Phreakmeister
March 30th, 2002, 06:40 PM
MOVIE ERRORS
This here forum is where we can post all the movie errors. I'll start:
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.
* 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? 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.
* The two butlers are looking for Rose with a torch, down below with the cars - torches didn't exist in 1912.
* 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.
* 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 waterlillies, 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
* As the boat is flooding and Jack and Rose are almost completely submerged in water, sometimes you can see that Rose's dress is cut knee-length to help her move more efficiently in water. One prime example of this is when Jack plunges underwater to get the keys to the gate in front of them.
* At the part when Jack or Rose (I can't tell which) wipes their hand on the fogged up window, they show it again in the next shot and you can definitely tell it's a completely different handprint.
* On the morning before Titanic sank (Sunday) Jack tries to go to the first class dining room to see Rose (I think it was the dining room). In real life, EVERYONE was allowed to go to the service, not just first class, though there were services in all the classes, but everyone was invited to attend.
* When the ship is sinking, and Rose and Jack are running through the inside of the ship, you can blatantly see cameras and crew outside the window.
* When the old Rose is shown at her house, she has three fish in the fish bowl. When she arrives at the place where they are exploring the Titanic, She unloads her fish bowl, which now has five fish.
* In the scene where Rose hands Jack a dime for drawing her, she hands him a Roosevelt dime, which were not minted until 1946. The correct dime would have been a Barber head dime.
* In the scene when Jack is dressed for dinner and waiting at the bottom of the grand staircase, Rose is shown taking Jack's arm twice as they are going to the dining room, once close up and once again in the background when Cal is talking.
* There is a dancing scene in a ballroom with a lot of mirrors, and when you look closely, you can see the filmcrew in one of the mirrors.
* Rose shows Jack several masterpieces of art she has recently purchased in Europe. I've never read a critic question how it is that those same masterpieces by Cezanne, Picasso, and Monet which hang in museums today, were on a ship that sunk, destroying virtually everything on it.
* 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
* Rose mentions Freud's ideas on the male preoccupation with size to Bruce. However this is 1912, and Freud did not publish the work relating to this until 1920 in The Pleasure Principle. Also, up until 1919, Freud relied solely on data capture from females.
* In the scene where Jack enters the first class door for the first time in his tux if you look closely in the glass door you can see a cameraman behind him.
* Leo freezes and sinks into the ocean from the door. This wouldn't happen. Partially or even totally frozen human bodies float in water. Even fully-clothed frozen bodies have been shown to float.
* When Rose is arriving in New York half asleep, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is the same colour as now (green). But if you visit the statue of liberty, you'll find a plate telling you that the original color was brown, and it took over 35 years for it to change colour. The statue of liberty was placed there in 1886, so in 1912 it should have still been brown
* When Jack and Rose are running from the raging water that is gushing down the hall after them you can see the faces of the stunt doubles through the computer generated ones of Leonardo and Kate.
* When Jack is hand-cuffed to some pipes and the ship is sinking, Rose finds an axe to save him. Check out the few frames where Rose is actually swinging at Jack's handcuffs. You can see she never even came close to hitting them - or Jack - or the pipes he was handcuffed to! If you have a really good VCR you can even see that Jack has break-away handcuffs on.
* Why oh why is one of the people getting on the life boats wearing a digital watch? Surely they weren't around in 1912?
* After Rose has helped Jack to get loose from where he is handcuffed, as he is jumping over a bench one minute he has the handcuffs on, the next shot they're gone. Then they're back.
* At the end when rose is lying on the wooden door she is looking at the sky singing "come Josephine..." When you look hard you see that the stars in the sky are symmetrical. You can actually draw a line in it. [That is not exactly the case. If you look VERY carefully (this is much more effective on a big screen), you can see that the stars form the outline of the famous necklace, The Heart of the Ocean. I guess Cameron was a little bored that day.]
* When Cal is chasing Jack and Rose through the dining room and shooting at them, the windows in the background have sunlight shining through. Since the Titanic sunk in the middle of the night, no light should be coming through the windows. Hard to believe the crew took hours to light a "night" scene and didn't notice the sunbeams in it. This mistake can also be seen in a still photo in various movie tie-in books.
* According to the film officer Murdoch murdered a passenger and then committed suicide, a point in the film that made his home town very angry and the film company donated £5000 to a charity but Cameron has never appologised. According to eye witness accounts he gave his lifejacket to a passenger and went down with the ship.
* When Jack and Rose finally come aboard the top of the ship after she rescues him they ask the Colonel if there are any boats left and he says "up that way" The woman on the left, who looks kind of pathetic, is then later seen on the life boat with Molly Brown. (They show her face right after Molly says the line "its your men out there") The life boat with Molly Brown in it was sent out before the scene with the Colonel, meaning that she must have gone on the life boat, swam back onto the ship and then back onto the lifeboat.
* When the woman jumps into the water from the ship, ropes are hanging all around and chairs are seen floating in the water. When the camera angle changes, there are no chairs in the water and there are no ropes around her.
* In the scene where the ship tilts to a vertical position, you see people falling and hitting objects on the deck. In a close up of that, you can see that a black metal cylinder thing has wrinkles in it and bends when someone hits it.
* In the dinner scene, just after Jack says, "Never did like it much", Cal starts laughing, but in the next shot he has a straight face and is chewing.
* 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.
* Not so much a mistake but rather a unique cameo is in the scene where Jack is sketching the picture of Rose. The hands you see in the close up scenes are actually those of James Cameron himself drawing with the charcoal.
* Leo blinks as he sinks into the water after Rose lets go of his hand after the ship sank.
* Anyone who's ever been on a boat knows how dangerous it is to have a bigger boat floating nearby - it produces huge waves that make the little boat tilt and many times turn over. Now what kind of waves would such a huge ship as Titanic produce!? However, at the beginning of the movie, when Titanic is leaving the port, there is a fishing boat nearby with a fisherman in it - and nothing even moves.
* When Rose is about to jump off the back of the boat there is a long shot of her and she is wearing black socks. But when Jack helps her back over she slips because her red shoes get caught on her dress.
* Jack says "Look at that one jump," when looking at the dolphins before it actually does.
* When the water crashes through the dome, although this is a very impressive effect, look at the hole the water comes through. You can see the peak of the set and a bit of the huge bucket used to tip the water.
* Look closely at the location of Rose's beauty-mark the first time you see her at the dock. It is on the opposite side of her face during the rest of the movie.
* When Jack and Rose get into the elevator to get away from Cal's guy, there are a couple of people in it. When Rose gives him the finger, there's no one behind them anymore. When they get off again, there's no one in it either.
* When the ship is about to leave the dock, there's a lot of people saying goodbye to the ones that are going to leave the city. In the following shots, you can see jack and his friends playing cards inside the pub. If you look through the window you won't see anyone. In the next shot, when Jack leaves the pub, the crowd is there again.
* During one side shot of the ship sinking at night, the bow has clearly begun to slide under. There are several lines hanging off the side of the boat. The lines are perpendicular to the boat, not the water, indicating that the model was filmed when level and tilted digitally.
