Corrected entry: When Cal finds the drawing of Rose, he is angry and scrunches it up. It doesn't make sense that he or somebody else would then smooth out the wrinkles and carefully put it back in the folder and into the safe, where it would be found years later. I also find it hard to believe that it would have stayed in such good condition after 80 odd years in the water.
Corrected entry: When the seamen in the "rescue" lifeboat are shouting for survivors, there is a distinct echo of his call. What does the echo come off? There are no reflective surfaces on a flat ocean.
Correction: It's possible the echo came off the iceberg. I doubt any good filmmaker would have unwanted echoes on a soundstage.
Corrected entry: When Cal shoots at Jack and Rose as they run down the grand staircase, the bullet hits the Cherub on the railing and it goes to pieces. In actual fact, the cherub is preserved to date.
Correction: One: That wasn't the cherub that was hit with a bullet. Two: The Titanic had two cherubs; one in the forward first class entrance and another in the rear first class entrance.
Corrected entry: As the boat is flooding and Jack and Rose are almost completely submerged in water, sometimes you can see that Rose's dress is cut knee-length to help her move more efficiently in water. One prime example of this is when Jack plunges underwater to get the keys to the gate in front of them.
Correction: Rose's dress is not knee length, it is just that as it is made of chiffon or some other very light and flimsy fabric, it has gathered up aover her knees as she is running through the water.
Corrected entry: Leo freezes and sinks into the ocean from the door. This wouldn't happen. Partially or even totally frozen human bodies float in water. Even fully-clothed frozen bodies have been shown to float.
Correction: The body would sink because of the lack of air, but when it decomposes it would float back up.
Corrected entry: Rose's hand sticks to Jack's hand at the end because of how cold it is, so why didn't other things stick, like the whistle to the man's mouth or Rose to the wood or Jack to the wood or Jacks cuffs to his wrist?
Corrected entry: The fat guy of the boat's crew wears a black smile t-shirt at the beginning of old Rose's narration, later he wears a white one with a flag on it.
Correction: Everyone's wearing different clothes at this point - there was a present day scene showing the narration ending and continuing on a different day, but it was cut out of the finished film.
Corrected entry: When Jack hands Rose the note saying "Make it count, Meet me at the clock" rose isn't wearing gloves. Then when she gets there she's wearing white gloves.
Corrected entry: The wreckage in the movie is really the actual Titanic wreck, not any special effects. Director James Cameron cried when he went down to see it.
Correction: Not all the shots are real - some were created specifically for the film.
Corrected entry: When the ship is sinking, where are all the dogs? In the beginning they showed at least twenty dogs, but you never see them while the ship is sinking.
Correction: Apparently the original film included the fate of the dogs, but that part had to be left on the cutting room floor due to time limitations.
Corrected entry: Early in the movie old Rose states that she only wore the diamond necklace "this once" (when Jack draws her picture). Later in the movie Cal is shown helping her put it on when giving it to her. That's twice.
Correction: If you look at the scene where Cal is putting the necklace on the "young" Rose, he does not actually fasten it, which technically would mean that when the "old" Rose states that she wore it only that once, she is correct. With Cal it was just held up to her.
Corrected entry: When Jack is trying to convince Rose not to jump by describing how cold the water is to her, he rests his right arm on the rail of the ship, saying "I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there, it hits you like a thousand knives...." Then in the next shot, when he begins with, "Which is why I'm not looking forward to jumping in there after you", he's resting on his left arm.
Correction: He could have moved between shots, but shifting your weight completely from one side to the other can't happen very quickly.
Corrected entry: How in the heck did Jack's CHARCOAL drawing of Rose survive water-logged all those years? He didn't spray on a sealer.
Correction: There is currently an exhibit of Titanic artifacts in Seattle with, among other things, paper money and even a letter written in pencil that were recovered from the ship in very good shape. So, impossible as it may seem, the drawing could very well have survived.
Corrected entry: The lifejackets in the movie have the wrong number of cork pieces. In real life each side had six pieces but in the movie there are twelve. (02:37:00)
Corrected entry: When the water pressure implodes the grand staircase's glass dome, the camera looks down at the boat deck windows, which are completely smashed. Yet when this is looked at closely, you can see the outside deck. Wouldn't that all be under water? (02:28:50)
Correction: Actually this mistake is accurate. In order for the dome to have imploded, the entire structure needed to be submerged, which it wasn't. While the movie implies it was, right before this scene the first funnel collapses and you can see the structure that housed the dome of the grand staircase still above water. You can also tell that the water hasn't completely overtaken the deck windows yet.
Corrected entry: While the ship is sinking, it is night time and so all outside scenes are dark. However, when the film cuts inside to the grand staircase, the glass ceiling shows that it is daytime.
Correction: The glass dome was, in fact, lit from the back at night time.
Corrected entry: In 1912, it would have been highly unlikely that Rose would have been able to get into and out of a dress in an automobile to have sex. She would have had multiple pieces of underclothes (corset, chemise, etc) that all would have come off as well as her dress. Then, suddenly she's dressed again and they're running away. And no, she would not have been able to leave those things behind as her dress would have been fitted for her corset. I have worn them before for costume purposes and authentic corsets take time to get them on and off.
Correction: We don't know what the dress was actually used for, it could have been for lounging around without a corset or something like that. Therefore we cannot determine whether she needed a corset and whether she wore one during these scenes. As for her underclothes, the chemise and drawers she would have been wearing wouldn't take too long to take off.
Corrected entry: In the scene of the nude drawing, there is no maid. In high-society 1912, Rose would have needed one to remove her corset and her dress. She could not have done this on her own and she certainly would have needed help getting back into it when he finished the drawing. You see her earlier with her maid, Trudy, lacing up her stays. Rose could not have gone without her corset because all her dresses would have been measured and cut with it on. (01:22:25)
Correction: Rose could, in fact, have removed her own corset, because corsets have closures in the front as well as lacings up the back. And I can certainly remove my own formal dresses that fasten up the back, so I'd hope that she could have as well. As for getting it back on, I'm sure Jack would have been more than willing to lend a hand. Also, the dress she changes into is the blue lounge dress that likely wouldn't have needed a corset.
Not completely true. Corsets were so tight that women couldn't open their own dresses, even less the strings to their corsets. We see this in a deleted scene, before Rose attempts to jump off the ship that she can't open her dress, calling for her maid. So without Jack's help she wouldn't've been able to undress.
Corrected entry: Pay close attention to the scene as Rose gets out of the car and says, "So this is the ship they say is unsinkable?" Cal (behind her) immediately says, "this ship is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship." Right after Cal says the word "ship", his lips continue moving as if talking and further elaborating on the subject, but we hear no words come out.
Correction: I checked and he immediately turned to talk to someone else, he does not move his lips other than to talk to the man after he turns his head.
Corrected entry: When Jack gets handcuffed the master of arms says 'over here, son', the way he addressed him since the diamond was found in his pocket. The subtitles read 'over here, sir'. He surely wouldn't call a third-class delinquent 'sir'. (01:47:50)
Correction: Firstly, the subtitles are correct. Secondly, as a member of the ship's crew, he would have been trained to be polite to passengers regardless of their social class.
Correction: Cal crumples up the note Rose left him with the picture, not the picture itself. And you would be amazed at the things they have recovered that are in almost perfect condition, journals, letters, etc. So it is not so far fetched - this is was another well preserved artifact.
Bruce Minnick