Submitted anonymously: The spitting scene that
was done was not in the original screenplay. The idea was ALL Kate's!
Plus, they had to shoot the scene 27 times!! Poor Billy!! Anyway,
towards the end of it they put KY on Kate's tongue to keep her mouth wet.
I'm sure it was getting a bit dry after 27 times!
Danny Nucci (Fabrizio) majorly had to go to the bathroom during the King of the world scene.
The corset scene was originally intended to have Rose lacing Ruth up in the corset, but everyone agreed that it made more sense the
other way around.
Jack's too-funny line, "Over on the bed.. the ahh, couch" wasn't actually in the slip; it was Leo's instinct. :-)
After the flying scene, when it switches back to Old Rose, and she says, "That was the last time the Titanic saw daylight," she's
wearing a different pair of earrings from when she started telling the story; not only that she's wearing completely different clothes. I'm not
*exactly* sure, but I am pretty sure her outfit is what she was wearing when the helicopter landed on the Keldysh. Just found out that this is because in the original script the story took two days to tell (which makes sense, since everyone's clothes change.)
Toward the end
of the movie, when Lizzy is talking to Mr. Lovett and he throws his cigar in the ocean, Lizzy looks like she's wearing the same earrings
Rose wore during the spitting scene. What do you guys think? (Yes, I've already been told, several times, that I should seek help for this..
:-)
The doll's face that shows up at the beginning of the movie is actually in the Titanic. I was reading this National Geographic
kid's book called Hidden Treasures of the Sea (if you wanna look for it in your library, it's probably somewhere under the 910.4 's),
and on page 95, there is a picture of the doll's face. Also, the film of the sunk Titanic is real; James Cameron got to send down his
little robot to go exploring. I thought that was nifty. :-)
The Keldysh, the boat which Brock Lovett and his team are on, was the ship that actually took the film crew to the
Titanic; they also used several of the scientists in the film as fictional versions of themselves.
The davits are made by the same company that originally made them for the Titanic.
The White Star emblem appears on everything from the cups to the ashtrays to Ismay's slippers.
There was a Irishman named Tommy Ryan who pressed charges against White Star Lines for the death of his son. Although the name
of his son was not mentioned in The Night Lives On, there is a character in the movie named Tommy Ryan (I think that's right; I
can never understand his first name when he says it because he has a cigarette in his mouth. It's either Tommy or Tony) who is shot by First
Officer Murdoch (the shooting is another event which probably actually happened).
The same hundred fifty or so extras were used for the entire filming of the movie.
James Cameron did all of Jack's drawings.
The same company that made the carpet for the original dining room of the Titanic made the carpet for the movie.
The scene where Rose poses for the drawing was done like, in the first week (I think I read it was done on the first day, but don't quote
me on that). Just *imagine* being completely nude in front of Leonardo DiCaprio on the first day of shooting. Geez! Three cheers for
Kate!
It took *forever* to shoot the scene of Jack at dinner. I thought this was a rather amusing little anecdote--at one point, Leonardo
looked over at Kathy Bates (who was Molly Brown) and said, gesturing to his silverware, "Which one of these do I use to lobotomize
myself?"
The lookouts really didn't have any binoculars. However, this may not have had much relevance to the Titanic hitting the
iceberg. It may have been worse that the lookouts were in the crow's nest. When the Carpathia was racing full-speed to the rescue
of Titanic there were four lookouts on duty. Two were in the crow's nest and two were on deck. They had to dodge several
icebergs, and the vast majority of them were spotted with the naked eye from the deck.
This really excited me, okay? :-) I don't know if you guys remember this or not, but at one point in the movie, it shows a little boy
playing with a top, with a couple of men watching and instructing him. Right after that, Jack climbs up there with them and steals a coat
and hat from a chair. This is the scene right before he tells Rose that wonderful line, "I can't turn away without knowing you'll be all
right.." Anyways, when I was thumbing through the pictures in Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner, by
Susan Wells, there is a picture of the boy playing with the top, and the men watching him, and the coat that Jack stole is on a chair in
the background (p. 53)!!
K, this movie is very extremely historically accurate. I'm not even sure that this is an inaccuracy, but this is what I read in the
Titanic: Legacy... book in one of the captions. "The Titanic featured a gymnasium packed with the latest athletic
equipment, including mechanical bicycles, "camels," and "horses." Left: First-class passengers on the Olympic could work off rich
meals by exercising with a punching bag." In the picture above the first part of the caption, it shows a picture of a gym with no punching
bag--so I naturally assume it's the Titanic's gym. Anyway, there is no punching bag in it. However, when Jack is going through
that wonderful "I can't turn away without knowing you'll be all right" scene, there is a punching bag in the gym with them. So does anyone
know what's up with that? (Yes, I realize I need help. :-) Jen has just clarified this for me--she says that James Cameronused actual pictures of the Titanic to make the sets, including one of the gym.
I haven't actually seen it, but some of my friends say that during the sinking, one of the extras is running around with Nikes on.
Anyone want to confirm this?
Submitted by Nikki: During the scene where Bruce Ismay is trying to convince Captain Smith
to light the last boiler, you can see a lady staring straight at Ismay and
Smith.(Listening to their conversation) In REAL life it is a surviving
witness of the Titanic. She claims that she heard their conversation. That
is the only way they think that Ismay had done this event.
Any useless facts to add to this? Email me! I am always open to informative things like
this that have absolutely nothing to do with life. :-)
