At the end of editing, when Cameron delivered a three-hour-long cut of Titanic to Fox, the studio even requested the director to recut it into a shorter version. As a result, Cameron had to give away part of his profit shares to ensure the movie would be released as he intended.
And now, with the movie available on Netflix, you can watch the entire three hours without changing your VHS — trust me, kids, this was a real thing; a single VHS couldn't fit the whole movie. Titanic is coming to Netflix on October 1, right after Halloween month begins. So, when your loved one is tired of getting scared, and you're looking for something to warm your hearts while fall makes the temperature drop, Titanic will be right there to make you feel like the king of the world.
The staircase is not technically accurate, being slightly larger in the film than it was in real life. This is because people in were a bit taller than in so they would have looked out of place on a staircase that fit the correct dimensions. For the safety of the stuntmen, most of the props were made of foam rubber. Only the starboard side of the exterior set was completed. In the scenes portraying the ship at the Southampton dock, all shots were reversed to give the appearance of the port side of the ship, as it was actually docked in This required the painstaking construction of reversed costumes and signage to complete the illusion, which was achieved by reversing the image in post-production.
One cast member joked, "I wasn't dyslexic before starting this show. I am now. In this scene you can see workers shoving in coal, and about 20 feet down the room you can see the mirror image of the workers. This is a trick that production designer Peter Lamont had done on a previous James Cameron film, Aliens , during the scene aboard the Sulaco to make four hypersleep chambers look like twelve.
Many cast and crew members came down with colds, flu, or kidney infections after spending hours in cold water, including Kate Winslet. Some crew members started out wearing hip waders, but after several incidents where these accidentally filled with water, they quickly switched to wetsuits. Several people left, three stuntmen broke their bones, and both cast and crew got exhausted from all the peril and long days of shooting. Both Winslet and James Cameron admitted that they often woke up on shooting days thinking "Please, God, let me die".
DiCaprio threw out a shoulder, and Barry caught himself in the chin with the bench. The opening was originally going to be an Irishman painting the word 'Titanic'. During that same scene, it is not, as believed by some, a real film from her departure in James Cameron wanted to use actual footage, but at the time there was none. So he attempted to create what he thought took place. However after the movie was released, some actual footage was discovered. I am Rose!
I don't know why you're even seeing anyone else! He noted that initial compliments over the raw footage became more sparing over time as the costs spiraled out of control, and the studio heads at 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures "acted like they'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer" as the release date drew near.
At one point, he ran into Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch , and told him "I guess that I'm not your most favorite person in the world, but the movie is going to be good".
Murdoch simply replied "It better be a damn sight better than 'good'. He spent five years doing research on the Titanic and its fate. Joughin was one of few to survive the freezing water, allegedly due to the alcohol but this is disputed as unlikely since alcohol is known to accelerate hypothermia, not to help resist cold. The scene was added after Liam showed the flask to James Cameron explaining that it was a family heirloom as old as the Titanic itself.
Robert De Niro was offered the role of Captain Smith but turned it down due to a gastrointestinal infection at the time. In a recently-completed investigation by Tim Maltin , he reveals that the reason the iceberg was not seen was due to a "cold water mirage. The multiple layers of cold and warm air cloaked the iceberg. Normally the iceberg could have been seen as far as 12 miles, giving Titanic 30 minutes to avoid.
This also explains why the Californian failed to receive the distress message "Come at once; we are sinking" that crew on Titanic signaled with Morse lamps.
If you were to read his lips, you can tell he is saying "Come on, put your backs into it, men. We've been saved! A scene was storyboarded in which Rose was to walk off the Carpathia and disappear into the crowds. Since the budget had run so high, however, James Cameron had to cut this scene due to the expense of having almost 1, extras brought to New York to film just 30 seconds.
In , Entertainment Weekly reported that when the movie was re-released in 3D, James Cameron didn't update any effects or fix any errors except one. When astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson , director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, first saw the movie in its original theatrical release, he noticed that the configuration of stars in the night sky during Rose's night in the water bore no resemblance to what the sky really looked like over that place on that night and, in fact, the same incorrect set of stars had just been duplicated in post-production.
Tyson wrote a letter to Cameron explaining the error; several years later, upon meeting Cameron in person, Tyson repeated his complaint; and then at an event that occurred at the Hayden Planetarium, Tyson spoke about it to Cameron a third time. Finally, a post-production technician working on the re-release called Tyson and asked him to provide a picture of what the sky really would have looked like, and Tyson's star image was used to fix that shot. Before the shot was fixed, the stars were arranged to look like the Heart of the Ocean necklace.
