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Titanic is a romantic drama film written, directed and co-produced by James Cameron. A partial remake of the original 1953 film, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, members of different social strata who fall in love aboard the 1912 maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. The film co-stars Billy Zane as Bukater's fiancé, Frances Fisher as Bukater's mother, and Danny Nucci as Dawson's best friend. Bill Paxton plays the leader of a treasure hunting expedition, while Gloria Stuart has the role of Bukater, renamed Calvert, in 1996.
Because Titanic was not completed by mid-1997, problems started rising in Hollywood. There was discussion of trimming its length, but director Cameron fought to release it in the state it had been filmed in. Titanic was released to North American theatres by Paramount on December 19, 1997, and while it performed well in its first weekend, it was not until the new year that the film would reach its highest ticket sales. It holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time, generating over $1.8 billion worldwide. In 1998 it was nominated for fourteen Academy Awards and won eleven, including the title of "Best Picture" of 1997. With Ben-Hur (1959) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004), Titanic holds the record for the most Academy Award wins.
Production
When this epic disaster film was not finished in time for its scheduled July 1997 release, shockwaves were sent through Hollywood; executives started wondering if a situtation similar to that of Heaven's Gate would occur. The releasing studios 20th Century Fox (which handled the film's distribution outside the U.S.) and Paramount (which handled the U.S. distribution) panicked. With a budget of $240 million, Titanic became the costliest film of all time by mid-1997. When director James Cameron delivered the film to Paramount, it ran over three hours and speculation arose whether he would work in Hollywood again. Cameron defended his production and threatened most executives that they were not going to shorten the film's length. Cameron admitted that he felt as though Titanic would be unsuccessful.
Titanic was released across North America on December 19, 1997. In its first weekend it grossed $28 million in ticket sales, but it was not until the new year that the film had reached $100 million. Titanic was number-one at the box office for four months and became the top-grossing film of all time. It generated $1.8 billion in worldwide ticket sales. In 1998 Cameron was awarded the Academy Award for "Best Picture".
Plot
The year is 1996, and a treasure hunter and his team explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic in their submersible. A safe is brought to the surface and is opened. It contains, not the fabled treasure the adventurers had hoped for, but only papers. One of them is a nude pencil portrait dated April 14, 1912, and signed "JD". It shows a beautiful young woman reclining nude with casual modesty on a couch. On a necklace around her is the treasure they seek: the diamond "The Heart of the Ocean."
Rose DeWitt Bukater, known as Rose Dawson Calvert, an ancient but still lively woman of 101 years (partially based upon the American artist Beatrice Wood), watches a CNN report of the treasure hunt and sees the nude portrait. She phones the treasure hunter Brock Lovett and informs him that she knows about the diamond, the Heart of the Ocean, and also the identity of the beautiful young woman in the portrait: "Oh, yes. The woman in the picture is me." Rose, accompanied by her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, flies out to the recovery site and proceeds to tell the treasure hunters of her experiences on the Titanic.
Rose, seventeen-years-old in April 1912, boards the ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, society matron Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, industrialist Caledon Hockley. Rose clearly does not feel very much for Caledon, but her mother pushes for the marriage for financial security, to maintain their current lavish lifestyle and bolster the social cachet among the Philadelphia elite. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a poker game.
Rose is so unhappy about her forced engagement as well as her endlessly shallow life, that she attempts to kill herself by jumping off the stern of the ship. Jack sees her and intervenes to prevent her suicide. The ship's crew find the two sprawled over the deck. At first they think this is a rape, but Rose explains to them that it was an accident. Caledon comes and thanks Jack by reluctantly inviting him to dine with their party the following evening in the first-class dining saloon. In the meantime, Rose and Jack soon strike up a tentative friendship as he shares tales of his adventures in traveling and she expresses her own hopes, and he shows her his sketchbook of artwork. Their bond deepens when they later ditch the first-class formal dinner party for a much livelier gathering below decks in third-class along with Fabrizio and Tommy Ryan, a man Jack and Fabrizio befriended earlier on.
Jack and Rose kiss on the bow of the
Titanic. The ship would begin sinking late that evening.
Jack is falling in love with Rose, but she is inclined to ignore their growing affection because of her engagement and social standings. Eventually, she decides to offer her heart to Jack and asks him to sketch her wearing nothing but the Heart of the Ocean diamond. Unfortunately, Rose foolishly writes a taunting note for Caledon and puts it in the diamond's safe along with the drawing and the diamond itself. They later consummate their relationship in one of the ship's cargo hold cars, after being pursued by Spicer Lovejoy, Caledon's valet.
