Titanic

There's a scene where a woman from steerage takes her 2 kids to their room as the boat is sinking and tells them a happily-ever-after story which we assume means they're giving up hope of escaping and planning to go down with the boat. Also, in the same sequence, an old couple clutches each others' hands as water wells up next to their bed. Later, after we've all cried over the death of the woman and 2 kids, they are in a large scene in the background hopping on a lifeboat.

In the scene where Jack and his friend are standing on the bow looking at the dolphins swimming ahead of the ship, the dolphins are clearly Pacific white-sides, not any Atlantic species.

How come everyone dies so suddenly of hypothermia when they get off the ship and into the ocean, but suffer no apparent ill-effects when the same ocean water comes into the ship? Especially our hero and heroine, who run through it neck-deep, swim in it, etc. for more than an hour before finally escaping onto the deck, where again they give no indication of suffering the slightest bit from the cold.

Though this is not a blooper, it is interesting. The wreckage in the movie is really the actual Titanic wreck, not any special effects. Director James Cameron cried when he went down to see it.

If you look real hard, Arnold Schwarzenegger supposedly makes a cameo in a dance scene.

When the ship is sinking, where are all the dogs? In the beginning they showed at least twenty dogs, but you never see them while the ship is sinking.

The lake that Jack told Rose he went ice fishing on when she was threatening to jump is a man-made lake in Wisconsin near Chippewa Falls (where Jack grew up). The lake was filled in 1917, 5 years after Titanic sank. That means Jack must've been roughly 10 years old or younger when he said he went ice fishing and fell in to the cold water, yet the lake never existed before 1917.

When Jack comes to the first class dinner, Molly asks him if he'd care to escort her to dinner (Rose is already on his other arm). He says certainly and they link arms - Rose-Jack-Molly. Then the camera cuts to focus on Cal who's walking ahead of the group. When you look behind Cal, Molly is walking all by herself with no sign of Jack or Rose.

When does Rose find the time to put a life-vest on?

I've heard a few times about the turn to port/turn to starboard confusion - the explanation for why a turn to starboard is ordered but the ship turns to port. The reason for the difference is that in 1912 directions were still given in relation to rudder directions - rudders are pushed in the opposite direction to the way they want the ship to go, so directions were given in reverse.

How could they haul the safe from the wreck? The robot has to meander through several doorways and rooms to find it. Even if the robots could be manipulated to harness a net around the safe, the prospect of dragging it back through all those obstacles to finally lift it to the surface seems patently impossible.

When Rose is trying to rescue Jack she spies a fire axe. Smashing all the glass out from the holder she grabs the axe and turns round. The next camera shot shows Rose standing in front of the case with almost all of its glass intact.

(Apparently you can see some bloke running down the deck of the ship as in he was running and they tilted the camera to make it look like he was falling, but that's unconfirmed).

In the scene where Rose is threatening to jump, she has a tattoo on her left arm. [Apparently not - it's a piece of the dress].

When Leonardo DiCaprio says "sit on the bed....I mean the couch", it says in the script "sit on the couch" - Leo really made that mistake.

During the whole scene where Kate Winslet is floating around in the freezing water, she realises that even though her man has died, she must go on. So she proceeds to grab a METAL whistle to alert help. Now if you've ever stuck your tongue on a cold metal object, you know that it will stick, so how can we be expected to believe that it doesn't stick to hers?

Kate Winslet is running around in water for over half the movie and still has perfect make-up on. I don't really think that water-proof mascara was around at that time.

When the Titanic has gone down, one of the boats comes back to pick up survivors, the man on the boat shouts: "Can anybody hear me?" and a clear echo answers him. But how? There's nothing around to create the echo.....

Rose is eluding her bodyguard, who she gives the middle finger as the elevator taking her and her lover lowers out of sight and out of reach. The finger salute HAD to be an anachronism of the most blatant variety - surely it wasn't in use in 1912?

Early in the movie old Rose states that she only wore the diamond necklace "this once" (when Jack draws her picture).
Later in the movie Cal is shown helping her put it on when giving it to her. That's twice.

When the ships sinks and the back is rising, you see no people swim under the ship. When the ship breaks and falls down, the sea is crowded with people, who get crushed under the ship.

Jack and Rose are running around in the water for half the film without getting too cold.

The two butlers are looking for Rose with a torch, down below with the cars - torches didn't exist in 1912.

If you listen carefully, the sound of the ocean during deck scenes is the actual sound of the breakers on the beach, not the sound of a ship's wake.

In the scene on deck where Kate is checking out Leo's portfolio, and Leo is teaching her to spit, for a split second you can  see the breakers rolling in to shore through the ship's railing. Also in this scene, the angle of the shadows changes constantly, indicating the scene was shot several times throughout the afternoon and then spliced together. And if you really think of it, if the Titanic was travelling east to west, the late afternoon sun would not be hitting the SIDE of the ship at all.

Young Rose has green eyes, but Old Rose has blue eyes.

One sent in from my friend Paul - I think he's joking: In one scene of Titanic, Rose is this ageing, half-dead, wrinkly old lady. If you look carefully just after it though, you can see when the body double comes in, and instead the old lady looks like Kate Winslet from the film Heavenly Creatures!

When Jack hands Rose the note at the dinner table the paper is yellow. Later when the note is read the paper is white.

In the beginning, and throughout the movie Titanic,  'The Water-lilies,' by Claude Monet, is pictured. There are many paintings that Monet did in his lifetime that included waterliles, but I believe this painting wasn't completed until the year 1923, in Orangerie, Paris. The painting was begun in 1916. So then how can a completed rendering be on the ship in 1912?

The Statue of Liberty's crown and torch weren't lit in the 50's, so it's unlikely that it was lit when the Titanic's survivors arrived there.

When Jack goes up to first class on a Sunday morning, the group is singing the Navy Hymn "Eternal Father". What is impossible is that they are singing the last two lines of the verse written for Naval Aviators. The verse starts "Lord guard and guide the men who fly". They are singing the last two lines, "Oh, hear us when we lift our prayer, For those in peril in the air." The Wright Brothers flew about 8 years before, and I don't believe that this verse was even added until the 1930's.

Why was it that Jack, a 3rd class passenger, could pass SO easily from 3rd class to 1st class throughout the movie, and then at the end when he REALLY needed to get there, he couldn't get out?

During the scene where Jack and Rose are enjoying their "flying" with a beautiful sunset as a background, the ship is going the wrong way! If as the scene was shot, the sunset was off the port (left) of the ship, it would have to be steaming north, not east as would be expected of any ship heading to New York from Britain.

Updated 29/5/98 by JWES