MOVIE TRIVIA … TITANIC

MOVIE TRIVIA …

TITANIC

The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey, but James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio.

When Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) is preparing to draw Rose (Kate Winslet), he tells her to "Lie on that bed, uh I mean couch." The line was scripted "Lie on that couch", but DiCaprio made an honest mistake and James Cameron liked it so much he kept it in.

Jack Davenport was considered for the role of Caledon 'Cal' Hockley but was deemed too young.

Rose only says "I love you" to Jack once while they are both shivering in the water. Jack never says it, although he mentions what he loves about her.

Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet died by committing suicide in the films they each did just prior to Titanic (DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Winslet in Hamlet (1996) - both Shakespeare adaptations, nonetheless)

James Cameron met his fifth wife, Suzy Amis, on the set of this film. Of all his marriages, theirs has lasted the longest.

Nicole Kidman was considered for the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater. Madonna auditioned for the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater.

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.

The last film to date to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without a screenplay nomination (Adapted or Original). The first Best Picture Academy Award winner to be produced, directed, written, and edited by the same person (James Cameron).

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. As of right now, she is 99 years old - and is 15 days away from being 100.

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."

The most-voted-for film on IMDb that is not on the Top 250 List.

Robert De Niro was offered the role of Captain Smith but turned it down due to a gastrointestinal infection at the time.

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.

Most of the stuntmen in the engine room scenes were only about 5 feet tall to make the engine room look a lot bigger.

Egg white was used for the initial spitting sequence, but petroleum jelly was used in the sequence where Rose spits on Cal.

Both Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio learned how to dance the polka for the scenes set at the party in the third-class compartments.

Paramount had to send out replacement reels to theaters who had literally worn out their copies.

The film contains over 100 speaking parts and over 1000 extras, all of whom needed to be dressed in lavish period costume.

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.

Christian Bale auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson, but was turned down because James Cameron didn't want two British actors playing the lead roles of two Americans.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet committed to the film even before the script was written, on the basis only of a 165-page outline James Cameron had written.

As a joke in the edit suite, James Cameron had a razor blade with a label that said "Use only if movie doesn't work".

After finding out that she had to be naked in front of Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet decided to break the ice, and when they first met, she flashed him.

James Cameron drew all the pictures in Jack's sketchbook. In fact, the hands seen sketching Rose wearing the necklace are not Jack's but Cameron's. Since he is left-handed and Jack right-handed, the shots were mirror-imaged in post-production.

The most expensive movie to be filmed in the 20th century.

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?"

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.

The "ale" in the below decks party was actually root beer.

Kate Winslet was one of the few actors who didn't want to wear a wetsuit during the water scenes. She got pneumonia as a result.

Macaulay Culkin was considered for the role of Jack Dawson.

James Cameron forfeited his $8 million director's salary and his percentage of the gross when the studio became concerned at how much over budget the movie was running.

The most expensive first-class suite on the Titanic cost $4,350, the equivalent of about $75,000 today.

On the set of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio's pet lizard was run over by a truck, but with some TLC, Leo nursed him to health.

At $200 million, the movie cost more than the Titanic itself. The cost to construct the ship in 1910-1912 was £1.5 million, equivalent to $7.5 million at the time and about $120 to $150 million in 1997 dollars.

The scene in which Rose meets Jack to thank him for saving her life was improvised by the two actors at James Cameron's request, and the spitting scene was almost all ad-lib. Cameron also credits Kate Winslet with writing the heart-wrenching "This is where we first met" line during the final sinking, as well as suggesting Rose spit in Cal's face rather than (as scripted) jab him with a hairpin.

Rose says "Jack" 80 times, not counting when she calls him "Mr. Dawson", but counting both Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart. Jack says "Rose" 50 times.