History Main / Titanic

* FunnyAnursymMoment: Rose is 100 years old in the film. On September 27th 2010, Gloria Stuart, who portrayed the 100 year old Rose, passed away. Guess what? She was 100 when she died.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Cal slides a lot on his own little personality scale.
** Jack is a sex addict. Jack and his token Italian friend Fabrizio were Gay lovers before they boarded the Titanic. This is why they seem to have a very playful relationship at the start of the film. Jack himself is Bi-Sexual, and once he saw Rose feel completly forgot about Fabrizio. Eventually he would have forgotten about Rose as well after a year or so, and move on. He even had a fling with that French girl, he drew pictures of, but didnt tell Rose, so he could stay lay her later.

* AwardSnub: Kate Winslet.
** Leo didn't even get a nomination.
** The look on Winslet's face when Helen Hunt won was ''priceless''. It's like she was thinking: "I got '''completely stark naked''' and they give the Oscar to ''her?''"
*** Hunt was also naked in ''AsGoodAsItGets''... yeah, undressing will give you at least a nomination!
*** Made more HilariousInHindsight when she appears on ''{{Extras}}'' to mock OscarBait, then appears in her own Oscar Bait film...and wins.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jack freezes to death, but Rose meets him again when she finally passes.]]
** That might not even be true: [[spoiler:James Cameron. (2005). DVDCommentary. 20th Century Fox. "The big ambiguity here is 'is she alive and dreaming' or 'is she dead and on her way to Titanic heaven?' [[ShrugOfGod I'll never tell]]. Of course, I know what we intended... The answer has to be something you supply personally; individually."]]
** That scene [[spoiler:is called "A Promise Kept" in the DVD, so it's plausible to assume that Rose died. Though the title could refer to all those pictures you next to her when she is in bed, showing that she promised to do all the things Jack told her to do.]]
** Evidence certainly looks to point to [[spoiler: she's dead, as everyone that greets her in the "dream" died on the ship, like the musicians, [[{{Alias}} Jack Bristow]], et al.]]
* {{Badass}}: The band members certainly deserve this, at least.
** Ahem, Jack [[spoiler:protecting Rose to the very end of his life and making her promise him that she'll survive no matter what, letting her take the door to float on despite knowing the water was freezing and he would die, making a battering ram out of a bench to break down a gate barring the way back to the top decks, managing to talk Rose out of committing suicide...]]
** And let's not forget Rose, the high society waif, picking up a ''fireman's axe'' to break Jack out of his handcuffs.

* ClicheStorm: Even without turning it on, the film's ''quite'' predictable. Anyone who knows [[TheThemeParkVersion most romance cliches]] could probably predict the ''entire'' romance plot before it even happens.
** But to give Cameron and the writers credit; who ''doesn't'' know about the Titanic?! Who ''hasn't'' heard about it in history class, or from someone who was a relative? Who ''hasn't'' heard about it during various titanic museum exhibits that toured the world? A pretty good reason one can predict the entire plot of the movie within the first 10 minutes was that it was based off of history, and a rather popular history story of that. Quite different than James Cameron's [[{{Film/Avatar}} other famous cliche storm]].
* CriticalResearchFailure: Remember how Jack said he used to go to Lake Wissota? Well it was man-made. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wissota You can guess where this is going]]. Since the construction of Lake Wissota began in 1915, Jack must be a time traveler...
** Hey, he's anachronistic anyway. That haircut kinda stands out, for instance.

** Molly Brown is a historical figure whose life is surrounded by myths and exaggerations (understandable, as she did lead a pretty remarkable life). Kathy Bates' version is only ''a little'' more accurate than Debbie Reynolds'. Cameron stated his intention to portray her more accurately, and yet she was still referred to as Molly (a name she never went by when she was alive), tells the story of her husband accidentally lighting a match to money hidden in their stove (Leadville wasn't using paper money when the Browns lived there), and generally portrayed as a FishOutOfWater ex-hillbilly that the wealthy secretly resent (she was extremely well-read and generally liked by everyone she met). Brown had such a huge role in helping the Titanic survivors that one wonders why Cameron didn't focus on that rather than the many fabrications that have been told about her.
*** Because RealityIsUnrealistic. So much so that had Molly been portrayed accurratly on top if the other things they got right, the credability of the whole film would've [[IncrediblyLamePun floundered.]]

