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* CompanionCube: Before leaving for the lifeboats, one passenger returns to her cabin to retrieve her "lucky pig", a pig-shaped music box. As she leaves the room, the camera focuses on all the jewelry she'd left behind.



* TheDeterminator: Captain Rostron of the ''Carpathia'', who tries to reach the ''Titanic'' before it sinks with no regard to the hazards facing his own ship[[note]]he takes every precaution, posting numerous lookouts at various levels to help his ship get through the icefield -- he wasn't ''reckless'' -- but the danger doesn't keep him from doing everything he can to get to ''Titanic'' as fast as possible[[/note]]. The crew of ''Titanic'' also count as they work to save the ship and the passengers until the last second even knowing in most cases they haven't got a hope in hell of saving their own lives.


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* TheDeterminator: Captain Rostron of the ''Carpathia'', who tries to reach the ''Titanic'' before it sinks with no regard to the hazards facing his own ship[[note]]he takes every precaution, posting numerous lookouts at various levels to help his ship get through the icefield -- he wasn't ''reckless'' -- but the danger doesn't keep him from doing everything he can to get to ''Titanic'' as fast as possible[[/note]]. The crew of ''Titanic'' also count as they work to save the ship and the passengers until the last second even knowing in most cases they haven't got a hope in hell of saving their own lives.

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* AgeLift: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Corse_Evans Edith Evans]], who is seen being refused a seat in collapsible D (she was one of only five women and children in First Class who died in the sinking), is shown to be an elderly woman, but the ''real'' Edith Evans was only 36 at the time of her death.

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[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Corse_Evans Edith Evans]], who is seen being refused a seat in collapsible D (she was one of only five women and children in First Class who died in the sinking), is shown to be an elderly woman, but the ''real'' Edith Evans was only 36 at the time of her death.death.
** ''Californian'' wireless operator Cyril Evans, who was only 20 at the time of the sinking, is depicted as a middle-aged man. This is made all the more perplexing by the fact that the other three wireless operators shown in the film, who were all peers of Evans as employees of the Marconi Company, are all accurately depicted as younger adults.
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->'''Lucas:''' I'd like you to tell me something. I... I have a wife and three children on board. Just how serious is it? I'm not the panicking kind.
->'''Andrews:''' The ship has about an hour to live. A little more, if some of the upper bulkheads hold, but not much more. Get your wife and children into the boats.

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->'''Lucas:''' I'd like you to tell me something. I... I have a wife and three children on board. Just how serious is it? I'm not the panicking kind.
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The ship has about an hour to live. A little more, if some of the upper bulkheads hold, but not much more. Get your wife and children into the boats.



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* DistressCall: The ''Carpathia'''s radio operator is on the ball, and his equally diligent captain turns the ship around to race to the ''Titanic''. However, when the Titanic fires distress rockets, hoping to alert a nearby ship, the Californian wonders why the Titanic is firing rockets, and believes they may be signalling to another ship.

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* DistressCall: The ''Carpathia'''s radio operator is on the ball, and his equally diligent captain turns the ship around to race to the ''Titanic''. However, when the Titanic fires distress rockets, hoping to alert a nearby ship, the Californian ''Californian'' wonders why the Titanic is firing rockets, and believes they may be signalling to another ship.
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* ForWantOfANail:
** The appalling death toll could have been prevented if lifeboats were provisioned on the basis of passengers and if ships had to maintain a 24 hour radio watch - the ''Californian'' was visible on the horizon but their only radio operator had finished his shift and gone to bed.[[note]]Both points are arguable, however. Even if ''Titanic'' had been equipped with another 20 lifeboats, there simply would not have been enough time to launch them all. There is also [[https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/californian-incident.html some debate]] as to whether ''Californian'' could have reached ''Titanic'' in time to make a difference. On top of that according to the Admiralty report, many of the steerage passengers were in the part of the ship flooded first and never had any chance to survive. Others would not be parted from all their worldly goods and rejected getting into the lifeboats without their luggage.[[/note]]
** Lightoller muses about the "If onlys" towards the end of the movie, citing the failure to provide lifeboats for everyone, and the failure of the ''Titanic'' to slow down.
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** Due to the expansion of Lightoller into the film's lead, he's made a bit softer than his real-life counterpart, and some of the things we see him do, such as firing the gun to prevent it from being stormed by panicked passengers, were actually done by other officers. Most of them are minor however, and author Walter Lord admitted that he had no problem with the artistic licenses, since they were minor, and he understood that Lightoller needed a few extra moments to solidify himself as the film's lead.

