Factual error: The lake that Jack told Rose he went ice fishing on when she was threatening to jump is Lake Wissota, a man-made lake in Wisconsin near Chippewa Falls (where Jack grew up). The lake was only filled with water in 1918 when a power company built a dam on the Chippewa River, six years after the Titanic sank. (00:39:05)

Titanic (1997)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill
Rose frees Jack from his chains with an axe. They both manage to find a boat but only Rose is allowed on, with persuasion from Jack and Cal. However, she can't leave Jack and jumps off the boat back to Titanic. Jack and Rose are then both chased by Cal shooting at them with his manservants gun. They barely escape. After a few narrow escapes from the water they get back to the top deck and find their way to the stern of the ship, where they ride the ship down. They both manage to fight the ships suction and get to the surface. Jack finds a wooden door and knows it is Rose's best chance. He stays in the water whilst she is on the door making her promise to never let go, to survive. She promises. One boat turns back out of the twenty nearby and rescues Rose as Jack has now frozen to death. Rose whispers that she will never let go as she lets him sink. The story then ends with the hunters saying there were never records of Jack. Rose then reveals to the audience that she had the diamond all along as it had been in the pocket of a coat Cal (who had shot himself in 1929, 17 years later) had put on her. She throws it overboard to the Titanic and Jack. She then dies in her bed, surrounded with pictures of her wonderful life, including riding horseback and riding on the rollercoaster, like Jack had told her. We are left with an image of her rejoining Jack and all the others who died on the deck of the Titanic.
Cal Hockley: You're going to him? To be a whore to a gutter rat?!
Rose: I'd rather be his whore than your wife.
Trivia: Gloria Stuart was the oldest person ever to receive an Oscar nomination for her role in "Titanic". At 87, she was also the only person on the set who was alive at the time of the real "Titanic" disaster.
Question: How did rats manage to get on board?
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Chosen answer: 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).
Soylent Purple
A pregnant female rat could have made a home in a underneath a third class couch and had the other rats then all the females would have baby rats quickly.