20 Things You Somehow Missed In Titanic

14. The 1912 Scenes Last Exactly As Long As It Took The Titanic To Sink

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Though Titanic clocks in at a mighty 195 minutes, "only" 160 minutes of it actually take place in 1912, with the film of course bookended by its present-day wraparound.

This might not seem significant, except the real Titanic actually took 160 minutes to sink, and while in no way intentional on Cameron's part given the film's many deleted scenes, it's still an amusingly coincidental detail regardless.

It would of course be flatly incorrect to say that the 1912 portion of the movie unfolds in real time, but rather that Cameron compresses the events into a more cinematically appropriate timeframe.

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