Just rewatched Titanic with the Ken Marschall Don Lynch commentary. They claim that a Turkish bath set was designed and a model mock up was created. It was later desided against in pre production. Anyone have any ideas as to what scenes would have taken place there and how it would have been used in the plot?
shareNot long after the movie, I think James Cameron, or someone else did a dive to Titanic, and got some mini-subs into the turkish baths... This was featured on a documentary between 2003 & 2010... It was incredible that it didn't all fall apart during the sinking... It was released on a DVD, but I can't remember at the moment what it is.
Amongst all this yucky brown muck, were these tiles that were still on the wall, and the artwork on the tiles were painted in this beautiful blue color, which, even after 90 years underwater, you could still see clearly on the video!
This little room inside the ship, still very recognizable, after all that time! Amazing!
The documentary did a CGI rendering of what the room probably looked like... It would have be neat to have seen the sets, and compared them to the video...
I was very impressed with the sets for this movie. They did an amazing job. I bet that turkish bath set would have been great too...
There was a small documentary filmed, I think for the Titanic historical society, which filmed all over the ship showing the sets in between filming scenes for the movie... and there was one shot I loved, which really wasn't captured in the movie...
The cameraman comes down the Grand Staircase walks over to the right, pans around in like a 360 spin and then looks down the main hallway that runs the length of the ship. VERY IMPRESSIVE. It really gave a feel for what that must have been like for the passengers, and helped showcase the size of the ship.
That was on the 3 Disc Collector's DVD Set. It also came with a fake 1912 newsreel that was pretty cool.
Indeed, the sets were impressive! I enjoyed that ship tour feature you mention as well. A shame it wasn't all preserved for a museum type experience afterward.
The documentary I believe was Last Mysteries of the Titanic. It was mind blowing to see the well preserved Turkish baths seen for the first time since 1912!