie, so I remember being happy to see her as a major character. Really, her story is quite interesting.

[@thormelsted]

The wreck at the beginning is footage of the actual wreck intercut with recreation shots (e.g. any shot where you see the submersible outside the Titanic is a miniature recreation). They went down to the wreck multiple times and Cameron realized on one of his dives that he'd spent more time with the Titanic than the passengers who were on it. A few years after this, Cameron made a great documentary called Ghosts of the Abyss, where he went back and took Bill Paxton with him.

[@clevelandcbi]

He also knew that the missing sub in the headlines a few months ago was a lost cause within hours of it going missing, and that the frantic search for survivors was a publicity stunt. Told his fellow underwater exploration friends that a loud *BANG* had been recorded at its exact location, meaning there'd obviously been an implosion. Told them day 1 that they had "lost friends" that day.

[@minnesotajones261]

If you see TWO submersibles, it's CGI. If you see none, or just one, that's real footage.

[@Jack.A.C]

I think James Cameron and Bill Paxton were actually visiting the Titanic underwater during 9/11 and weren't told what happened until they resubmerged.

[@baronsengir187]

@@clevelandcbi We all knew.

[@clevelandcbi]

Yes we did.

[@NetanelWorthy]

What you are referring to about people not being happy with the movie, was actually one situation, and was actually not very widely known. First Officer Murdoch is portrayed as having committed suicide, as the movie shows. There was reports of an officer that shot a passenger, and then shot himself. But it’s not known who it was. Murdoch’s family was very offended with the betrayal, and emphasized how Murdoch was very much a hero.

[@Cheepchipsable]

There was a huge list going around of the mistakes, mainly because, being such a narcissist Cameron had to boast about how every detail of everything was 110% correct. Even at the Oscars he demanded everyone gave a minutes silence for the dead.

[@Fleshy]

Regarding getting back on a ship... Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship the HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been onboard the eldest of the three sister ships, the RMS Olympic, when it collided with the British warship HMS Hawke in 1911.

[@ThreeLeafedClover]

I would never get back on a ship or even look at the ocean again lol

[@StMargorach]

​@@ThreeLeafedCloverit almost seems like she is causing it :p would be interesting to know if she had any trips on ships without problems....

[@michelle6337]

Having just watched the Puppet History video on this, thank you for this synopsis. Violet Jessop was a boss.

[@explosean9]

The Britannic had two other Titanic survivors on board, as well. One of them was a stoker who survived four ship sinkings total in his life.

[@rickgiles8426]

Sounds like she's bad luck to me...

[@billiebuffalo]

Something I found interesting was that at the beginning they depict how big the ship was next to sailboats and from the Pier. It was this floating palace. But at the end of the film they show just how small it really was in the middle of the ocean...alone.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

On the big screen it made for an horrific shot to show how alone the ship was.

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

The locked gates thing is largely dramatized in the film. There weren't locked scissor gates at every corner like the film depicts. On the outdoor decks, however, there were stairs going up to the 2nd class section, which had these sort of waist-high gates at the tops. Due to the intensity of the crowds on the boat deck, 3rd class were prevented from entering the 2nd class section until things up on the boat deck had calmed down. With hindsight in mind, a good idea would've been installing some lifeboats on the poop deck (this deck was designated to third class). Regarding some boats being launched half full, this wasn't so much due to the negligence of the officers, but rather the fact that many of the passengers simply felt safer on the ship than in a dingy row boat in the middle of the night in the freezing cold. Even when things were getting desperate, lots of people on board were still convincing themselves that the ship would right itself and remain afloat.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Really appreciate the humor you inject into to your ad reads guys. Makes your channel stand out

[@CineRam]

My favorite piece of trivia about Titanic: Some of the crew had t-shirts made that read, "No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. People, however, were tossed around like styrofoam coffee cups." When Cameron made "Terminator 2" it was the most expensive movie ever made. Then he made "True Lies", and THAT was the most expensive movie ever made. Then he made this movie, and at that time it was the most expensive movie ever made...and then he made "Avatar", which was the most EXPENSIVE movie ever made. When this movie was first announced, and that Kate Winslet would star in it, I thought, "Hmm. Looks like Cameron's going for an Oscar." I regret not placing a wager with someone about that, I would have made out very well.