As a joke in the edit suite, James Cameron had a razor blade with a label that said "Use only if movie doesn't work. In the original script, after Jack, Fabrizio and Tommy break down the locked gate, Rose steps through the wreckage, threatens the steward to get him fired, and orders him to escort the steerage passengers to the boat deck immediately.
As filming progressed, James Cameron became impressed with Jason Barry 's performance in a relatively small role and wanted to give him a stronger scene. With Kate Winslet 's blessing, Cameron changed the gate breakdown scene to give Tommy the last word instead of Rose. Tickets to the showing were presented to the audience at the Jodie Foster movie Contact on its July 11 opening night. Because "Titanic" had been receiving considerable industry buzz most of it bad, due in part to budget concerns , and not wanting to have press at the test showing, ticket recipients were told that they would be seeing an early version of Great Expectations , starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.
At the test screening, James Cameron and others were in attendance, but the theater maintained the ruse by not mentioning the movie by name, only referring to it as "the movie you are about to see", etc.
When the movie started, Cameron anxiously noted that the audience was completely silent for the first 10 minutes, but he later learned that this was because they thought they were only getting to see a new trailer for "Titanic", not yet realizing they were watching the whole movie; when the film transitioned to the scenes, there was a collective response of joy.
Film personnel collected feedback in many ways--including handwritten surveys, post-film interviews, and even stationing personnel in the lobbies and restrooms to listen in on guests' conversations. Gloria Stuart who was 87 at the time of the film's release, lived to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its release at age She became a real-life centenarian on July 4th, She said about it, "I wish I could say, 'Oh listen, everybody!
It's the Celine Dion song! I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll It haunts me. Lindsay Lohan auditioned for the role of Cora Cartmell. Lohan, who was then an unknown and was only 8 years old at the time casting took place, was the top choice for the role. However, James Cameron felt that Lohan's fiery red hair would confuse people into thinking she was related to the characters Rose and Ruth, who both had fiery red hair.
Alex Owens-Sarno was cast instead. Kate Winslet had a few simple rules for Leonardo DiCaprio concerning their kissing scenes: no coffee, no onions, no garlic and no smoking prior to shooting. DiCaprio agreed, but would then proceed to do exactly all those things on purpose. Winslet affectionately nicknamed him "Stinky Leo" on set. In addition, he would occasionally slip his tongue in during their kissing scenes, just to make her laugh.
The original release date was July 25, When Harrison Ford whose upcoming film Air Force One was scheduled to be released on the same day found out, he demanded that Paramount Pictures push the release date to a different time. The studio agreed, having distributed many successful films of Ford's and worrying that he would never do another film for them again.
Ford may have had a point, because Titanic was subsequently released on the same date as Kevin Costner 's The Postman , which became a massive box office bomb. When he couldn't find an actor to play the part, he went to Abernathy and asked, essentially, if he would play himself. Abernathy replied, "If you want to fuck up your movie by casting me, buddy, alright.
Composer James Horner said in an interview that after he first saw a rough version of the film he went home and wrote all the themes in 20 minutes. At the time of filming, it was believed that the ship broke into two pieces as shown in the CGI animation at the beginning of the film , but as of , it is now known that the ship broke into three pieces, the famous bow section, the imploded and crumpled stern section, and the middle, double-hull of the ship, which had planed away and accounts for approximately ' of her total ' of length and sits far from the wreckage, near the outer rim of the debris field.
James Cameron acknowledges this error, but defends his description of the sinking in the film due to the fact that the mid-section was simply not known about at the time. As such, the film is retrospectively historically inaccurate. After filming, the remains of the full-size set were sold as scrap metal. Even though the actors wore waterproof makeup for the scenes shot in the aftermath of the sinking, they constantly required touch-ups, as chemicals in the pool they shot in would wash the makeup off.
I can't believe you're betting our tickets! What the hell are we gonna do?! I'm gonna kill you! They were originally booked by J. Morgan , but he canceled before the ship sailed. It was said that Bruce Ismay booked the rooms following Morgan's cancellation, but this was never proven. James Cameron originally wanted Enya to compose the score for the film and even went so far as to assemble a rough edit using her music. When Enya declined, Cameron hired James Horner who had composed the music for Cameron's previous film Aliens to write the score.