* When Jack and Rose are talking on the deck. Rose is explaining to Jack why she considered jumping. She stated that she felt that she was screaming at the top of her lungs and no one was listening. He looks at her ring and states that she'd sink straight to the bottom...yadda, yadda, yadda. If you watch that scene, pay attention to Rose's hair. One second, her hair in perfectly curled with bangs, then it is behind her ears. It alternates back and forth: bangs, no bangs, bangs, no bangs until she grabs his portfolio and they sit down on the chairs to look at his drawings.
*While the sets duplicated the woodwork detailing of the Titanic, they used "flat-sawn" oak which has a completely different appearance from the more expensive "quarter-sawn" oak used in the Titanic (and virtually all Victorian and Edwardian cabinet work)
* The diamond in the film, "La Coeur de la Mer," is supposed to be a diamond owned by Louis XVI and lost during the French Revolution, which Lovett refers to also as the "Blue Diamond of the Crown." In one early scene Lovett mentions to Rose that "Today it would be worth more than the Hope Diamond." This is impossible: the diamond of which he speaks is in fact the Hope Diamond, which was also owned by Louis XVI, lost during the French Revolution, heart-shaped, and known as the Blue Diamond of the Crown while owned by the French monarchy. The two stones are one and the same. Also, the Hope was recut sometime in the early 19th century to its present oval shape, so that it had lost its heart-shaped form a century before Titanic sailed; this makes "The Heart of the Ocean" something of a misnomer. Needless to say the Hope Diamond was never on board Titanic, and is now lodged safely in the Smithsonian rather than lying at the bottom of the ocean.
* A small one & probably only noticed by dog trainers. When the dogs are being brought on board, they are on leather leashes made by J&J Dog Supplies, invented in the 1970s. It is the type of leash preferred by professional trainers, who probably supplied the dogs for the movie, and is distinguished by the "braid" near the snap, rather than by a sewn or riveted section.
* During the drawing scene, 'Jack' is using modern square sided, pressed charcoal with numbers embossed in the side of it. In 1912, Jack would have been using vine charcoal which was round and made of 'charcoalized' willow twigs.
* Many scenes used computer graphics to show the length of the ship. Passengers were also added walking on deck. The shadows for the passengers don't always match. There is actually a shadow of a woman wearing a large hat when the woman isn't wearing a hat at all.
* When the camera pulls back through the pub window to reveal the card players, if you look carefully in the background you will see a Steam Engine on the dock. Unfortunately the computer generated loco is clearly American as it has two domes, something NEVER seen on British locos. It also is shunting what looks like a carriage - again, this is also American. Carriages were rarely seen at docks, except if a train was connecting to a ship, and this was not common until the 1920s.
* In the scene where Rose is saying "I'll let go" in one of the shots you'll notice banding of the night sky - that appears on both VCR and DVD.
* Rose is wearing low heeled laced shoes throughout the entirety of the sinking scenes. Jack helps her jump off a small deck in order to flee for the lifeboats (she's wearing her lifejacket at this point). In this scene, Rose is suddenly wearing flat moccasin-type shoes of similar bone colour. Shoes then revert back to low heeled lace-ups after small jump assisted by Jack takes place.
* During the scene where Jack is handcuffed to the pipe, the water level rises above his porthole. Yet about half a minute later, the porthole is open whilst still underwater. Why does Jack not get completely pounded with sea-water?
* When Jack and Rose are dancing at the party in steerage, whilst spinning each other around, the camera shows each of them from each other's perspective. However, they are both shown as going in different directions - one clockwise and one anti-clockwise.
* When Rose is running in the hallways trying to find help for Jack when he is hand-cuffed, she finds a man and asks him to help her free Jack. She gets frustrated with him and says "listen" then hits him. In shots before (you can put it in slow motion to see it) you can look at the man's hand and it already has blood on it before he touches his face.
* When Jack and Rose are at the 3rd class party right after the elegant dinner Rose grabs a cigarette from a man's hand and smokes it once and gives it back before she stands on tip toes but when the camera films her again starting to rise up she still has the cigarette in her hand.
* If you look real closely at the brass buttons on the captain's jacket, you can see that they were apparently made in 1922 - ten years after the ship sank!
* In one of the sinking scenes, you can see the rectangular strobe lamps showing through the fabric in the glass dome.
* Jack (Leonardo Di Caprio) was handcuffed with old English Hiatt's Darby Handcuffs (type 104). This is historically correct. But the key for these handcuffs identifies them as modern reproductions, because it had a flat top and was "checkered". The old keys had an oval and smooth (only marked with "Hiatt" and a number) top. The handcuffs used in the film were surely not from 1912
* When the ship is sinking, there is a shot of Victor Garber leaning against the wall in deep contemplation. The camera angle is very tilted and a few things slide off the shelf in front of him. Look carefully on the DVD and you'll see a wire just under his elbow pulling the china cup off the shelf!
* David Warner's character (Lovejoy) carries a polished, plated and highly-engraved handgun that Cal uses to shoot at Jack and Rose as the ship is sinking. The handgun is a Model 1911 Colt .45 calibre semi-automatic pistol. The problem is that the entire 1911 production (and well into 1912) of the Colt .45 was to fill a U.S. government contract for a new sidearm. Lovejoy's Colt wasn't manufactured until after the Titanic sank and thus could not have been aboard the ship.
* At the beginning of the film, at the Southampton port in England, a man holds up his daughter and says "isn't that a big boat" or something like that in an English accent, yet his daughter replies "it's a ship, daddy" in an American accent.
* In an actor point of view shot, the steadycam and operator Jim Muro's reflection is visible in the window as Jack enters the first class area.
* The Master-at-Arms office, where Jack is handcuffed, was in actuality an inside cabin and had no portholes at all.
* In the scene where DiCaprio is showing off his sketchbook, there is one with a man's hands around a young girl's torso with his hands on hers. This drawing is an exact replica of a photograph by celebrated photographer Sally Mann called "Rodney Plogger at 6:01, 1989." Most likely a tribute of some sort by the director to a fellow artist, but obviously this drawing is out of place in 1912.
* In real life, the stokers in the boiler room wore heavy clothing to shield them from the intense heat, not the simple light clothing they wore in the film.
* In the scene where one boat drives back to search for survivors you can see the lightspot of one lamp turn around faster than the man who hold this lamp, so you know that the lightspot is not from the lamp of this man but from a studio lamp. The man sees that himself and turns around very quickly to hold the speed of the spotlight.
* In the departure scene at Southampton, the underwater shot shows the centre propeller begin to spin. The centre, turbine-driven, propeller was only deployed after the ship was in the open sea. It was a sort of "booster" engine that provided extra speed. It would not be used while in tight quarters.
* In the scenes depicting the shift of materials onboard the ship during the wreck, the same china, from the same shelves, fall twice.
* When Jack and Rose are running away from Cal to the first class dinning room, if you look at the glass you can see a black screen, a light, and a crewman.
* When Jack is asking Rose to dance after dancing with the little girl "Cora", you will notice that Jack's hair is down when first asking her and when the camera goes to Rose and then back to Jack that it is back up with, all nice and neat.