[@andrewfiorini8169]

He didn’t go for a single Oscar, he got all the Oscars

[@CineRam]

@@andrewfiorini8169 Well, he got two of them. Picture and Director.

[@CraigKostelecky]

At least he makes the studio a profit, even with that huge expense.

[@CineRam]

@@CraigKostelecky Thank goodness for that! Fox would've been sunk...ha ha ha.

[@itsmeyourfren]

Bernard Hill was in 2 movies that won 11 Oscars (only 3 movies in the history won that many) and in both his character dies heroically. Also I have never seen any actor that portrayed sadness in the eyes as well as Victor Garber in the scene when he is standing next to the clock.

[@Galiant2010]

My fond memories of this movie include the 2-cassette version on VHS. Not sure how many movies required two tapes, I know a few hit movies did that, but something about those felt extra special lol.

[@treeofrage7622]

41:42 I know this man is supposed to be viewed as a bad guy, but hes 100% correct and him adamantly refusing to help until most people have stopped moving probably saved everyone in that life boat. As much as you want to go help people in that situation, you just can't.

[@marcw6875]

Agreed. Ideally they should have filled the boats before they initially launched from the sinking Titanic, but once they were out there and everyone else was in the water, there was no way they could have gone back without being dragged down by a whole mob of people scrambling over each other to try and get in. Even if they could somehow get the people in the water to not swarm them, they'd still have the unenviable job of having to choose who gets to get in the boat and who has to stay in the water.

[@jasonmest87]

That's him that's the guy!

[@Melissa-wx4lu]

When I was younger I always thought "Well obviously those people in the water can't swim otherwise they would just swim to the lifeboats. They could have inched up to mass and plucked them out one at a time." And then I got older and realized, they didn't swim to the lifeboats because they probably couldn't really see them.

[@ShinyAvalon]

By the time they got to the people, most of them would have been hardly able to move. Nobody on the boats quite realized that, though; most people _now_ don't realize how fast hypothermia can set in with water that cold.

[@treeofrage7622]

@@Melissa-wx4lu i believe they have said after being in the water for like 30 seconds, they were marked for death even if they had been taken out of the water, and after like 90 seconds they couldn't even move because they were so cold and just started sinking.

[@crimsonknight7011]

John Astor was one of if not the richest man in the world at the time and died with the ship. It was rumored that his last actions was to release the pets from their cage areas so they had a chance. At the time of his death he had a net worth of 87 million ( equivalent of around 2.64 billion today)

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Some time after, they found his body still in its cork vest and carried east by ocean current.

[@kevinnguyen3680]

James Cameron actually filmed a bunch of additional scenes that were based off historical accounts that didn't end up in the final movie. A lot of small details and short quips showed that Cameron did his research but these short scenes felt out of the place in a love story. There is a fan edit called the "1912 historical edit" where these scenes were all added in high quality and all Jack and Rose scenes removed so it essentially becomes a pretty accurate, high production value documentary. On a side note, also check out the alternate ending with the old Rose and Bill Paxton, I can't believe that was even considered.

[@jerodast]

Look, I agree the theatrical ending is the best one, but you have to admit it was ballsy of him to even film a twist crossover between _Titanic,_ _Terminator,_ AND _Aliens._

[@MysteriousMrL]

"That really sucks, lady!!!" has managed to become one of my favorite lines to quote from this movie, and it's not even in the actual movie.

[@laviestbelle3760]

I've seen this movie hundreds of times and it still makes me cry.

[@lalfam3051]

This is like the best teenage cliché love story ever. There's the hero who saves and dies for his love, and she'll pine for that kind of man. Then there's the rebellious heroine who breaks the shackles and finds her place in life. It's the best for both sides, which is why everybody falls for it.

[@johnathanstruble1064]

53 years old, saw it in theater when it opened, and several times since. bawling like a baby., again. Not ashamed! 😂 Great reaction.!

