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02:25:00 Kate Winslet’s near-death experience
Probably at some point in this scene, Kate Winslet says she nearly drowned. In an unusually candid interview given by in Los Angeles Times in May 1997, a few months before the film’s release, the actress shows off the bruises and scratches she received while filming the film. Titanic, just finished. In one take, his coat—Cal’s coat, with the diamond in its pocket, of course—gets stuck in the gate as he tries to swim past it. “I had to get out of my coat to free myself,” she said. “I was out of breath. I thought I would explode. And Jim said to me, Okay, let’s start over. This was his way. I didn’t want to look soft and didn’t complain.”
02:27:17 Hello from Mr. Murdoch
First Officer William Murdoch is probably the most important member of the crew outside of the captain; best soundtrack song, Take her to the sea Mr. Murdocheven bears his name. But Murdoch’s descendants didn’t think the film did him credit, especially for repeating the unsubstantiated rumor that he committed suicide on board. In the spring of 1998, a Fox executive traveled to Murdoch’s hometown of Dalbitty in Scotland to personally apologize for the way he was portrayed, especially for showing Murdoch accepting Cal’s bribe. Fox even donated money to the local school’s William Murdoch Memorial Prize, but the girl who won it that year is a teenager. Lindsey Moffat, she was unimpressed: “I was pretty surprised that Hollywood would listen to a small town like Dalbeatty, but I still think it’s too late.”
02:29:02 “We’re dressed in our best and ready to cum like gentlemen!”
This will be a quote from Benjamin Guggenheim, son of the Meyer Guggenheim dynasty and brother of Solomon Guggenheim, namesake of the famous museum. Benjamin was famous at the time of the sinking and fondly remembered by survivors; one of them allegedly wrote in a letter: “Billionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, after helping to save women and children, dressed himself with a rose in his buttonhole to die.”
02:30:30 “Closer, God, to You”
If you’ve heard the Titanic myth busted, chances are the band didn’t actually play that mournful anthem in its final moments. But did you really think the movie would miss this opportunity?
02:31:21 Dramatic real story of old people in bed
The couple is based on Isidore AND Ida Strauss, another Titanic celebrity couple – he co-owned Macy’s – who became legends when they refused to board a lifeboat; Ida allegedly told Isidore, “Wherever you are, there I am,” and a cut scene from the film recreates the moving scene. But family ties don’t end there. Isidore and Ida’s great-granddaughter Wendy Rush was the wife of Stockton Rush, an OceanGate executive who piloted a submarine that exploded en route to the Titanic.
02:34:37 Slippery when wet
The drowning scenes are some of the most difficult in the entire film, which is why the production Titanic it has gained a reputation for being a company that goes beyond budget and time. A lot of shots could have been done with miniatures and models, but this one with screaming people? All this really happened in water at a temperature of 60 degrees. Looking at the behind-the-scenes footage, it’s shocking that there were no other injuries.
02:37:37 “How did we get here?”
Leonardo DiCaprio was quite press shy before that Titanic made him the biggest star in the world and he didn’t talk much about his experience on set even in a big profile Vanity Fair America dedicated to the film. This moment, as the bow of the ship plummets into the air, is one of the few he sympathizes with: “Suddenly I am being towed across the back poop deck with a tether around my waist. There are about 200 extras tied with bungee cords, stuntmen ready to fall and hit the soft beams. And then there are three cranes with huge searchlights around us. Kate and I looked at each other, as if asking: how did we get here?
02:38:30 “This is where we first met”
If you watched morning TV in early 1998, you often saw this particular shot: DiCaprio’s mouth oddly pressed against Winslet’s head has stuck in my head ever since.
02:39:20 Descent from the bridge
Looking closely or using a few freeze-frames, one can see the wheels underneath the actors as they slide across the bridge, or the bridge elements made of Styrofoam to make them bounce harmlessly. Of course, there are a lot of computer people here, as in the beginning of the film, but there are a lot of real people flying through the air.
02:45:45 Sea of humanity
A lot of people swam in this pool, which was not icy, but not that pleasant either. According to Kate Winslet, other people, including herself, were speeding in the bathtub. There were also fake people, for example Ellen Mauer he learned it the hard way: “The nerd swam over me and doused me,” he recalled on the local 25th anniversary news. “I looked at him and he looked at me and said, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were real,’ and I said, ‘It doesn’t matter, they told me I was playing a dead man.’ man is good.”
02:46:27 There is no room on the raft
Do we really need to get back to talking about this? Let’s stay with Cameron, Kate Winslet and her reign: Jack ran out of space too. Continue!
02:53:04 Future star with a torch in his hand
A handsome young officer preparing a lifeboat to search for survivors is played by a Welsh actor. Ioan Griffith, who a few years later would have his big Hollywood moment as a star Fantastic Four 2005 . It demonstrates another film anachronism that is still debated today: the lifeboats almost certainly did not have flashlights, even if they did.era A flashlight stick owned by a passenger named Ella White was auctioned off in 2019.
02:54:02 A sky full of stars (changed)
This insert about the night sky is perhaps the only time in history that Cameron has succumbed to criticism. When Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out that the original starfield did not match what would be seen at that time of year in the North Atlantic, Cameron changed it for the 2012 re-release of the film.
03:02:30 Mystery of fish soup with PCP
Finally, we come to the strange story of the PCP fish soup being served to the crew during the night of filming the Nova Scotia portion of the film, also known as the real one, that we see here. Bill Paxton was the only actor injured and was admitted to the hospital along with Cameron, the cameraman. Caleb Deschanel (who led the kong line through the hospital corridors), the set designer Marilyn McAvoy and many others. The entire incident happened before production moved to Mexico and nearly drowned Kate Winslet, but quickly became part of the legend of the film’s controversial production. Titanic. Even today, the culprit in PCP soup has never been found.
03:03:30 Most famous deleted scene
Warning: once seen, you may never see again Titanic Also. Instead of silently dumping the Heart of the Ocean into the sea, Gloria Stewart’s “Rose” would have had an entire scene confronting Paxton’s Brock Lovett, explaining to him in the most literal terms imaginable that “only life is priceless and that every the day is important. In the words of Lewis Bodine, “That really sucks, ma’am!”