Titanic 1997 Grand Staircase Film Set E Deck

[Charles]

I know that the grand staircase in the movie was a copy, but bigger than the original, but I only remember seeing the grand staircase down to D Deck and the elevators to E Deck. I do remember a little of the grand staircase double trace, but I was not sure why they didn't film that section of the E Deck set. Was that part not the squared like the original and curved like the other levels for the movie, or what?

 

[B-rad]

there has been some discussion of this before, on the below site. Don't know if it will help you or not. I hope it does.


https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/forums/technical-construction-design/17852-forward-grand-staircase-edeck-questions.html

 

[Charles]

there has been some discussion of this before, on the below site. Don't know if it will help you or not. I hope it does.



https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/forums/technical-construction-design/17852-forward-grand-staircase-edeck-questions.html

I was referring to the movie version of the staircase being accurate as the real ship. I k ow what it looked like, but I noticed that the elevator hall was paneled white, and surely I hope that the staircase behind wasn't the same on the movie.

 

[Charles]

So is someone going to officially answer my question.

 

[Charles]

FYI I'm talking abou the film set of why they only filmed the elevators

 

[Brad Rousse]

They didn't film it because you didn't need to see it. No point in showing it if we have Rose coming out of the elevators.

 

[Charles]

Then why would they make it if they weren't going to show it?

 

[Christophe Puttemans]

That's the whole point of not making a set for the Grand Staircase E Deck landing. There was no need to make it because the Jack & Rose story can perfectly without it. Rose comes out of the elevators and moves on to the crew's passage. No E Deck Grand Staircase was necessary, so no set was made.

 

[Charles]

BTW the scotland road passage couldn't have been entered there, it had to have been on the staircase if Cameron wanted it realistic.

 

[Christophe Puttemans]

Yeah, that's another example of where Cameron preferred a non-realistic setting which better fitted in Jack & Rose's plot.

There are multiple examples of scenes where historical accuracy proved to be of less priority than Jack & Rose's story. I once read the movie was 85% historically accurate, and 15% historically errors where Jack & Rose's plot preferred.

 

[Brad Rousse]

That's why when it comes to a historical movie, I just enjoy and not analyze.