This little historical fact basically kills the entire point of the movie, so we guess we understand why it was ultimately ignored for the sake of the plot. In reality, Jack and Rose probably never would have met each other, since she was a passenger in first class, and he was in third class.
Back in the day, that separation wasn’t only based on class; it was meant to prevent the spread of diseases from passengers in the lower class (yikes, we know). That means Jack couldn’t have made his way to the first class deck and save Rose.
When Jack is trying to stop Rose from jumping into the water and ending her own life, he tells her a story. In that story, he says he went ice fishing in a lake near Chippewa Falls called Lake Wissota, to warn her of how freezing the water would be.
Now, this is a pretty interesting story, mostly because it doesn’t make any sense. Lake Wissota, a man-made reservoir, was created in 1917 after the Chippewa River was dammed, and if you do the math – that’s five years after the Titanic sunk. So did Jack come from the future or was he just making the story up to stop Rose from jumping?
There are quite a few errors like this in Titanic (which we will discuss later on), but this is one of the biggest, most obvious ones. We're talking about when Rose attempts to free Jack and she spots an axe located in an emergency glass plane and then breaks the glass to get the fire axe. Almost all the glass comes out.
But then in the next shot, she reaches for the axe and most of the glass is somehow still in the case. How could this be? Well, this simple mistake gained a lot of attention from keen-eyed viewers.
During a scene that takes place on Sunday morning, the people in the church are singing the most beautiful song – a Navy Hymn called "Eternal Father, Strong to Save". And a close-up shows Rose singing "for those in peril on the sea". But while the song appears in the movie, there's no indication that it was sung on the Titanic.
In fact, two survivors later wrote that they remember the hymn was missing in the traditional Sunday shipboard service. The hymn was later sung that day among second-class passengers during a hymn sing, as The Washington Post reported. But that's not all—the verse they sang in the movie was written in 1937 for naval aviators, which was 15 years after the sinking took place.
Houdini might have been able to unlock himself underwater successfully, but that doesn’t mean that anyone can. Jack and Rose had to unlock a metal gate underwater themselves, in the freezing ocean water. How likely was that? Well, not very.
The amount of time it would’ve taken to unlock a gate with a key while fumbling under freezing water would be enough time to make your fingers lose proper function. So in reality, this could never have worked for the two.
Kate Winslet not only almost drowned during the filming of Titanic, but she also got hypothermia – and we can understand why. She was one of the few actors who wasn't allowed to wear a wetsuit during the water scenes and she spent the entire time on ship wearing a slip dress. Winslet even almost quit, but James Cameron convinced her to stay.
There's no way that the paper-thin dress could've kept her warm and she showed no signs of hypothermia, unlike Winslet.
One of the most romantic scenes in the movie (or any movie, for that matter), is the one where Jack and Rose find themselves in the boiler room and they share a steamy kiss. While that may be lovely in theory, in reality, it would’ve been very different.
There's actually no way this would have been allowed in real life because it's strictly forbidden since it's extremely dangerous.
In an iconic love scene, Jack and Rose make their way into one of the cars on board the Titanic and have their way with each other, judging by all that steam in the car. But how on earth would the two manage to open one of the cars?
Sure, there were cars on board the ship in reality, but they were locked. Apparently, they didn’t want some random people to enter their cars and defile them, go figure. Unless car hijacking was one of Jack’s skills, they were going to have to get a room, as they say.
As we all know, the movie takes place in 1912, when the Titanic disaster took place. At that time, Rose’s privileged background meant she likely wouldn’t have worn that iconic red lipstick Kate Winslet donned in the movie. In fact, she probably wouldn’t have worn makeup at all.
Wearing makeup was uncommon among higher-class women in England at the time, and was associated with suffragettes and lower class females without a “proper” upbringing. We’ve got to admit, though, Kate looks pretty stunning in that lipstick.
Stuntmen have one of the most intricate and underrated jobs on a film set, as what they do takes a lot of guts. Setting up the stunts means you have to be pretty careful not to cause the stuntman any harm, but also not to make the stunt obvious to the viewers.
In one scene in Titanic, a man is pulled into a hole that formed in the deck. And during that scene – especially if you slow down and watch frame by frame – you can clearly see wires attached to the actor, pulling him under. Kind of ruins the illusion a little, doesn’t it?
