For the day, Second Class on Titanic was better than what was offered in many of the better hotels.

Oh yes, and Third Class was better than First Class in some other ships!

She really was the "Ship of Dreams".

When first watching the movie "Titanic" I was so taken with the scene where she was leaving port and her bow was cutting through the waves that I found myself spontaneously wishing that I could have been on her. Heh, the effects of cinema magic.

Haha, yeah, but as far as the movie, I just really wish they would have spent more time focusing on real people and real events than fake ones. Whenever I watch it I pay more attention to the background (i.e. the Titanic itself) than what's going on. XD I'd really like to see the 1958 "A Night to Remember." It's supposedly the most authentic, and one of the survivors is in it, wearing the same dress she wore that night!

"A Night to Remember" is based on the testimony given to a US congressional investigation by survivors just four days after the sinking. The 1958 movie, outside of the main characters' story, pretty much adheres to those official transcripts. However there were a number of points that those who survived could only speculate about.

One major point dealt with survivors reporting that after Titanic’s lights went out and her stern rose up into the air some of them heard hearing a loud thundering sound. Some believed that it was sound of tons of loosened engines and boilers crashing down through the up-tilted ship, or even the boilers themselves exploding. Some even believed that the sound was of the trapped air bursting Titanic’s huge refrigerators in the bow (none of which happened).

The deep sea archeologist Doctor Robert Ballard discovered long after the 1958 movie that as Titanic's bow sank her stern lifted up out of the water. The strain on the hull however was so great that the ship’s hull split in half, causing the stern to momentarily fall back into the water in roughly her normal sea-going position. However in less than five minutes the still attached forward section of Titanic filled with water and dragged the stern under. The stern finally separated from the main half of the ship in the liner’s two-mile plunge to the bottom.

Many of the extras in the movie "Titanic" took their roles to heart and did personal research on the actual persons they were playing. To his credit, James Cameron in many instances altered their make-up, costumes and the script to align with what the extras had discovered.

So while the black and white “A Night to Remember” does somewhat give a documentary feel to the disaster, if you can mentally eliminate the De Caprio - Winsllet love story from “Titanic” I honesty believe that the latter movie tends to be a more accurate depiction of the tragedy.

Oh yes, I know all these things as well, I was just going based on what I heard, seeing as I have not seen the 1958 movie yet, and it's only obvious that not everything in the movie would be as accurate as they are today given the lack of forensic knowledge of what happened to the ship. But that aside, I wonder if they mean it is more accurate from the passengers points of views, than what the ship actually went through?

*nods in agreement*

Sadly while "Night" was make only 48 years after the event and therefore was viewable by actual survivors who could comment on the film's accuracy, "Titanic" (filmed in 1997) had only one or two survivors still alive. To my best recolection no suvivor viewed the film. The last Titanic survivor, Milvina Dean died in May of 2009 at the age of 97. She had been the youngest passenger on Titanic at the age of 9 weeks old.

While I thoughly enjoyed "Titanic" I was not aware that there were so many errors in continuity and historical accuracy in the film. Apparently some people devote a lot of time examining movies for such mistakes. Here is a link to quite a few pages of "Titanic" movie goofs.

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1299