Titanic is an Academy Award winning 1997 dramatic film released by 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures. The bulk of the plot is set aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage in 1912. The movie won 11 Academy Awards on March 23, 1998 including best picture of 1997. As of 2006, Titanic has the highest box office take in movie history (unadjusted for inflation; adjusted for inflation it is #6 of all-time). The 1997 film should not be confused with the Titanic movie made in 1953, nor a made-for-television film of the same title that was telecast a year earlier in 1996.

Titanic ties the record (with Ben-Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) for the most Academy Award wins, taking in 11 including the coveted Academy Award for Best Picture. Titanic was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won in 11 categories while The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was nominated in 11 categories, and won all 11 with a clean sweep.

Taglines
"Collide with Destiny"
"Nothing on Earth could come between them."
"Never Let Go"

Production
When this epic disaster film was not finished in time for its scheduled July 1997 release date, it sent shockwaves throughout Hollywood: studio execs began wondering if they might have another Heaven's Gate on their hands. The two releasing studios, 20th Century Fox (which handled the international distribution and actually had movie rights to the Titanic name) and Paramount Pictures (which had the U.S. rights) panicked. By the middle of 1997, Titanic had become the most costly film ever made (According to Boxofficemojo.com, the production budget was $200 million and the marketing budget was $40 million, making the total budget roughly $240 million) and the bills were still coming in. When director James Cameron finally delivered the film to Paramount, it ran over 3 hours and it was anyone's guess whether he would ever work in Hollywood again (2008 will be his first major commercial release since Titanic). But Cameron stood his ground and threatened edit-happy studio executives with the message: "You will cut my film over my dead body." Cameron later admitted that he was slightly worried that the film might bomb.

Moved to a crowded release date of December 19, 1997 (opposite, among other major releases, the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies), the film opened with a little promotion, and returned $28 million in ticket sales on the first weekend. Within a week, the gross tripled. By New Year's Day, the film had hit $100 million and showed no sign of slowing down. It held a virtual lock on first place at the box office for nearly four months and would become the (inflation unadjusted) highest grossing film of all-time with more than $1.8 billion in ticket sales worldwide. Cameron, who fought tooth-and-nail to finish the film, would later be awarded an Oscar for Best Picture.

Plot summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jack and Rose kiss on the bow of the ship.The year is 1996, and a treasure hunter and his team explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic in their submersible. A safe is brought to the surface and is opened. It contains, not the fabled treasure the adventurers had hoped for, but only papers. One of them is a nude pencil portrait dated April 14, 1912, and signed "JD". It shows a beautiful young woman reclining nude with casual modesty on a couch. On a necklace around her is the treasure they seek: the diamond "The Heart of the Ocean".

Rose DeWitt Bukater, known as Rose Dawson Calvert, an ancient but still lively woman of 101 years (partially based upon the American artist Beatrice Wood), watches a CNN report of the treasure hunt and sees the nude portrait. She phones the treasure hunter Brock Lovett and informs him that she knows about the diamond, the Heart of the Ocean, and also the identity of the beautiful young woman in the portrait: "Oh, yes. The woman in the picture is me." Rose, accompanied by her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, flies out to the recovery site and proceeds to tell the treasure hunters of her experiences on the Titanic.

Rose, just 17 years old in April of 1912, boards the ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, society matron Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiance, industrialist Caledon Hockley. Rose clearly does not feel very much for Caledon, but her mother pushes for the marriage for financial security, to maintain their current lavish lifestyle and bolster the social cachet among the Philadelphia elite. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio de Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a poker game.

Rose is so unhappy about her forced engagement as well as her endlessly shallow life, that she attempts to kill herself by jumping off the stern of the ship. Jack sees her and intervenes to prevent her suicide. The ship's crew find the two sprawled over the deck. At first they think this is a rape, but Rose explains to them that it was an accident. Caledon comes and thanks Jack by reluctantly inviting Jack to dine with their party the following evening in the first-class dining saloon. In the meantime, Rose and Jack soon strike up a tentative friendship as he shares tales of his adventures in traveling and she expresses her own hopes, and he shows her his sketchbook of artwork. Their bond deepens when they later ditch the first-class formal dinner party for a much livelier gathering below decks in third-class along with Fabrizio and Tommy Ryan, a man Jack and Fabrizio befriended earlier on.