Horner stated that the tensions with Cameron were so high during post-production of "Aliens" that he assumed he and Cameron would never work together again.
However, Cameron was so impressed with Horner's score from Braveheart that he contacted Horner, who was willing to forget the past. According to some accounts, Horner independently decided the film's score should be done in Enya's style. As a result, several pieces of the score sound very similar to some well-known Enya songs, in particular her theme song for Far and Away Book of Days. In all of recorded maritime history, no ship ever had a sideswipe collision with an iceberg like Titanic suffered.
And no ship has had such an accident since. The force of the blow was likened to a C4 explosion something most modern ships would struggle to survive.
However, it was overtaken by James Cameron ''s Avatar Andrews Victor Garber angrily notes to Officer Lightoller Jonny Phillips that he saw a lifeboat leave with only 12 people aboard, while it could theoretically hold 60 people. This is probably based on a real-life account of a surviving passenger to Walter Lord , who wrote the book "A Night To Remember", where he mentioned that some of the officers ignored the "women and children first" rule. As a result, lifeboat 1 was boarded by Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon and his wife portrayed in the movie by Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres , her secretary, and two other first-class men, for a total of only 12 passengers.
By the time the movie was made, River Phoenix had died and Leonardo DiCaprio had reached the perfect age. When Johnny Depp was offered the role of Jack, he turned it down.
The second film to win a total of 11 Academy Awards, and thereby tie with the previous record holder, Ben-Hur The detached stern section of the full-size set was moved onto a separate tilting platform which would allow it to be rapidly turned vertical for the final phase of sinking.
There were 10 takes, each requiring stunt players to fall from or along the set while 1, extras were attached to the railings by safety harnesses. James Cameron got production designer Peter Lamont , with whom he had worked on Aliens and True Lies , out of retirement to work on the film.
All the artifacts were created from scratch by Lamont's team to recreate the newness of everything on the ship. Pictures from the RMS Olympic, Titanic's identical sister ship, were used for reference since very few photos of Titanic still exist. At one point, Lamont had four separate art departments working on the film.
Due to enormous budget overruns, 20th Century Fox executives suggested an hour of specific cuts from the three-hour film. They argued the extended length would mean fewer showings, thus less money, even though long epics are more likely to help directors win Oscars. James Cameron refused, telling Fox, "You want to cut my movie? You're going to have to fire me! You want to fire me? You're going to have to kill me! One executive who suggested that he also forfeit half his share of his next movie was angrily dismissed from Cameron's house.
Amidst all the doubt, Cameron credits Sherry Lansing , head of co-producer Paramount at the time, for her continued support for the movie, even when no one else seemed to believe in it anymore. Cameron even screened a rough version of the film for Lansing on a small monitor at his own home, and her approval and helpful feedback were a turning point for him, confirming that he was on the right track with the movie, and that the three-hour running time was justified.
Finally, all doubts held by the studios proved to be moot when the movie returned a giant profit by staying at the top of the box office for weeks, and held the record of highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years until it was beaten by Cameron's own Avatar Despite the huge profit, the studio initially tried to deny Cameron his back-end salary, but since they had rejected his forfeit offer, they were legally obliged to pay him an undisclosed sum.
The character of Rose is partially based on California artist Beatrice Wood , who died in at the age of Both films were directed by James Cameron. The man in white, next to Rose and Jack, clutching the railing as the ship went vertical before it finally sank was a real person.
He was the Chief Baker for the ship named Charles Joughin. He survived and has one of the most notable survival stories. He was able to stay alive in the water for an extraordinarily long time, a couple hours, treading water and clutching to debris.
At daybreak he finally saw a lifeboat Collapsible B and swam to it. But it was partially filled with water and there was no room for him. He swam to that and was pulled in. The only damage he suffered was swollen feet. This was the second time he had survived a shipwreck, also being in aboard the SS Oregon in which also only had enough lifeboats for half the people on board.
He died in James Cameron wrote the film as a four hour epic. It was cut down to three hours. James Cameron decided not to show the portrait as he thought the audience would imagine something better. In it became the first film since to win the Oscar for Best Picture but not be nominated for its screenplay the previous film to hold this "honor" was The Sound of Music As of , it remains the most recent Best Picture winner to not receive a screenwriting nomination.
