Factual error: At the end of the movie, the Straus' are seen lying in each other's arms on their bed with water coming into the cabin under the closed door as the ship is sinking. This is not true, their cabin was on C deck, but his body was found in the following days of the sinking. For his body to get into the open water it would have had to float through a closed door, and up several flights of stairs. Historically, they refused to leave the ship, and were last seen sitting in deck chairs. They were there when the ship sank on the boat deck. Her body was never recovered.
Titanic (1997)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill
Rose frees Jack from his chains with an axe. They both manage to find a boat but only Rose is allowed on, with persuasion from Jack and Cal. However, she can't leave Jack and jumps off the boat back to Titanic. Jack and Rose are then both chased by Cal shooting at them with his manservants gun. They barely escape. After a few narrow escapes from the water they get back to the top deck and find their way to the stern of the ship, where they ride the ship down. They both manage to fight the ships suction and get to the surface. Jack finds a wooden door and knows it is Rose's best chance. He stays in the water whilst she is on the door making her promise to never let go, to survive. She promises. One boat turns back out of the twenty nearby and rescues Rose as Jack has now frozen to death. Rose whispers that she will never let go as she lets him sink. The story then ends with the hunters saying there were never records of Jack. Rose then reveals to the audience that she had the diamond all along as it had been in the pocket of a coat Cal (who had shot himself in 1929, 17 years later) had put on her. She throws it overboard to the Titanic and Jack. She then dies in her bed, surrounded with pictures of her wonderful life, including riding horseback and riding on the rollercoaster, like Jack had told her. We are left with an image of her rejoining Jack and all the others who died on the deck of the Titanic.
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Lewis Bodine: We never found anything on Jack. There's no record of him at all.
Rose Calvert: No, there wouldn't be, would there? And I've never spoken of him until now. Not to anyone, not even your grandfather. A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson. And that he saved me. In every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now, only in my memory.
Trivia: Gloria Stuart was the oldest person ever to receive an Oscar nomination for her role in "Titanic". At 87, she was also the only person on the set who was alive at the time of the real "Titanic" disaster.
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Answer: Yes, it was. At the time, the big cruise lines were all trying to outdo each other with the largest and most opulent cruise ships. The Olympic class ships were the White Star Line's entry in the size race, with Olympic, the first built, taking the title in 1911, before losing it to her sister ship, the Titanic, the following year.
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