In the meantime, Captain Edward J. Smith and his crew have been seemingly ignoring many warnings about upcoming ice fields in the ship's path, and the Titanic maintains the high speed suggested by White Star Line managing director J. Bruce Ismay even as the ship heads into the night. On the night of April 14, 1912, the two lookouts see an iceberg directly in the Titanic's path. Despite the many efforts of the crew and engineers, the ship strikes the iceberg and water begins to flood the compartments past their "unsinkable" capacity and causes the ship to begin sinking.
After finding Rose's taunt note in the diamond safe, Caledon discovers the relationship between Jack and Rose and gets even by framing Jack for stealing his diamond. Caledon then orders the Master-at-Arms to handcuff and trap Jack in a room. Even though she has a chance to escape the sinking ship early on with her mother, Rose runs away from Caledon — and her chance of getting into a lifeboat — to find Jack. She frees Jack and they try desperately to make their way back above decks to escape the rapidly sinking ship. While making their way to the boat deck, they encounter a locked door, and burst through to a naive steward's dismay. They then try to get to a stairwell, but the steward's there and so many of the steerage passengers spend many of their last hours locked under gates, but Jack and Rose work their way to a smaller gate, where they are reunited with Fabrizio and Tommy. There they use a bench to break down the gate, gaining access to the upper level. Fabrizio feels heartbroken knowing that his love cannot accompany him on the quest to live. Finally the group makes it up to the boat deck where Caledon is already on the search for Rose.
However, the ship's officers aren't letting any men on the lifeboats, and Rose refuses to get into a lifeboat without Jack. As Fabrizio and Tommy go off to check the other side, Jack and Caledon, who has been spending all night trying to find Rose and get into a lifeboat, temporarily team up to convince Rose to get into the lifeboat, which she does. While they were trying to convince her, Caledon gave his coat to Rose to keep her warm, forgetting that he had put the Heart of the Ocean in the pocket. When the lifeboat starts to lower away from the ship, Rose realizes that she can't separate herself from Jack, and she jumps back on the ship, and she and Jack reunite on the Grand Staircase, with Caledon and Lovejoy witnessing all of this. Infuriated beyond belief, Caledon takes Lovejoy's handgun and chases Jack and Rose down the staircase, shooting at them the entire time. Caledon runs out of ammunition when Jack and Rose reach the Dining Room, which is quickly flooding. He chooses not to continue pursuing them when he notices the water level. Then he starts to laugh. Lovejoy, who was following behind Caledon, asks, "What could possibly be funny?" Caledon says, "I put the diamond in the coat — and I put the coat on her!" Jack and Rose try to make their way to the boat deck again, during which they unsuccessfully attempt to rescue a child in a flooding hallway, and they nearly drown behind a locked gate.
Meanwhile, Caledon has bribed his way into the last lifeboat, with Jack's friends, Tommy Ryan and Fabrizio De Rossi, trying to get into the boat themselves. First officer William McMaster Murdoch, the officer in charge of launching the boat, threatens to shoot any man who tries to get into the boat, allowing only women and children into the boat. He rejects Caledon's bribe. The crowd pushes Tommy toward the boat and he gets shot by Murdoch. When Murdoch realizes that he just killed an innocent man, he looks around in shock before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. Caledon gets into the lifeboat by pretending to look after an abandoned child. The water reaches the boat deck, and the lifeboat floats off the deck. Fabrizio gets washed into the water and gets killed when the ship's forward funnel topples over.
Jack and Rose finally make their way to the top deck, but Jack sees that the lifeboats are gone and they, along with 1,500 terrified passengers and crew, have no choice but to head aft and stay on the ship for as long as possible before the Titanic sinks completely into the water. When they make it to the back of the stern, the deck is becoming harder to walk on because of the tilt of the ship. People begin to jump overboard, trying to swim to the lifeboats, but most of them don't make it and end up dying in the freezing cold water. Eventually, the ship's tilt is so steep that anybody not holding onto anything (deck railing, benches, lifeboat davits, etc.) slides down the deck into the water. The stern of the ship rises higher and higher until its weight causes the ship to break in two. The two sections are still attached at the keel, however, and the bow, which by now is completely flooded, goes under and pulls the stern upright so it is at a 90 degree angle. Jack and Rose have made it to the very aft deck railing, at the "top" of the stern and ready themselves for the final plunge. Eventually, the ship begins its final descent and everyone, including Jack and Rose, are washed into the cold, icy waters of the North Atlantic at 2:20 AM on April 15.
