Titanic

Wynn Park

Famous American author Morgan Robertson published a novella titled The Wreck of the Titan in 1898. It is a fictional story about a large passenger liner that struck an iceberg while sailing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Ironically, the storyline in Robertson's book contains very striking resemblances to the events of the RMS Titanic, despite it being written fourteen years earlier.

While largely dismissed in the United States and England as an inferior low-budget imitation of James Cameron's blockbuster (this film entered preproduction as Cameron's film was being shot), the 1996 mini-series remains very popular in Europe and Asia.

The lines Captain Smith recites on the bridge, "Low, low, breathe and blow / Wind of the western sea / Over the rolling waters go / Come from the dying moon, and blow" are from the poem "The Princess: Sweet and Low" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

The Titanic was built and fitted out in Belfast, not Southampton as shown in the film.

Although it was already pointed out that the dining room was located on A deck, instead of D DECK, it is later shown that Jimmy Perse and Simon Doonan are looking at the dining room through the boat deck windows.

Mrs. Miller refers to John Jacob Astor as the richest man in the world, which was not the case.

Wynn Park: Think of the stories we'll tell our grandchildren: 'Grandma and Grandpa were on the Titanic.'

Captain Smith: "Low, low. Breathe and blow, wind from the western sea. Over the rolling waters go, come from the dying moon and blow."

J. Bruce Ismay: Out of the question. Lock the guns back in the safe. I can't have you shooting my passengers.