* In the scene where Jack is sneaking over the rail to the first class deck, a boy is preparing to spin his toy top. As Jack leaps the rail and begins walking, the boy throws the top and you see it start to spin. The camera angle then changes to show Jack walking, toward the coat he is about to 'borrow', and in the background you can see the boy again drawing back to toss his toy top. Since you have to meticulously wind the string around the top of the toy, it would be impossible for him to be making a separate toss. It's obviously the same toss filmed from two separate angles.
* During the break-up of the ship, David Warner's character, Lovejoy, is right where the gash starts. Right after we see the interior break-up shot, we see the hull breaking, and on the top, where Lovejoy should be, he is nowhere to be seen.
* After Tommy is shot and Fabrizio puts on his life jacket and ends up in the water, water from a porthole is sucking people into the ship, Fabrizio is sucked near the porthole. He stops himself by placing one hand on the side of the window, and one on the top of the window. Suddenly it's a stuntman, with heavy black gloves and long sleeves. Fabrizio saves himself, and it's his arm and hand once more.
* When cuffed Jack is screamming for help, you can see the water level in the porthole in the background although the room in which he is cuffed, has already been shown to be completely under water.
* In the scene where Rose is looking at Jack on the bow of the ship, you can see a tiny bit of desert behind him.
* Professional Radio Operators hold the key used for morse code between their thumb and two fingers - they don't tap it, as was shown. Tapping would produce a harsh voice in morse code.
* When Rose says her line "Yes, I would like to see my drawing" when she is in her stateroom with Lizzie, the shadow of what appears to be a boom mike (behind her and to the left) can be seen dropping down prior to her line and then going back up afterward.
* Titanic moved too close to, and swamped, a fishing boat when leaving Southampton as well as a private yacht off of Cherbourg. She was so large that she exceeded all of the contemporary understandings of fluid dynamics.
* Shortly after the ship has struck the iceberg there is a left to right shot of the exterior of the ship which clearly shows that the ship has a pronounced list. However, if you are familiar with the details of the Titanic you can see that it is going down by the stern and not the bow!
* When Rose is lying on the piece of board and she is trying to wake Jack by shaking his hands and such, there is some frozen stuff under Jacks nose. The scene cuts back to Rose and when we go back to Jack the ice isn't there. Then the scene cuts back to Rose and the next time we see Jack he has it on his face again.
* In the scene Leonardo DiCaprio is first invited to the dinner, you can see, as he is leaving, an earplug on the back of his right ear.
* Before Rose decides to leave the dinner party at the very beginning of the trip, she is wearing a necklace. When she is running outside to go and jump it is gone. In fact the necklace never appears again.
* Though James Cameron was very thorough on researching the ship, he missed one crucial thing: the lifts in first class only went down to D-deck; he shows them going down to E-deck.
* When Titanic is leaving Southampton she accelerates in few seconds to a incredible fast speed. That was impossible then, when large steamers were helped off by tiny tugboats.
* One of the misconceptions about the upper class and steerage passengers is that they were separated solely due to class reasons. First and I believe second class passengers had medical certificates that say they were free of disease, so they didn't have to pass through any kind of port check when they landed. One way of guaranteeing this was to keep them totally separated. This was common practice on the ocean liners of the time. Jack's being able to get into first class wasn't just improbable; it was potentially dangerous.
* Some of the sketches that Jack shows Rose have already been mentioned as copies of photos. One that hasn't been mentioned is of a woman reclining with her arm bent over her head so that her face is practically in her armpit. This is a direct copy of a photograph of Nastassja Kinski, probably from about the mid 1980s.
* When Jack and Rose are talking in the gym, with their backs to the windows, you can see the etched markings in the corner of various panes, showing that they are in fact modern safety glass.
* When Jack and Rose are fleeing along a passage the water causes a gasoline explosion in each light fixture it reaches. The Titanic would have had DC lighting, in which case the bulbs would have simply broken from the temperature differential and the water would have shorted out the entire circuit that that lightbulb was on.
* When Jack is handcuffed below deck you can see the water line on the porthole. Then we're taken to where Kate's at for her dialogue. Then we get a cut to the outside of the ship with a water level view. The camera then dips into the water down to Jack's porthole, clearly under water now, 5 to 8 feet. Yet in various scenes after this point there appears a water line on the porthole, sometimes there and then sometimes not.
* When Jack is helping Rose on to the life boat his face is serious, however in the next scene he seems to be laughing and when the scene changes again he is serious.
* The radio system in use at that time was based on spark transmission and we should never have heard nice clean morse code SOS or CQD beeps.
* Among the items recovered from the ship is an old hand mirror. While suspension of disbelief allows us to accept that a mirror could last this long intact, the fact is that submerged in water, at that pressure the mirror would have turned streaked if not turned totally black.
* When the cars first arrive at the docks, the 'porter man' says to Cal, "If you'd like to check in at the main gate, it's round that way, sir" yet continually looks at Cal, giving no indication as to where the main gate is.
* After running from Cal shooting at them, Rose and Jack run UP through the dining room, away from the flooded staircase. They go up and up, then down 1 flight of stairs. Yet when they look back up those stairs, there's water overflowing down to them at the base. There's also doors holding back a wall of water at the end of the corridor that they enter. Water isn't rising that fast.
* In the scene where Jack is drawing Rose, as he is about to start drawing, the shot cuts back and forth from a close up to a wider shot. In the close up Jack is holding his charcoal pencil, in the wide shot he is not holding it.
* Despite Molly Brown being called Molly throughout the film, she was never called that in her lifetime. Margaret Tobin Brown's nickname in life was "Maggie".
* When Jack, Tommy and Fabrizio pull up the bench to break down the gate, you will notice that the bench was anchored to plywood. Plywood was not produced in 1912.
* In the scene of the nude drawing, where is the maid? In high-society 1912, she would have needed one to remove her corset and her dress. She could not have done this on her own and she certainly would have needed help getting back into it when he finished the drawing. You see her earlier with her maid, Trudy, lacing up her stays. She could not have gone without her corset because all her dresses would have been measured and cut with it on.
* When Jack and Rose are kissing after Rose's flying session, her hand is around his neck... suddenly there's a cut and it's right by her side... so quick....
* Thomas Andrews is shown looking up from his ship plans at a quivering light fixture at the moment when the Titanic hits the iceberg. In reality, he did not feel or become aware of the collision until told about it some 10-15 minutes later.
* In the scene where Titanic is first out and they speed up, Jack and his bud are looking at the dolphins. In the first shot you see the red line and the depth markings in white on the black hull of the boat. Then you see a solid black hull, no red, no markings, a second later, the markings are back.
* When Andrews is on the deck and the crew are lowering the boats, he walks down a staircase, (not the grand) you see a vent, used to bring air into the ship. But all of the vents had motors, and you can see this one doesn't; even though it is still there on the wreck.
* In the scene the captain looks at the bridge sinking, the water level is by the middle of the helm wheel. In the next, from the other entrance, the level is lower than that, and in the next it's again by the middle of the wheel.