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** Due to the expansion of Lightoller into the film's lead, he's made a bit softer than his real-life counterpart, and some of the things we see him do, such as firing the gun to prevent it from being stormed by panicked passengers, were actually done by other officers. Most of them are minor small however, and author Walter Lord admitted that he had no problem with the artistic licenses, since they were minor, and he understood that Lightoller needed a few extra moments to solidify himself as the film's lead.

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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: While there's no fair way to deny most of the crew and officers acted heroically (no matter what [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} The Other Movie]] depicted) and while if even half Lightoller's autobiography is true the man was a certifiable hero, the movie takes it just a bit too far, showing him launching lifeboats he had nothing to do with and in places he couldn't have been.

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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: While there's no fair way to deny most of the crew and officers acted heroically (no matter what [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} The Other Movie]] depicted) and while if even half Lightoller's autobiography is true the man was a certifiable hero, the movie takes it just a bit too far, showing him launching lifeboats he had nothing to do with and in places he couldn't have been. However, this was actually lampshaded by the author, Walter Lord, who noted that Lightoller is given additional moments as the film makes him the "star" of the large ensemble cast.



** Also notable is Ismay's reaction, as well as Smith when Andrews gives him the news directly. Andrews himself gives a strong non-verbal reaction when he's on the stairway watching the water pour in as the crew below attempt to salvage things. You can see the horror of the realization in his eyes.



* TakeThat: One of the taglines of the film was 'The Real Story of the RMS ''Titanic''', a jab at the less-than accurate 1953 ''Film/{{Titanic|1953}}'' film. Sylvia Lightoller, widow of the real life Charles Lightoller, remarked in an interview that "the film is really the truth and has not been embroidered," though there is still some artistic licence made both for dramatic effect and to avoid [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed legal action]]. Mrs. Lightoller also served as one of the film's consultants alongside Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall.

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* TakeThat: One of the taglines of the film was 'The Real Story of the RMS ''Titanic''', a jab at the less-than accurate 1953 ''Film/{{Titanic|1953}}'' film. Sylvia Lightoller, widow of the real life Charles Lightoller, remarked in an interview that "the film is really the truth and has not been embroidered," though there is still some artistic licence made both for dramatic effect effect, to boost Lightoller as the film's lead, and to avoid [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed legal action]]. Mrs. Lightoller also served as one of the film's consultants alongside Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall.

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* HeroicSacrifice: We're shown several scenes where crewmen die trying to keep the ship afloat and operational for as long as is humanly possible. Several passengers are shown giving up their places in lifeboats so others may have them.

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We're shown several scenes where crewmen die trying to keep the ship afloat and operational for as long as is humanly possible. Several passengers are shown giving up their places in lifeboats so others may have them.



* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Surprisingly averted. This is the only ''Titanic'' film other than the 1979 mini-series ''S.O.S. Titanic'' that does not hold Bruce Ismay responsible for the sinking or portray him holding any type of influence over Captain Smith and forcing him to sail the ship full speed into an ice field just to "make headlines."

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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Surprisingly averted. This is the only ''Titanic'' film other than the 1979 mini-series ''S.O.S. Titanic'' (and not counting the 1953 film, which does not include him) that does not hold Bruce Ismay responsible for the sinking or portray him holding any type of influence over Captain Smith and forcing him to sail the ship full speed into an ice field just to "make headlines."" His saving himself is portrayed as a bit of a cowardly act, but even then he doesn't jump into the lifeboat until after he calls for other passengers, and no-one steps forward.

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* DistressCall: The ''Carpathia'''s radio operator is on the ball, and his equally diligent captain turns the ship around to race to the ''Titanic''.

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* DistressCall: The ''Carpathia'''s radio operator is on the ball, and his equally diligent captain turns the ship around to race to the ''Titanic''. However, when the Titanic fires distress rockets, hoping to alert a nearby ship, the Californian wonders why the Titanic is firing rockets, and believes they may be signalling to another ship.
** In a lifeboat, a man sets fire to a piece of paper, and a hat, to alert their presence to a nearby ship. This is foreshadowed by a lady haughtily berating a man for smoking at a time like this.

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