*** That was actually the rationale behind not going back and picking up people from the water, initially. Some of the officers in charge of the lifeboats instructed the folks rowing to try and get as far away from the ship as they possibly could, for fear that the lifeboats would be sucked down with it. Of course, as the above states, that ended up not happening, but the officers couldn't have known this at the time.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The Titanic has a crowning ''[[{{Badass}} band]]'' of awesome. Especially notable since this happened [[TruthInTelevision in real life]].
** ''"I believe you'll have your headlines Mr. Ismay."''
** Rose to Cal: "I'd rather be his (Jack) whore than your wife!" Followed by her spitting on his face and running away.
** Rose calling out Cal for his contempt towards those in steerage when most of them will probably die, telling her mother to "shut up" for the same reason, and deserting them both with a cold "goodbye".
** Rose's response to her mother forbidding her to see Jack again? "Oh stop it mother, you'll give yourself a nose bleed."
** Towards the end of the movie, Rose is on a rescue boat after being saved from the icy waters of the Titanic when she senses Cal approaching, hoping to apologize to her. However, Rose is now well aware what a complete {{Jerkass}} the guy is and keeps her face hidden from his view. In her words "that was the last time I ever saw him."
*** Apologize, hell. Given how bitter their last words had been, he was almost certainly [[spoiler: hoping to get back the ''diamond'', not Rose]].
*** A different version of that scene on one of the Special Edition DVDs has Cal rushing to a red-haired woman, crying out "Rose!", only to be disappointed to see it's not her. Billy Zane packed so much genuine anguish and relief into that one word that this troper thinks Cal may very well have done a HeelFaceTurn (not hard to fathom, given the ordeal he'd just been through). In fact, the original script has him actually finding Rose herself, only to be coldly rebuffed, of course, and seeming genuinely devastated by this, again indicating that he may have been willing to at least TRY to redeem himself.
** Jack talking Rose out of committing suicide and pulling her back onto the boat when she loses her footing trying to climb back over the railing.
** Rose rescuing Jack from the lower decks of the rapidly sinking ship...
** Jack [[spoiler: letting Rose have the door to float on despite knowing that by staying in the water for too long he would die and making her promise to survive no matter how hopeless things may get.]]
** Jack using a bench as a battering ram to knock down a gate keeping him, Rose, and other steerage passengers from getting to the top decks.
*** Made even more so when the crew member keeping the gates locked gets knocked out with a punch mid-sentence.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The guy that falls off the prow and [[DaveBarry bounces off of big ship propellers with a dull clonking sound]].
** ''[[FreudWasRight "Are you familiar with Doctor Freud Mr. Ismay? I think you'll find his work on the male preccupation with]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean size]] [[FreudWasRight to be quite interesting."]]''
*** ''[[CriticalResearchFailure "Freud, who is he? Is he someone on the ship?"]]''
** Jack teaching Rose how to "spit like a man."
** After Jack and Rose bust through a wall:
--->'''Steward:''' Hey! What do you think you're doing? You'll have to pay for that, you know! That's White Star Line property!
--->'''Jack and Rose:''' SHUT UP!

** Also, [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler the ship sinks]]]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Rose is talked down from this by Jack.

** Also, William Murdoch. See below under [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Historical Villain Upgrade]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: To many people, the only person in the movie worth watching is Mr. Propeller
** Thomas Andrews is also kind of awesome, in a quiet sort of way.

* EverybodyRemembersTheStripper: Because the most memorable part of a movie with a sinking ship and many dying? The protagonist getting topless with her boyfriend.
** Are we talking about [[HelloNurse the drawing]], or [[AutoErotica the car?]]
** The drawing!
*** But that car scene is a damn close runner up ...
** There were news stories about teenage boys who had Titanic timed to the moment when Kate Winslet disrobes. They would tell their parents they were going to see a different movie, note the time Titanic started, then sneak into the Titanic theater when the time came to catch that scene.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: ''"No sir, we're dressed in our best and going down as gentlemen."''

** The band. Just... the band. Made all the more touching when you remember that this particular movie death is a reconstructed historical fact.