Kate Winslet had to learn how to scuba dive in preparation for her scenes in the water. After sampling it, Jonathan Hyde said he "made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater. James Cameron supervised all of the underwater shots of the Titanic himself. Most of the decor on the ship was either reconstructed by or under the supervision of researchers of the White Star Line, the original company which constructed and furnished the Titanic.
Leonardo DiCaprio was initially not convinced about playing Jack, thinking the part to be "a bit light". James Cameron convinced him that this would be the real challenge: to play Jack as a normal person, without looking for something safe to cling to, like exaggerated emotions or an impairment. This required the aid of a second studio to cope with the costs. Universal Pictures was in the running for a long time, but ultimately passed.
This was the full extent of Paramount's contribution, meaning that Fox was still responsible for all future budget overruns of which there were many , and it would have undoubtedly meant the end of the studio if the film had not been so successful. James Cameron met his fifth wife, Suzy Amis , on the set of this film. He was technically still married to Linda Hamilton but they had been living apart for some time.
Of all his marriages, the one with Amis has lasted the longest. In real life he did the same thing. And in later interviews he "couldn't bear the sight of the Titanic sinking" in the movie, he indeed averts his eyes from the sinking ship.
After the Titanic disaster he kept a low profile. On October 17th, , J. Bruce Ismay died of a stroke and is buried at Putney Vale London cemetery. To sink the Grand Staircase into the purpose-built 5 million gallon tank, 90, gallons of water were dumped through it as it was lowered into the tank.
Such was the volume that the staircase was ripped from its steel-reinforced foundations. This is possibly what really happened to the Grand Staircase during the sinking in When the wreck was searched following its discovery in , nothing remained of the staircase.
Paul Rudd auditioned for the lead male role because his own father had been an avid Titanic historian. Despite his being able to reel off factual technical stats about the great ship, the casting team remained unimpressed.
Before announcing development of this film, director James Cameron boarded the Russian research ship 'Keldysh' that was going off the coast of Nova Scotia under the pretense of shooting footage of icebergs for a film titled "Planet Ice"; in reality, he was making dives to the real Titanic.
All was done in extreme secrecy, with only a few studio executives and the crew members of the ship being aware of the famous director's mission.
Shay Duffin , who played the pubkeeper in England, is related to one of the original Irish workers who built the Titanic. James Cameron 's regular Michael Biehn was nearly cast as Cal Hockley and attended numerous meetings with Cameron to discuss the role. The first movie in history to gross a billion dollars. Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were overwhelmed and unaware of the significance of the box-office records, and DiCaprio said: "A billion dollars?
So, that's good? After doing multiple takes, Leonardo DiCaprio persuaded James Cameron for one more take "for the actors. Daniel Marvin died aboard the Titanic, but not without photographing some of the only existing film of the liner.
The Marvins were actually featured characters in S. Titanic which also starred David Warner Lovejoy. Reba McEntire was offered and had accepted the role of Molly Brown, but due to later schedule conflicts, had to turn it down. The deep-sea camera held only 12 minutes' worth of film, but each dive to the real Titanic took about 11 hours to get there.
The Russian sub operators would walk around the model ship holding model subs in their hands as Cameron explained the shots he wanted. During the sinking of the actual Titanic, there was concern that the davits might not be strong enough to lower the boats fully loaded, although they had in fact been tested under such a weight.
The davits in the film, which can be seen flexing under the weight, were made under the same dimensions as originally designed by the White Star Line. La La Land is the only out of the three films to not win Best Picture. A number of scenes are arranged and in some cases scripted almost identically to similar sequences in A Night to Remember This is particularly true of these scenes: Thomas Andrews telling Capt.
Smith the sinking is "a mathematical certainty". The Titanic's band preparing to depart at the end, only to turn around and regroup as Hartley begins playing "Nearer My God to Thee" by himself though a different version of the song is used in the film. A shot of Ismay in a lifeboat as the Titanic sinks behind him. Thomas Andrews looking at a painting as Titanic prepares to sink. Andrews encountering a man by the Grand Staircase and telling him the ship is doomed in this film, he tells Rose.
Jack Dawson is depicted as both one of the last passengers to board the Titanic as well as one of the last people to go into the ocean when the ship finally sinks. After the ship breaks in half, the bow section sinks rapidly.
To film this, the full-size set was in fact divided into sections, but the bow section would not sink fast enough, due to its own buoyancy and the narrow clearance between it and the tank. James Cameron observed that once "God's 10,, kW light" had risen they would have to wait until the next night, and suggested sinking the set, letting the air space between the two decks fill with water, then raising the set again and quickly sinking it before the water ran out.
