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Rose: Mr. Andrews. I saw the iceberg, and I see it in your eyes. Now tell me the truth.

Mr. Andrews: The ship will sink.

Rose: You're certain?

Mr. Andrews: Yes, in an hour, or so, all of this will be at the bottom of the Atlantic.

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When Ruth boards the ship she walks on the plank followed by her maid. Cal and Rose are not seen in the scene. In the next scene Ruth is entering the ship followed by Cal and Rose and then the maid is in view again. See more...

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While "Nearer My God to Thee" is the last song played by the band in the movie, it is still being disputed whether or not this is correct. It seems that some people heard the song from the lifeboats, but there are three versions of "Nearer..." Also some claim it was a song called "L'Automne" a ragtime tune popular at the time. See more...

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Titanic (1997) - 199 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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When Rose is arriving in New York half asleep, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is the same colour as now (green). But if you visit the Statue of Liberty, you'll find a plate telling you that the original color was brown, and it took over 35 years for it to change colour. The Statue of Liberty was placed there in 1886, so in 1912 it should have still been partly brown. [The statue started changing colour in 1902, and by 1906 was completely green, well before Rose's arrival.]
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Just before Jack and Rose return to Cal's room in the scene where Jack is framed for stealing the necklace, Cal says he wants the entire room photographed. Was someone forgetting that this movie is set in 1912, a time when photography was extremely low-key to what it is today? [What does that have to do with anything? Low-key or not, Cal was rich and if he wanted it all photographed, he could get his wish anytime.]
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The ship involved in the rescue, the Carpathia, the nearby ship that failed to respond to Titanic's SOS, the California, and Titanic's sister ship, Britannic were all sunk during WW I. [This is trivia about the events of 1912 and subsequent years, not the film itself. None of the ships mentioned appear in the film.]
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When the ship is leaving Southhampton, there is an underwater shot of all three propellers starting to rotate together. This is incorrect as the middle turbine engine ran of the waste low pressure steam from the outer wing reciprocating engines, thus the outer engines would have to be running for some time before steam was fed to the turbine. The turbine was only used when getting the ship up to full speed, not maneuvering in ports. Also the three props started revolving at 60-70 revolutions per minute, this was a speed that would have given the ship 19 - 21 knots and the ship would have been wrecked in The Solent/Southampton waters if she was lucky with no loss of life. [Correct, the central propeller was powered by a low pressure turbine taking waste steam from the port and starboard reciprocating engines but was not independently controlled. It would be set in motion virtually at the same time as forward gears were engaged. The only difference was the central prop would not engage whilst in reverse gear. Note that this was the first time Titanic was leaving Southampton and the shipping channel is very narrow so under tug power only, maneuvering a ship of that size required ships power to assist, so 60 / 70 revolutions, whilst would propel the ship at around 21 knots in the open sea, maneuvering would require bursts of such revolutions. If you notice, actual history records that Titanic's propellers created sufficiently strong suction that moorings broke on "SS New York" and brought her on a collision course with "Titanic"]
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When Rose is talking to Thomas Andrews, telling him to tell her the truth about what has happened, listen to the voices in the background. At one point in the scene you can hear someone saying "Yes madam, please put it on immediately", then someone laughs. Right at the end of the scene, the same line can be heard in exactly the same tone of voice, followed by the laugh – it's obviously a loop. [There are three very distinct, different laughs in the background. One is a woman's, the second one is multiple people, and the third is a different female. Therefore, it cannot be a loop.]
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When the watchtower guys spot the iceberg, the shot cuts to the bridge and the helmsman. The helmsman is directed to come "hard a starboard" which is to the right, and right into the iceberg. The helmsman, however, is shown steering to port/left despite the original command. [In fact both the command and the helmsman's actions are correct. In 1912, commands were given relative to rudder position, and were, in fact, reversed. This stemmed from the days of non powered vessels, where the tiller would be pushed to the right (starboard) in order to make a port turn. The same is true for Titanic. In order to make a left (port) turn, the front of the rudder would have to point to the starboard (right) side. Although confusing today, this was the correct command in Titanic's day.]
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Several actors/props/areas etc. are well known in this area to be flipped. For example, Billy Zane, who plays "Cal" in this film is right-handed, yet in some areas he uses his left-hand when it's not dominating and natural. (Noticeably, when he is chasing Jack Dawson down the grand stairs, he is holding his gun in his left hand, when it would make more sense to hold his gun in his right hand.) [All of the scenes boarding the Titanic are reversed so that they would only have to build one side of the ship; the starboard side built for the sinking scenes was flipped to become the port side for the launch. The grand staircase shots are not reversed, a book on the making of the movie shows that it is an accurate replica of the original. Although Billy Zane may be right-handed he is, for whatever reason, actually holding the gun in his left hand.]
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Rose is finally rescued from the water by fifth officer Lowe in boat number 14. The night of the sinking, this same boat also rescued the people of another boat half full of water, boat A. And who is in this boat? The infamous Hockley! So in broad daylight, Rose and Cal arrived at the Carpathia, in the same lifeboat, without seeing each other. [After the sinking Lowe assembled and took command of a group of lifeboats and redistributed those that he picked up between them in order to keep his own lifeboat, number 14, relatively light so that he and his crew could hurry to pick up any survivors that they encountered. Rose was simply moved to a different lifeboat prior to Hockley and the other survivors of Collapsible Boat A being picked up.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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