20 Things You Somehow Missed In Titanic
6. James Horner's Score Recycles Elements From His Braveheart Score
The late, great James Horner served as Titanic's composer and also co-wrote Celine Dion's banger of a title song, "My Heart Will Go On," receiving an Oscar for each.
However, Horner was surprised to be invited to score Titanic given his major tensions with Cameron on Aliens, where Horner had to record the score in just four days - though nevertheless received his first Best Original Score Oscar nomination as a result.
Cameron was impressed with Horner's work on Braveheart, for which Horner received another Oscar nod, and in turn Horner decided to forgive their prior tensions and come aboard the project.
Though Horner's score for the film is undeniably terrific, many have noted that some of the musical cues have clearly been lifted from his Braveheart score, especially the piece that plays just before the lookouts spot the iceberg, which sounds almost identical to the cue that plays in Braveheart as the Battle of Falkirk kicks off.
There are worse things than a little self-cribbing, at least, and it certainly didn't prevent Titanic's score from becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time.