This worked. The scale model of the under water wrecked ship was on display in the Titanic museum in Branson, MO for a number of years. In August , it was removed, taken back to Hollywood, and used to film the new Titanic 3-D movie. Was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in for being "culturally historically and aesthetically significant".
This is in tribute to the 12 confirmed dogs on the Titanic. Only three pets survived: two Pomeranians and one Pekinese which, due to their small size, were smuggled onto lifeboats. The crew felt that James Cameron had an evil alter ego, and nicknamed him "Mij" Jim spelt backwards. Despite his distinguished record he would be decorated twice for valor in combat , he would never command a merchant vessel for White Star or any other shipping line. After leaving merchant service, he owned a small motor yacht for much of the rest of his life.
His was one of the many private citizens who helped in the evacuation of British and Allied forces from Dunkirk, France; he and his two sons would be credited for evacuating approximately Allied personnel in the dangerously overloaded vessel. Fay Wray was originally offered the role of the older Rose but turned it down, saying, "I think to have done this film would have been a tortuous experience altogether". Hollywood legend Ann Rutherford also turned it down.
According to James Cameron , Fox was initially dubious when he pitched the film. Sure, that's just what we want. Is there a little bit of Terminator in that?
Any Harrier jets, shoot-outs, or car chases? It's not like that. The "full-size" ship exterior set was constructed in a brand-new tank on a beach south of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico.
Construction started on the 85th anniversary of the real Titanic's launch - May 31, see also A Night to Remember The set was oriented to face into the prevailing wind so that the smoke from the funnels would blow the right way. Since the studio was also newly built, sets were often constructed at the same time as the studio building around them. Some of the sets were so big that crew members often got lost in them, necessitating the implementation of a zone system so they could find their way back.
Papers released by the Public Records Office in showed that third class passengers were not locked below decks. The first film James Cameron ever directed that did not include or mention nuclear weapons. The "ale" in the below decks party was actually root beer. One of the Irish passengers, Patrick A. O'Keefe, was a young man who boarded the Titanic when he was 21 years of age.
Just days before he entered the Titanic, he had horrific dreams of the ship sinking and nearly canceled his ticket.
However he decided to board on the ship anyway. Once the Titanic was sinking, he managed to survive on the "collapsible B" life raft. He died in in Manhattan from unknown causes at the age of They got the idea from an old photograph taken by Brassai called "Bijou". Gloria Stuart Old Rose was actually alive when the real Titanic sank. She was 1 year and 9 months old at the time. The climactic scene, which features the breakup of the ship directly before it sinks, as well as its final plunge to the bottom of the Atlantic, involved a tilting full-sized set, extras and stunt performers.
James Cameron criticized previous Titanic films for depicting the final plunge of the liner as sliding gracefully underwater. He "wanted to depict it as the terrifyingly chaotic event that it really was". When carrying out the sequence, people needed to fall off the increasingly tilting deck, plunging hundreds of feet below and bouncing off of railings and propellers on the way down.
Even though the sequence had been rehearsed for weeks, stunt performers were suspended by harnesses and wires and the set had been coated with foam rubber, the actual filming of the scene resulted in one stunt man breaking a leg, and one stunt women fracturing a rib.
Cameron halted the more dangerous stunts, and inquired with special effects supervisor Robert Legato if computer-generated people could be used for the more dangerous falls. Legato acknowledged, even though he was still in the initial stages of employing this technique.
It finally paid off, although the amount of digital stunt people was purposely limited due to the fact that they didn't always hold up to close scrutiny clothing textures and faces still looked a bit fake. The shot of Titanic's final moments was featured prominently in the trailer, and Cameron later commented that "that shot alone got our opening weekend audience. James Horner additionally wrote the song "My Heart Will Go On" in secret with Will Jennings , because James Cameron did not want any songs with singing in such a dramatic film which he likened to "ending Schindler's List with a song".
Horner waited until Cameron was in an appropriate mood before presenting him with the song. He liked it during the first playback, and after playing it several times, Cameron declared his approval, although worried that he would be criticized for "going commercial at the end of the movie". Cameron also wanted to appease anxious studio executives and "saw that a hit song from his movie could only be a positive factor in guaranteeing its completion". There was one "crucial historical fact" James Cameron chose to omit from the film - the ship that was close to the Titanic, but had turned off its radio for the night and did not hear their SOS calls.