[@thormelsted]

Fun fact: James Cameron drew all of Jack's charcoal drawings, including the one of Rose. In the film, those are James Cameron's hands drawing the picture. He's left handed, but DiCaprio is right handed, so Cameron drew the picture mirrored so it could be flipped for the movie.

[@kingscorpion7346]

that is cool!

[@Yggdrasil42]

Haha. George literally explains that at the end.

[@minnesotajones261]

Technically, he didn't draw it reversed... He had a picture of her posed on the couch flipped, then drew that normal. Then the footage was reversed. Just crazy!

[@Prolute]

@thormelsted I'm glad you felt the need to share your little fun fact so badly that you did so before watching the video.

[@thormelsted]

@@Yggdrasil42 haha - I almost never watch the outro, maybe I should have 😆

[@Twiska]

The survivors weren't mad that the movie was inaccurate. Some just thought it was disrespectful. All the survivors at the time of the movie's release were only children when the sinking happened. The most considerable inaccuracy is that the company didn't skimp out on lifeboats. They had more than enough than was required by law. Lifeboats were seen as death traps. The ship had lots of watertight compartments and a state-of-the-art radio system. The procedure was to wait on the damaged ship till a rescue ship arrived and ferry passengers to the rescue ships with the lifeboats over several journeys. It's just the Titanic sank too fast. But in a previous sinking of another ship, many passengers died in the lifeboats while the people who stayed on the ship lived long enough to be rescued by another ship. People knew about that, and many passengers were too scared to get into the lifeboats until it was too late, and they were all gone. Also, no one was locked below deck. That was really disrespectful to the many sailors who gave their lives to get as many passengers off the ship as possible. But here is something they got right: the drunk chef Rose and Jack saw at the railing of the stern was real. In real life, he was the only one at the stern and survived in the water till he was picked up. The alcohol in his system staved off hypothermia.

[@Twiska]

Camron seriously considered just hiring the original company that built the Titanic to make him a replica; the problem was he could only sink it once. So, instead, he had half of the ship built as a set in a large pool in Mexico.

[@Daveyboy100880]

And taking inflation into account, the movie production cost more than the original ship cost to build!

[@Twiska]

@@Daveyboy100880 That's why building another one ship was a serious consideration. The only reason Cameron didn't was as I said, he could only sink it once. But then he realised lots of things could go wrong during filming and instead went for a set in a large pool that could be flooded and drained on command. And with CGI getting better they could add the other end of the ship onto the set in post.

[@di3486]

“A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets”…every woman cries at how true this phrase is😭 I went to watch this alone at theaters. I never cried so hard with a movie ever…and many days afterwards. What a masterpiece.

[@madpaduk]

One of my favourite things about this film was the lauching of the lifeboats and the flexing of the support struts. They rebuilt them completely accurately and people thought they'd break because they bounced so much under the weight of boats and people. They didn't, such an elegant design and so strong

[@sailormoon262]

15:55 it's funny you mention this, George, because unfortunately there was some controversy when Kate Winslet was cast as Rose. A lot of toxic critics fat shamed her when back then she was about US size 6 or 8; nowadays it would be seen as a healthy thin, but back then any actress over size 4 was relegated to side roles only.

[@CraigKostelecky]

I absolutely love how confident Kate Winslet has been in her career and how her modern roles make little to no effort to hide her age.

[@user-blob]

Winslet is a legend!!!

[@katwithattitude5062]

She could not sell the diamond. They flat out say in the movie there was an insurance claim on it after the sinking and that's how Bill Paxton and Company knew it existed in the first place. If she had sold it then someone would know she survived and would come after her, whether it was Cal or the insurance company.

[@zombieslayer02gjustzombies85]

What about giving it away though without any big payment for such a thing, she was already so damn old and had no reason to keep it anyway so as an Indiana jones fan I feel it belonged in a museum either way but know they definitely could’ve just kept it under wraps by saying they just found it and gave it to the museum itself without her involvement since she probably could’ve cared less

[@michelle6337]

I also last watched this when I was little, so it was fun revisiting it with Simone as an adult.