** Supposedly a native of Philly; came off sounding like a New Englander.

* FanDumb: The below trope is often assumed by people because there is a fairly significant proportion of them who want Kate Winslet to divorce (again)from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mendes that guy she's happily married to]], and {{Leonardo DiCaprio}} to ditch [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Refaeli that supermodel he's dating now]] for each other. Winslet and [=DiCaprio=] consider themselves as virtual brother and sister, and nothing more.
** Of course, Kate Winslet is now NOT happily married to Sam.
* FanHater: It's widely assumed that most of the filmgoers were dumb pre-teens obsessed with Leonardo [=DiCaprio=].
** The filmgoers who saw it multiple times (read: more than twice) usually were, at least.

* FollowTheLeader: ''PearlHarbor'', which has a similar romance-against-epic-tragedy-of-the-20th-century concept, and like most following works, has almost no understanding of why it worked here.
** It works in both directions too - Cameron decided to make ''Titanic'' after seeing the 1948 movie ANightToRemember, to the extent that they have a ''lot'' of scenes in common.

* ForegoneConclusion: The ship sinks; you'll know this even if you're totally clueless about history as the sunken ruins are shown and discussed in the opening.
** Also Rose survives, since it's her who is telling the story 85 years later. That certainly cuts some of the tension in that scene by the flooding hallway.

* GallowsHumour: "I intend to write a strongly-worded letter to the White Star Line about all this"

** They weren't Picassos, they were Monets.
*** Rose definitely mentioned a painting by "Something Picasso".
*** She has both-several are definitely Monet, but she also has some Primitive Cubist pieces. Assuming she's still got some of their work back home, that could help to explain the FridgeLogic above.
*** Except we see them go down with the ship as the stateroom floods...not to mention the fact that due to the CriticalResearchFailure discussed above, Cameron gave Rose paintings that were sitting in Picasso's basement at the time...

* {{Narm}}: While it's true that pathetic cries for help are to be expected in a disaster film, in the interlude after the stern sits vertical and before it sinks, one woman's cries are rather comical in her delivery: "Help! Helphelp! Heeelllp!"
** Mr. Propelly Guy is either DeadBabyComedy or this.

* ShoutOut: Rose mentions the Cunard Line's ''RMS Mauretania'', one of ''Titanic'''s rivals on the Transatlantic Route.

** A meta-example would be Rose telling Cal "[[TwinPeaks I'd rather be his whore than your wife!]]"

* ShownTheirWork: Cameron and the set designer's conducted ''exhaustive'' research on the ship, from the measurements of the individual rooms, to the carpet designs to the china patterns, even going to Harland and Wolff-the builders themselves-to look up rare blueprints and never-before-seen photographs to make sure they had every possible detail. In fact, [[http://www.transatlanticdesigns.com/about.html Ken Marschall]]-the foremost expert on the Titanic design and the painter of almost every painting of either the Titanic wreck or the sinking in the past 30 some-odd years (seriously, he seems to be on-call whenever a documentary needs a painting) is quoted saying that he didn't call their set a set, to him it ''was'' the Titanic.

*** That screaming, lost toddler is the moment that always makes this troper's eyes fill with tears--largely because he looks uncannily like her beloved younger brother as a baby.
** The last scene, what happened to the last scene?

** Well, since the ship is also the ''set''...

* ThrowItIn: Jack saying to Rose "Lie down on the bed, I mean couch" was entirely accidental, but James Cameron thought that was natural, so he left it in.
** Also, apparently Leonardo [[EnforcedMethodActing didn't know how cold the water was]] when he jumped into it...thus the line "Holy shit, that's cold!"