Jack is clearly falling in love with Rose, but Rose is inclined to ignore their growing affection because of her engagement and their social standings. But eventually she decides to throw caution in the wind and offers her heart to Jack. Rose asks Jack to sketch her wearing nothing but the Heart of the Ocean diamond, the same portrait the treasure hunters will find 84 years later. Unfortunately, Rose foolishly writes a taunting note for Caledon and puts it in the diamond's safe along with the drawing and the diamond itself. They later consummate their relationship in the backseat of a car in one of the ship's cargo holds, after being pursued there by Spicer Lovejoy, Caledon's bodyguard.

In the meantime, Captain Edward J. Smith and his crew have been seemingly ignoring many warnings about upcoming ice fields in the ship's path, and the Titanic maintains the high speed suggested by White Star Line managing director J. Bruce Ismay even as the ship heads into the night. On the night of April 14, 1912, the two lookouts see an iceberg directly in the Titanic's path. Despite the many efforts of the crew and engineers, the ship strikes the massive ice berg. Water begins to flood the lower compartments past their "unsinkable" capacity and causes the ship to begin to sink.

After finding Rose's taunt note in the diamond safe, Caledon discovers the relationship between Jack and Rose and gets even by framing Jack for stealing his diamond. Caledon then orders the Master-at-Arms to handcuff and trap Jack in a room. Even though she has a chance to escape the sinking ship early on with her mother, Rose runs away from Caledon — and her chance of getting into a lifeboat — to find Jack. She frees Jack and they try desperately to make their way back above decks to escape the rapidly sinking ship. While making their way to the boat deck, they encounter a locked door, and burst through to a naive steward's dismay. They then try to get to a stairwell, but sadly the steward's there and so many of the steerage passengers spend many of their last hours locked under gates, but Jack and Rose work their way to a smaller gate, where they are reunited with Fabrizio and Tommy. There they use a bench to break down the gate, gaining access to the upper level. Fabrizio feels heartbroken knowing that his love cannot accompany him on the quest to live. Finally the group makes it up to the boat deck where Cal is already on the search for Rose.

However, the ship's officers aren't letting any men on the lifeboats, and Rose refuses to get into a lifeboat without Jack. As Fabrizio and Tommy go off to check the other side, Jack and Caledon, who has been spending all night trying to find Rose and get into a lifeboat, temporarily team up to convince Rose to get into the lifeboat, which she does. While they were trying to convince her, Caledon gave his coat to Rose to keep her warm, forgetting that he had put the Heart of the Ocean in the pocket. When the lifeboat starts to lower away from the ship, Rose realizes that she can't separate herself from Jack, and she jumps back on the ship, and she and Jack reunite on the Grand Staircase, with Caledon and Lovejoy witnessing all of this. Infuriated beyond belief, Caledon takes Lovejoy's handgun and chases Jack and Rose down the staircase, shooting at them the entire time. Caledon runs out of ammunition when Jack and Rose reach the Dining Room, which is quickly flooding. He chooses not to continue pursuing them when he notices the water level. Then he starts to laugh. Lovejoy, who was following behind Caledon, asks "What could possibly be funny?" Caledon says, "I put the diamond in the coat-And I put the coat on her!" Jack and Rose try to make their way to the boat deck again, during which they unsuccessfully attempt to rescue a child in a flooding hallway, and they nearly drown as well behind a locked gate.

Meanwhile, Caledon has bribed his way into the last lifeboat, with Jack's friends, Tommy Ryan and Fabrizio De Rossi, trying to get into the boat themselves. First officer William McMaster Murdoch, the officer in charge of launching the boat, threatens to shoot any man who tries to get into the boat, allowing only women and children into the boat. He rejects Caledon's bribe. The crowd pushes Tommy toward the boat and he gets shot by Murdoch. When Murdoch realizes that he just killed an innocent man, he looks around in shock before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. Caledon gets into the lifeboat by pretending to look after an abandoned child. The water reaches the boat deck, and the lifeboat floats off the deck. Fabrizio gets washed into the water and gets killed when the ship's forward funnel topples over.

Jack and Rose finally make their way to the top deck, but Jack sees that the lifeboats are gone and they, along with 1,500 terrified passengers and crew, have no choice but to head aft and stay on the ship for as long as possible before the Titanic sinks completely into the water. When they make it to the back of the stern, the deck is becoming harder to walk on because of the tilt of the ship. People begin to jump overboard, trying to swim to the lifeboats, but most of them don't make it and end up dying in the freezing cold water. Eventually, the ship's tilt is so steep that anybody not holding onto anything (deck railing, benches, lifeboat davits, etc.) slides down the deck into the water. The stern of the ship rises higher and higher until its weight causes the ship to break in two. The two sections are still attached at the keel, however, and the bow, which by now is completely flooded, goes under and pulls the stern upright so it is at a 90 degree angle. Jack and Rose have made it to the very aft deck railing, at the "top" of the stern and ready themselves for the final plunge. Eventually, the ship begins its final descent and everyone, including Jack and Rose, are washed into the cold, icy waters of the North Atlantic at 2:20 AM on April 15.

