Titanic

• The footage of the lifeboats searching for survivors was shot inside tanks filled with more than 350,000 gallons of water.
• Most of the "ocean" in the film is actually only three feet deep.
• Titanic was the most expensive film ever made.
• The whole set was sold for scrap metal after filming ended.
• director James Cameron He joked that he made the film because he was actually inspired by the wreckage of the Titanic.
• The producers of the film want to Matthew McConaughey As the leading man, but director James Cameron insisted Leonardo dicaprio .
• Fang Rongshan The rescue experience has attracted the attention of James Cameron, who has also specially filmed a segment of Chinese people lying on the board being rescued. It didn't make it into a feature film, but it did Rose DeWitbucket The inspiration for the rescue plot ^[26] .
• Titanic's release date was moved from July to December 1997, delayed by five months, due to production overruns of $200 million from $150 million. This makes... Twentieth Century Fox Active direction Paramount Extended an olive branch, pulled tens of millions of "funding", and this also led to the dispute between Paramount and 20th Century Fox in court over dividends, and finally judged that the domestic box office in the United States belonged to Paramount and the overseas box office belonged to 20th Century Fox ^[21] .
• Video footage detailing the construction of the Titanic has stunned members of the Titanic Historical Society. The DVD features 82 drawings of the Titanic by Ken Marshall, an expert in Titanic history. He had participated in several Titanic expeditions and was a good friend of director David Cameron.
• The opening scene with special significance in the film was the result of 20 hours of deliberation by the director in the late stage of editing work. In the beginning, part of the scene of the wreck of Titanic on the bottom of the sea was real, while part was shot using the model. The difference was that when there were two submarines in the scene, it was the model. When there was only one submarine, it was the wreck of the real Titanic.
• When the two filmed the scene of waiting for rescue in the water, it was positive Kate Winslet On her 21st birthday, the water in the studio was very cold, causing her to develop" hypothermia ". However, the two still cheered each other up and finished the last few scenes with full morale ^[21] .
• As played by Leonardo dicaprio Jack Dawson The first smoking scenes in the film were criticized for misleading young children, but Cameron explained that smoking was so common at the time that not including smoking scenes would have made the film seem unreal.
• Kate Winslet repeatedly sent letters of self-recommendation to the director, including roses and a postscript that I am the Rose DeWitt Bucket you are looking for, and finally won the role of Rose DeWitt Bucket in this century. She also suffered from pneumonia during filming.
• The setting sail was shot in front of a green screen set up in a parking lot. The images of the sunken ship are simulated by models and computer effects (such as waves and passengers). Actors perform on a green screen while the stunt team synthesises the glacier. The director was telling the actors where to look, and they had to imagine the Titanic was sinking.
• Because only the right half of the full-size Titanic model is fully completed, director James Cameron specially came up with the idea of using opposite text props to shoot, and then the film is shown upside down, so if there are props on board that need text, they need to do two sets of positive and negative.
• Rose calls "Jack" 80 times, not counting the number of times she calls him "Mr. Dawson," and Jack calls "Rose "50 times.
• Jack Dawson's line "I'm the king of the world!" (I am the King of the world!) be American Film Institute One of the 100 best movie lines of the last 100 years.
• The portrait of Rose DeWitbucket was painted by James Cameron and, because he was left-handed, was shot with a mirror lens to make it look like Jack Dawson painted it with his right hand. The portrait is actually based on a photograph taken by Kate Winslet. Kate Winslet was photographed wearing a bikini, and the parts not shown were imagined by James Cameron. The painting was signed by director James Cameron, who is said to have done all of Dawson's sketches in the film.
• Leonardo dicaprio nursed his pet lizard back to health after it was hit by a truck during filming.
• "Jack this is where we first met." Jack this is where we first met. Kate Winslet was inspired to come up with this line. She also suggested that Rose spit in Carl's face, and the script was designed to poke him with a hairpin.
• In the film, Jack Dawson mistakenly says "Lie on that bed, uh I mean couch" when painting Rose DeWitt Bucket. The script says, "Lie on that couch." But Cameron liked the mistake so much that he kept it.
• When the captain says "full speed ahead," someone shouts "full speed ahead!" . The cry comes from director Cameron.
• The spitting scene between Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitbucket in the film was opposed by almost everyone from the producer to the actors, from the studio boss to the crew members, but the director believed that his film could not follow the rules and should be innovative, in fact, this has become one of the scenes in the film that the audience will remember.
• On the issue of one of the controversial characters, the first officer Murdoch, James Cameron said that he has great respect for him and considers him a hero, but for the sake of artistic treatment, it is necessary to focus on the events of other characters in Murdoch.
• Director Cameron shot an alternate ending to the film in which the elder Rose does not initially throw the Ocean Star into the sea, but instead has a spiritual conversation with the crew. The original script ending was rejected by director David Cameron, who said he liked it.
• There is a scene in the film where a boy is playing with a spinning top on the deck. This is actually a reproduction of an actual photograph taken by Francis Brown aboard the ship on April 11, 1912. The photo shows first class passenger Frederick Speden and his 6-year-old son Douglas, both of whom survived the crash.
• The collector's DVD features a rare shot of director James Cameron standing in freezing water with a camera in his hand ^[3] .

• When Jack Dawson prepares to board the Titanic at the beginning of the film, his backpack is apparently a military backpack produced in 1939.
• When the Titanic set sail, if you look closely, you'll see the same crowd on both sides of the ship.
• Usually a huge ship passing by will create a large wake, and its force can even overturn some small boats. When the Titanic set sail, a fisherman's fishing boat nearby did not budge.
• In a dance scene in a ballroom with many mirrors, the camera and crew are reflected in one of the mirrors.
• In the long table restaurant scene, there is a fleeting shot showing that one of the diners is wearing a pair of Nikes.
• In the restaurant, Jack Dawson asked Rose Dewitbucket to borrow a pencil, and when he wrote, it was revealed to be a pen.
• Rose DeWitbucket breaks the glass of the cabinet containing the fire axe and takes out the axe to help the handcuffed Jack Dawson, the glass of the fire cabinet is still intact in later footage.
• As the Titanic sinks, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bucket run around inside the ship, and there's a shot of the camera and crew.
• When the stern is in the water and the bow is raised high, some of the lines hanging from the side of the ship are not perpendicular to the water but perpendicular to the side of the ship, this is clearly a model ship.
• When Carl went through the restaurant with a pistol after Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitbucket, there was a window behind him that was shining with daylight, and it was night when the ship went down.
• Jack Dawson begged the captain to abandon ship with the others, but the captain stubbornly refused; There was a large mirror in the room, through which the crew could be clearly seen.
• When the crew of the rescue ship called for the survivors at sea, there was an echo, and there was no reply in the endless sea.