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Frequently asked about Titanic

Common questions people search for, with answers written by us at MoviesPack.

• What actress turned down the role of Rose in Titanic?▾

  Gwyneth Paltrow is widely reported to have turned down the role of Rose, and Claire Danes also passed on it. Other actresses considered or who declined to pursue the part included Winona Ryder.

• Which Titanic film is the most accurate?▾

  James Cameron's 1997 Titanic is generally regarded as the most historically accurate film about the disaster, particularly in its recreation of the ship's interiors, sinking sequence, and timeline. The 1958 British film A Night to Remember, based on Walter Lord's book, is also often praised for its factual accuracy regarding the events of the sinking.

• What is the inappropriate scene in Titanic?▾

  The most commonly cited inappropriate scene is the nude drawing sequence, in which Jack sketches Rose wearing only the Heart of the Ocean necklace. The film also includes a love scene between Jack and Rose in the back of a car in the cargo hold.

• Why didn't Rose make room for Jack on the floating door at the end?▾

  In the film, Rose climbs onto a piece of wooden debris after the ship sinks, and Jack stays in the freezing water holding her hand. The piece is shown to be unstable when both try to climb on, tipping over in the icy water, so Jack chooses to keep Rose on it to save her life. He ultimately dies of hypothermia while she survives until a lifeboat returns.

• What is the significance of the Heart of the Ocean necklace?▾

  The Heart of the Ocean is a massive blue diamond that Cal gives Rose as an engagement gift, symbolizing his attempt to own and control her. Jack famously draws Rose wearing only the necklace, turning it from a symbol of Cal's possession into one of her sexual and personal liberation. At the end, the elderly Rose drops it into the ocean over the wreck site, returning it to Jack and the sea rather than cashing in on it.

• Why does Rose use the name 'Rose Dawson' at the end of the film?▾

  After being rescued by the Carpathia, Rose hides from Cal among the steerage passengers and gives her name as Rose Dawson, taking Jack's surname. This lets her escape her controlling fiance and her mother's plans to marry her off for money, and it honors Jack by carrying his name into the new life he urged her to live. The ship's manifest shown to elderly Rose confirms she never appeared on the survivor list as Rose DeWitt Bukater.

• Was Jack Dawson based on a real person?▾

  Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater are fictional characters invented for the film. James Cameron has stated the romance is entirely made up, though many of the supporting figures, such as Captain Smith, Thomas Andrews, Molly Brown, and the Strauses, were real Titanic passengers and crew whose fates in the film match history. A real J. Dawson did die on the Titanic, but Cameron has said he was unaware of this when writing the character.

• Is the ending a dream, or does Rose die at the end?▾

  The final scene, in which an elderly Rose returns to the Titanic's grand staircase and is reunited with Jack and the other passengers who died, is deliberately ambiguous. James Cameron has said it can be read either as Rose dying peacefully in her sleep and going to a kind of afterlife, or as her dreaming of being reunited with Jack. The closing shot of the photographs on her nightstand showing the life she lived suggests she fulfilled her promise to Jack to live fully before passing on.