History Film / Titanic1997

* CoolGuns: Lovejoy's nickel-plated engraved M1911, especially since they weren't widespread enough at that time for a custom order to have been easy or inexpensive to get in 1912. In a deleted scene Rose reveals that Lovejoy is an ex-Pinkerton agent so it not too hard to imagine that Lovejoy used connections from his Pinkerton career to “acquire” said gun at a “reasonable” price.

* SarcasmBlind: Bruce Ismay falls for Rose's sarcasm on Dr Feud, when he keeps boasting about the Titanic.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Jack and Rose burst through a door to escape the lower tunnels of the ship. A dismayed steward then tell them that they're going to have to pay for the damage. As he's evacuating the sinking ship. Fabrizio earlier in the film asks Jack does he know someone as they wave farewell at Southampton. Jack lampshades this to him.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Jack and Rose burst through a door to escape the lower tunnels of the ship. A dismayed steward then tell them that they're going to have to pay for the damage. As he's evacuating the sinking ship.

* WhamShot: Downplayed example, but [[spoiler: Cal leaving his stateroom for the last time during the sinking -- and removing the Heart of the Ocean from the safe before locking it. This explicitly confirms the Diamond ''wasn't'' in the safe during the sinking and ''when'' specifically it was removed. Cameron also intentionally stages it so that your attention's on the safe itself rather than on the more important action (i.e. Cal pocketing the Diamond in his coat).]]

[[caption-width-right:300:''"Are you ready to go back to ''Titanic''?"'']]

*** However as Lovejoy was supposedly a former Pinkerton agent he might’ve used his connections to acquire a custom M1911 before the general public for *ahem* work related business.

* AmbigousSituation:
** When Rose says "Come back", is she [[TalkingToTheDad talking to Jack]] or to the rescuers?
** Does [[NostalgiaHeaven Rose die at the end and reunite with Jack]], is she [[DreamSequence dreaming]], or [[DyingDream both]]?

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Cal and Rose's mother prove to be classist towards Jack, who deflects Mrs. DeWitt Bukater's seemingly innocent questions with boastful ones of his own. Rose even defends Jack at least once by telling her peers that he is "quite a fine artist."

** The coat that Jack "borrows" to speak to Rose belongs to "A L Ryerson." Arthur Larned Ryerson was an actual first class passenger.

** While waiting for a lifeboat, John Jacob Astor cut open a life jacket to show his wife how they work and reassure her that they were safe. A deleted scene shows him doing this in the gymnasium.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: [[spoiler:Brock's reaction in the alternate ending when he finds that Rose actually had the diamond on her the whole time.]]

* PragmaticVillainy: Possibly the only noble thing Cal does in the film is rescuing the crying girl by getting her into a lifeboat. Obviously this was just to save his own hide by pretending to be the girl's single father. The girl is still seen in Cal's boat after the sinking but it's [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse unknown what happened to her once they got on the Carpathia.]]

* CoolGuns: Lovejoy's nickel-plated engraved M1911, especially since they weren't widespread enough at that time for a custom order to have been easy or inexpensive to get in 1912.

* DeathByAdaptation: An interesting example. Rose's personal maid Trudy is an entirely fictional character who dies in the sinking. In reality, all of the women servants in first class (maids, cooks, etc) survived. Only two male servants survived.

* CassandraTruth: In a deleted scene, wireless operators Jack Phillips and Harold Bride are trying to clear a large backlog of messages using a tenuous connection with the mainland. However, the SS ''Californian'', which is stopped nearby, attempts to warn them of the heavy ice pack into which the ''Titanic'' is steaming. Unfortunately, the message nearly blows out Phillips' eardrums,[[note]]''Titanic'' had considerably more sensitive equipment than ''Californian''[[/note]] and he thus replies with "Keep out! Shut up! I am working Cape Race!" Cyril Evans then shuts down his equipment and goes to bed.

** Thomas Andrews also reminds Captain Smith that ''Titanic'' was designed to stay afloat with the first four compartments breached, likely to emphasize the seriousness of the damage.

* PhotofloodLighting: The hallways were rather dazzlingly lit for a 1912 ocean liner. Then again, this was how the real ship was built.