* Right after Jack rescue Rose from her slip and the crew show up. He tells Jack not to move. Jack stand up in his stocking feet, his pants and shirt. Next scene the "Master of Arms" putting on the hand cuffs and Jack has his jacket on too...
* When the ship hits the iceberg and the plates of the hull start to buckle and break apart, it shows a scene on the inside of the ship showing the walls buckling in, along those walls you can see vertical pipes that appear to made of PVC, similar to the pipes used for sewage drains in modern building structure. I don't think PVC was around in 1912, the pipes would have been made of cast iron or lead and they would not have been white.
* In a scene where Rose is taking the paintings out of their crates, she pulls out one of Pablo Picasso's great works called "Les Mademoiselles D'Avignon". That's currently in a gallery, so can't have gone down with the ship
* At the end of the film Rose says that 18 people were pulled out of the sea. In fact 32 were.
* When Rose leaves Jack to find help, she runs and wades through water that, at times, is above her waist. However, when she is seen from the back after going up a staircase, the water level on her coat changes a few times and in one shot the coat shows no water line at all but is completely dry.
* In the scene where Jack meets Rose for Dinner and Cal says "you almost look a gentleman", take a look at Rose's facial expression before hand. The shot changes form side view to front view several times and her facial expression changes from smiling to normal at each change of shot in under 15 seconds.
* Eric Braeden, playing John Jacob Astor, is shown on boat deck level of the grand staircase when the glass dome collapses from the weight of the water. But when the real Astor's body was found, it was terribly crushed and covered with soot. In all likelihood, he was one of those unfortunates who was caught beneath the falling forward funnel.
* There was no door between boiler room 6 and the cargo area.
* When the kids are "making out" in the car below decks, numerous cars are visible. I used to subscribe to a magazine published by the Vintage Car Collectors' Association. One contributor estimated that, in light of the number of wealthy people on board, there could be as many as about three dozen cars sitting down there (with the wood, fabric, and tires gone, of course). He was refuted by a Titanic history buff who pointed out that two copies of the manifesto existed. One went down with the boat and the other survived at the destination. Apparently the only car on board was the Peugeot that drove to the dock as the boat was ready to depart. Added error: that car would have been loaded days or weeks earlier.
* Right after Jack and Rose kiss on the front of the boat, the camera slowly backs up to behind the boat so you can see the entire thing. It is a continuous motion for the camera, and Jack and Rose are still at the front of the boat for most of the shot, but if you keep your eye on them, they disappear by the time the camera gets to the back of the boat...
* It is fairly well known that James Cameron built a virtual full-size replica of the ship for shooting the exterior scenes. However only the Starboard side of the ship was constructed; when scenes were required that need to show Portside Cameron employed a method known as 'flipping.' For example, in the early scenes of the film we see Titanic at 'Southampton' and passengers boarding the port side. This was achieved by reversing the camera angles. All the signs on passing carriages/vans and White Star logos were printed back-to-front so that when the scene was printed it could be reversed thus showing both sides of the ship! The problem is that in reality the Starboard side of Titanic was NOT a mirror image of the Portside. On one side of the forward boat deck there were entrances to the First Class Gymnasium and forward Grand Staircase, while on the other side there were the windows of the Officers' Quarters and the entrance to the Wireless Room. On Cameron's Titanic you get to see the gym etc. on both sides of the ship.
* Not really a mistake, just a thought: when Jack is preparing to sketch Rose in the nude, he asks if she thinks Cal will come back into the room, she says "Not as long as the brandy and cigars last". Shouldn't both of them be more worried that her MOTHER would walk in and catch them? Women didn't go to the lounge for brandy and cigars after dinner...
* 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.
* Throughout the whole movie, you can see the outline of hills in the background, even though the Titanic sank in the middle of the Atlantic.
* This mistake, as far as I know, can only be seen in widescreen. After Rose, Jack, Tommy & Fabrizio have run on deck (after breaking the gate down), the camera looks down the ship toward the bow. If you look at this in slow-mo, you can see city lights in the top-left hand corner of the picture. I know these are city lights because in a book about the movie, it shows a similar picture.
* Cal and Rose are supposedly in cabins B52-54-56, but in reality this was the suite occupied by Chairman Bruce Ismay.
* At the end of the movie when Rose releases Jack in the water, she hears the lifeboat with the crew coming back for survivors. She lifts her head up and sees the boat going in the opposite direction of her. She then jumps off the piece of wood and goes to her left to get the whistle. When she blows the whistle she once again looks straight up ahead and sees the boat. How could the boat have gone all the way around to her new position in a matter of a few seconds?
* When Cal is chasing Jack and Rose by the clock, you can see he is holding Lovejoy's gun in his left hand. However, after he slipped over, you can see him picking himself up, the gun now on his right hand side. Wouldn't the gun have landed on his left?
* 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.
* 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.
* When the Titanic first set out in 1912, almost immediately after leaving the dock, the suction of her propellers drew in a neighbouring ship, the New York. It snapped its lines making sounds like gunshots and the ship came within several feet of slamming into the Titanic's stern. Only the quick thinking of the tugboat captains and Smith (Who ordered a touch ahead on the port propeller) stopped it from actually making contact. You'd think that this event would've been at least noticed by Jack or Fabrizio who would've had front row seats, yet it's not mentioned at all in the movie.
* How is it that the lights stay on so long while the ship is sinking. They don't totally go out until about the time the ship breaks in half (although about a third of the boat is underwater by then). The excuse could be made that there are multiple circuits for the lights in the ship, but there is at least one wide shot that shows all of the lights on the entire ship flicker at the same time. Also, I have been on a few modern day cruise ships and they have hardly any lights illuminating the outside decks at night yet the Titanic seems to have an abundance of outside lighting.
* Early in the film Jack smokes hand-rolled cigarettes. When he is smoking on the stern deck before Rose is thinking about jumping, he is smoking a mass-produced filter cigarette.
* Throughout the entire film something kept bugging me which I didn't click to until I saw it on video. The Bill Paxton character flies the old woman to the ship (probably at great expense)to tell him where the diamond is. He lets her settle in, eases her gently into the story ("Are you ready to go back to Titanic?") and she then goes on for 3 hours about Jack, her fiance, the ship, etc. Why doesn't he, or anyone else, ever say, "That's fascinating Rose, but what about the ***ing diamond"? Let's not forget, his character is basically a grave robber, he only wants the diamond for the finder's fee.
* Rose holds the axe further up before she swings but during the swing her hands are lower.
* On Sunday, before the church service, we see Rose's mom tightening Rose's corset. Later that day, when Jack draws Rose, she doesn't have any red marks on her skin from wearing the corset. These things broke people's ribs. She should have had at least some indication that she had been wearing one.
* During the scene at the steerage party, Rose is clapping her hands along to the music. Then Jack beckons to her to join in the dance, and she stops clapping. Next shot, she's clapping again.
* When we see the old couple lying on their bed waiting for the ship to sink, the water rushing in under the bed does not rise.
* When Rose is at the dinner party at the beginning of the trip, her hair is all done up in a fancy bun on the top of her head. Minutes later, when she is running outside to go jump, her hair is suddenly all down and long.
