Titanic Movie Details
Titanic taglines:Nothing On Earth Could Come Between Them.
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| IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 out of 217,122 votes |
“Titanic” 1997 by James Cameron – Movie Goofs
“Titanic” Plot Summary
Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the ‘unsinkable’ ship.
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“Titanic” Goofs List
- Factual errors: The Titanic’s middle propeller was powered by a Parsons steam turbine, which ran off expelled steam from the two main reciprocating engines. This meant that the turbine could only be run when a full head of steam had been generated. It would not and could not be used for maneuvering in port. Hence, the middle propeller would have been stationary when starting away from the dock.
- Factual errors: The reciprocating engines were controlled from a platform between the two engines about midway between the floor and the top of the cylinders, not from the engine room floor. Even if the engines were controlled from the floor level the controls would have been at the opposite end of the engines since we are looking at the aft end of the engines, and the boiler rooms are forward of the reciprocating engine room. Also, it would have been quite impossible to see those engines from the vantage point we are given since the watertight bulkhead between the reciprocating engine room and turbine engine room would prevent us from being able to stand back far enough.
- Continuity: When Captain Smith orders, “Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch – let’s stretch her legs,” they are standing to the right of the wheelhouse looking forward with the sun coming from their left. When Murdoch walks into the wheelhouse to carry out the order, the sun is behind him.
- Continuity: During the scene of the ship rising vertical immediately after it has split apart, there is a shot of the stern being pulled in by the bow, then there is a close-up shot of the deck at a 45 degree angle. It appears to not be moving (however, passengers are still sliding off), and there is no water on the hull visible.
- Anachronisms: [acknowledged by the Director] Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wisota, near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Lake Wissota is a man-made reservoir which wasn’t created until five years after the Titanic sank.
- Factual errors: According to historians, nobody on the ship referred to Margaret Brown as “Molly”, her nickname at the time was actually “Maggie”.
- Anachronisms: The pipe frames supporting the third class berths have set-screw speed rail fittings, not developed until 1946.
- Factual errors: In overhead shots of the forecastle deck, the skylight for the crew’s galley can be seen located to starboard. This skylight was actually on the port side.
- Anachronisms: A close-up of Captain Smith reveals that he is wearing modern contact lenses.
- Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the movie, when the Titanic is nearly vertical, a man, who is sliding down the ship, hits one of the capstans and it bends showing that it is clearly made of rubber.
- Factual errors: First Officer Murdoch, a real person, was depicted as committing suicide by gunshot in the movie. First Office Murdoch apparently went down with the Titanic or died by freezing/drowning in the water.
- Revealing mistakes: When Rose punches the crewman who is dragging her down the hall, you can see the blood (from the blood pack) on his hand before it reaches his face. (Can be seen better in slow motion)
- Anachronisms: The idea of Freud that Rose mentions to Ismay would be developed years later after the sinking.
- Continuity: When Rose is doing her tippy toe thing at the party, she is seen with a cigarette in her hand and as the the camera cuts between shots, it disappears then comes back when the camera cuts again.
- Factual errors: The main characters have lunch in the Palm Court/Verandah on A Deck. These were not used for dining, although passengers could order tea or a small snack.
- Factual errors: Cal orders lamb with mint sauce for himself and Rose. Lamb was only available for dinner on the ship, while mutton was reserved for lunch. The lamb was prepared in the D-Deck galley and would not have been served in the Palm Court.
- Anachronisms: The button on the left side of Jack’s borrowed jacket is a “Kingsdrew” button, first made in 1922.
- Continuity: Jack takes Rose and Molly’s arms to go into dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot they are still standing apart.
- Miscellaneous: When Rose and Jack (among others) are standing on the ship as it is sinking and they are about the go into the water, the size of the waves compared to the people don’t match up. It looks as if the people were pasted there next to normal-sized waves.
- Continuity: When Rose gets the fire ax to cut Jack loose, she breaks the glass. When the camera comes back, more glass is present than what was broken when she first broke it.
- Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the glass door opened for Jack as he enters the dining room.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: “Eternal Father Strong To Save” is sung during the worship service. While Robert Nelson Spencer wrote two verses in 1937, the lines quoted in the film were quoted in a book published in 1921 and were probably written much earlier.
- Factual errors: When Rose “flies” from the ship’s bow, the sunlight is clearly falling almost exactly straight across the ship from left to right. On the evening of April 14, the ship had in fact turned to almost a due west course, placing the actual setting sun almost straight ahead and slightly to the right.
- Revealing mistakes: In the shot where Rose “flies,” the faces of Jack and Rose are lit from a different angle, though still from the left.
- Continuity: The length of Rose’s fingernails throughout the movie.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The hands sketching Rose are clearly too old to belong to Jack. (They actually belong to director James Cameron.)
- Anachronisms: The gauges in the engine room are fitted with sweated tubing fittings, a plumbing technique not available when the ship was constructed. The fittings should have been threaded brass.
- Factual errors: There was no door between boiler room 6 and the cargo area (and no access to any but authorized crew). If there had been a door, it would have entered the third cargo area aft, not the one where the Renault was stored.
- Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in a brass panel on the front of the Renault that Jack and Rose find in the cargo hold.
- Factual errors: When the radio operator sends out the “CQD” message, the pattern of dots and dashes he makes with the key is not intelligible Morse code.
- Factual errors: Professional radio operators hold the key with the thumb and two fingers, rather than tapping on it as shown. Tapping would produce a bad “fist” (the Morse code equivalent of a harsh voice).
- Factual errors: Jack is supposedly held prisoner in the Master-at-Arms’ office, which is depicted as having a porthole. On the Titanic, this room was an interior room and hence would have no portholes.
- Factual errors: The crew of lifeboat #14 didn’t have flashlights to use when looking for survivors in the water. Cameron knew this when making the film, but used the flashlights to provide lighting.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Some artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic included a number made of paper, which were saved by being in leather bags or such; it is therefore possible for Jack’s sketch of Rose to have survived as shown.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The tugs that assisted the Titanic away from the Southampton dock did belong to the company known today as the Red Funnel Line, but they had not yet adopted that nickname or colour scheme. As shown in the film, the actual tugs had beige funnels.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although the Titanic’s fourth smokestack was not an exhaust avenue for the ship’s engines, it was used as an outlet for the Titanic’s massive kitchen. Since the Titanic used coal stoves, some smoke would have been coming out of the fourth smokestack. In one of the flyovers of the ship, it is possible to see that most of the top of the fourth smokestack is sealed.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It is often claimed that there is a tattoo visible on Rose’s arm when she looks to be committing suicide. It is actually a moon-shaped black dot – some embellishment that has come loose from her robe, clearly visible in closer shots.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although her fingers partially obscure it, the coin that Rose gives to Jack is generally agreed to be a Barber dime, minted 1892-1916, not a modern dime as some viewers have incorrectly asserted. The Barber dime is distinctive because the portrait of Liberty on the head of the coin faces the right, not the left.
- Anachronisms: The gun Cal uses is in fact a model 1911A1, a modified version of the 1911 that did
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