Rose and Jack stick together and wait with the hundreds of other passengers thrashing helplessly in the water, shouting desperately for those in the lifeboats to row back to rescue them. By the time one of the officers decides to row back and help those in need, almost all of the passengers have died of hypothermia in the freezing Atlantic Ocean.
Rose is heartbroken to realize that Jack has succumbed, as well. She bids him goodbye, then manages to get the lifeboat's attention to come back and rescue her. The survivors in the lifeboats wait for hours until the RMS Carpathia, the closest ship to answer and heed the Titanic's radio distress signals, arrives to save them. Upon arrival at New York City, Rose discovers that she still has the Heart of the Ocean tucked into the pocket of Caledon's coat.
As an old woman in 1996, Rose now goes onto the deck of the Keldysh (The salvage ship) and throws the Heart of the Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean where Jack died.
[Old Rose walking up to the rails about to throw away the "Heart Of The Ocean"] Back in Rose's room, the viewers sees pictures of her life's achievements, including a photograph of her riding a horse at the Santa Monica Pier, just as she and Jack had planned to do together. There is also a roller coaster in the background of this picture, another reference to the plans that she and Jack made. (To view some of these photos, go to http://www.rosedawson.com) Rose lies in a bed nearby, a scene where some fans have debated whether she is asleep or has passed away.
A Promise Kept?
One of the biggest controversies in the film questions whether old Rose died or was dreaming at the end of the film. A possible indication that she died is given by the chapter title in the DVD "A Promise Kept". While Rose and Jack were floating in the freezing water, Jack made her promise that she wouldn't die in the water:
"Listen, Rose. You're going to get out of here. You're going to go on. And you're going to make lots of babies, and you're going watch them grow. You're going die an old, old lady, warm in her bed. Not here. Not this night. Not like this. Do you understand me?... You -- You must do me this honor. You must promise me. That you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens. No matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose. And never let go of that promise."
However, in reality, there is no publicly solidified answer. Cameron is quoted in his commentary toward the end of the film refusing to give away the ending as a way of keeping the film open-ended and exciting for the viewer:
"Now, of course, the big ambiguity here is, 'Is she alive, and dreaming?', or 'Is she dead, and on her way to Titanic heaven, here?' And of course, I'll never tell. I mean, I know what we intended at the time. But that doesn't mean I have to go blurting it out. So, I know you've gone and bought this, you know, expensive special edition DVD, and you were, you know, hoping for the answer. But, the answer is, has to be something that you supply personally, individually."
Underwater, the decaying Titanic looms out of the darkness and fades to new again. A steward opens the doors from the promenade deck to the Grand Staircase, where all those who had died on the ship smile in greeting. At the top of the staircase stands Jack, facing the clock just as he had earlier in the movie as he waited for Rose to come belowdecks with him. Jack turns and smiles at Rose, a young girl of 17 again, who smiles back as he helps her up the last few steps. They kiss as the crowd applauds, and it fades to the ending credits. If indeed this scene is depicting Rose's death, then one could assume that she has entered heaven, where Jack was waiting for her. Another argument for this theory is that none of the passengers seen in this scene survived the sinking; all of them perished either onboard the ship as it sank or in the icy water afterwards. On the other hand, the lyrics of the film's theme song, "My Heart Will Go On" sung by Celine Dion, begins with "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you," which could indicate that Rose is only asleep and is dreaming of Jack.
Spoilers end here.
Cast
Response
Box office
The film received steady attendance after opening in North America on December 19, 1997. By Sunday that same weekend, theatres were beginning to sell out. The film debuted with $28,638,131. By the new year Titanic had increased in popularity and theatres continued selling out; unusually, it took fifteen weeks for its weekly gross to decline 50%, the most for any film in the 1990s. By March 1998 it was the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide.
Titanic holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time. The previous North American record of $460,998,000 was held by Star Wars and since its rerelease.[1]
Criticism
Titanic received a great deal of negative advance publicity for its budget overruns and delayed release. When it was released, reviews were favorable. Roger Ebert said "It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding."[2] Some reviewers felt that the story and dialogue were weak while the visuals were spectacular. Jeff Millar of the Houston Chronicle wrote, "When the ship does hit the berg, at the one-hour-and-45-minute point, we are immediately compensated for the padding in writer-director James Cameron's basic narrative — a shipboard romance."[3]
James Berardinelli gave the film four stars out of four, placing it #2 of the year 1997 (behind The Sweet Hereafter). In his review he mentioned: "...in Titanic, Cameron's flawless re-creation of the legendary ship has blurred the line between reality and illusion to such a degree that we can't be sure what's real and what isn't. To make this movie, it's as if Cameron built an all-new Titanic, let it sail, then sunk it. " and "...Titanic represents Cameron's most accomplished work to date. It's important not to let the running time hold you back -- those three-plus hours pass very quickly. Although this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress."