Rose and Jack stick together and wait with the hundreds of other passengers thrashing helplessly in the water, shouting desperately for those in the lifeboats to row back to rescue them. By the time one of the officers decides to row back and help those in need, almost all of the passengers have died of hypothermia in the freezing Atlantic Ocean.

Rose is heartbroken to realize that Jack has succumbed, as well. She bids him goodbye, then manages to get the lifeboat's attention to come back and rescue her. The survivors in the lifeboats wait for hours until the RMS Carpathia, the closest ship to answer and heed the Titanic's radio distress signals, arrives to save them. Upon arrival at New York City, Rose discovers that she still has the Heart of the Ocean tucked into the pocket of Caledon's coat.

As an old woman in 1996, Rose now goes onto the deck of the Keldysh (The salvage ship) and throws the Heart of the Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean where Jack died.

[Old Rose walking up to the rails about to throw away the "Heart Of The Ocean"]

Back in Rose's room, the viewers sees pictures of her life's achievements, including a photograph of her riding a horse at the Santa Monica Pier, just as she and Jack had planned to do together. There is also a roller coaster in the background of this picture, another reference to the plans that she and Jack made. (To view some of these photos, go to http://www.rosedawson.com) Rose lies in a bed nearby, a scene where some fans have debated whether she is asleep or has passed away.

A Promise Kept?
One of the biggest controversies in the film questions whether old Rose died or was dreaming at the end of the film. A possible indication that she died is given by the chapter title in the DVD "A Promise Kept". While Rose and Jack were floating in the freezing water, Jack made her promise that she wouldn't die in the water:

"Listen, Rose. You're gonna get outta here. You're gonna go on. And you're gonna make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old, old lady, warm in her bed. Not here. Not this night. Not like this. Do you understand me?....You -- You must do me this honor. You must promise me. That you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens. No matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose. And never let go of that promise."

However, in reality, there is no publicly solidified answer. Cameron is quoted in his commentary toward the end of the film refusing to give away the ending as a way of keeping the film open-ended and exciting for the viewer:

"Now, of course, the big ambiguity here is, 'Is she alive, and dreaming?', or 'Is she dead, and on her way to Titanic heaven, here?' And of course, I'll never tell. I mean, I know what we intended at the time. But that doesn't mean I have to go blurting it out. So, I know you've gone and bought this, you know, expensive special edition DVD, and you were, you know, hoping for the answer. But, the answer is, has to be something that you supply personally, individually."

Underwater, the decaying Titanic looms out of the darkness and fades to new again. A steward opens the doors from the promenade deck to the Grand Staircase, where all those who had died on the ship smile in greeting. At the top of the staircase stands Jack, facing the clock just as he had earlier in the movie. Jack turns and smiles at Rose, a young girl of 17 again, who smiles back as he helps her up the last few steps. They kiss as the crowd applauds, and it fades to the ending credits. If indeed this scene is depicting Rose's death, it is assumable that she has entered heaven. Another argument for this theory is that none of the passengers that are seen in this scene survived the sinking; all of them perished either onboard the ship as it sank or in the icy water afterwards. On the other hand, the lyrics of the film's theme song, "My Heart Will Go On" sung by Celine Dion, begins with, "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you," which could indicate that Rose is only asleep and is dreaming of Jack.

Spoilers end here.

Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet - Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane - Caledon Hockley
Billy Zane as Caledon Hockley in Titanic (1997).Frances Fisher - Ruth DeWitt Bukater
Kathy Bates - Margaret "Molly" Brown
Eric Braeden - Colonel John Jacob Astor IV
David Warner - Spicer Lovejoy
Martin Jarvis - Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon
Rosalind Ayres - Lady Lucille Duff Gordon
Danny Nucci - Fabrizio De Rossi
Gloria Stuart - Old Rose (Rose Dawson Calvert)
Victor Garber - Thomas Andrews
Bernard Hill - Captain Edward J. Smith
Jonathan Hyde - J. Bruce Ismay
Bernard Fox - Colonel Archibald Gracie
Jason Barry - Tommy Ryan
Ewan Stewart - First Officer William McMaster Murdoch
Jonathan Phillips - Second Officer Charles Lightoller
Ioan Gruffudd - Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
Michael Ensign - Benjamin Guggenheim
James Lancaster - Father Byles
Rochelle Rose - Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes
Suzy Amis - Lizzy Calvert
Bill Paxton - Brock Lovett
Anatoly Sagalevitch - Dr. Anatoly Milkailavich
Lewis Abernathy - Lewis Bodine
Elsa Raven - Ida Strauss
Lew Palter - Isidor Straus

