Impact/ Regain d'intérêt pour le Titanic
Aucun film avant celui de James Cameron n'a suscité un tel engouement pour l'histoire du navire.Le film de James Cameron, en plus de son succès planétaire, relance fortement l'intérêt du public pour le Titanic et son histoire.De nombreux films avaient auparavant été tournés sur le sujet (dont une superproduction nazie et un film réalisé avec l'aide de certains survivants : Atlantique, latitude 41°, mais aucun n'avait suscité un tel engouement médiatique et populaire.
En effet, à ce film succède la parution de nombreux ouvrages, parfois leur réédition ou leur traduction (c'est par exemple le cas du récit Rescapé du « Titanic » du colonel Archibald Gracie, mort le 4 décembre 1912).Cameron n'est d'ailleurs pas le seul à avoir été inspiré par le Titanic à cette époque puisque Robert Lieberman a sorti peu de temps avant un téléfilm (Le Titanic ) avec Catherine Zeta-Jones et Peter Gallagher, tandis que le développeur de jeux vidéo Cyberflix sort en octobre 1996 un jeu vidéo intitulé « Titanic » : Une aventure hors du temps.
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TRIVIA
-After completing Terminator 2 - Le jugement dernier, James Cameron got the idea to do the film after watching Atlantique, latitude 41°. He spent five years doing research on the Titanic and its fate.
-British newspapers alleged that Michael Caine refused a role.
-Macaulay Culkin was considered for the role of Jack Dawson.
-Reba McEntire was offered and had accepted the role of Molly Brown, but due to later schedule conflicts, had to turn it down.
-Ranks first in the Academy Award Most Nominated Films List with 14 nominations, tying with Ève.
-Kate Winslet was one of the few actors who didn't want to wear a wetsuit during the water scenes; as a result, she got pneumonia, and nearly quit the production . However, Cameron persuaded her to stay.
-Rose laughs during the flying scene when Jack sings "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine," as if she recalls the song from before. This is because a deleted scene shows the two characters singing it as they come out of the 3rd class dance.
-The "Sinking" coat was a size 8 while the rest of the gowns were a size 4. It was so large to make Rose seem more vulnerable in the sinking scenes.
-At the party in steerage, a foreign-speaking man is speaking with Rose and she says "I'm sorry, I can't understand you." The man is Swedish, probably a friend of Sven's, and he's saying to her "Talar fröken svenska?" In English that translates to "Does the miss/lady speak Swedish?" which she obviously doesn't.
-When the stern of the ship is vertical, Chief Baker Joughin (Liam Tuohy, in white) is drinking from a flask. Joughin was one of few to survive the freezing water, allegedly due to the alcohol (but this is disputed as unlikely since alcohol is known to accelerate hypothermia, not to help resist cold). The scene was added after Liam showed the flask to James Cameron explaining that it was a family heirloom as old as the Titanic itself.
-The Swedish phrases that Sven and his buddy exchange during the card game translate into the following: "I can't believe you bet our tickets!". "Shut up!". When grabbing Jack by the throat: "You damn weasel!". And after punching his buddy in the face: "You damn idiot! What the hell are we gonna do? I'm gonna kill you!".
-One of the Swedes in the beginning of the film, Erik Holland, is really Norwegian, and currently works as a doorman at a nightclub in Stavanger, Norway. The other, Jari Kinnunen, is an actor from Finland. His Swedish is so heavily accented as to be incomprehensible to Swedes.
-Was #1 at the U.S. box office for a record fifteen consecutive weeks, from 19 December 1997 to 2 April 1998.
-Dolores O'Riordan was asked to both act in and compose music for the movie, but refused both offers due to the birth of her son.
-The hands seen sketching Rose are not Leonardo DiCaprio's, but director James Cameron's. In post-production, Cameron, who is left-handed, mirror-imaged the sketching shots so the artist would be appear to be right-handed, like DiCaprio.
-Was the first film to be filmed at Fox Studios Baja.
-The car in which Jack and Rose make love was a Renault owned by the Carter family.
-The character of Rose is partially based on California artist Beatrice Wood, who died in 1998 at the age of 105.
-The elderly couple seen hugging on the bed while water floods their room are the owners of Macy's department store in New York; Ida and Isidor Strauss, both of whom died on the Titanic. Ida was offered a seat on a lifeboat but refused so that she could stay with her husband saying, "As we have lived together, so we shall die together." There was a scene filmed that depicted this moment but was cut from the final version.