[@Cramblit]

"The sitting room is such a funny name to me, you can sit in every room" Me: "I wonder if he knows about the common name of "Living Room"

[@gember1382]

I watched this movie when it came out in an outside theatre and it was very cold and the sky had lots of stars, so it was really like I was there. Made an impression I will never forget.

[@theresashores2512]

I remember watching Titanic on VHS as a kid and crying the hardest I’ve ever cried for a character death. I was upset when Rose let go of Jacks hand in the water and screamed “You promised you’d never let go!”. I didn’t know he meant she should fight to live & never give up. 😅 This movie ignited my huge crush for Leonardo DiCaprio. I felt like I loved him. 😄

[@dutch90skid70]

Titanic is my favorite movie of all time. I saw it about 8 times in cinema and about 50-100 times ever since. Never saw a reaction video to it on KZbin, but you guys for sure made me cry for the first time since it came out. Such an interesting thing to see newcomers react to this movie... Even made me think about things I never specifically thought about. I'm definitely picking up the new 4K UHD Collectors Edition next month.

[@travismorris9303]

Jack actually survived, assumed the identity of a dead rich man and became the Great Gatsby 🤣🤣

[@PabloSanchez-kz8nb]

This is another example why I think late 90's movies are the best.

[@rahbeat9785]

Seeing Goerge's appreciation of how effective the filmmaking is, made me fall inlove with this movie all over again. the ending Really hit me hard this time :}{

[@Kickinthescience]

Titanic and Avatar may be James Cameron’s best sellers but his most quoted movie is Terminator 2

[@MasterBetty69]

Just remember this ending sequence was brightened for a better cinematic experience, however, it was essentially pitch black once the ship lights went out. Terrifying.

[@crimsonknight7011]

If I remember correctly the family of First Officer Murdoch protested the movie for how it depicted him as greedy and how he shot the passengers which he never did. I believe James Cameron came out and apologized for his inaccurate representation of Murdoc

[@meghanmonroe]

27:50 This is the moment that the first VHS tape ended and you had to switch over. 😂❤

[@Zieg100]

One of those movies that gets so lost in all the pop culture references and memes. Watching this with you reminded me that this was actually an epic and beautiful film. Glad I got to see this again with you two. Also, I need to say this. With most reactors, I sit and suffer through the sponsor bits just to support the channel, but YOU GUYS made this hilarious and actually interesting. Thanks for that!

[@write2pras84]

Was 13 when I saw this and it affected me for days after. I just didn’t know why but I was just sad for so many days after. Even last month, I visited the titanic museum in Belfast and it’s just so sad what happened. A lot of circumstances surrounding the tragedy was just coincidental: for example the closest ship was a mere few miles away but it’s radio operator had turned off the radio for the night and gone to sleep. The number of lifeboats reflected to some extent the hubris of the designers of the titanic. Even then, many boats were lowered only partially full mostly out of panic. Remember, it was its maiden voyage so really no one knew how to react or if even the ship was really sinking until it was too late. So many wrong decisions and actions could have been avoided.

[@The1Music2MyEars]

Remember, there was an insurance claim on the necklace. It most likely would have gone to Cal's family/children, which she understood would do the same thing that she realized on the ship, being grown into money as children.

[@rev.chuckshingledecker]

I’m so glad you reacted to this. For a few years (about a decade ago) it was the “cool thing” to hate on this movie. I am so glad it’s once again finding an audience with younger people. It really is a masterpiece. I saw in the theater on opening night. The theater was sold out. And people were sobbing at the end. Adults. Old men. Young men. It was a cultural and communal experience that had a real impact on our culture. And it is such a great film.

[@LChav]

I have read the ending is a way of showing Rose too has passed. As we see her lying in her bed, you don't see a sign of breathing. Her releasing the diamond into the ocean was the last thing she did. She went back to the place and time she was happiest.

[@kimberleyravenswood5287]

The baker (guy in white with Rose and Jack on the side of the rail when it sinks) was a real person. He drank quite a bit as the boat sank, climbed over the railing and stepped off into the water when the ship sank and he survived!