* WallBanger: Early on in the movie, Jack gives a speech about how the ocean water is cold enough to give you hypothermia very, very quickly. While the ship is sinking, he and Rose spend an awful lot of time walking and even swimming in it as they try to escape from the ship's lower decks.
** Presumably he was just exaggerating a lot in his hypothermia speech. He was trying to scare Rose into deciding not to jump into the water and kill herself, after all.
** As noted under fridge logic, it's not only the water temperature that causes hypothermia, it's the air temperature. Walking and swimming inside the (pretty warm) ship will not be as harmful as swimming around outdoors.
** Similarly, after making one attempt to climb onto the driftwood that saves Rose, he gives up and freezes to death. If he'd been able to get his torso out of the water at least, he might have made it.
*** Not likely. Soon as he got too tired to keep kicking, he was dead for sure. Plus, he needed to stay mobile early on, in case somebody tried to push them ''both'' off the chunk of wood.
*** But the pair had no idea that a lifeboat would turn around and come back to look for survivors. If they had known this, they probably would have put more effort into staying alive. For example, they could have been continually switching places on the driftwood, so as to make sure to keep moving and therefore keep their blood flowing. (It's unclear how long they were waiting for the rescue boat, so they may not have been able to keep this up anyway.) As it was, Rose was already on the driftwood and they couldn't both fit on it, so he did the gentlemanly thing, knowing that he would die first as a result -- perhaps he even fantasized that Rose's driftwood would magically carry her to safety. He was more or less right about this.
** If he really wanted Rose to survive, Jack should've told her to ''take off that waterlogged dress'' and lie on the debris naked. Every inch of body surface that could be bared, and allowed to dry in the air, would improve her chances of survival.
*** I dare you to try taking off a heavy water-logged dress while balancing on a floating piece of wood while shivering heavily. I doubt it's even possible.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of a surprising number of minor characters and extras can be known either by [[AllThereInTheManual reading the script]] or really paying attention to the background in the movie. Or looking into a real Historical book, in case they are not fictional.
** The drunk cook that Rose meets on the stern just before the ship went under? [[http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq06Joughin01.php Charles Joughin]], who really was a cook, and who really did go back to his cabin to drink after the lifeboats were gone. He was one of the very few survivors that were taken from the water.

* YouFailAstronomyForever: The end scene has an inaccurate night sky that is composed of the same half-sky mirrored in the middle. This results in seeing constellations that shouldn't have been there at all in duplicate.
** James Cameron replied: "Last time I checked, 'Titanic' sold $1.3 billion worth of tickets, worldwide. [[SarcasmMode Imagine how many more tickets we would have sold if we'd gotten the sky right.]]" But it was still corrected for the DVD.

** Part of why everyone could predict the plot within the first 10 minutes.

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[[caption-width:350: Except for the cold waters of the North Atlantic.]]

** Hey, sex in the back seat of a car would be quite a novelty in 1912.
**** [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters Ahem.]]
*** Plus a car in the ship's storage would have been ''quite'' secluded from prying eyes.

* FridgeLogic: The heroine ends her story barefoot and penniless in New York, but according to her collection of photographs was able to afford a life of upper-class adventure, despite still owning the priceless necklace [[spoiler:she tosses into the ocean at the end of the movie. Ironically this is supposed to indicate that her story was true.]]
** This could easily be explained by the events of her life after Titanic. Her husband could have been a wealthy man when she married him, or Rose could have found substantial success on the stage when she was an actress (she does, after all, bear a rather striking resemblance to Kate Winslet.
*** Or maybe (unromantic answer) she ''hocked'' the necklace, then redeemed it from the pawnshop later. Or she used it as collateral for a loan, to get back on her feet.
** How did the water inside the ship not freeze all the people wading through it the way it froze them outside the ship? It's the same water from the same ocean.
*** Boy I hope that that's an IncrediblyLamePun, because the water post-sinking only froze because [[ConvectionSchmonvection the air was below the freezing point of salt water, which wasn't true inside the ship, what with the heating system aboard and all]]. Plus the fact that large quantities (like in drenched clothing) of water takes longer to freeze than smaller quantities (like the tips and isolated strands of soaked hair).
**** That's one really powerful heating system considering the incredible amount of water breaking into the boat, the fact that it takes an incredible amount of energy to warm up water (think about how water in a swimming pool will always be colder than the air if no water heater were active and how long it takes a water heater to warm up a large quantity of water) add in the fact that salt water doesn't freeze at the same temperature as desalinated water (the water was 28 degrees Fahenheit the night the Titanic Sank) and the fact that Jack makes a giant speech about how cold the water is and the sequences in which they wade through the water inside the boat as if it were a swimming pool make absolutely no sense, heated boat or not. [[http://www.sciencebyjones.com/specific_heat1.htm If the heater were powerful enough to make the water a safe swimming temperature, then the boat would have been stiflingly hot and the heat would've killed the passengers long before the iceberg.]]
***** A heating so powerful, it might be able to move tens of thousands of tons of metal at 21 knots through water? Remember, the bottom most deck is basically two thirds heating equipment. Coal powered steam ships generated vast quantities of waste heat, enough to keep the air in the ship above the freezing point of the water even as the ship flooded. The aft boiler rooms would have remained dry up until structural failure of the hull, providing heat and power for the generators that drove the electric heating equipment on the upper decks, so yeah, the interior of the ship could be warm enough to keep the water from freezing on people while the ambiant temperature wasn't.
****** Yes, but the heating system was at the lowest decks and taking on water freezing water by the time our hero and heroine were wading through it. I doubt it was still fully functional while flooded. Besides, even if the heating system was powerful, the amount of water in the ship would still take an inordinately huge amount of time to heat up THAT much water THAT quickly. We're talking millions upon millions of gallons coming in at a very high speed. We're not talking about a nuclear reaction here, we're talking about coal power.
****** Of course, there was the scene where the dead woman was floating around inside the sunken part of the ship, already dead from either drowning or the cold. This troper took it she had died from cold before she drowned.
** While the brothers who lost their tickets in the poker game were fought in anger over it, the brother who lost the bet ''probably saved their lives''.

