Titanic (1997) is a romantic drama movie about a seventeen-year-old aristocrat, who falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic which sank on 14th April 1912.
Titanic was the largest movie object at the time.
Titanic (1997) is directed and written by James Cameron and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart, and Bill Paxton in the lead roles.
The movie won 11 Academy Awards and many other Awards. The movie made history like the subject it’s based upon. Let’s jump to the interesting facts and details about the movie Titanic (1997).
28. The hands seen sketching Rose are not of actor Leonardo DiCaprio's, but director James Cameron's. In post-production, Cameron, who is left-handed, mirror-imaged the sketching shots so the artist would be appear to be right-handed, like DiCaprio.
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27. After finding out that she had to be naked in front of Leonardo DiCaprio, actress Kate Winslet decided to break the ice, and when they first met, she flashed him.
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26. When Jack prevents Rose from committing suicide, he shares a story about how he once fell into freezing cold water while ice fishing and how it feels like "being stabbed with a thousand knives all over your body." This was an actual quote from a Titanic survivor describing the temperature of the North Atlantic water.
25. The post-sinking scenes in the movie were shot in a 350,000 gallon tank where the frozen corpses were created by applying a powder on the actors that then crystallized when exposed to water. Wax was applied to hair and clothes to create a wet look.
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24. At $200 million, Titanic (1997) the movie cost more than the Titanic itself. The cost to construct the ship in 1910-1912 was £1.5 million euro, equivalent to $7.5 million at the time and about $120 to $150 million dollars in 1997. Titanic (1997) is also the most expensive movie to be filmed in the 20th century with a budget of $200 million.
23. Titanic (1997) was the first film to be nominated twice for an Academy Award, for the portrayal of the same character. Actress Kate Winslet received a Best Actress nomination for her role as Rose and Gloria Stuart received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her portrayal of the older Rose. Titanic (1997) was also the first Best Picture Academy Award winner to be produced, directed, written, and edited by the same person (James Cameron).
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22. On the final night of shooting in Nova Scotia, one or more pranksters mixed the dissociative hallucinogen PCP (angel dust) into the clam chowder served to the cast and crew. 80 people were taken ill, and more than 50 were hospitalized with hallucinations. When director James Cameron realized what was happening, he forced himself to vomit before the drug took full effect. Actor Bill Paxton felt listless for two weeks after the incident (although PCP's primary effects only last a few hours, the drug itself can take eight or more days to completely metabolize out of the body). The culprit(s) were never caught.
21. With her nomination for Best Supporting Actress at age 87, Gloria Stuart became the oldest person to ever be nominated for an Oscar. Gloria Stuart was also the only person involved in the production of the film who was actually living in 1912.
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