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This here forum is where we can post all the movie errors. I'll start:
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.
* 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? 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.
* The two butlers are looking for Rose with a torch, down below with the cars - torches didn't exist in 1912.
* 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.
* 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 waterlillies, 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
* As the boat is flooding and Jack and Rose are almost completely submerged in water, sometimes you can see that Rose's dress is cut knee-length to help her move more efficiently in water. One prime example of this is when Jack plunges underwater to get the keys to the gate in front of them.
* At the part when Jack or Rose (I can't tell which) wipes their hand on the fogged up window, they show it again in the next shot and you can definitely tell it's a completely different handprint.
* On the morning before Titanic sank (Sunday) Jack tries to go to the first class dining room to see Rose (I think it was the dining room). In real life, EVERYONE was allowed to go to the service, not just first class, though there were services in all the classes, but everyone was invited to attend.
* When the ship is sinking, and Rose and Jack are running through the inside of the ship, you can blatantly see cameras and crew outside the window.
* When the old Rose is shown at her house, she has three fish in the fish bowl. When she arrives at the place where they are exploring the Titanic, She unloads her fish bowl, which now has five fish.
* In the scene where Rose hands Jack a dime for drawing her, she hands him a Roosevelt dime, which were not minted until 1946. The correct dime would have been a Barber head dime.
* In the scene when Jack is dressed for dinner and waiting at the bottom of the grand staircase, Rose is shown taking Jack's arm twice as they are going to the dining room, once close up and once again in the background when Cal is talking.
* There is a dancing scene in a ballroom with a lot of mirrors, and when you look closely, you can see the filmcrew in one of the mirrors.
* Rose shows Jack several masterpieces of art she has recently purchased in Europe. I've never read a critic question how it is that those same masterpieces by Cezanne, Picasso, and Monet which hang in museums today, were on a ship that sunk, destroying virtually everything on it.
* 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
* Rose mentions Freud's ideas on the male preoccupation with size to Bruce. However this is 1912, and Freud did not publish the work relating to this until 1920 in The Pleasure Principle. Also, up until 1919, Freud relied solely on data capture from females.
* In the scene where Jack enters the first class door for the first time in his tux if you look closely in the glass door you can see a cameraman behind him.
* Leo freezes and sinks into the ocean from the door. This wouldn't happen. Partially or even totally frozen human bodies float in water. Even fully-clothed frozen bodies have been shown to float.
* When Rose is arriving in New York half asleep, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is the same colour as now (green). But if you visit the statue of liberty, you'll find a plate telling you that the original color was brown, and it took over 35 years for it to change colour. The statue of liberty was placed there in 1886, so in 1912 it should have still been brown
* When Jack and Rose are running from the raging water that is gushing down the hall after them you can see the faces of the stunt doubles through the computer generated ones of Leonardo and Kate.
* When Jack is hand-cuffed to some pipes and the ship is sinking, Rose finds an axe to save him. Check out the few frames where Rose is actually swinging at Jack's handcuffs. You can see she never even came close to hitting them - or Jack - or the pipes he was handcuffed to! If you have a really good VCR you can even see that Jack has break-away handcuffs on.
* Why oh why is one of the people getting on the life boats wearing a digital watch? Surely they weren't around in 1912?
* After Rose has helped Jack to get loose from where he is handcuffed, as he is jumping over a bench one minute he has the handcuffs on, the next shot they're gone. Then they're back.
* At the end when rose is lying on the wooden door she is looking at the sky singing "come Josephine..." When you look hard you see that the stars in the sky are symmetrical. You can actually draw a line in it. [That is not exactly the case. If you look VERY carefully (this is much more effective on a big screen), you can see that the stars form the outline of the famous necklace, The Heart of the Ocean. I guess Cameron was a little bored that day.]
* When Cal is chasing Jack and Rose through the dining room and shooting at them, the windows in the background have sunlight shining through. Since the Titanic sunk in the middle of the night, no light should be coming through the windows. Hard to believe the crew took hours to light a "night" scene and didn't notice the sunbeams in it. This mistake can also be seen in a still photo in various movie tie-in books.
* According to the film officer Murdoch murdered a passenger and then committed suicide, a point in the film that made his home town very angry and the film company donated £5000 to a charity but Cameron has never appologised. According to eye witness accounts he gave his lifejacket to a passenger and went down with the ship.
* When Jack and Rose finally come aboard the top of the ship after she rescues him they ask the Colonel if there are any boats left and he says "up that way" The woman on the left, who looks kind of pathetic, is then later seen on the life boat with Molly Brown. (They show her face right after Molly says the line "its your men out there") The life boat with Molly Brown in it was sent out before the scene with the Colonel, meaning that she must have gone on the life boat, swam back onto the ship and then back onto the lifeboat.
* When the woman jumps into the water from the ship, ropes are hanging all around and chairs are seen floating in the water. When the camera angle changes, there are no chairs in the water and there are no ropes around her.
* In the scene where the ship tilts to a vertical position, you see people falling and hitting objects on the deck. In a close up of that, you can see that a black metal cylinder thing has wrinkles in it and bends when someone hits it.
* In the dinner scene, just after Jack says, "Never did like it much", Cal starts laughing, but in the next shot he has a straight face and is chewing.
* 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.
* Not so much a mistake but rather a unique cameo is in the scene where Jack is sketching the picture of Rose. The hands you see in the close up scenes are actually those of James Cameron himself drawing with the charcoal.
* Leo blinks as he sinks into the water after Rose lets go of his hand after the ship sank.
* Anyone who's ever been on a boat knows how dangerous it is to have a bigger boat floating nearby - it produces huge waves that make the little boat tilt and many times turn over. Now what kind of waves would such a huge ship as Titanic produce!? However, at the beginning of the movie, when Titanic is leaving the port, there is a fishing boat nearby with a fisherman in it - and nothing even moves.
* When Rose is about to jump off the back of the boat there is a long shot of her and she is wearing black socks. But when Jack helps her back over she slips because her red shoes get caught on her dress.
* Jack says "Look at that one jump," when looking at the dolphins before it actually does.
* When the water crashes through the dome, although this is a very impressive effect, look at the hole the water comes through. You can see the peak of the set and a bit of the huge bucket used to tip the water.
* Look closely at the location of Rose's beauty-mark the first time you see her at the dock. It is on the opposite side of her face during the rest of the movie.
* When Jack and Rose get into the elevator to get away from Cal's guy, there are a couple of people in it. When Rose gives him the finger, there's no one behind them anymore. When they get off again, there's no one in it either.
* When the ship is about to leave the dock, there's a lot of people saying goodbye to the ones that are going to leave the city. In the following shots, you can see jack and his friends playing cards inside the pub. If you look through the window you won't see anyone. In the next shot, when Jack leaves the pub, the crowd is there again.
* During one side shot of the ship sinking at night, the bow has clearly begun to slide under. There are several lines hanging off the side of the boat. The lines are perpendicular to the boat, not the water, indicating that the model was filmed when level and tilted digitally.