Kenneth Turan of LA Times said: " For seeing "Titanic" almost makes you weep in frustration. Not because of the excessive budget, not even because it recalls the unnecessary loss of life in the real 1912 catastrophe, which saw more than 1,500 of the 2,200-plus passengers dying when an iceberg sliced the ship open like a can opener. What really brings on the tears is Cameron's insistence that writing this kind of movie is within his abilities. Not only isn't it, it isn't even close."
Barbara Shulgasser of San Francisco Examiner gave Titanic 1 star out of four and she said: "An actor I know suggested that "Titanic" might best be renamed "Jack and Rose," citing the two lead characters, ill-fated lovers played by Leonardo DiCaprio ("Romeo and Juliet") and Kate Winslet ("Sense and Sensibility"). He felt that the number of times in this unbelievably badly written script that the two refer to each other by name was an indication of just how dramatically the script lacked anything more interesting for the actors to say."
Awards
Won
Titanic won Oscars in almost every category it was nominated in (14 nominations and 11 wins). It was the second movie to win that number (the first was Ben-Hur with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King matching the record in 2004). At the time, it was also the only movie in which two people playing the same person (Kate Winslet as Rose and Gloria Stuart as Old Rose) were both nominated for an award (coincidentally, the second film to do so, Iris, also starred Winslet). Cameron's screenplay received no nomination.
Academy Awards
Soundtrack
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The soundtrack CD for Titanic was composed by James Horner and sold over 20 million copies, notable because it included only one pop song with lyrics. The soundtrack includes performances from the Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø, and the famous Canadian singer Celine Dion. It became a worldwide success, and led to the release of a second volume that contained a mixture of previously unreleased soundtrack recordings with newly-recorded performances of some of the songs in the film, including one track recorded by Enya's sister, Máire Brennan of the Irish band Clannad. "Hymn to the Sea" featured Bad Haggis's Eric Rigler on the uilleann pipes and whistles.
DVD
Titanic was first released to DVD in 1999 in a widescreen-only (non-anamorphic) single disc edition with no special features. Cameron stated at the time that he intended to release a special edition with extra features at a later date. Six years later, on October 25, 2005, a special edition release finally occurred with a 3-DVD set in North America that included an anamorphic widescreen-only presentation of the movie divided onto two of the discs, 45 minutes of deleted scenes, an alternate ending, a faux 1912-style newsreel, a crew tribute/gag reel, and other features. An international two-disc and four-disc edition followed on November 7, 2005.
Deleted scenes
The 2005 Uncut DVD release included about 45 minutes worth of deleted scenes that were cut from the film either for pacing, to shorten the film to a marketable running time, or for reasons James Cameron describes in his commentary as "tonal". Some of the cut sequences are minor additions, while others are major scenes. The public were first made aware of many of these deleted scenes with the publication of Titanic's screenplay in 1998 and a few of them were first shown in a Fox TV special detailing the making of the film, and later Cameron incorporated some of the cut scenes into his Titanic Explorer CD-ROM. Still other scenes involving Jack and Rose passed into near-legend with fans of the romantic subplot of the film wanting to see more of their heroes.
Parodies
As with any well-known film, Titanic has had many scenes spoofed:
- The season 4 finale of NewsRadio, "Sinking Ship", was a parody of the film, with Phil Hartman introducing the premise "what if the radio station was on a luxury ocean liner?" The plot roughly corresponds to Titanic's while still paralleling current plot arcs on the series, and features many direct parodies. As with their season 3 "what-if" finale, "Space", only Bill (Phil Hartman) and Matthew (Andy Dick) survive, although they are preparing to cannibalize each other. In a sadly ironic turn of events, one of Bill's last lines was "It's just a TV show. Nobody really died." It was Hartman's last appearance before his 1998 murder.
- Scary Movie features a cinema scene in which a movie called Amistad 2 is advertised. The preview consists of a black man mimicking the famous "I'm the king of the world!" scene at the ship's prow, only to be whipped from behind.