*** No, that was [[{{Godspell}} Jesus]]!!! When will he ''[[IncrediblyLamePun save the people]]''?

*** The valet is also Satan or his [[Expy]] from TimeBandits, the Cardassian who tortures [[StarTrek Captain Picard]], the Master Control Program from TRON, Bob Cratchit in the George C. Scott AChristmasCarol and...a second-class passenger on the Titanic from the made-for-tv and far more accurate SOS Titanic. He's a busy man.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: That guy who went nuts and started shooting people? The real man is generally considered a hero for his actions to save people that day.
** It was less going nuts and being a villain than trying to keep a very desperate (and [[ItGotWorse worsening]]) situation under some sort of control. With all the moving bodies and confusion around the ''very last available lifeboat'' on a huge ship with ''over one thousand people'' still aboard, an accidental killing like the Irish guy was bound to happen. And given the circumstances, it would be preferable to a riot that would've destroyed/sunk said boat. Furthermore, William Murdoc right afterwards seemed to have been having a HeroicBSOD / MyGodWhatHaveIDone combination moment. Hence the [[DrivenToSuicide last gunshot]].
*** Still debased the memory of a true hero as it was something made up by Cameron and the script writers.
**** Funny, I never saw it like that at all. I just saw a guy at the end of his rope, as stated above.
**** [[TheOtherWiki The Other Wiki]] states that "studio executives later flew to Murdoch's hometown to issue an apology for this depiction to his surviving relatives." At the end of his rope or not, his depiction in the movie was a far cry from the hero he was in real life.
**** Also receiving unjust treatment are pretty much the entire Titanic crew (notably Second Officer Lightoller, who veers between another snobbish brute and a nonentity when in fact he worked until he was literally swept off the ship and then kept twenty men alive standing on an overturned collapsible boat), the Marconi operators who transmitted until the last possible minute, J. Bruce Ismay, who certainly did not expect to set a speed record and who really had a responsibility to get the hell off the boat (though bashing Ismay is something of a hobby sport even among Titanic buffs), and the crew in general, like the stewards Rose and Jack knock down and abuse, most of whom certainly knew they were going to die and who did NOT lock any steerage passengers anywhere as the gates didn't lock to begin with. Given the +90% mortality rate for Titanic's crew, the worst of any group aboard, the movie's treatment of them as either incompetants or evil is pretty shameless.

* [=~It's All Junk~=] [[spoiler:The "Heart of the Ocean" now really ''is'' the heart of the ocean.]]
** Also, passengers are seen hauling luggage and other prized possessions with them to the lifeboats early on, but once the danger becomes obvious the only things people struggle to take along are life vests.

* LargeHam: Billy Zane

* VillainousBreakdown: Cal, on account of being such a {{Yandere}}.

