Rewatchables Reference

• Amanda: 'I'm king of the world' – tiny Leonardo DiCaprio standing on the front of a boat and yelling one of the top 20 most iconic film lines. Cheesy but hilarious, and the essence of the movie.
• Cam: The string quartet scene when the ship is sinking. Cathartic and heartbreaking, with James Horner's beautiful score at its peak.
• Juliet: The dinner scene when Jack comes to first class. He rejects the caviar, doesn't know the silverware, and Kathy Bates tells him 'start from the outside in.' Unflappable charm.

• Leo and Kate's chemistry – 'there is no movie here without them just hitting it off.' When she jumps off the lifeboat, you know it's stupid but you love it.
• The music – James Horner's score is phenomenal and hits every emotional note. The Celine Dion song never gets old. Amanda put the score on a mixtape in fifth grade.

• The CGI boat and skies – 'that is a fake-ass boat.' The technical feat that was groundbreaking in 1997 doesn't hold up anymore.
• James Cameron's reputation – gone from visionary of Aliens, 'True Lies', 'Titanic', and Terminator 2 to 'this wacky dude who made a movie about blue people who have sex using their tails' with four written sequels.
• Some of the dialogue is laughable – 'he's never really understood how to write people.' Not even Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio can totally sell some of the lines.
• Rose calling the 'Titanic' a 'slave ship' at the beginning – 'already bad, but even worse now.'

• Matthew McConaughey was a major contender for Jack Dawson.
• Stephen Dorff was passed over for Leo and gave a legendary quote: 'I want to have a career like Johnny Depp, Sean Penn and Jack Nicholson. That would have been impossible if I'd got 'Titanic'. Look at Leo, his career can only go downhill from here.'
• Chris O'Donnell was also in the mix for Jack – the hosts think he could have been great in the role but couldn't have skyrocketed the movie to $2 billion.
• Jeremy Sisto (Elton from 'Clueless') did a screen test with Kate Winslet that you can watch online.
• Rob Lowe was considered for the Cal Hockley role that went to Billy Zane.
• Robert De Niro was reportedly offered the role of Captain Smith but turned it down due to 'a gastrointestinal infection' – unverified IMDb trivia at its finest.

• Kate Winslet became the youngest person to ever be nominated for an Oscar twice (Sense and Sensibility + 'Titanic').
• The scene where Kate Winslet spits at Billy Zane ('I'd rather be his whore than your wife') was reportedly improvised – she was supposed to stab him with a hairpin instead.
• The first scene Kate and Leo ever filmed together was the 'draw me like one of your French girls' scene. Cameron himself did the drawing, reversing the shot because he's left-handed.
• The whole movie was Cameron's excuse to get a studio to pay for deep-sea diving to the real 'Titanic' wreck. He spent more time with the ship than any of its actual passengers.
• The runtime (2 hours 47 minutes) reportedly matches the actual sinking time of the 'Titanic' – unverified but the hosts agree Cameron would be into that kind of symmetry.

• James Cameron – 'culturally, obviously reached his apex.' He hasn't gotten past this psychologically and is still obsessed with the wreck.
• Billy Zane – the role of Cal is definitely his apex. 'When I Googled it, like when I went to IMDb, it was Billy Zane, 'Titanic', 1997.'

• Why is no one seasick? They're in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. One host confirms that even on a cruise liner, you absolutely feel the rocking.
• Why did they need to make Rose an American when Kate Winslet is clearly British? There were plenty of British heiresses at the time.
• The Heart of the Ocean necklace never falls out of the jacket pocket through all the running, swimming, and chaos.
• Could Jack have fit on the door? MythBusters said yes, but 'James Cameron should be exempt from all the well-actually stuff – this man is dreaming big.'

• If the 'Titanic' makes it to New York, does Rose stay with Jack? The hosts conclude she probably doesn't – without the ship sinking revealing what a dick Cal is, she goes back to her mom and the corset.
• How long would it take Rose to realize she made a mistake leaving a rich fiancé for a guy she met 36 hours ago on a boat?

A toss-up between Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Kate's career was more dramatically affected – 'she's more the girl on the boat than he's the boy on the boat.' Leo became able to do whatever he wanted for 20 years. But also James Horner and Celine Dion, whose song became one of the biggest hits of all time and launched her American career.