- A scene in Scary Movie 2 involves Cindy orally pleasuring Bobby to keep him awake, telling him he'll live and lead a good life. Jack, obviously minus the oral pleasure, has a similar scene with Rose atop the floating door. During the scene in Scary Movie 2, the Titanic theme "My Heart Will Go On" plays gently in the background.
- In Bruce Almighty, Jim Carrey asks an old woman several questions as if she was Rose: "Why did you throw the blue "Heart of the Ocean" jewel over the railing of the Titanic? Didn't you feel bad letting Leo DiCaprio drown while you were safe floating on the big door? Couldn't you have taken turns? Or were you just too afraid to freeze your big fat ass off?!?" An error in this scene is that Rose did not throw the jewel over the side of the Titanic: she threw it over the side of the salvaging ship.
- A Saturday TV Funhouse skit entitled "Titey" poked fun at the rewriting of history that some have accused Disney of doing. The skit imagined a Disney version of Titanic including Napoleon and Anne Frank as characters, and has the anthromorphized ship succeed in fighting off the iceberg instead of sinking. [2]
- The ending of the Leslie Nielsen film Wrongfully Accused involved Nielsen's character and his love interest on the ship's front in a parody of the scene in which Jack helps Rose up on the railing to make it seem like she is flying. In Wrongfully Accused, when Nielsen and the female go to kiss, the ship's horn blows, and sails under a low bridge, causing the lovers to hit their heads and collapse. In real life the ship's super-structure would have quickly run into the bridge.
- A television commercial features old Rose throwing the diamond into the ocean, then diving in and retrieving it, only to sell it to a pawn shop. The commercial was for the Yellow Pages, and advised "making smart financial decisions." Another ad featured Jack and Rose freezing in the ocean atop the large door, with Rose saying, "I'll never let go, I promise," as she lets Jack sink under the water. A moment later, he resurfaces, only to be pushed forcibly back under by Rose.
- The 1998 French & Saunders Christmas Special spoofed many aspects of the film, notably James Cameron's "King of the World" Oscar acceptance speech, the computer-duplicated extras in the film, and the Max Factor tie-in advertisements. The sketch was reshown in 2000 on the night the film premiered on terrestrial television.
- An episode of Futurama, "A Flight To Remember" spoofs the entire film, having the events set aboard a cruise spaceship named Titanic. Ironically, the ship was brashly piloted at high speed through a field of comets (described in the episode as "the icebergs of the sky"), but ultimately ended up being sucked into a black hole. Incidentally, Futurama is a production of 20th Century Fox Television.
- In the Britney Spears song Oops!... I Did It Again, Britney is heard saying to the male love interest in the song "...but I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end?" He responds with "Well baby, I went down and got it for you!"
- In a Saturday Night Live skit from 1998, Bill Paxton plays his exasperated character interrogating Rose (played by Cheri Oteri) on where the diamond went ("I've been listening to this romance novel crapathon all afternoon"). Rose's daughter (Molly Shannon) becomes upset at learning her mother has been sitting on a fortune all these years and joins in. A crew member points out how wrong Rose's story is and has made it all up (she had identified the ship's commander as The Love Boat Captain Merrell Stubing, not E.J. Smith). The scene cuts to Cameron (as himself) in an office, explaining this was the original ending but it was changed "after test audiences rioted and burned down the theater." After saying that sharing this makes the audiences "king of the world," Cameron lights a cigar with a $100 bill. This skit can be viewed as an Easter Egg on the three-disc special edition DVD.
- In an episode of Family Guy, the ending scene is shown from the Titanic. Jack just dies as he hangs on the door Rose is floating on. She lets him go and he falls into the ocean. To show what the world would be like without death, instead of dying, Jack floats back up and says "You know what? Actually I think I'm going to be ok." Rose expresses her joy and implies that they can now get married. Jack says, "Yeah...well, there's this girl in New York, and things are getting pretty serious... but hey, thanks for letting me draw you naked! I still can't believe you let me do that!"
- Hanson's music video for "River" parodies the movie's frame story. In the end, old Rose (again played by Gloria Stuart) opens up her CD player and drops a copy of Hanson's CD into the ocean. The video was directed by "Weird Al" Yankovic (who also made a parody of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On", entitled "Free Delivery", performed as one of the songs in his medley live on stage only).
- In the movie Shark Tale, there is the painting of Rose on the wall, but she has clothes drawn on her.