Response

Box office
When the film opened in the U.S. on Friday, December 19, Titanic received steady attendance. By Sunday that same weekend, theaters were beginning to sell out, with the opening weekend gross totaling $28,638,131. Three months after the film’s release, its popularity did not abate and theaters were still being sold out. Titanic differs from most films released since the late 1990s in that it took fifteen weeks for its weekly gross to drop by 50%. Typically films drop by about 40% a week. By the end of March, 1998 Titanic had become the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide.

Titanic grossed a total of $1.845 billion worldwide and is the highest grossing film of all time both in North America and globally. Titanic was even more successful outside North America; no other film in the top thirty (non inflation-adjusted) worldwide box office hits of the 20th century took more than two thirds of its receipts outside the United States and Canada. [1]

Criticism
Titanic received a great deal of negative advance publicity for its budget overruns and delayed release. When it was released, reviews were favorable. Roger Ebert said "It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding."[1] Some reviewers felt that the story and dialogue were weak while the visuals were spectacular. Jeff Millar of the Houston Chronicle wrote, "When the ship does hit the berg, at the one-hour-and-45-minute point, we are immediately compensated for the padding in writer-director James Cameron's basic narrative — a shipboard romance."[2]

James Berardinelli gave the film four stars out of four, placing it #2 of the year 1997 (behind The Sweet Hereafter). In his review he mentioned: "...in Titanic, Cameron's flawless re-creation of the legendary ship has blurred the line between reality and illusion to such a degree that we can't be sure what's real and what isn't. To make this movie, it's as if Cameron built an all-new Titanic, let it sail, then sunk it. " and "...Titanic represents Cameron's most accomplished work to date. It's important not to let the running time hold you back -- these three-plus hour pass very quickly. Although this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress."

Kenneth Turan of LA Times said: " For seeing "Titanic" almost makes you weep in frustration. Not because of the excessive budget, not even because it recalls the unnecessary loss of life in the real 1912 catastrophe, which saw more than 1,500 of the 2,200-plus passengers dying when an iceberg sliced the ship open like a can opener. What really brings on the tears is Cameron's insistence that writing this kind of movie is within his abilities. Not only isn't it, it isn't even close."

Barbara Shulgasser of San Francisco Examiner gave Titanic 1 star out of four and she said: "An actor I know suggested that "Titanic" might best be renamed "Jack and Rose," citing the two lead characters, ill-fated lovers played by Leonardo DiCaprio ("Romeo and Juliet") and Kate Winslet ("Sense and Sensibility"). He felt that the number of times in this unbelievably badly written script that the two refer to each other by name was an indication of just how dramatically the script lacked anything more interesting for the actors to say."

Awards

Won
Titanic won Oscars in almost every category it was nominated in (14 nominations and 11 wins). It was the second movie to win that number (the first was Ben-Hur with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King matching the record in 2004). At the time, it was also the only movie in which two people playing the same person (Kate Winslet as Rose and Gloria Stuart as Old Rose) were both nominated for an award (coincidentally, the second film to do so, Iris, also starred Winslet). Cameron's screenplay received no nomination.

Academy Awards
Award Person
Art Direction Peter Lamont
Michael Ford
Michael Foster
Cinematography Russell Carpenter
Costume Design Deborah Lynn Scott
Best Director James Cameron
Film Editing Conrad Buff IV
James Cameron
Richard A. Harris
Music (Original Dramatic Score) James Horner
Best Original Song for My Heart Will Go On James Horner
Will Jennings
Best Picture James Cameron
Jon Landau
Best Sound Gary Rydstrom
Tom Johnson
Gary Summers
Mark Ulano
Sound Effects Editing Tom Bellfort
Christopher Boyes
Visual Effects Robert Legato
Mark A. Lasoff
Thomas L. Fisher
Michael Kanfer
Nominated:
Best Actress in a Leading Role Kate Winslet
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Gloria Stuart
Best Makeup Tina Earnshaw
Greg Cannom
Simon Thompson

Soundtrack
Main article: Titanic (soundtrack)
The soundtrack CD for Titanic was composed by James Horner and sold over 20 million copies, notable because it included only one pop song with lyrics. The soundtrack includes performances from the Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø, and the famous Canadian singer Celine Dion. It became a worldwide success, and led to the release of a second volume that contained a mixture of previously unreleased soundtrack recordings with newly-recorded performances of some of the songs in the film, including one track recorded by Enya's sister, Máire Brennan of the Irish band Clannad. "Hymn To The Sea" featured Bad Haggis's Eric Rigler on the uilleann pipes and whistles.

