During the scene when the Titanic's engines are reversed as soon as the iceberg is in sight, the stokers close all the dampers to the boilers just before the engines are reversed, why is this?
Titanic (1997) - 47 questions
Directed by James Cameron, starring Bernard Hill, Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio (add more)
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During the scene when the Titanic's engines are reversed as soon as the iceberg is in sight, the stokers close all the dampers to the boilers just before the engines are reversed, why is this?
Did some otherwise fine young ladies like Rose flip the bird back in 1912? [No particular reason why they couldn't if they wanted to. The gesture goes back into antiquity - the origins of the gesture are completely unknown, so they would be aware of it. It certainly wouldn't be the done thing for a well-brought-up young lady to do, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't if the situation appeared to warrant it.]
Answered by Tailkinker
In the scene right after Jack hustles Rose into the Gymnasium, she is at tea with her mother and some other women, looking at a little girl. As she stares, her face and the background seem to turn very luminescent, like a painting. Is it just me, or did they film it in a certain way or do something in post-production to make it look like that? [In the special edition DVD, they actually made a scale model of the room in question and filmed the actors against a green screen. The lighting of the shot didn't match up correctly with the footage of the scale model.]
What does Rose's mother mean when she says that Rose's father left them bad "decks"? [She actually says "Your father left us nothing but a legacy of bad debts hidden by a good name" - bad debts meaning debts he would never be able to pay.]
Answered by Sierra1
Is there ANY chance of them making a film based on the trailer Titanic Two the Surface? It seems like a really good idea for a sequel. [None whatsoever. While the trailer's a clever example of an editing job, the actual concept is absurd to a truly spectacular degree, and would undoubtedly be seen as a completely shameless cash-in on the original, to the extent where even studio executives might well balk at the idea.]
Answered by Tailkinker
Before dinner, when Rose is telling Jack the name of people who are gathered downstairs, she points out a man who has a wife who is Rose's age, and says that his wife is in "delicate condition". If the couple is married, why does the woman want to hide her pregnancy? [Attitudes about women and pregnancy were very different than they are today. For the most part, anything concerning a woman's personal life was usually kept quiet or obliquely referred to, and it was considered ill-mannered to even acknowledge that a woman was expecting or to speak about anything related to sex. This was considered an extremely delicate subject, and therefore off-limits in a conversation.]
Answered by raywest
What religion were the first class passengers practicing in the church scene? If it were Catholic, it would be in Latin in 1912. [The services on board a ship are all non-sectarian so that all who wish to worship can come.]
Answered by Boobra
When Rose comes down the staircase, and Jack kisses her hand, does he say, "I saw that on Nickelodeon once and I always wanted to try it." Why does he say this? [He does NOT say "on Nickelodeon" he says "I saw that on A Nickelodeon". A Nickelodeon was a turn of the century entertainment device where a user, for a nickel, could look through a viewfinder and watch a very should film, usually projected using flip cards.]
Answered by wizard_of_gore
My friend an I have been having an argument. Whose hand hits the car window in the sex scene? [Although Leonardo DiCaprio has some femine looking hands for a guy, this is Rose's hand hitting the window and sliding down. Pay attention to the fingernails, and you will notice it is a woman's hand.]
Answered by Jazetopher
What is so interesting about the number of times that Jack and Rose's names were said in the movie? Is there some meaning behind the numbers? [There's absolutely nothing interesting about it. Probably the only reason that this information appears anywhere is that they do say the names rather a lot - somebody, for reasons unknown, decided to count them.]
Answered by Tailkinker
Is is ever explained why Rose kept the Heart of the Ocean all those years? It doesn't seem probable that she assumed she would have the opportunity to travel to the site of the sinking and throw it back into the water. [It doesn't have to be explained. She probably kept it as a physical memento of a historical event that she was personally involved in. She threw it into the water because she knew she was going to die, and wanted the necklace to be reunited with the ship.]
Answered by wizard_of_gore
How many times were the names Jack and Rose said during the film? [According to IMDB's trivia section, Rose says Jack's name 80 times, whilst Jack says Rose's name 50 times.]
Answered by Lummie
When you see the baker on the ship when it is sinking, he climbs over the railings. Surely when the ship split in half, the force should have knocked him off? [The baker is a real person who was the last live person to be pulled from the water. He was drunk and from his account of what happened he held on with all his might as the ship broke in half and then he rode the ship down, he even said he didn't even get his head wet. Because he was drunk no one knows the real story but the filmmakers put that in there to show his story. So no the force didn't knock him off, it didn’t knock Jack or Rose off either.]
Answered by Disney-Freak
At the end of the movie, when the crew member yells something and waves a green light, what is he saying? Not the scene where he's looking for survivors, the scene right before they reach the Carpathian. [Using my amateur lip-reading skills, it appears as though he is saying "Come on, put your backs into it, men. We've been saved! Row!"]
When Jack is about to begin drawing Rose and he asks if Cal will be back soon, she says, "Not as long as the brandy and cigars hold out." As this was the common sitting room for Cal's suite and Rose's suite, shouldn't they have been more concerned that Rose's mother would walk in and catch them? [That wouldn't have been likely because she was with friends and whenever she got together with them they would talk for a while, also it was still early in the night so she probably doesn't go back to her room till a certain hour.]
Answered by Disney-Freak
How did rats manage to get on board? [During the several years it took to construct the ship probably, or in any of the supplies/food brought on board, or in the furniture brought on board. A single pregnant female rat can be responsible for thousands of rats in a very short space of time (the offspring are not too choosy about who they breed with).]
Were any real artifacts used for the film? [No real artifacts were used but they did use real film taken of the actual ship in the movie.]
Answered by Disney-Freak
Was Rose a real passenger on the ship. I know that there was a crew member called Joseph Dawson but was Rose a real person. If so, how did the real life Rose react to herself on screen? [Both Rose and Jack are entirely fictitious - the similarity of names with the crew member is purely coincidental.]
Answered by Tailkinker
What is the translation of what the man yells at Jack and Rose, when they try to save his kid? [He calls Jack a bastard and an idiot, and then pushes him back and says "Go Away".]
Whatever happened to the little girl that Cal pretends is his daughter (I think) so he can get into the lifeboat? I didn't see her in the lifeboat with Cal in later scenes. [When their boat is about to tip over or get crushed, Cal is trying to save himself. So she either managed to stay in the boat and survived (probably in the care of the woman he handed her to), or was drowned. We don't know for sure, but it seems pretty certain that she was abandoned.]
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