Ce regain d'intérêt s'est également exprimé sur Internet, avec la naissance de nombreux sites sur le sujet, et de communautés de passionnés. De nombreuses reproductions d'objets du navire, ainsi que des accessoires du film (gilets de sauvetage, vaisselle) se sont vendus en grande quantité dans les années qui ont suivi le succès de Titanic.
Les associations consacrées au Titanic, comme la Titanic Historical Society fondée par Edward Kamuda en 1967, l'association française du Titanic et des associations de nombreux autres pays ont connu un fort accroissement du nombre de leurs adhérents suite à la sortie du film.
Dans le cas de l'association française du Titanic, ce succès a permis à l'organisation de remporter une victoire, puisqu'en 2000,elle a réussi à réhabiliter le musicien Roger Bricoux, mort à bord en 1912, qui était accusé de désertion lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, l'administration française n'ayant pas reçu de certificat de décès.*
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TRIVIA
-In the movie, Jack is a 3rd class passenger on the Titanic who sneaks his way up to first class with the hopes of never getting caught. In the real disaster in 1912, Third Class Passenger Hilda Maria Hellström, really did sneak up to first class out of curiosity and never got caught, however she was in her 3rd class cabin when the Titanic hit an iceberg and ended up surviving the sinking by boarding one of the last lifeboats to leave, Collapsible C.
-The "ale" in the below decks party was actually root beer.
-Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Jason Barry both injured themselves while filming the scene in which their characters pull up a bench in third class and use it to smash a gate open.
-Leo threw out a shoulder, and Jason caught himself in the chin with the bench.
-Jack has a line during the first class dinner scene in which he asks Molly Brown which utensils to use for what. Because of the enormous amount of time spent shooting the scene, having to provide different angles and coverage for all the cast members at the table, Leonardo DiCaprio was so worn out towards the end that he picked up a fork and asked Kathy Bates "Which one of these do I use to lobotomize myself?"
-During World War I, Titanic's former Second Officer Charles Lightoller served in the Royal Navy Reserve in multiple vessels (including 3 commands). Despite his distinguished record (he would be decorated twice for valor in combat), he would never command a merchant vessel for White Star or any other shipping line. After leaving merchant service, he owned a small motor yacht for much of the rest of his life. His was one of the many private citizens who helped in the evacuation of British and Allied forces from Dunkirk, France; he and his two sons would be credited for evacuating approximately 130 Allied personnel in the dangerously overloaded vessel.
-The most expensive movie to be filmed in the 20th century with a budget of $200,000,000.
-Approximately 120 tons of water (triple what had been initially planned) were released for Eric Braeden's final scene. Braeden said that he has never been more terrified in his life than when he was preparing for it, as there was obviously no possible physical rehearsal.
-Many of the "core extras" used for the movie took on characteristics of actual survivors. One scene where two little girls are loaded onto a lifeboat and the man says, "It's only for a little while" is based on testimony from one of the girls who survived.
-When Jack sneaks onto the first-class deck in search of Rose, we see a young boy playing with a top as his father looks on. The father is played by Titanic historian and author Don Lynch, of the Titanic Historical Society, who served as a consultant on the film. The scene is based on a famous photograph taken aboard Titanic during the second leg of the voyage, between Cherbourg and Queenstown (the photographer, Fr. Francis Browne, a Jesuit priest, left the ship when it docked briefly in Ireland). The boy, 6-year-old Robert Douglas Spedden and his father Frederic O. Spedden of Tuxedo Park, NY survived the sinking, but the boy died three years later in an auto accident in Maine, one of the first recorded in the state.
