Kate Winslet, pour sa part, devient une actrice réputée et tourne par la suite dans plusieurs films récompensés. Cependant, le tournage dans l'eau gelée s'étant révélé éprouvant, elle a déclaré ne plus vouloir tourner avec James Cameron à moins qu'on ne lui propose beaucoup d'argent.
Enfin, Bernard Hill (Le capitaine) a vu sa carrière connaître une certaine impulsion et a participé, en incarnant le roi Théoden, à l'adaptation du Seigneur des anneaux par Peter Jackson. Il est de fait à l'affiche de deux des trois films ayant reçu onze Oscars.
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TRIVIA
-The post-sinking scenes were shot in a 350,000 gallon tank where the frozen corpses were created by applying a powder on the actors that then crystallized when exposed to water. Wax was applied to hair and clothes to create a wet look.
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-The original carpet manufacturers were persuaded to make an 18,000 square foot reproduction of the original weave that was on the ship.
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-The film contains over 100 speaking parts and over 1000 extras, all of whom needed to be dressed in lavish period costume.
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-Paramount had to send out replacement reels to theaters who had literally worn out their copies.
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-Of the special effects houses involved, VIFX were responsible for the icy, visible breath of the passengers floating in the water after the ship sank. They also worked on the engine room sequence and a lot of the workers seen therein. POP Film handled digital face replacements and matte paintings, Banned from the Ranch took care of some underwater shots, CIS Hollywood were responsible for sky replacements and bluescreen composites, whilst Digital Domain - James Cameron's own company - dealt with the bulk of the big showcase special effects.
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-Both Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio learned how to dance the polka for the scenes set at the party in the third-class compartments.
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-Kate Winslet had to learn how to scuba dive in preparation for her scenes in the water.
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-Billy Zane was cast after James Cameron saw him in the film Le fantôme du Bengale.
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-Egg white was used for the initial spitting sequence, but petroleum jelly was used in the sequence where Rose spits on Cal.
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-Rose's chiffon dress which she wears for the latter part of the film was designed to look just as good wet as dry. Costume designer Deborah Lynn Scott had about 24 of them made.
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-This was the first film to be nominated twice for an Academy Award, for the portrayal of the same character. Kate Winslet received an Best Actress nomination for her role as Rose. Gloria Stuart received an best supporting nomination for her portrayal of the older Rose. The next time this happened was with the movie Iris, which also starred Winslet.
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-Most of the stuntmen in the engine room scenes were only about 5 feet tall to make the engine room look a lot bigger.
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-Fay Wray was originally offered the role of the older Rose but turned it down, saying, "I think to have done this film would have been a tortuous experience altogether". Hollywood legend Ann Rutherford also turned it down.
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-Titanic survivor Millvina Dean was asked if she would like to attend the premiere but she refused, stating that watching Atlantique, latitude 41° was painful enough to watch.
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-The name of the band seen playing at the party in 3rd Class is Gaelic Storm.
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-At the end of the movie, when Rose meets Jack on the Grand Staircase, the time displayed on the clock is the same time the ship sank, at 2:20 AM.
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-The most-voted-for film on IMDb that is not on the Top 250 List.
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-Jack's portrait of the one-legged prostitute is actually visible for two frames as he turns the page to his sketch of "Madam Bijoux". James Cameron decided not to show the portrait as he thought the audience would imagine something better.
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-James Cameron wrote the role of Lewis Bodine with his friend Lewis Abernathy in mind. When he couldn't find an actor to play the part, he went to Lewis and asked, essentially, if he would he play himself. Lewis replied, "If you want to fuck up your movie by casting me buddy, alright."
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-Lorcan Cranitch was the first choice for the role of Thomas Andrews after James Cameron was impressed with his performance as DS Jimmy Beck in "Cracker". Victor Garber was cast after Cranitch turned the role down.
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Gloria Stuart who was 87 at the time of the film's release, lived to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its release at age 97. She became a real life centenarian on July 4th, 2010.
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-Composer James Horner said the first rough cut he saw of the film was 36 hours.
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-The first Best Picture Academy Award winner to be produced, directed, written, and edited by the same person (James Cameron).
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-In the film, Molly Brown lends Jack a tuxedo that she has most likely purchased in Europe for her son who is supposedly the same size as Jack. The real Molly Brown did indeed have a son, Larry, who was 24 at the time that the Titanic sank.
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-When Jack prevents Rose from committing suicide, he shares a story about how he once fell into freezing cold water while ice fishing and how it feels like "being stabbed with a thousand knives all over your body." This was an actual quote from a Titanic survivor describing the temperature of the North Atlantic water.
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-The piece of wooden paneling that Rose floated on after the sinking is based upon a genuine artifact that survived the sinking and is on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, though it was scaled larger to provide sufficient buoyancy as a life-raft for Rose.
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-The first film James Cameron ever directed that did not include or mention nuclear weapons.
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