- In the film BASEketball, the characters played by Matt Stone and Trey Parker can be heard saying "Remember to hold your breath and never let go!" as a balance beam they are on topples over. Additionally, Dian Bachar's character exclaims "I'm the king of the world!" as he is carried around the stadium during the film's conclusion.
- In the satirical Japanese anime Excel Saga, the main character demonstrates her obsession with another character by imagining a re-creation of the kiss scene at the front of the Titanic.
- In the parody trailer mashup for a sequel, "Titanic Two the Surface," where, scenes from other DiCaprio films (particularly Catch Me if You Can) are combined with footage from a number of other films such as Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and The Hulk. This faux sequel begins with Jack's frozen body recovered from the Titanic site after more than 90 years and he is revived, only to find himself pursued by the government. While on the run, Jack must learn to adjust to life in the 21st Century while mourning the recent death of Rose. Overall, clips from 23 different films are used.
- In an episode of The Simpsons, The Simpsons are watching The Titanic (as directed by Roger Corman) where it shows The Titanic hitting an iceberg and sinking quickly as where Jack and Rose are in a lifeboat and Rose is saying "Now that we've escaped from that horrible ship, I can take off this stifling bikini.", where soon the Titanic comes out of the water showing a face in the bow similar to the one on Ghost Ship and eats them.
- In an episode of The Simpsons, Smithers is seen drawing Mr. Burns in a position similar to Rose's while on a boat, but Burns is seen dressed. This is a parody of the scene where Jack Dawson draws Rose DeWitt Bukater nude.
- In the fantasy film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry rides on Buckbeak, Hagrid's hippogriff and takes a pose of "king of the world" over the lake.
- In Digimon One episode features the kids on a ship that has identical structure and looks to the ship. In a later Episode, Whaemon is attempting an escape from Sedramon, Whaemon tells of a plan ending in "Hopefully it will work." Mimi responds with, "What do you mean hopefully it will work. That's what the Captain of the Titanic said."
- In the opening sequence of the Sims 2, a guy is painting a woman on a couch like Jack Dawson drew Rose DeWitt Bukater only the woman has her "undies" on.
A book cover parodying the famous "flying" scene from
Titanic.
- The cover of the 1999 FoxTrot comic collection book I'm Flying, Jack... I Mean, Roger parodies the "flying" scene.
- In one episode of The Nanny, Fran's grandmother, Yeda, remembers coming over to America and having a love affair with a young crewman. During one of their meetings, the crewman places his hand over a steamy portal window, similar to Jack in the car scene with Rose.
- In the Hannah Montana episode "O Say Can You Remember the Words", Oliver overhears Miley saying he was the Titanic and she was on it. He runs out of the house as Miley calls after him, "I didn't mean the ship! I meant the highly successful movie!"
- On an episode of the Disney Channel series "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", Moesby and Arwin and stuck riding a heywire radio-controlled luggage cart. During this, Arwin goes to the front, spreads his arms out and says "I'm king of the world!".
- In an episode of Whose Line is it Anyway?, an improve prompt is "alternate endings to the titanic." One reaction was a contestant walked up to another and said, "Hello, I'm Gilligan"
- In the movie Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist, the Titanic is sinking in the scene where Betty is swinging the chain above his head.
- In the movie Our Lips are Sealed Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are seen at the front of a boat on Sydney Harbour doing the "king of the world" pose.
- In Osmosis Jones, there is a shot where Frank is dying that resembles a moment on Titanic where the ship is sinking, right down to a member of an orchestral band saying, "Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight."
Trivia
- James Horner wrote the song "My Heart Will Go On" in secret with Will Jennings because James Cameron did not want any songs with singing in the film.[citation needed]
- Titantic is the second film in thirty-eight years to be presented with eleven Oscars.[citation needed]
- The Grand Staircase in the film was often considered one of the greatest sinking shots of all time. One thing that was not included in the film was that it actually broke free of the base and floated to the surface. It is believed this also happened with the real Titanic as much of the wood work was found inside and intact.[citation needed]
- In the film, Rose is seen holding and viewing Picasso's 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d' Avignon in her First Class Suite. The Painting could never have been on board the ship as it is now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[citation needed]
- This is the second film distributed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox to win the Academy Award for "Best Picture" in three years. The first was Braveheart (1995).
Notes
- ^ [1]
- ^ Ebert, Roger: “Titanic”, Roger Ebert.com, December 19, 1997.
- ^ Millar, Jeff: “Jaw-dropping spectacle fills 'Titanic'”, Houston Chronicle, December 16, 1997.
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