Titanic

Trivia: In the movie, Molly Brown is sitting in a lifeboat next to Ruth and saying something like "Plenty of room, honey" to Rose. In fact - according to Molly Brown's account of the events - Molly was walking around on deck, urging people to get into lifeboats; a lifeboat was already starting to be lowered when two men grabbed her and threw her into the boat.

Trivia: At the party in steerage, a foreign-speaking man is speaking with Rose and she says "I'm sorry, I can't understand you." The man is Swedish, probably a friend of Sven's, and he's saying to her "Talar fröken svenska?" In English that translates to "Does the miss/lady speak Swedish?" which she obviously doesn't.

Trivia: The emotional scene where Jack and Cal watch Rose getting lowered in the lifeboat is very reminiscent to an emotional scene in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" (1991), where Sarah and John watch The Terminator being lowered into the molten pool. A James Cameron trademark.

Trivia: Director James Cameron has two cameo roles in this film. First, he is just below Lovejoy during the below decks party (with a grey beard), and secondly, he is standing behind Fabrizio on the deck waiting for a lifeboat when Murdoch starts shooting.

Trivia: 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.

Trivia: When the ship is sinking and the water crashes through the big glass dome above the grand staircase, in the first take the water actually broke the staircase off the wall and crashing into the actors who were in the scene.

Trivia: While the set designers duplicated the woodwork detailing of the Titanic, they used "flat-sawn" oak which has a completely different appearance from the more expensive "quarter-sawn" oak used in the Titanic (and virtually all Victorian and Edwardian cabinet work). Check it against archival photos.

Trivia: Kate Winslet badgered and bribed director James Cameron into getting this role the following ways: Once she sent him a rose with a card. Another was when she rang him up while he was driving in his Humvee and tearfully said, 'You don't understand! I am Rose! I don't understand why you're trying out someone else!' She eventually landed the role.

Allister Cooper, 2011

Trivia: During the filming of the sinking, Kate Winslet was the only cast member not allowed to wear a wet suit underneath her dress, due to the fact it would show.

Trivia: Along with playing Spicer Lovejoy in the 1997 film, actor David Warner portrayed actual Titanic passenger Laurence Beasley in the 1979 TV movie "S.O.S. Titanic".

Trivia: Though James Cameron surrendered his director's pay check to make the film the way he wanted, he did retain his writer's fee, which was pretty big by itself.

Allister Cooper, 2011

Trivia: In the movie, the seaman steering Molly Brown's boat says "There'll be one less in this boat if you don't shut that 'ole in your face." As in many items with the movie, the line is authentic. Except 1) it was not said to Molly Brown, 2) it was not said by that seaman, and 3) it was not said in that lifeboat. Check A Night to Remember for the actual circumstances. (In fact, Molly Brown not only wasn't subdued by the loud-mouthed seaman, she faced him down later.)

Trivia: When Kate Winslet found out that she had to be naked in front of Leo, to help break the ice, the first time they met she immediately flashed him.

Trivia: Director James Cameron knew he had found the perfect Jack in Leo DiCaprio when he invited the young actor to his office for an interview and he noticed that all his female staff were present for the meeting. Later on, during rehearsal, Kate Winslet was so impressed with DiCaprio that she said to James, 'Even if you don't hire me, hire him.' The rest, as they say, is history.

Allister Cooper, 2011

Trivia: Despite the highly positive reception of the film, filmmaker Robert Altman (M.A.S.H., The Player) called it "the most dreadful piece of work I have ever seen in my life."

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Suggested correction: Did he mean it for real or said so jokingly?

He meant it. Quoted in an interview with journalist Roger Friedman, Altman made it clear that he hated the film. Had he been joking I doubt if James Cameron would have responded the way he did - "That comes from a guy who only directed TV movies that went nowhere." I don't think either man was having a laugh, do you?

Thanks. This info doesn't sound credible to me. I had to ask because I wanted to make sure.

Trivia: Titanic was the highest grossing film of all time until Avatar surpassed it in 2009. Both films were directed by James Cameron and both won Oscars for Art Direction, Cinematography and Visual Effects.

Trivia: There is no explanation how Spicer Lovejoy received the wound to his head when we see him as the ship breaks apart. This occurred in a deleted scene. When Cal chased Jack and Rose down the stairs shooting at them, originally this was supposed to continue. Cal then handed Lovejoy the gun and told him if he could get the diamond from them he could keep it. Lovejoy then goes after Jack and Rose, finds Rose hiding from him, and is then set upon by Jack, who jumps out at him, smashes his head through a window and roughs him up.

Trivia: When Cal and Rose are arguing on the deck during breakfast, Cal responds to Rose by saying "Yes you are, and my WIFE!" while violently turning over the table. This action was not in the script, so Kate Winslet's reaction is authentic.

Trivia: After being on release for about 3 months, Titanic replaced Star Wars: A New Hope as the movie with the highest ever domestic box office total, ending its run with over $600m.

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Factual error: At the end of the movie, the Straus' are seen lying in each other's arms on their bed with water coming into the cabin under the closed door as the ship is sinking. This is not true, their cabin was on C deck, but his body was found in the following days of the sinking. For his body to get into the open water it would have had to float through a closed door, and up several flights of stairs. Historically, they refused to leave the ship, and were last seen sitting in deck chairs. They were there when the ship sank on the boat deck. Her body was never recovered.

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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.

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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).

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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.

Answer: In addition to the other answers, rats can easily get on ships by climbing the mooring lines that tie vessels to the dock and also go up unattended gangways. They can also use temporary overhead cables attached to ships while in port.

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