* KarmaHoudini: Cal, sort of - [[spoiler:he lives through the sinking of the ship, but it's mentioned later on that he committed suicide when TheGreatDepression rolled around, making his eventual 'punishment' completely unrelated to his actions on the ship.]]
** What the heck was he doing in [[spoiler:the vision Rose had about the afterlife anyway? Only the good people and the ones who died aboard the Titanic were supposed to be there! Maybe it's an indication of his genuine penitence.]]
*** Also, Ismay. But that's an example of a Real Life KarmaHoudini.
** Live the rest of your life with the partial responsibility of killing hundreds of people, the scorn upon you being so great a film made decades later touches on your deed, and you're saying he escapes Karma?
** Whoever ''would'' have gotten his seat in the lifeboat if he'd gone down with the ship would certainly think so.
** In justice to Ismay, according to witnesses there WAS no one else around to take the seat. A young survivor, Jack Thayer, tried to comfort Ismay by pointing out - correctly - that going down with the ship would just have added his life to the toll and what good was that? Those who hadn't been on the ship felt differently.
** How about ''Jack and Rose''? In a survival situation they punch, hit, threaten, mock and berate people (most egregiously members of the crew--in terms of percentages the worst person to be in terms of survival on the Titanic was a member of the crew, followed by the nonexistent-in-this-film SECOND-class men), Rose's idiotic jump from the lifeboat puts people around her at risk all in a quest to 'stay together' that ultimately fails miserably. By comparison, Cal (in what's meant to show what a selfish asshat he is) grabs a little girl and uses her to get into a lifeboat. The result of this selfish asshattery for the little girl? ....She jumps the line and gets in a lifeboat. Cal manages to save more lives than the heros just by being a JerkAss.
*** This troper could've sworn he handed the little girl back on deck at some point in time.

**** Live the rest of your life with the partial responsibility of killing hundreds of people, the scorn upon you being so great a film made decades later touches on your deed, and you're saying he escapes Karma?
**** Whoever ''would'' have gotten his seat in the lifeboat if he'd gone down with the ship would certainly think so.
**** In justice to Ismay, according to witnesses there WAS no one else around to take the seat. A young survivor, Jack Thayer, tried to comfort Ismay by pointing out - correctly - that going down with the ship would just have added his life to the toll and what good was that? Those who hadn't been on the ship felt differently.
*** How about ''Jack and Rose''? In a survival situation they punch, hit, threaten, mock and berate people (most egregiously members of the crew--in terms of percentages the worst person to be in terms of survival on the Titanic was a member of the crew, followed by the nonexistent-in-this-film SECOND-class men), Rose's idiotic jump from the lifeboat puts people around her at risk all in a quest to 'stay together' that ultimately fails miserably. By comparison, Cal (in what's meant to show what a selfish asshat he is) grabs a little girl and uses her to get into a lifeboat. The result of this selfish asshattery for the little girl? ....She jumps the line and gets in a lifeboat. Cal manages to save more lives than the heros just by being a JerkAss.

Launched the A-list careers of LeonardoDiCaprio and KateWinslet.

** Part this, part HeroicBSOD, Captain Edward J. Smith decides to face death at the helm of [[{{Retirony}}the ship that would have been his last command.]].

** PArt this, part HeroicBSOD, Captain Edward J. Smith decides to face death at the helm of [[{{Retirony}}the ship that would have been his last command.]].

** The band. Just... the band. Made all the more touching when you remember that this particular movie death is a reconstructed historical fact.

** Jack states that they would be sucked down when the ship sank. Maybe he wouldn't know that, but it actually ''did'', for some reason. The Chief Baker (who survived) actually said it was more like riding an elevator, and he sank without even getting his hair wet.

* ItWasHisSled: Jack freezes to death.

** James Cameron replied: "Last time I checked, 'Titanic' sold $1.3 billion worth of tickets, worldwide. Imagine how many more tickets we would have sold if we'd gotten the sky right." But it was still corrected for the DVD.

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=] / [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: [[{{Alias}} Jack Bristow]] as Mr. Andrews the shipbuilder, to name one

** But that car scene is a damn close runner up ...

''The'' movie of [[TheNineties 1997]]. It was a darling of most critics at the time, a commercial splash, won 11 Oscars including Best Picture, and quickly became a source of many StockParodies. Unadjusted for inflation, it's the second-highest-grossing movie ever, recently beaten out by [[JamesCameron Cameron's]] own ''{{Film/Avatar}}''. (If you adjust for inflation, ''Titanic'' drops six slots, but even so it's still one of the highest-grossing film of the last quarter century.) In all likelihood, Cameron now has roughly enough money to raise the Titanic and fire it toward Pandora. Currently, the film is [[DeaderThanDisco facing a bit of a backlash]], due both to its being schmaltzy and [[ItsPopularNowItSucks the fact that it made loads of money]], but the same could be said of many such films. We're not going to go further than that other than to say YourMileageMayVary.