» Kate Winslet was desperate to play Rose Dewitt Bukater. She revealed that she had called 
   James Cameron crying, "You have to use me, I have to do it, you're really mad if you don't 
   cast me." After reading the script 3 times, she was also convinced that Leonardo DiCaprio 
   was the only actor she could star opposite.

» Keanu Reeves and Gywneth Paltrow were the first choices of Cameron to play the roles of
   Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater respectively.

» James Cameron and the producers of TITANIC apologised to the kin of First Officer Murdoch
   for incorrectly depicting him as a coward. There is also no evidence to show that Murdoch 
   shot anyone, himself included.

» TITANIC garnered 14 Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director(Jame Cameron), 
   Best Actress(Kate Winslet), Best Supporting Actress(Gloria Stuart), Best Cinematography, 
   Best Film-editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic 
   Score(James Horner), Best Original Song(James Horner), Best Make-up, Best Visual Effects, 
   Best Sound and last but not least Best Sound Effects Editing. It eventually won 11 awards, 
   losing the Best Make-up to "Men In Black"; Best Actress to "As Good As It Gets" (Helen Hunt);
   and Best Supporting Actress to "L.A. Confidential" (Kim Basinger).

» TITANIC was nominated for 8 Golden Globe Awards of which it won 4: Best Motion 
   Picture(Drama), Best Director(James Cameron), Best Original Score(James Horner) and Best 
   Original Song(James Horner). 

» The love story between Jack and Rose is the only major part of the movie that is fictional. 
   The ship is seen through their eyes. Cameron says:"By feeling the fear, the loss, the 
   heartbreak of Jack and Rose, we finally can feel for the 1500." 

» Before announcing development of this film, director James Cameron shot footage of 
   icebergs off Nova Scotia under the pretense of making a film called ``Planet Ice.''

» The name of the character Cal Hockley derives from two small towns (Caledon and Hockley) 
   near Orangeville, Ontario, Canada where Cameron's aunt and uncle live.

» Cameron was obsessed with making the film as realistic as possible, based on all the 
   available, using both special effects and real footage of the wreck. To capture footage of 
   the actual wreck , James Cameron went to the source, almost 4km under the ocean surface. 
   The Hollywood film-maker and 2 russian scientists made 12 trips down in 2 Mir 
   submersibles, specially rigged with external movie cameras and a remote-controlled 
   explorer named Scoop Dog. Each dive took 2.5hrs of falling through blackness, followed by 
   10 to 12 hrs of careful positioning and filming. The crew shot scenes not seen by human 
   eyes since 1912. 

» Snoop Dog reached the millionaire suite, booked by J.P. Morgan, the richest man in 
   America. He cancelled his booking at the last minute. In the suite, the cameras captured 
   the once-beautiful fireplace. The fictitious Rose's suite is re-created from available 
   documents, but the audience also gets to see the actual fireplace as it still lies today in the 
   wreck of the TITANIC. 

» James Cameron directed TITANIC virtually for free. When he failed to deliver the movie for 
   the projected release on 2 July, he gave back his US$8million directing fees and forfeit his 
   future cut of gross receipts. But now that the film is doing so well at the box-office, 
   Paramount and Fox are planning to give him back the money.

» Kate Winslet almost died twice while filming TITANIC---she almost drown when her dress 
   got caught in the iron gate(in the scene where she and DiCaprio were trapped behind 
   locked gates and the water was swirling around them) and she was pulled underwater; and 
   the other time of hypothermia because she stayed in ice-cold water for too long. 

» The drawings that Jack carried around were drawn by James Cameron, and the hands
   sketching on screen also his. 

» "It was the hardest film I've ever done," says Leonardo DiCaprio. "Having to sit in ice-cold 
    water all day, dunking and redunking, jumping in, jumping out and screaming at the top of 
    my lungs. It takes a toll. I complained like hell most of the time. That's the only way I was 
    able to tolerate it." 

» DiCaprio knew how to let off steam, but the English Winslet held in her pain, stiff upper lip 
   style and paid a price for it---she was sick one out of every four days. 

» In the scene where Jack and Rose consummate their love in the backseat of a car, Kate 
   Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were covered in gel to indicate the sweat of passion. 

» Production Designer Peter Lamont copied the real TITANIC down to the exact shade of 
   green on the chairs in the smoking lounge.The sumptuous sets were made-to-order replicas 
   of the lighting fixtures, the china, the stained-glass windows---and since all of it was going 
   to destroyed, nothing could be rented. 

» On the final night of shooting in Nova Scotia, one or more pranksters mixed PCP (angel 
   dust) into the clam chowder served to the cast and crew. 80 people were taken ill, many 
   hospitalized with hallucinations. Bill Paxton felt listless for two weeks after the incident.

» When Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) is preparing to draw Rose, he tells her to ``Lie on that bed, 
   uh I mean couch.'' The line was scripted ``Lie on that couch'', but DiCaprio made an honest 
   mistake and Cameron liked it so much he kept it in.
 
» When Rose is afloat on the wood looking up at the stars, there is a vague image of the 
   necklace. It is outlined by brighter stars shaping the heart loosely, and a few bright stars 
   shaping the chain.

» Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wissota, which wasn't created until five years 
   after the Titanic sank.

» Jack claims to have visited the Santa Monica Pier, which did not begin construction until 
   1916.

» The pipe frames supporting the third class berths have set-screw speed rail fittings, not 
   developed until 1946.

» While Jack and Rose are walking on the promenade the day after he rescues her, a small 
   hill with a building on it is visible over Jack's shoulder and above the ship.
 
 
 

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