History Main / Titanic

* Fiery Redhead: Rose has traces of this.

* FlippingTheBird

''The'' movie of [[TheNineties 1997]] (actually due to its December release, ''the'' movie of 1998). 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 films ever.) 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.

* Firey Redhead: Rose has traces of this.

** About 3 times you also see a tan, curcly headed girl named Cora, who doesn't look much older than 7. [[spoiler: You don't see her death on-screen, but in the final scence where Rose is surrounded by all those who perished on the Titanic, she's the first person you see.]]

* [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Manic Pixie Dream Guy]]: Jack.

** More seriously, though, the film goes out of its way to trash the image of one William Murdoch, who (aside from being implicated in the Titanic hitting the iceberg) variously takes a bribe from Cal Hockley, shoots people as the ship sinks, and then finally kills himself. This might have been an AcceptableTarget for demonstrating incompetence by the ship's crew had there not actually ''been'' a William Murdoch who was on Titanic and who actually ''had'' the position the William Murdoch who appears on screen did. There were eyewitness reports from the Titanic's survivors that Murdoch killed no one, did not suicide, and was alive in the water when the ship went down, fighting hard to loose more lifeboats right to the bitter end. Murdoch's surviving relatives complained when they saw the film, and the vice president of the entire Fox Network eventually flew out personally to apologise for the gaffe, donating five thousand pounds to a British school's William Murdoch Memorial Prize.
*** Though, to be fair, the one person Murdoch shot was by accident, or at least out of reflex rather than actually taking aim and pulling the trigger. Additionally, prior to that incident in the movie, he literally throws Cal's money back in his face with the line "Your money can't save you any more than it can save me."
**** Plus he seemed to stare at Cal in disbelief when he shoved the money at him.
***** In addition, there are a number of survivor accounts of an officer shooting himself on the forward end of the starboard Boat Deck. If this did happen, it would have had to been either Chief Officer Wilde or First Officer Murdoch, as all the other officers are accounted for elsewhere. Murdoch seems to be the more likely one.
***** And now Cameron has issued a public apology to Murdoch's relatives. Cameron says, "I think I have come to the realization that it was probably wrong to portray a specific person, in this case First Officer Murdoch, as the one who fired the weapon. First Officer Murdoch has a family and they took exception to that, and I think rightly so."

** If Rose had just stayed on the lifeboat she actually boarded, it seems [[spoiler: like Jack would have had a much better chance of survival, for one, he wouldn't have been chased back below deck by Cal and submerged in the freezing waters again (something that in real life would have only exacerbated his hypothermia even if he got back out) but presumably he would have done the same thing he did with Rose, that is, ride the ship down then find the floating door. Then they both could have both survived.]]

"First Officer Murdoch has a family and they took exception to that, and I think rightly so."

** More seriously, though, the film goes out of its way to trash the image of one William Murdoch, who (aside from being implicated in the Titanic hitting the iceberg) variously takes a bribe from Cal Hockley, shoots people as the ship sinks, and then finally kills himself. This might have been an AcceptableTarget for demonstrating incompetence by the ship's crew had there not actually ''been'' a William Murdoch who was on Titanic and who actually ''had'' the position the William Murdoch who appears on screen did. Whilst there are a number of survivor accounts of an officer shooting himself, and Murdoch seems to be the more likely one, there were eyewitness reports from the Titanic's survivors that Murdoch killed no one, did not suicide, and was alive in the water when the ship went down, fighting hard to loose more lifeboats right to the bitter end. Murdoch's surviving relatives complained when they saw the film, and the vice president of the entire Fox Network eventually flew out personally to apologise for the gaffe, donating five thousand pounds to a British school's William Murdoch Memorial Prize.

***** In addition, there are a number of survivor accounts of an officer shooting himself on the forward end of the starboard Boat Deck. If this did happen, it would have had to been either Chief Officer Wilde or First Officer Murdoch, as all the other officers are accounted for elsewhere. Murdoch seems to be the more likely one,

** More seriously, though, the film goes out of its way to trash the image of one William Murdoch, who (aside from being implicated in the Titanic hitting the iceberg) variously takes a bribe from Cal Hockley, shoots people as the ship sinks, and then finally kills himself. This might have been an AcceptableTarget for demonstrating incompetence by the ship's crew had there not actually ''been'' a William Murdoch who was on Titanic and who actually ''had'' the position the William Murdoch who appears on screen did. Whilst there were rumours one of the officers did suicide, there were eyewitness reports from the Titanic's survivors that Murdoch killed no one, did not suicide, and was alive in the water when the ship went down, fighting hard to loose more lifeboats right to the bitter end. Murdoch's surviving relatives complained when they saw the film, and the vice president of the entire Fox Network eventually flew out personally to apologise for the gaffe, donating five thousand pounds to a British school's William Murdoch Memorial Prize.

* AccidentalAimingSkills: Rose with the axe. Not only was her aim bad, but her eyes were closed.

* DawsonCasting: Kate Winslet (21 during the filming) was portraying a seventeen-year-old.
* DemotedToExtra: Remember the blonde chick who dances with Fabrizio in 3rd class? She was written as a opposite counterpart to Rose, a girl who finds her love interest in her class and follows her strict parents' orders without question (down to refusing to go with Fabrizio once the ship begins to sink, despite the fact that he knows the way to the lifeboats better). [[spoiler: She's also the blonde girl who hangs on the railing before falling to her death]].
* DiamondsInTheBuff Kate Winslet posing for her portrait.

* DemotedToExtra: Remember the blonde chick that dances with Fabrizzio in 3rd class? She was written as a opposite counterpart to Rose, a girl that finds her love interest in her class and follows her strict parents' orders without question (down to refusing to go with Fabrizzio once the ship begins to sink, despite he knows better the way to the lifeboats). [[spoiler: She's also the blonde girl that hangs on the railing before falling to her death]].

* FakeIrish: Victor Garber (Jewish Canadian) as Belfastman Thomas
Andrews.

** About 3 times you also see a tan, curcly headed girl named Coral, who doesn't look much older than 7. [[spoiler: You don't see her death on-screen, but in the final scence where Rose is surrounded by all those who perished on the Titanic, she's the first person you see.]]

* Firey Redhead: Rose

* FakeIrish: Victor Garber (Jewish Canadian) as Belfastman Thomas Andrews.

* ChekhovsSkill: spittin' like a man

** Earlier in the film, Jack teaches Rose how to "spit like a man," and she doesn't do too badly for a first try. Much later in the film, when the ship is sinking, Cal grabs her by the arm and refuses to let her go to Jack. So what does she do in order for him to let go of her? Spits in his face.

* FreudWasRight: "[[LampshadeHamging I think you'll find his insight on the male preoccupation with size quite interesting.]]"