[@TheDemonicPenguin]

Yes, that's mostly the real Titanic at the start, though some of the shots (the ones with two subs and the interiors) were recreated in tanks.

[@meadmaker4525]

Titanic had a twin sister ship built at the same time, the Olympic. Olympic remained in service for the White Star Line from 1911-1935, serving the same routes and destinations Titanic would have. And, yes, some of the footage in the beginning was from Cameron's dive on the actual Titanic wreck site.

[@kylederry5031]

There was a third, The Britannic It was in service during ww1 as a hospital ship and sank off the coast of Malta in 1917 after hitting an underwater mine. It's divable as it's only 300 ft down. Jaques Cousteau found it in 1975.

[@tareskisloki8579]

The Olympic was actually on the way to meet up with the Carpathia and take on the survivors, but they came to their senses and turned it away when they realised what effect it would have on them to see Titanic's twin rock up after what they'd just been through.

[@glennwelsh9784]

Though I'm not a fan of the fictional melodramatic romance, the film's depiction of the sinking is still incredibly captivating. Part of you can't help but put yourself in such a harrowing scenario where the odds of survival was slim-to-none, facing a slow and cold death that you can see coming but is almost unavoidable. The chef seen swigging from a flask as the ship sank was an actual survivor named Charles Joughin, and he was pretty much drunk the entire time. He helped load the lifeboats with women and children and even brought food from the kitchen to give to them. He then rode the ship down and somehow survived being in the frigid water for over 2 hours with little more than some swelling in his legs. They say the booze in his system may have helped him stay alive, though alcohol is usually believed to accelerate hypothermia. Guy's a true legend.

[@Jay-ln1co]

Alcohol causes bloodvessels to expand, so it'd keep your extremities warmer, but would also cause your core temperature to go down as the warmth is being pumped out. It'd also numb you, so maybe it'd stave off shock, which can be caused by cold water?

[@Cheepchipsable]

Alcohol usually causes your liver to work overtime, which creates more heat.

[@matthewbookler4136]

I'm not 100% sure you realized it, but her "going back to Titanic" at the end was older Rose dying. When she died, she was reunited with her shipmates in Heaven (only the good people were there).

[@laudanum669]

Author Morgan Robertson wrote a book called "Futility" published in 1898 about a ship named the "Titan". In the book the ship hits an iceberg in almost the same location as the Titanic did. The tale of the "Titan" also make reference to speed being a factor in it's sinking and the lack of enough lifeboats. It is quite eerie that 14 years later it happened for real.

[@gokulgopan4397]

He was an experienced seaman. He wrote the story as a 'warning' to the outdated laws. Also, the similarities were only largest ship of the time sank and due to outdated laws, there were casualties. In the story, the ship ran aground an ice shelf and capsized quickly. It was on its 4th journey. The ship was only a plot point. The book is about the protagonist's survival. After Titanic's sinking, the story was rewritten with the fictional ship to have more similarities to Titanic. Not the same location. April time fills North Atlantic with so many icebergs. Titanic took a south route detour due to warnings.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Recovery of objects from a sunken ship is controversial, at least as long as there are people who knew those who died. Many consider the wreck to be the grave and taking things is grave robbing. The one exception is the ship's bell. Being able to recover it is thought to be a way to honor the dead. The bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald was brought up in 1995 but the rest of the wreck remains relatively untouched. Titanic is a bit further away in memory so more people have no problem with scavenging and ships that went down before 1900, especially the Spanish treasure ships and the gold ships coming back from California, are fair game.

[@Texy88]

The bit where Cal flips the table in front of Rose wasn’t scripted; Billy Zane came up with that idea (which I believe he ran past James Cameron beforehand) and neither told Kate Winslet, whose on-screen reaction to the table-flipping is totally genuine.

[@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735]

It was always rumored the gates to steerage were locked but they were found open when Titanic was found. Two lifeboats went back 19 to 48 were pulled from the water but some died anyway. By the way there as another ship close enough to see the Titanic's emergency flares but it did not respond. It could have saved most or all of them.

