40 Mistakes Fans Spotted In Titanic That You Won’t Be Able To Unsee
After Titanic was released in 1997 it cleaned up at the box office and during awards season alike. To this day, the three-hour epic is still generally held in high regard by critics and the general public alike. But upon closer inspection, the film is actually riddled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Unconvinced? Then read on....
40. Lake Wissota
When Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Jack first meets Rose, played by Kate Winslet, she is contemplating suicide by throwing herself off the ship. But Jack manages to talk her down, partly with an evocative story about Lake Wissota. While a touching moment in the film, the ice-fishing tale actually doesn’t make sense. That’s because the artificial reservoir didn’t come into existence until 1918 – long after the Titanic had already sunk.
39. Jack and Rose ditch Molly
At one point in the film, Jack acts as the perfect gentleman by agreeing to accompany both Rose and Molly – played by Kathy Bates – to dinner. But when the aspiring artist arrives at the said meal just a few seconds later, Molly is no longer on his arm. Instead, she follows behind and appears back at Jack’s side independently.
38. Modern-day handcuffs
When Jack gets arrested and detained in the master-at-arms’ office, it falls to Rose to release him in a bid to spare him from a watery fate. But the curious thing about this scene is the apparent age of the handcuffs used to restrain the captive. A close-up of the shackles revealed that they have a welded joint – but this didn’t exist back in 1912 when the Titanic took its maiden voyage.
37. Suspicious sunset
The direction in which the Titanic was traveling is well documented and, for the most part, director James Cameron used these records to inform his creative decisions. But when Rose and Jack practice their spitting technique on the port side of the ship, there’s something amiss. Given their location on the boat and the position of the sun as it sinks below the horizon, it would appear they are moving in a northwesterly direction, as opposed to the southwest route the cruiser really took.
