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Titanic (1997) - 191 corrections

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

Genres: Drama, Romance

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Entry A point is made in the movie, and it is well known, that the water temperature of the ocean where the Titanic sank is near freezing, and at the end after it sinks, the people in the water only last a few minutes before going into an unconscious stupor and then dying. Yet, on the boat, as it is taking on water while it is sinking, Jack and Rose are running around in this freezing water for what seems about 30 minutes with no apparent ill effects. The water could not have been heated substantially, and they simply could not have lasted nearly as long as they did running around in this water as the movie showed without slipping into unconsciousness. [Incorrect. The water inside the ship is not at the same temperature as the water outside it. The water inside is separated by corridors, stairways, rooms, all of which have some degree of heat from the interior of the ship. Yes it would be cold, but most certainly not near freezing.]
Corrected by GalahadFairlight
Entry The water is nearly at a freezing temperature, your body can barely function at all in these conditions. For Jack and Rose to be subjected to that condition for that amount of time while inside the lower portions of the ship, without any signs of shivering or real signs of discomfort is unbelievable. [The water in the lower part of the ship would not be at the freezing level because the water came into the ship via the boiler rooms. By the time the water reached the lower decks it had been traveling through the ship for a little while and would have been warmed up quite a bit. Only the water coming in from the top decks at the end would have been at the freezing point.]
Entry When the Titanic first set out in 1912, almost immediately after leaving the dock, the suction of her propellers drew in a neighbouring ship, the New York. It snapped its lines making sounds like gunshots and the ship came within several feet of slamming into the Titanic's stern. Only the quick thinking of the tugboat captains and Smith (who ordered a touch ahead on the port propeller) stopped it from actually making contact. You'd think that this event would've been at least noticed by Jack or Fabrizio who would've had front row seats, yet it's not mentioned at all in the movie. [There were several real life events concerning the Titanic that were not portrayed in the movie. The fictional characters Jack and Fabrizio were at the bow of the ship looking forward through the departure, unlikely they would have noticed the near collision taking place at the stern.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
Entry It's impossible that Rose would've been able to survive for as long as she did whilst wearing that thin, delicate lounging dress she changed into after Jack drew her portrait. She was in and out of the water constantly before finally climbing on top of the door frame in the water, and while the coat Cal put on her could've kept her torso warm, her legs were exposed throughout much of the ordeal. The human body can barely function in freezing temperatures, yet she moves around with considerable agility until shortly before she's rescued from the water. [And yet people *did* survive. Rose herself may be fictional, but that someone can survive after falling into the water and being exposed to the elements for a prolonged period is factual.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
Entry In the scene where Brock is reaching inside the safe to try and find the diamond, the sound of church bells can be heard in the background at various times. [The sound you're describing is so faint, indistinct, and muffled behind dozens of more prominent background noises that it could be the "clang" of any number of things aboard the ship.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
Entry In the scene where Rose cuts the handcuffs to release Jack, scuff marks in the paint are visible on the pipe below,it looks as if she had released him several times already that day. [Or, more likely, the scuffs are there because Jack was moving around, pulling on the handcuffs, and trying to get out of them before Rose caught up to him.]
Entry You can see land behind Thomas Andrews when Rose, Ruth and Cal are touring the ship, very noticeable when he says about the lifeboats "it was thought by some, that the deck would look too cluttered." [Actually if you see very very good, you can see that it is a close up of Victor, and the background image would look distorted and what appears to be land or ice, it's just the thing that the ropes form the funnels are connected to.]
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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
Entry 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.]
Entry 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
Entry 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

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