Cara, you're missing the entire point. Titanic was hardly based on the Titanic at all. The movie is about a sordid love affair between a degenerate youth and an unhappy, eager to be rebellious daughter of rich descent. The Titanic is merely the setting of the movie. Nearly the entire movie could very easily be imported to another location. So all of your verbal machinegunning of the significance of the movie with regard to the significance of the sinking of the Titanic itself as an event in history comes to nil because Cameron completely failed in adapting the airy significance of the event into the movie. In its stead is inserted all of the Hollywood fluff that made teenyboppers go to the movie theater to see this movie a dozen times.