DVD
Titanic was first released to DVD in 1999 in a widescreen-only (non-anamorphic) single disc edition with no special features. Cameron stated at the time that he intended to release a special edition with extra features at a later date. Six years later, on October 25, 2005, a special edition release finally occurred with a 3-DVD set in North America that included an anamorphic widescreen-only presentation of the movie divided onto two of the discs, 45 minutes of deleted scenes, an alternate ending, a faux 1912-style newsreel, a crew tribute/gag reel, and other features. An international two-disc and four-disc edition followed on November 7, 2005.

Deleted scenes
The 2005 DVD release included about 45 minutes worth of deleted scenes that were cut from the film either for pacing, to shorten the film to a marketable running time, or for reasons James Cameron describes in his commentary as "tonal". Some of the cut sequences are minor additions, while others are major scenes. The public were first made aware of many of these deleted scenes with the publication of Titanic's screenplay in 1998 and a few of them were first shown in a Fox TV special detailing the making of the film, and later Cameron incorporated some of the cut scenes into his Titanic Explorer CD-ROM. Still other scenes involving Jack and Rose passed into near-legend with fans of the romantic subplot of the film wanting to see more of their heroes.

The following is a list of 19 of the major deleted scenes included on the DVD release. There were 31 deleted scenes in total:

An extension of Rose unpacking her paintings, in which Caledon clearly states that he believes her to be a virgin. The context is in discussing how the beds have never been slept in before.

Prior to her suicide attempt, Rose is shown trying to undress herself but growing violently frustrated when she is unable to do so (because of the nature of high society costuming at the time, servants were required to assist with dressing and undressing).

A lengthy sequence that would have followed Rose being presented with the Heart of the Ocean, starting with a CGI morph of young Rose's hand holding the diamond to a closeup of Old Rose's hand. Old Rose announces that she is tired and needs rest, but Brock wants to continue pumping her for information. Old Rose is adamant and returns to her quarters. Brock is reminded that his sponsors want to pull the plug on the expedition, after which he is confronted by Rose's angry granddaughter Lizzy.

Brock explains his dream of finding the diamond, and shows Lizzy how his hand will look as it holds the diamond. Lizzy asks Brock if he believes Rose was on the Titanic, and he replies "Yeah, I'm a believer". (This dialogs was included in some of the trailers for the film). The cut sequence continues with another CGI morph from the Titanic wreck to Rose walking along the Promenade Deck. She then sneaks through the gate into Third Class and searches for Jack in the Common Area where is he talking with Cora, a young girl. Rose finds Jack and thanks him for saving her life.

A scene that would have followed the above had Jack and Rose discussing her dreams, and she talks about her desire to become a motion picture actress. To emphasize the point, she vamps for a passenger's motion picture camera. After the Titanic incident, Rose does become an actress with her pictures as evidence.

After the Third Class party sequence, Jack walks Rose back to the First Class entrance as they sing "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine." Rose says "I don't want to go back" and the two look at the stars for a few moments, spotting a meteorite cutting across the sky. Jack says, "Every time you see a shooting star, it's a soul going to heaven." This scene emphasizes the later significance of Rose whispering "Come Josephine" while staring at the sky after the Titanic and Jack are lost.

During Rose and Caledon's tour of the ship, they also visited the gymnasium, which was recreated faithfully from old photographs. (A later deleted scene shows passengers huddling in the gymnasium while waiting for lifeboats.)
A brief piece of dialogs during the chase with Lovejoy that reveals Spicer Lovejoy is a former cop hired by Caledon's father to take care of his son.

After their romp through the boiler room, and prior to the sex scene in the car, Jack and Rose kiss passionately among the boilers.

The Californian tries to warn the Titanic about the ice fields, but are rudely cut off by the radio operators on board. The Californian's radio officer gives up and goes to bed.

