Titanic corrections

Titanic (1997) - 186 corrections

Directed by James Cameron, starring Bernard Hill, Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio (add more)

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Among the items recovered from the ship is an old hand mirror. While suspension of disbelief allows us to accept that a mirror could last this long intact, the fact is that submerged in water, at that pressure the mirror would have turned streaked if not turned totally black. [I visited a huge exhibit of artifacts brought up from the Titanic that included bottles, glasses plates and personal belongings. Many of the artifacts, after being cleaned up, were in excellent condition. It appears that after all those years at the bottom many metal and glass objects were able to survive unscathed. As early as 1835 mirrors were created by depositing a thin layer of metallic silver onto glass; silver would not streak or turn black, regardless of the pressure.]

Corrected by BocaDavie Time

When they first uncover the drawing and are cleaning it, Brock compares it to a photograph of 'The Heart of the Ocean'. This is a color photograph. Later, when he shows the photograph to Rose, it is a black and white picture. It can't be a photocopy, as those aren't done on picture paper (and there is no reason why a ship in the middle of the ocean in 1997 should have been able to copy pictures). The time span of the movie and their being in the middle of the ocean doesn't allow them to retreive another photograph inland. [It is a research vessel and the Heart of the Ocean was Brock's obsession. Very likely for the ship to have a photo copier or printer and even more likely that Brock would have various copies of the photo with him.]

Corrected by BocaDavie Time

When Jack and Rose enter the water and everyone is still splashing around, a speedboat and banana boat can be seen quite in the background. [No, they can't, because they don't exist. The scene was shot in a tank, indoors. The more distant swimmers are CGI, as is the rest of the background, which is pitch dark. There are no such boats.]

Corrected by John W Rosa Time

When Titanic cracks in two, one of the funnels is rectangular, not round. [I've seen this movie well over a dozen times and have reviewed the sinking scene. I can't spot any indication of a change in the funnel shapes. Please provide a time code or advise which one of the funnels becomes rectangular.]

Corrected by BocaDavie Time

In most parts of the movie, the music the band is playing doesn't synchronize very well to how their bows move. [This mistake is far too ambiguous. Please be more specific as to when this is happens, a portion of when its noticeable or a time code to verify.]

Corrected by Lummie Time

When Rose and Jack beg a steward to open the gate for them while the water is rising, the steward drops the keys and runs away. There are two shots of the keys on the chain lying in the water arranged in totally different ways (the difference is not caused by the water flow as the keys are not moving in either shot). [The keys could have moved between the two shots; there is a very strong current.]

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In the dinner scene, Rose points out to Jack "John Jacob" (Astor), the richest man on the ship (and also a real person). During the sinking scene, he is seen holding onto a pole in the grand hall when the glass dome breaks and hundreds of tons of water come rushing in. This is not historically accurate, because he survived and was on a life boat the whole time. (No, he did not get on a life boat afterwards.) [John Jacob Astor IV died on the Titanic. His wife Madeleine survived, but he did not.]

Corrected by Tailkinker Time

Jack hoists Rose up onto the railing at the front of the boat, and they stand there for several minutes. Having been at the front of a boat in San Francisco, I can say that the Jack and Rose would have been blown back and unable to stay on the railing due to the speed of the ship. Instead of a small breeze in Rose's hair, the wind would have been pushing them backwards. [Titanic's top speed was 23 knots (about 26 miles per hour). A strong breeze, yes, but certainly withstandable.]

Corrected by John W Rosa Time

In the scene where Rose is walking up to Jack on the deck you can see the top part of the ship behind her. If you look closely enough the structure is made out of cardboard. [I've studied this shot, and I have no idea what you're talking about. The ship looks fine to me.]

Corrected by Madstunts Time

The lifeboats have S.S. Titanic on them. It is pretty ironic James Cameron went through such trouble for authenticity when the real name would be R.M.S. Titanic. [The real Titanic's lifeboats were labelled "S.S. Titanic". An original nameplate from one of the lifeboats still survives to prove it.]

Corrected by Jeff Swanson Time

At the end of the drawing scene, Jack dates his finished portrait of Rose as 1914, two years after the titanic sank. [Untrue. The drawing very clearly reads "April 14 1912".]

Corrected by JC Fernandez Time

When Rose finds Jack in the room where he's handcuffed to the pipes, the bow of the Titanic is already under water so it's angled, but on the desk's upper edge, you can see that the water is still parallel to the floor. [An optical illusion. The angle in which the ship has sunk by this point is subtle and really only noticeable when looking at the larger scale of the whole ship. In smaller areas the differences are negligible, especially given that the water is rarely still.]

Corrected by JC Fernandez Time

100% of the audio in this movie was added in post production, including voices. [This is NOT true. During the painting scene, Leo flubs the line "Over on the bed.the couch." The director even said so.]

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Margaret Brown never went by the name of "Molly" Brown during her lifetime. It was not until after her death that she was referred to as "The unsinkable MOLLY Brown". [The movie Titanic was never billed as a documentary, simply a movie based around an actual event. Molly Brown is closely connected to the events of the Titanic under the name Molly Brown, were they to call her Margaret, many people would miss the connection. Calling her Molly is no more a mistake than placing Rose and Jack on the ship or in other movies having aliens or historical characters speak present-day English.]

Corrected by OneHappyHusky Time

Rose is battered by a torrent of oncoming water, pulled up over a sinking ship which is almost vertical and sucked underwater for about a minute fighting a powerful suction pull, yet the heart of the ocean remains in her pocket and she only discovers this little extra weight after the sinking. [Given the circumstances, I think it is reasonable that your not going to notice something like that.]

Corrected by Duff "King Of Beers" Mckagan Time

Old Rose's earrings are ones that dangle with big, round silvery pearls at the ends when she starts telling her story. But when we next see her, (after the drawing scene) and also after she has finished her narrative, her earrings are like stacks of little square metal disks. [Her earrings are not the only thing to change... her entire wardrobe changes (as well as the wardrobe of the rest of her audience), suggesting her story was not spun in one sitting. Considering Rose's advanced age and the extreme detail of her narrative it's unlikely her story was delivered uninterrupted.]

Corrected by JC Fernandez Time

In the scene where Jack is handcuffed to the pipe below decks, the first shot shows the window totally submerged at least 5 feet underwater and Jack looking through the window. In the next shot, you see the top of the water through the window. This could not be possible since the ship is sinking. [This is incorrect. At first, Jack sees the water slowly start to rise against the window, but he hasn't yet panicked. A few minutes later on in the movie, now the window is "underwater" and at this, Jack sees the water begin to come into the room, and then starts to panic and yell, "Hello, can anybody hear me?"]

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When Rose is about to board the ship in the beginning of the movie, her maid Trudy is carrying two black and beige hat boxes. These are cardboard hat boxes produced and sold by Ikea in the mid-nineties. [Black and beige are common colors and the Ikea items are undoubtedly replicas]

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Jack claims to have visited the Santa Monica Pier, which did not begin construction until 1916. [On September 9, 1909, after sixteen months of construction, the Santa Monica Municipal Pier opened to the public.]

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In the scene where Jack is about to leave the first class dinner party he was invited to, he tells Rose, "It's time for me to row with the other slaves," etc. He then hands Rose a yellow piece of paper, but when she opens it up to read it, it is then white. [This has already been corrected, the paper is of an off-white color.]

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