* When Jack and Rose are talking on the deck. Rose is explaining to Jack why she considered jumping. She stated that she felt that she was screaming at the top of her lungs and no one was listening. He looks at her ring and states that she'd sink straight to the bottom...yadda, yadda, yadda. If you watch that scene, pay attention to Rose's hair. One second, her hair in perfectly curled with bangs, then it is behind her ears. It alternates back and forth: bangs, no bangs, bangs, no bangs until she grabs his portfolio and they sit down on the chairs to look at his drawings.
*While the sets duplicated the woodwork detailing of the Titanic, they used "flat-sawn" oak which has a completely different appearance from the more expensive "quarter-sawn" oak used in the Titanic (and virtually all Victorian and Edwardian cabinet work)
* The diamond in the film, "La Coeur de la Mer," is supposed to be a diamond owned by Louis XVI and lost during the French Revolution, which Lovett refers to also as the "Blue Diamond of the Crown." In one early scene Lovett mentions to Rose that "Today it would be worth more than the Hope Diamond." This is impossible: the diamond of which he speaks is in fact the Hope Diamond, which was also owned by Louis XVI, lost during the French Revolution, heart-shaped, and known as the Blue Diamond of the Crown while owned by the French monarchy. The two stones are one and the same. Also, the Hope was recut sometime in the early 19th century to its present oval shape, so that it had lost its heart-shaped form a century before Titanic sailed; this makes "The Heart of the Ocean" something of a misnomer. Needless to say the Hope Diamond was never on board Titanic, and is now lodged safely in the Smithsonian rather than lying at the bottom of the ocean.
* A small one & probably only noticed by dog trainers. When the dogs are being brought on board, they are on leather leashes made by J&J Dog Supplies, invented in the 1970s. It is the type of leash preferred by professional trainers, who probably supplied the dogs for the movie, and is distinguished by the "braid" near the snap, rather than by a sewn or riveted section.
* During the drawing scene, 'Jack' is using modern square sided, pressed charcoal with numbers embossed in the side of it. In 1912, Jack would have been using vine charcoal which was round and made of 'charcoalized' willow twigs.
* Many scenes used computer graphics to show the length of the ship. Passengers were also added walking on deck. The shadows for the passengers don't always match. There is actually a shadow of a woman wearing a large hat when the woman isn't wearing a hat at all.
* When the camera pulls back through the pub window to reveal the card players, if you look carefully in the background you will see a Steam Engine on the dock. Unfortunately the computer generated loco is clearly American as it has two domes, something NEVER seen on British locos. It also is shunting what looks like a carriage - again, this is also American. Carriages were rarely seen at docks, except if a train was connecting to a ship, and this was not common until the 1920s.
* In the scene where Rose is saying "I'll let go" in one of the shots you'll notice banding of the night sky - that appears on both VCR and DVD.
* Rose is wearing low heeled laced shoes throughout the entirety of the sinking scenes. Jack helps her jump off a small deck in order to flee for the lifeboats (she's wearing her lifejacket at this point). In this scene, Rose is suddenly wearing flat moccasin-type shoes of similar bone colour. Shoes then revert back to low heeled lace-ups after small jump assisted by Jack takes place.
* During the scene where Jack is handcuffed to the pipe, the water level rises above his porthole. Yet about half a minute later, the porthole is open whilst still underwater. Why does Jack not get completely pounded with sea-water?
* When Jack and Rose are dancing at the party in steerage, whilst spinning each other around, the camera shows each of them from each other's perspective. However, they are both shown as going in different directions - one clockwise and one anti-clockwise.
* When Rose is running in the hallways trying to find help for Jack when he is hand-cuffed, she finds a man and asks him to help her free Jack. She gets frustrated with him and says "listen" then hits him. In shots before (you can put it in slow motion to see it) you can look at the man's hand and it already has blood on it before he touches his face.
* When Jack and Rose are at the 3rd class party right after the elegant dinner Rose grabs a cigarette from a man's hand and smokes it once and gives it back before she stands on tip toes but when the camera films her again starting to rise up she still has the cigarette in her hand.
* If you look real closely at the brass buttons on the captain's jacket, you can see that they were apparently made in 1922 - ten years after the ship sank!
* In one of the sinking scenes, you can see the rectangular strobe lamps showing through the fabric in the glass dome.
* Jack (Leonardo Di Caprio) was handcuffed with old English Hiatt's Darby Handcuffs (type 104). This is historically correct. But the key for these handcuffs identifies them as modern reproductions, because it had a flat top and was "checkered". The old keys had an oval and smooth (only marked with "Hiatt" and a number) top. The handcuffs used in the film were surely not from 1912
* When the ship is sinking, there is a shot of Victor Garber leaning against the wall in deep contemplation. The camera angle is very tilted and a few things slide off the shelf in front of him. Look carefully on the DVD and you'll see a wire just under his elbow pulling the china cup off the shelf!
* David Warner's character (Lovejoy) carries a polished, plated and highly-engraved handgun that Cal uses to shoot at Jack and Rose as the ship is sinking. The handgun is a Model 1911 Colt .45 calibre semi-automatic pistol. The problem is that the entire 1911 production (and well into 1912) of the Colt .45 was to fill a U.S. government contract for a new sidearm. Lovejoy's Colt wasn't manufactured until after the Titanic sank and thus could not have been aboard the ship.
* At the beginning of the film, at the Southampton port in England, a man holds up his daughter and says "isn't that a big boat" or something like that in an English accent, yet his daughter replies "it's a ship, daddy" in an American accent.
* In an actor point of view shot, the steadycam and operator Jim Muro's reflection is visible in the window as Jack enters the first class area.
* The Master-at-Arms office, where Jack is handcuffed, was in actuality an inside cabin and had no portholes at all.
* In the scene where DiCaprio is showing off his sketchbook, there is one with a man's hands around a young girl's torso with his hands on hers. This drawing is an exact replica of a photograph by celebrated photographer Sally Mann called "Rodney Plogger at 6:01, 1989." Most likely a tribute of some sort by the director to a fellow artist, but obviously this drawing is out of place in 1912.
* In real life, the stokers in the boiler room wore heavy clothing to shield them from the intense heat, not the simple light clothing they wore in the film.
* In the scene where one boat drives back to search for survivors you can see the lightspot of one lamp turn around faster than the man who hold this lamp, so you know that the lightspot is not from the lamp of this man but from a studio lamp. The man sees that himself and turns around very quickly to hold the speed of the spotlight.
* In the departure scene at Southampton, the underwater shot shows the centre propeller begin to spin. The centre, turbine-driven, propeller was only deployed after the ship was in the open sea. It was a sort of "booster" engine that provided extra speed. It would not be used while in tight quarters.
* In the scenes depicting the shift of materials onboard the ship during the wreck, the same china, from the same shelves, fall twice.
* When Jack and Rose are running away from Cal to the first class dinning room, if you look at the glass you can see a black screen, a light, and a crewman.
* When Jack is asking Rose to dance after dancing with the little girl "Cora", you will notice that Jack's hair is down when first asking her and when the camera goes to Rose and then back to Jack that it is back up with, all nice and neat.