That wasn't a compromise to mainstream filmmaking. That was really more about emphasis, creating an emotional truth to the film," stated Cameron. He said there were aspects of retelling the sinking that seemed important in pre and post-production, but turned out to be less important as the film evolved. It was a clean cut, because it focuses you back onto that world. If Titanic is powerful as a metaphor, as a microcosm, for the end of the world in a sense, then that world must be self-contained.
Jack and Rose officially meet on Friday evening, April 12, The chemistry between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is widely regarded as the most believable and palpable in film history. DiCaprio said that their bond was "instantaneous" from the second they met, and occurred so naturally that they didn't have to work on it at all.
The name of the character Caledon Hockley derives from two small towns Caledon and Hockley near Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, where James Cameron 's aunt and uncle live. When asked about her sex scene in the car with Leonardo DiCaprio , Kate Winslet said: "We'd do the most ridiculous things to each other.
He'd be tickling me, groping me, winding me up. And I'd be doing the same thing back, sort of grabbing his bum. Their friendship even brought them together to film another movie, Revolutionary Road To create the drawing of Rose, James Cameron had a photo session with Kate Winslet and took photographs of her sitting in different positions so he could use as reference. Cameron and Winslet didn't know each other well enough at that time for her to pose nude for him, so she posed in a bikini.
Cameron had to use his imagination to draw her nude. The wreck of the real Titanic was discovered in by ocean explorer Robert Ballard. Ballard was officially on a mission to locate the Titanic, but in reality, he had been secretly charged by the US Navy to locate two missing American nuclear submarines with his deep sea robot craft, before they could be found by the Sovjets. After quickly finding the subs, Ballard used the remaining time and resources in a successful search for the Titanic.
Ironically, this closely mirrors the premise of The Abyss , one of James Cameron 's previous movies. Cameron stated that he was inspired to make The Abyss after seeing a National Geographic film about remote operated vehicles working deep in the North Atlantic Ocean, much the same tools used by Ballard. Cameron's love for deep sea diving which he developed during the making of The Abyss, coupled with his fascination for shipwrecks, finally culminated in the making of Titanic.
The completed film ignores the freighter Californian, which had stopped for the night due to the ice hazard and was within sight of the Titanic throughout the sinking the Californian's warning had been received and sent to the bridge but was not placed in the chartroom. An early version of the script included a scene on the Californian, but James Cameron cut out the subplot after filming it to shorten running time.
The Polka is the official state dance of Wisconsin, where Jack is from. Long shots showing the whole ship's exterior were produced by Digital Domain. For one scene, James Cameron instructed them to "imagine we're making a commercial for White Star Lines and we need beautiful shots sweeping around the ship from a helicopter. The shooting schedule was originally planned to be days, but grew to - 20 days short of 6 months.
Early in production, this film's brief "decoy" working title was "Planet Ice". James Cameron was unsure how to block the scene so that they would be close to each other, so he suggested that he say something else in addition to his line. Michael Ensign then ad-libbed "But we would like a brandy! As is the case with many 20th Century Fox films, the film cans for the advance screening and show prints had a code name. Titanic's was "Baby's Day Out 2.
The set was constructed specifically for the film, as no studio was large enough at the time to encompass the almost full-scale replication of the ship.
James Cameron actually brought a large model of the Titanic and moved it around the acre lot of recently acquired land to determine which place would have the best natural lighting conditions. When he finally found his preferred spot, he was told that that particular piece of land was not part of the lot. He simply replied "Then we'll need to buy this too". In one of the deleted scenes, Brock's manager Bobby tells him that they're over-budget, the partners depending on them are pissed, and that they're in serious danger of getting shut down.
James Cameron later noted that when he was writing this, he had no idea he would be hearing all these things when the production ran into problems.
Kate Winslet was 21 during the production of Titanic, though her character Rose was only Leonardo DiCaprio was 22 at the time of filming. The filming schedule was intended to last days but grew to Titanic was a bridge between the old-school blockbuster a moderate opening weekend and weeks-upon weeks of huge box office fueled by word of mouth and the new-school global hit an expanded overseas marketplace and cutting-edge CGI.
I imagine that we will never see another movie perform like Titanic did two decades ago, both in terms of longevity and total tickets sold to domestic moviegoers.
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