Right after the collision, there was originally a comedic moment with Molly Brown asking a bartender for "a little ice" as the iceberg passes the window behind her. Historically speaking, this is inaccurate as Brown had actually been reading in her stateroom at the time of the collision. Cameron said he cut the scene as he felt in retrospect that it was inappropriate to include a comical moment at such a crucial point in the film.

Jack and Rose play with the ice that has fallen onto the deck. Jack is confident that the ship is safe and Rose drops a piece of ice down Jack's shirt. Jack then playfully pretends to throw Rose overboard.

A historically famous moment in which one of the two Titanic radio operators suggests his colleague use the "new" SOS distress signal. "Might be the only chance you get to use it."

In her lifeboat, Molly Brown teaches some of her fellow passengers how to row.

After Caledon realizes he has accidentally given the diamond to Rose, there originally followed a lengthy and suspenseful cat-and-mouse fight sequence between Lovejoy and Jack in the quickly flooding main dining room. This sequence was cut by Cameron after it received unfavorable responses from test audiences. This scene explains why Lovejoy sports a head injury just before his death in the final version of the film.

Cora, the little girl who befriended Jack, is shown drowning with her family, trapped behind a locked Third Class gate. It was taken out because it seemed too cruel to see a little girl drowning.

Captain Smith orders the mostly-empty lifeboats to return to the Titanic for more passengers. Aboard Molly Brown's boat, the crew member in charge (Robert Hichens) refuses, saying it's every man for himself. "The fools," Smith says.

After Jack helps Rose to get on the floating door following the Titanic's sinking, another man tries to get on as well, but Jack threatens to kill him if he does as there's only enough room for Rose. Jack is also shown realizing at this point that he is going to die.

An alternate, extended version of the Carpathia rescue sequence that shows additional footage of the survivors, including footage of Second Officer Lightoller and a group of other survivors balancing on the overturned collapsible lifeboat B (based upon historical accounts and a famous sequence from A Night to Remember). It also shows J. Bruce Ismay's guilt and an extended search for Rose. You can also see those two little girls who lost their father on board, the child Caledon pretended to be the father to, and Ruth. Molly has not been seen.

An alternate version of the scene in which Old Rose throws the diamond into the ocean. In the cut version, Old Rose goes to the stern of the ship and looks up at the sky and sees a shooting star (a reference to the earlier "Come Josephine" scene aboard the Titanic that was cut).

Brock, Lizzy and Lewis notice her and think at first that she's planning to jump. She then reveals that she had the diamond the whole time ("Every time I thought about selling it, I thought of Cal and how I always managed to get by without his help.") When they realize that she had the diamond all the time, Brock tries to convince her not to throw it away, but she won't be swayed. She does, however, allow him to hold it in his hands - and his hand makes the shape that he showed Lizzy in the earlier scene. Rose then throws the diamond into the water. (This last sequence is not included in the "deleted scenes" section of Disc 3 of the DVD release, but rather is included by itself on Disc 2. It is dubbed an alternate ending, although strictly speaking the sequence in which Old Rose goes to sleep or dies and returns to the Titanic and Jack is identical in both versions.)

When Jack and Rose go to the third class jammed stairwell (encountering Tommy), Jack asks Helga (the Norwegian) where Fabrizio is located. She points to the hallway. Tommy comes as well. Everyone has to find another way up. Fabrizio tries to convince Helga's family to come with them but they refuse. Fabrizio is forced to leave without his love and gives her one final kiss.

After Caledon and Lovejoy go to find other boats, you glance at a conversation between those two elders you later see crying in bed. It involves the husband tryng to convince his wife to get on a boat, but she refuses and they decide to die together.

There is an extended scene to when Jack climbs up to first class to see Rose. Before that, Fabrizio and Tommy try to convince him to forget about Rose, but Jack refuses. When Jack climbs up, they get caught by an officer and simply leave.

Although he agreed to include these and other scenes (there were 31 in total) on the DVD release, James Cameron has stated that he has no intention of reintegrating any of these sequences into the movie (unlike what he did with his earlier films Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Aliens which were released in extended versions with deleted scenes reinstated).

Parodies
As with any well-known film, Titanic has had many scenes spoofed:

The season 4 finale of NewsRadio, "Sinking Ship", was a parody of the film, with Phil Hartman introducing the premise "what if the radio station was on a luxury ocean liner?" The plot roughly corresponds to Titanic's while still paralleling current plot arcs on the series, and features many direct parodies. As with their season 3 "what-if" finale, "Space", only Bill (Phil Hartman) and Matthew (Andy Dick) survive, although they are preparing to cannibalize each other. In a sadly ironic turn of events, one of Bill's last lines was "It's just a TV show. Nobody really died." It was Hartman's last appearance before his 1998 murder.

