20 Things You Somehow Missed In Titanic
7. Mirrors Were Used To Make The Boiler Room Look Bigger
Even watching Titanic today, the scale of the movie's sets are absolutely staggering, particularly in the bowels of the ship where we occasionally glimpse lines of workers shoveling coal into the furnaces to keep Titanic powered.
Ingeniously, though, the set isn't anywhere near as big as it looks, with Cameron actually having gigantic mirrors placed mid-way through the set to make it look decidedly deeper.
The film's production designer Peter Lamont first used the trick on Cameron's prior film Aliens, using mirrors to make four of the Sulaco's hyper-sleep chambers look like an even dozen.
Sometimes the best solutions really are the simplest, most practical ones. Genius.