* In the scene where Jack is sneaking over the rail to the first class deck, a boy is preparing to spin his toy top. As Jack leaps the rail and begins walking, the boy throws the top and you see it start to spin. The camera angle then changes to show Jack walking, toward the coat he is about to 'borrow', and in the background you can see the boy again drawing back to toss his toy top. Since you have to meticulously wind the string around the top of the toy, it would be impossible for him to be making a separate toss. It's obviously the same toss filmed from two separate angles.
* During the break-up of the ship, David Warner's character, Lovejoy, is right where the gash starts. Right after we see the interior break-up shot, we see the hull breaking, and on the top, where Lovejoy should be, he is nowhere to be seen.
* After Tommy is shot and Fabrizio puts on his life jacket and ends up in the water, water from a porthole is sucking people into the ship, Fabrizio is sucked near the porthole. He stops himself by placing one hand on the side of the window, and one on the top of the window. Suddenly it's a stuntman, with heavy black gloves and long sleeves. Fabrizio saves himself, and it's his arm and hand once more.
* When cuffed Jack is screamming for help, you can see the water level in the porthole in the background although the room in which he is cuffed, has already been shown to be completely under water.
* In the scene where Rose is looking at Jack on the bow of the ship, you can see a tiny bit of desert behind him.
* Professional Radio Operators hold the key used for morse code between their thumb and two fingers - they don't tap it, as was shown. Tapping would produce a harsh voice in morse code.
* When Rose says her line "Yes, I would like to see my drawing" when she is in her stateroom with Lizzie, the shadow of what appears to be a boom mike (behind her and to the left) can be seen dropping down prior to her line and then going back up afterward.
* Titanic moved too close to, and swamped, a fishing boat when leaving Southampton as well as a private yacht off of Cherbourg. She was so large that she exceeded all of the contemporary understandings of fluid dynamics.
* Shortly after the ship has struck the iceberg there is a left to right shot of the exterior of the ship which clearly shows that the ship has a pronounced list. However, if you are familiar with the details of the Titanic you can see that it is going down by the stern and not the bow!
* When Rose is lying on the piece of board and she is trying to wake Jack by shaking his hands and such, there is some frozen stuff under Jacks nose. The scene cuts back to Rose and when we go back to Jack the ice isn't there. Then the scene cuts back to Rose and the next time we see Jack he has it on his face again.
* In the scene Leonardo DiCaprio is first invited to the dinner, you can see, as he is leaving, an earplug on the back of his right ear.
* Before Rose decides to leave the dinner party at the very beginning of the trip, she is wearing a necklace. When she is running outside to go and jump it is gone. In fact the necklace never appears again.
* Though James Cameron was very thorough on researching the ship, he missed one crucial thing: the lifts in first class only went down to D-deck; he shows them going down to E-deck.
* When Titanic is leaving Southampton she accelerates in few seconds to a incredible fast speed. That was impossible then, when large steamers were helped off by tiny tugboats.
* One of the misconceptions about the upper class and steerage passengers is that they were separated solely due to class reasons. First and I believe second class passengers had medical certificates that say they were free of disease, so they didn't have to pass through any kind of port check when they landed. One way of guaranteeing this was to keep them totally separated. This was common practice on the ocean liners of the time. Jack's being able to get into first class wasn't just improbable; it was potentially dangerous.
* Some of the sketches that Jack shows Rose have already been mentioned as copies of photos. One that hasn't been mentioned is of a woman reclining with her arm bent over her head so that her face is practically in her armpit. This is a direct copy of a photograph of Nastassja Kinski, probably from about the mid 1980s.
* When Jack and Rose are talking in the gym, with their backs to the windows, you can see the etched markings in the corner of various panes, showing that they are in fact modern safety glass.
* When Jack and Rose are fleeing along a passage the water causes a gasoline explosion in each light fixture it reaches. The Titanic would have had DC lighting, in which case the bulbs would have simply broken from the temperature differential and the water would have shorted out the entire circuit that that lightbulb was on.
* When Jack is handcuffed below deck you can see the water line on the porthole. Then we're taken to where Kate's at for her dialogue. Then we get a cut to the outside of the ship with a water level view. The camera then dips into the water down to Jack's porthole, clearly under water now, 5 to 8 feet. Yet in various scenes after this point there appears a water line on the porthole, sometimes there and then sometimes not.
* When Jack is helping Rose on to the life boat his face is serious, however in the next scene he seems to be laughing and when the scene changes again he is serious.
* The radio system in use at that time was based on spark transmission and we should never have heard nice clean morse code SOS or CQD beeps.
* Among the items recovered from the ship is an old hand mirror. While suspension of disbelief allows us to accept that a mirror could last this long intact, the fact is that submerged in water, at that pressure the mirror would have turned streaked if not turned totally black.
* When the cars first arrive at the docks, the 'porter man' says to Cal, "If you'd like to check in at the main gate, it's round that way, sir" yet continually looks at Cal, giving no indication as to where the main gate is.
* After running from Cal shooting at them, Rose and Jack run UP through the dining room, away from the flooded staircase. They go up and up, then down 1 flight of stairs. Yet when they look back up those stairs, there's water overflowing down to them at the base. There's also doors holding back a wall of water at the end of the corridor that they enter. Water isn't rising that fast.
* In the scene where Jack is drawing Rose, as he is about to start drawing, the shot cuts back and forth from a close up to a wider shot. In the close up Jack is holding his charcoal pencil, in the wide shot he is not holding it.
* Despite Molly Brown being called Molly throughout the film, she was never called that in her lifetime. Margaret Tobin Brown's nickname in life was "Maggie".
* When Jack, Tommy and Fabrizio pull up the bench to break down the gate, you will notice that the bench was anchored to plywood. Plywood was not produced in 1912.
* In the scene of the nude drawing, where is the maid? In high-society 1912, she would have needed one to remove her corset and her dress. She could not have done this on her own and she certainly would have needed help getting back into it when he finished the drawing. You see her earlier with her maid, Trudy, lacing up her stays. She could not have gone without her corset because all her dresses would have been measured and cut with it on.
* When Jack and Rose are kissing after Rose's flying session, her hand is around his neck... suddenly there's a cut and it's right by her side... so quick....
* Thomas Andrews is shown looking up from his ship plans at a quivering light fixture at the moment when the Titanic hits the iceberg. In reality, he did not feel or become aware of the collision until told about it some 10-15 minutes later.
* In the scene where Titanic is first out and they speed up, Jack and his bud are looking at the dolphins. In the first shot you see the red line and the depth markings in white on the black hull of the boat. Then you see a solid black hull, no red, no markings, a second later, the markings are back.
* When Andrews is on the deck and the crew are lowering the boats, he walks down a staircase, (not the grand) you see a vent, used to bring air into the ship. But all of the vents had motors, and you can see this one doesn't; even though it is still there on the wreck.
* In the scene the captain looks at the bridge sinking, the water level is by the middle of the helm wheel. In the next, from the other entrance, the level is lower than that, and in the next it's again by the middle of the wheel.
