MOVIE FACTS
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Titanic cost more than 200,000,000
dollars to make.
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The producers wanted to cast Demi Moore because they thought Kate Winslet
wasn't sexy enough.
James Cameron said he wanted
kate to do it.
(Personal Opinion: Although
Demi Moore is a great actress,
I would not have liked Titanic
as much with her playing Rose.
Kate Winslet played Rose with
a passion no one else could.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate
Winslet "go better together".)
They also considered Claire
Danes.
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They were going to also cast Chris O'Donnell, Matthew McConaughey or Keanu
Reeves as Jack.
(Decided they were too old)
(Personal Opinion: Once again Leonardo DiCaprio was a much better desision!!)
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Cameron named Rose after his
grandmother, Rose Cameron.
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When you see a shot of the Titanic, it may not all be computer animated.
They built a scale model of the ship and floated it in a 17,000,000 gallon
water tank.
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The carpets(such as in the dining room) were actually made by the same
people that wove the carpets for Titanic.
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When everyone was boarding the ship, all the words (such as on the SOUTHHAMPTON
truck) were mirror image in real life.
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In the dolphins scene... the dolpins were real, the ship was not.
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When Rose and Jack were "flying", the sunset was actually real!
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When Jack was drawing the picture of rose, it was actually James Cameron's
hand.
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They
taped most water scenes in tanks, and the water wasn't too cold. When the
ship was going down it was about 50 degrees, and when they were in the
water it was about
80 degrees.
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They used a rubber ax Rose to cut Jack's handcuffs off.
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In the cold outdoor scenes, computers added breath so it would look as
it did the night Titanic really went down.
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They
had to redo the scene where Rose spits in Cal's face around 27 times!
This scene was one that Kate Winslet herself thought up. Good for you Kate!
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When the ship was at a 90 degree angle they used a smaller portion build
just for that scene.
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It took 9 months to shoot
the movie.
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Kate Winslet almost drowned
while filming the movie. Her coat got caught in the scene where her and
Leo are trapped behind the locked gate as the water rushes over them.
She says "I had to shimmy out
of the coat to get free. I had not breath left, I thought I'd burst."
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While running on the wet plan
(it was cut from the movie), Leo slipped and slammed into a horse and fell
underneath it. The horse got scared andmoved back and fell to the ground,
Leo rolled away from under it at the last second.
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The day that the scene with
Rose on the floating board and Jack in the water was shot on Kate's birthday.
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James Cameron was in the film,
he was the guy getting his beard checked for lice in the beginning.
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Kate Winslet wanted to break
the ice before shooting the
scene where Leo was 'drawing' her naked on the couch,
so she flashed him just before
they got started.
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During the third class dancing scenes, little Cora is holding a doll. The
doll is an exact match to the doll face scene in
the beginning of the movie as the ROV lights drift slowly
across the Titanic wreckage.
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