Scary Movie features a cinema scene in which a movie called Amistad 2 is advertised. The preview consists of a black man mimicking the famous "I'm the king of the world!" scene at the ship's prow, only to be whipped from behind.

A scene in Scary Movie 2 involves Cindy orally pleasuring Bobby to keep him awake, telling him he'll live and lead a good life. Jack, obviously minus the oral pleasure, has a similar scene with Rose atop the floating door. During the scene in Scary Movie 2, the Titanic theme "My Heart Will Go On" plays gently in the background.

In Bruce Almighty, Jim Carrey asks an old woman several questions as if she was Rose: "Why did you throw the blue "Heart of the Ocean" jewel over the railing of the Titanic? Didn't you feel bad letting Leo DiCaprio drown while you were safe floating on the big door? Couldn't you have taken turns? Or were you just too afraid to freeze your big fat ass off?!?" An error in this scene is that Rose did not throw the jewel over the side of the Titanic: she threw it over the side of the salvaging ship. However, one may also argue that "Why did you throw the blue "Heart of the Ocean" jewel over the railing of the salvaging ship after the Titanic sunk?" is a bit of a mouthful.

A Saturday TV Funhouse skit entitled "Titey" poked fun at the rewriting of history that some have accused Disney of doing. The skit imagined a Disney version of Titanic including Napoleon and Anne Frank as characters, and has the anthromorphized ship succeed in fighting off the iceberg instead of sinking. [2]

The ending of the Leslie Nielsen film Wrongfully Accused involved Nielsen's character and his love interest on the ship's front in a parody of the scene in which Jack helps Rose up on the railing to make it seem like she is flying. In Wrongfully Accused, when Nielsen and the female go to kiss, the ship's horn blows, and sails under a low bridge, causing the lovers to hit their heads and collapse. In real life the ship's super-structure would have quickly run into the bridge.

A television commercial features old Rose throwing the diamond into the ocean, then diving in and retrieving it, only to sell it to a pawn shop. The commercial was for the Yellow Pages, and advised "making smart financial decisions." Another ad featured Jack and Rose freezing in the ocean atop the large door, with Rose saying, "I'll never let go, I promise," as she lets Jack sink under the water. A moment later, he resurfaces, only to be pushed forcibly back under by Rose.

The 1998 French & Saunders Christmas Special spoofed many aspects of the film, notably James Cameron's "King of the World" Oscar acceptance speech, the computer-duplicated extras in the film, and the Max Factor tie-in advertisements. The sketch was reshown in 2000 on the night the film premiered on terrestrial television.
An episode of Futurama, "A Flight To Remember" spoofs the entire film, having the events set aboard a cruise spaceship named Titanic. Ironically, the ship was brashly piloted at high speed through a field of comets (described in the episode as "the icebergs of the sky"), but ultimately ended up being sucked into a black hole. Incidentally, Futurama is a production of 20th Century Fox Television.

In the Britney Spears song Oops!... I Did It Again, Britney is heard saying to the male love interest in the song "...but I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end?" He responds with "Well baby, I went down and got it for you!"

In a Saturday Night Live skit from 1998, Bill Paxton plays his character interrogating Rose (played by Cheri Oteri) on where the diamond went. Rose's daughter (Molly Shannon) becomes upset at learning her mother has been sitting on a fortune all these years and joins in. A crew member points out how wrong Rose's story is and has made it all up. The scene cuts to Cameron (as himself) in an office, explaining this was the original ending but it was changed "after test audiences rioted and burned down the theater." After saying that sharing this makes the audiences "king of the world," Cameron lights a cigar with a $100 bill. This skit can be viewed as an Easter Egg on the three-disc special edition DVD.

In an episode of Family Guy, the ending scene is shown from the Titanic. Jack just dies as he hangs on the door Rose is floating on. She lets him go and he falls into the ocean. To show what the world would be like without death, instead of dying, Jack floats back up and says "You know what? Actually I think I'm going to be ok." Rose expresses her joy and implies that they can now get married. Jack says, "Yeah...well, there's this girl in New York, and things are getting pretty serious... but hey, thanks for letting me draw you naked! I still can't believe you let me do that!"

Hanson's music video for "The River" parodies the movie's frame story. In the end, old Rose (again played by Gloria Stuart) opens up her CD player and drops a copy of Hanson's CD into the ocean. The video was directed by "Weird Al" Yankovic (who also made a parody of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On", entitled "Free Delivery", performed as one of the songs in his medley live on stage only).

