25 years of Titanic: Unknown facts about Jack and Rose's classic love story
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Image Source : TwitterTitanic made around $1.8 billion (£1.45 bn) when it was first released in 1997. It is currently the third-highest-grossing film, only being beaten by Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Avatar (2009).
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Titanic was nominated for 14 Oscars, tying with All About Eve (1950). Only La La Land (2016) has since received as many nominations.
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Titanic won 11 Oscars, tying with Ben-Hur (1959). Only The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, has won as many since.
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Rose's portrait and the sketches in Jack's binder were drawn by James Cameron
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The water on the set was so cold that Kate Winslet ended up getting Hypothermia.
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Kate Winslet, then a relatively unknown young actress, was naturally not the first choice of Cameron when he was casting Rose. Gwyneth Paltrow, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Gabrielle Anwar, and Reese Witherspoon were some of the actresses who were considered.
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The footage of the Titanic underwater is real as Cameron himself dived to see the wreckage
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The script included quotes from real-life survivors. “Being stabbed with a thousand knives all over your body.” is an actual quote of Second Officer Charles Herber Lightoller who was one of the tragedy’s survivor.
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Cameron wanted no songs but only a music score for his film. But after listening to a demo tape with Célin Dion of My Heart Will Go On, he felt that the film would be incomplete without it.
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The scene when Jack is teaching Rose to spit was almost completely improvised. James Cameron often let the cast improvise during filming and add their touch to the script. The iconic spitting scene was a result of it.