[@CobraKai63]

I believe that came from the hearings after the ship sank. Apparently they did close some gates but the passengers were easily able to jump over them.

[@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735]

@@CobraKai63 Maybe. All they have said about the wreckage is they are open now of the ones they could get to. It may be a combination of they closed them at first to control the crowds but opened them later.

[@HeartlessPhoenix]

I haven't pressed play yet, but I just wanted to point out you guys have the most cursed thumbnails in the YT reacting game, I love it!

[@funkyjbass7762]

"My ass is sick of this chair" is what I was thinking at the end of Titanic when I saw it in the cinema . . .

[@mage1439]

I didn't expect George to get so emotional.

[@clarkness77]

It's a well known movie to make men cry. I think it's cuz we relate to Jack. Hes living every guys dream

[@nikkislovesyou]

Ok shout out to the best ad spot ever. Thank you for blessing that with us 😂

[@TheRussian13]

I love seeing actors like Billy Zane in movies like this. Where they become the most despicable character, and you can't stand their existence. It's a testament to their superior acting skills. As for James Cameron making amazing dramatic scenes like a majority of Titanic, and then making a movie like Terminator. The original Terminator did have some amazing dramatic scenes too, even romantic. The scene just before Kyle and Sarah make John, where Kyle confessed his love to Sarah is particularly heartfelt how he says "I traveled across time for you, Sarah." Lastly I love how even accounting for inflation, James Cameron's Titanic cost more than the real Titanic.

[@eknapp49]

The senior surviving officer from the Titanic was a man named Charles Lightoller. Lightoller was also in the Royal Navy Reserve and served in World War 1. Following the war he found his opportunities were few so he retired. He bought a motor yacht called the "Sundowner." In 1940 he answered the call for “little ships” and sailed the "Sundowner" to Dunkirk to help evacuate the British army. If you have seen the movie “Dunkirk” the older man commanding the yacht is based on Lightoller.

[@rozequinn1519]

Fun facts: when Jack told Rose to get on the bed, then corrected to the couch, that was DiCaprios slip up. They decided to keep it in the film. The hand sketching is actually James Cameron sketching. At the end the woman putting her two children to sleep is actress Jenette Goldstein. She played the foster mom in Terminator 2 & also private Vasquez in Aliens.

[@jackmessick2869]

The actress who played the older Rose won an Academy Award for best supporting.

[@minnesotajones261]

Jack, Rose, Cal, Rose's mom, Tommy, etc. are fictional characters. The historical characters are real, like the Captain, the main officers, J.J. Astor, the Countess of Roths, Molly Brown, Benjamin Guggenheim, Thomas Andrews, etc. and Cameron cast great actors that actually resembled them to boot. He got the film greenlighted by going to the studio and showing them paintings of the Titanic and the sinking by Ken Marshall and said "Romeo and Juliet on that ship." The rest is history.

[@treetopjones737]

Margaret Brown. Friends called her Maggie. "Molly" nickname came after her death, not by people who knew her.

[@Little1Cave]

This movie has two Oscar records. It’s tied for the most nominations at 14 (with All About Eve and La La Land), and tied for the most Oscar wins at 11 (with Ben-Hur and Return of the King). Even if there are people who think this movie didn’t deserve Best Picture (it went up against Good Will Hunting and LA Confidential), you gotta admit that James Cameron hella deserved his win for Best Director. SO well made. ❤ Well freaking done James.

[@BJBee]

Titanic is a visual feast, and emotionally stirring. But LA Confidential should have won Best Picture.

[@treetopjones737]

Two films which DID deserve it.

[@nathanielvachon8523]

I don't know what's more heartwarming: Love story between Rose and Jack or Simone and George trying to speak Quebec French (my langage) ♥♥

[@Journeyman.71]

I was 26 when this came out. Seeing it in the theatre, on the big screen, with the high-end sound system, was epic!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Saw it in the theatre too--the whole crowd roared when Cal says, "I put the coat on HER!"