Titanic Movie vs. Titanic History. When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. Showtime Full Sometimes A Great Notion Online Free. Captain E. J. Smith, Captain of the RMS Titanic. Youve got to move on and its a shame because theres a part of you that thinks, I was so attached to that movie and its success and what it meant to me. Nathan French, 19, from Liverpool, caught hypothermia after climbing Snowdon the highest mountain in Wales in a pair of Superman pants. Bring Out the GIMP Girls in Merciless Peril December 2009 Archives. Discussion Forum for Extreme Bondage Fantasy Video. DVDs or Web. One month of eight years worth. Questioning the Story Were Jack and Rose based on real people No. Jack Dawson and Rose De. Hypothermia Full Movie In English' title='Hypothermia Full Movie In English' />Witt Bukater, portrayed in the movie by Leonardo Di. Caprio and Kate Winslet, are almost entirely fictional characters James Cameron modeled the character of Rose after American artist Beatrice Wood, who had no connection to Titanic history. The movies love story is also fiction. It was created by Titanic screenwriter and director James Cameron. In addition to Rose and Jack, a handful of other characters associated with them are fictional as well. They include Roses fianc Caledon Cal Hockley Billy Zane, her mother Ruth Frances Fisher, Cals valet Spicer Lovejoy David Warner, and the third class passengers, who include Jacks friends Fabrizio Danny Nucci and Tommy Jason Barry. Some of the third class passengers were modeled after real people. I heard there was a J. Dawson on board the Titanic, is that true Yes. A man who signed his name J. Dawson did board the Titanic. However, the J. stood for Joseph, not Jack. Born in Dublin, Joseph Dawson was a member of the Titanic crew. He worked as a coal trimmer it was his job to even out the piles of coal that were shoveled into the ships furnaces. James Cameron said that he was not aware of Joseph Dawson until after finishing his Titanic screenplay. Still, lovestruck fans of the 1. J. Dawsons grave in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they left cinema stubs, personal photos, and pictures of Leonardo Di. Caprio the exact burial location is Grave 2. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Another coincidental character created by James Cameron was Jacks Irish friend Tommy Ryan Jason Barry. The ships manifest lists a Thomas Ryan, a 2. Who sketched Jacks drawing of Rose that we see in the movie Titanic Director James Cameron did the sketch of Rose Kate Winslet wearing the necklace. It is actually Camerons hand, not Leonardo Di. Caprios, that we see sketching Rose in the movie. James Cameron also drew all of the pictures in Jacks sketchbook. Were the movies underwater shots of the Titanic wreckage realYes. Most of the underwater shots of the Titanic wreckage are real. In 1. 99. 5, James Cameron hired the Russian vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh and its two submersibles. He made a total of twelve dives to film the underwater close ups at a depth of 1. North Atlantic. Special cameras and housings were designed to withstand the 6,0. Each dive lasted approximately fifteen hours, but the cameras could only store 5. As a result, a few of the underwater shots had to be faked. Were any of Pablo Picassos paintings lost with the TitanicNo. After Rose Kate Winslet boards the ship in the movie, we see her displaying authentic paintings by the then barely known painter, Pablo Picasso. Cal Billy Zane comments that the artist will never amount to anything. This is an obvious point of humor in the movie, but it also raises the question as to whether or not these paintings were in fact part of Titanic history. The answer is no. One of the paintings shown in the movie is Picassos Les Demoiselles dAvignon shown here, which depicts five prostitutes in a brothel. It is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Were there any black passengers on board the TitanicYes. Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche was the only black man to perish in the Titanic sinking. Laroche, shown on the right in a family photo, was on board with his pregnant wife Juliette and their two young daughters. The story of this interracial family did not become widely known until three years after the movies release, when the Chicago Museum of Science Industry and the Titanic Historical Society featured the information as part of a Titanic exhibit. Joseph Laroche was born in Haiti in 1. Dessalines M. Cincinnatus Leconte, was the president of Haiti. When he was fifteen, Joseph Laroche left Haiti to study engineering in Beauvais, France. Several years later, he met Juliette Lafargue, the 2. The two eventually married. Despite having an engineering degree, Josephs skin color left him unable to find employment in France. The Laroches decided to return to Haiti and booked second class reservations on the Titanic. After the ship struck an iceberg, Joseph loaded his wife and children onto a lifeboat and he went down with the ship. His body was never recovered. Shortly before Christmas of that year, Juliette Laroche gave birth to their son, Joseph Laroche Jr. Juliette never remarried. Did Bruce Ismay really encourage Captain Smith to go faster During the U. S. Senates Inquiry into the disaster, Bruce Ismay, the Managing Director of the White Star Line, said the following, I understand it has been stated that the ship was going at full speed. The ship never had been at full speed. The full speed of the ship is 7. She works up to 8. So far as I am aware, she never exceeded 7. She had not all her boilers on. None of the single ended boilers were on. Ismay said that it was their intention to work the ship up to its full speed of 8. Monday or two days later Tuesday, depending on the weather. Surviving passengers stated that they heard Bruce Ismay pressuring Captain Edward J. Smith to go faster, with one passenger even stating that he saw Ismay flaunting an iceberg warning during dinner. However, none of the surviving officers supported these accusations, and survivor testimony from some passengers was considered unreliable and at worst imaginative. Bruce Ismay was crucified by the newspapers for leaving the ship, and he quickly became a common target upon which to place blame. Yet, it is also possible that the testimony from the surviving officers, exonerating Ismay, was given in the best interest of White Star Line. Did pieces of ice from the iceberg really land on the promenade deckYes. Mrs. Churchill Candee, of Washington, said the following about the ice, The first thing I recall was one of the crew appearing with pieces of ice in his hands. He said he had gathered them from the bow of the boat. Some of the passengers were inclined to believe he was joking. But soon the situation dawned on all of us. Survivor William Lucas reported seeing about a couple of tons of ice on the forewell deck on the starboard side of the ship. Fourth Officer Joseph Groves Boxhall said that he found a little ice in the well deck covering a space of about three or four feet from the bulwarks right along the well deck, small stuff. Did the Titanics band continue to play as the ship went under Yes. Wallace Henry Hartley, a violinist, was the bandleader on the Titanic. Hartley left had a fiance in Boston Spa, near Wetherby in Yorkshire, and he had spent time with her before leaving on the Titanic. After the ship struck an iceberg, Wallace Hartley assembled his eight man band, and they eventually ended up on the Boat Deck near the entrance to the Grand Staircase. There, they played ragtime and waltzes. Specifically, survivors reported them playing Alexanders Ragtime Band and In the Shadows. No one is certain what the last song was that the band played as the ship went down. Newspapers reported that it was Nearer, My God, To Thee while some survivors said the tune was Song dAutomne. All of the band members perished in the Titanic sinking. Wallace Hartleys body was recovered on May 4, 1.