* Right after Jack rescue Rose from her slip and the crew show up. He tells Jack not to move. Jack stand up in his stocking feet, his pants and shirt. Next scene the "Master of Arms" putting on the hand cuffs and Jack has his jacket on too...
* When the ship hits the iceberg and the plates of the hull start to buckle and break apart, it shows a scene on the inside of the ship showing the walls buckling in, along those walls you can see vertical pipes that appear to made of PVC, similar to the pipes used for sewage drains in modern building structure. I don't think PVC was around in 1912, the pipes would have been made of cast iron or lead and they would not have been white.
* In a scene where Rose is taking the paintings out of their crates, she pulls out one of Pablo Picasso's great works called "Les Mademoiselles D'Avignon". That's currently in a gallery, so can't have gone down with the ship
* At the end of the film Rose says that 18 people were pulled out of the sea. In fact 32 were.
* When Rose leaves Jack to find help, she runs and wades through water that, at times, is above her waist. However, when she is seen from the back after going up a staircase, the water level on her coat changes a few times and in one shot the coat shows no water line at all but is completely dry.
* In the scene where Jack meets Rose for Dinner and Cal says "you almost look a gentleman", take a look at Rose's facial expression before hand. The shot changes form side view to front view several times and her facial expression changes from smiling to normal at each change of shot in under 15 seconds.
* Eric Braeden, playing John Jacob Astor, is shown on boat deck level of the grand staircase when the glass dome collapses from the weight of the water. But when the real Astor's body was found, it was terribly crushed and covered with soot. In all likelihood, he was one of those unfortunates who was caught beneath the falling forward funnel.
* There was no door between boiler room 6 and the cargo area.
* When the kids are "making out" in the car below decks, numerous cars are visible. I used to subscribe to a magazine published by the Vintage Car Collectors' Association. One contributor estimated that, in light of the number of wealthy people on board, there could be as many as about three dozen cars sitting down there (with the wood, fabric, and tires gone, of course). He was refuted by a Titanic history buff who pointed out that two copies of the manifesto existed. One went down with the boat and the other survived at the destination. Apparently the only car on board was the Peugeot that drove to the dock as the boat was ready to depart. Added error: that car would have been loaded days or weeks earlier.
* Right after Jack and Rose kiss on the front of the boat, the camera slowly backs up to behind the boat so you can see the entire thing. It is a continuous motion for the camera, and Jack and Rose are still at the front of the boat for most of the shot, but if you keep your eye on them, they disappear by the time the camera gets to the back of the boat...
* It is fairly well known that James Cameron built a virtual full-size replica of the ship for shooting the exterior scenes. However only the Starboard side of the ship was constructed; when scenes were required that need to show Portside Cameron employed a method known as 'flipping.' For example, in the early scenes of the film we see Titanic at 'Southampton' and passengers boarding the port side. This was achieved by reversing the camera angles. All the signs on passing carriages/vans and White Star logos were printed back-to-front so that when the scene was printed it could be reversed thus showing both sides of the ship! The problem is that in reality the Starboard side of Titanic was NOT a mirror image of the Portside. On one side of the forward boat deck there were entrances to the First Class Gymnasium and forward Grand Staircase, while on the other side there were the windows of the Officers' Quarters and the entrance to the Wireless Room. On Cameron's Titanic you get to see the gym etc. on both sides of the ship.
* Not really a mistake, just a thought: when Jack is preparing to sketch Rose in the nude, he asks if she thinks Cal will come back into the room, she says "Not as long as the brandy and cigars last". Shouldn't both of them be more worried that her MOTHER would walk in and catch them? Women didn't go to the lounge for brandy and cigars after dinner...
* 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.
* Throughout the whole movie, you can see the outline of hills in the background, even though the Titanic sank in the middle of the Atlantic.
* This mistake, as far as I know, can only be seen in widescreen. After Rose, Jack, Tommy & Fabrizio have run on deck (after breaking the gate down), the camera looks down the ship toward the bow. If you look at this in slow-mo, you can see city lights in the top-left hand corner of the picture. I know these are city lights because in a book about the movie, it shows a similar picture.
* Cal and Rose are supposedly in cabins B52-54-56, but in reality this was the suite occupied by Chairman Bruce Ismay.
* At the end of the movie when Rose releases Jack in the water, she hears the lifeboat with the crew coming back for survivors. She lifts her head up and sees the boat going in the opposite direction of her. She then jumps off the piece of wood and goes to her left to get the whistle. When she blows the whistle she once again looks straight up ahead and sees the boat. How could the boat have gone all the way around to her new position in a matter of a few seconds?
* When Cal is chasing Jack and Rose by the clock, you can see he is holding Lovejoy's gun in his left hand. However, after he slipped over, you can see him picking himself up, the gun now on his right hand side. Wouldn't the gun have landed on his left?
* 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.
* 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.
* When the Titanic first set out in 1912, almost immediately after leaving the dock, the suction of her propellers drew in a neighbouring ship, the New York. It snapped its lines making sounds like gunshots and the ship came within several feet of slamming into the Titanic's stern. Only the quick thinking of the tugboat captains and Smith (Who ordered a touch ahead on the port propeller) stopped it from actually making contact. You'd think that this event would've been at least noticed by Jack or Fabrizio who would've had front row seats, yet it's not mentioned at all in the movie.
* How is it that the lights stay on so long while the ship is sinking. They don't totally go out until about the time the ship breaks in half (although about a third of the boat is underwater by then). The excuse could be made that there are multiple circuits for the lights in the ship, but there is at least one wide shot that shows all of the lights on the entire ship flicker at the same time. Also, I have been on a few modern day cruise ships and they have hardly any lights illuminating the outside decks at night yet the Titanic seems to have an abundance of outside lighting.
* Early in the film Jack smokes hand-rolled cigarettes. When he is smoking on the stern deck before Rose is thinking about jumping, he is smoking a mass-produced filter cigarette.
* Throughout the entire film something kept bugging me which I didn't click to until I saw it on video. The Bill Paxton character flies the old woman to the ship (probably at great expense)to tell him where the diamond is. He lets her settle in, eases her gently into the story ("Are you ready to go back to Titanic?") and she then goes on for 3 hours about Jack, her fiance, the ship, etc. Why doesn't he, or anyone else, ever say, "That's fascinating Rose, but what about the ***ing diamond"? Let's not forget, his character is basically a grave robber, he only wants the diamond for the finder's fee.
* Rose holds the axe further up before she swings but during the swing her hands are lower.
* On Sunday, before the church service, we see Rose's mom tightening Rose's corset. Later that day, when Jack draws Rose, she doesn't have any red marks on her skin from wearing the corset. These things broke people's ribs. She should have had at least some indication that she had been wearing one.
* During the scene at the steerage party, Rose is clapping her hands along to the music. Then Jack beckons to her to join in the dance, and she stops clapping. Next shot, she's clapping again.
* When we see the old couple lying on their bed waiting for the ship to sink, the water rushing in under the bed does not rise.
* When Rose is at the dinner party at the beginning of the trip, her hair is all done up in a fancy bun on the top of her head. Minutes later, when she is running outside to go jump, her hair is suddenly all down and long.
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