In the movie Shark Tale, there is the painting of Rose on the wall, but she has clothes drawn on her.

In the film BASEketball, the characters played by Matt Stone and Trey Parker can be heard saying "Remember to hold your breath and never let go!" as a balance beam they are on topples over. Additionally, Dian Bachar's character exclaims "I'm the king of the world!" as he is carried around the stadium during the film's conclusion.
In the satirical Japanese anime Excel Saga, the main character demonstrates her obsession with another character by imagining a re-creation of the kiss scene at the front of the Titanic.

In the parody trailer mashup for a sequel, "Titanic Two the Surface," where, scenes from other DiCaprio films (particularly Catch Me if You Can) are combined with footage from a number of other films such as Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and The Hulk. This faux sequel begins with Jack's frozen body recovered from the Titanic site after more than 90 years and he is revived, only to find himself pursued by the government. While on the run, Jack must learn to adjust to life in the 21st Century while mourning the recent death of Rose. Overall, clips from 23 different films are used.

In an episode of The Simpsons, The Simpsons are watching The Titanic (as directed by Roger Corman) where it shows The Titanic hitting an iceberg and sinking quickly as where Jack and Rose are in a lifeboat and Rose is saying "Now that we've escaped from that horrible ship, I can take off this stifling bikini.", where soon the Titanic comes out of the water showing a face in the bow similar to the one on Ghost Ship and eats them.

In an episode of The Simpsons, Smithers is seen drawing Mr. Burns in a position similar to Rose's while on a boat, but Burns is seen dressed. This is a parody of the scene where Jack Dawson draws Rose DeWitt Bukater nude.
In the fantasy film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry rides on Buckbeak, Hagrid's hippogriff and takes a pose of "king of the world" over the lake.

In Digimon One episode features the kids on a ship that has identical structure and looks to the ship. In a later Episode, Whaemon is attempting an escape from Sedramon, Whaemon tells of a plan ending in "Hopefully it will work." Mimi responds with, "What do you mean hopefully it will work. That's what the Captain of the Titanic said."

In the opening sequence of the Sims 2, a guy is painting a woman on a couch like Jack Dawson drew Rose DeWitt Bukater only the woman has her "undies" on.

A book cover parodying the famous "flying" scene from Titanic.The cover of the 1999 FoxTrot comic collection book I'm Flying, Jack... I Mean, Roger parodies the "flying" scene.

In one episode of The Nanny, Fran's grandmother, Yeda, remembers coming over to America and having a love affair with a young crewman. During one of their meetings, the crewman places his hand over a steamy portal window, similar to Jack in the car scene with Rose.

In the Hannah Montana episode "O Say Can You Remember the Words", Oliver overhears Miley saying he was the Titanic and she was on it. He runs out of the house as Miley calls after him, "I didn't mean the ship! I meant the highly successful movie!"

On an episode of the Disney Channel series "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", Moesby and Arwin and stuck riding a heywire radio-controlled luggage cart. During this, Arwin goes to the front, spreads his arms out and says "I'm king of the world!".

In an episode of Whose Line is it Anyway?, an improve prompt is "alternate endings to the titanic." One reaction was a contestant walked up to another and said, "Hello, I'm Gilligan"

In the movie Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist, the Titanic is sinking in the scene where Betty is swinging the chain above his head.

In the movie Our Lips are Sealed Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are seen at the front of a boat doing the "king of the world" pose.

The cover of the FoxTrot collection book

Trivia
This is the second film made by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in three years, the first being Braveheart.

James Horner wrote the song My Heart Will Go On in secret with Will Jennings because James Cameron did not want any songs with singing in the film.

When Jack gives Rose the small note after the camera shifts to Rose reading the note, the note changes color from yellow to white.

Victor Garber's (Thomas Andrews) audition tape got mixed up with another, which almost cost him the role.
The Second film in 38 years to win 11 Oscars

James Cameron shot footage of the Titanic wreck, even before he had a finished script, and green light on the film.

The drawing of Rose was actually done by director James Cameron.

Jack's line about cold water feeling like "a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body" was actually said by Titanic's Second Officer Charles Lightoller.

Although Margaret Brown is today known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown, she was not called Molly in her lifetime; the movie is inaccurate in this regard.

The Grand Staircase in the film was often considered one of the greatest sinking shots of all time. One thing that was not included in the film was that it actually broke free of the base and floated to the surface. It is believed this also happened with the real Titanic as much of the wood work was found inside and intact.