The TRUE Titanic's Mistakes:
# The Titanic's speed was far too high because of the several warnings for icebergs.
# The Titanic's should have slowed down her speed at least during the night.
# The lookouts in the crowsnest did not have binoculars.
# The outer British regulation required ships over 10,000 tons to have lifeboats for 962 people. The Titanic exceeded this regulation by carrying enough lifeboats for 1,178 people, however this was not enough for her 2,228 people aboard.
# Religiously... People shouldn't have said things such as "Not even GOD Himself could sink the Titanic."
# When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Captain Smith and the crew waited for a kind of long time, to start preparing the lifeboats and giving lifejackets to the passengers.
# Some passengers didn't believe that the Titanic was sinking.
# The radio operators aboard the Titanic ignored the 'Californian's' (and other ships) warnings about icebergs in the area.
# The lifeboats were not filled to the max. Lifeboat #1 only had 12 women and children aboard. Even if there was no more women and children in that area, and the lifeboat wasn't full, they didn't let men get on; and they would let the lifeboat go just like that. Passengers believed that it was safer to stay on the Titanic.
# The 'Californian's' radio operator was asleep and the equipment was turned off when the Titanic sent "CQD Titanic 41.44 N 50.24 W".
# The people aboard the 'Californian' thought the passengers were partying on the Titanic because of the flares... They didn't realize they were distress calls.
# The lifeboats would not return to the crying people to get more people aboard (only one actually did ! ! !).
# The crew had the Third-Class passengers ("Steerage") trapped, until all the women and children of First-Class and Second-Class left in the lifeboats.
Two components of the geography of the Titanic defeated the efforts of many of the Third-Class passengers to reach the Boat-Deck.
The first was the design of the Titanic. There were only a handful of exits available to get to the upper decks - 7 to be exact. All of them by law had to be kept locked.
Third-Class passengers were required by British Law to be kept separated completely from Second-Class and First-Class passengers.
The second was the layout of the Titanic. The Third-Class passengers' cabins were in an area that abounded with dead ends and circuitous passages.
# The Titanic had 16 watertight compartments. If 4 were filled, it would be OK but 5 were filled, one too many.
# It has been said that if the Titanic would have hit the iceberg dead center, it would only have only filled the first water compartments. But because the Titanic turned, the iceberg destroyed the whole starboard side.
# The watertight compartments at the bottom of the ship did not go all the way to the top. If one filled up, the water would just flow into the next one.
# There never has been a lifeboat drill for the passengers. It was postponed because of a Church Service.
The Movie Titanic's mistakes (against what actually happened)
At the end when Jack sinks you can tell the body looks nothing like him.
The whole manner in which the upper class people speak has been dumbed down for the audience. High society people in the early part of the century had a very refined manner of speaking; whatever they truly meant was masked with something more socially appropriate. For instance, when Rose's mother says something to the effect of: "Here comes that vulgar Brown woman. Let's move before she sits with us," she would have been considered extremely ill-mannered. In reality, she would have given some knowing glances, and said something more like: "It's getting very warm in here. Perhaps we should take a turn on the deck." Her friends, seeing Molly Brown approaching, would know exactly what she really meant.
Why oh why is one of the people getting on the life boats wearing a digital watch? Surely they weren't around in 1912?
The lake that Jack told Rose he went ice fishing on when she was threatening to jump is a man-made lake in Wisconsin near Chippewa Falls (where Jack grew up). The lake was only filled with water in 1917, 5 years after Titanic sank.
When the ship is sinking, and Rose and Jack are running through the inside of the ship, you can blatantly see cameras and crew outside the window.
There is a dancing scene in a ballroom with a lot of mirrors, and when you look closely, you can see the filmcrew in one of the mirrors.
When Jack hands Rose the note at the dinner table the paper is yellow. Later when the note is read the paper is white.
In the scene where Rose hands Jack a dime for drawing her, she hands him a Roosevelt dime, which were not minted until 1946. The correct dime would have been a Barber head dime.
There's a scene where a woman from steerage takes her 2 kids to their room as the boat is sinking and tells them a happily-ever-after story which we assume means they're giving up hope of escaping and planning to go down with the boat. Also, in the same sequence, an old couple clutches each others' hands as water wells up next to their bed. Later, after we've all cried over the death of the woman and 2 kids, they are in a large scene in the background hopping on a lifeboat.
In the banquet sequence on one of the far tables, only for a second, that's a nice pair of Nike Airs that 1912 man is wearing.
Young Rose has green eyes, but Old Rose has blue eyes. Later in the film, there is a fade between the faces of young & old Rose and this time old Rose's have magically changed to match Kate Winslet's eyes.
When Jack and Rose are going down with the ship, there is a man holding on to some sort of an anntena. The man's life jacket disappears and reappears.
Rose mentions Freud's ideas on the male preoccupation with size to Bruce. However this is 1912, and Freud did not publish the work relating to this until 1920 in The Pleasure Principle. Also, up until 1919, Freud relied solely on data capture from females.
Not only is the Statue of Liberty green, but the flame was replaced in 1986 with a gold flame. The film shows the Statue holding a torch with a gold flame, not the original.
As the women and children are getting on the life boats there is a shot of a child crying, she is clearly wearing clear braces. A person of that time period could not have possibly had braces.
Leo freezes and sinks into the ocean from the door. This wouldn't happen. Partially or even totally frozen human bodies float in water. Even fully-clothed frozen bodies have been shown to float.
When Cal is chasing Jack and Rose through the dining room and shooting at them, the windows in the background have sunlight shining through. Since the Titanic sunk in the middle of the night, no light should be coming through the windows. Hard to believe the crew took hours to light a "night" scene and didn't notice the sunbeams in it. This mistake can also be seen in a still photo in various movie tie-in books.
According to the film officer Murdoch murdered a passenger and then committed suicide, a point in the film that made his home town very angry and the film company donated Ł5000 to a charity but Cameron has never appologised. According to eye witness accounts he gave his lifejacket to a passenger and went down with the ship.
After Rose has helped Jack to get loose from where he is handcuffed, as he is jumping over a bench one minute he has the handcuffs on, the next shot they're gone. Then they're back.
In the scene where Jack enters the first class door for the first time in his tux if you look closely in the glass door you can see a cameraman behind him.
(now that my keyboard is smoking <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" /> , let me leave you guys & gals to a LONG bedtime story)
