I'd guess it'd be pretty hard to find an American born citizen that hasn't heard of the sinking by at least teenage years so I'm wondering how much it's known about in other countries.
It wasn't that big of a deal before the movie. It was just, they called it unsinkable and it sank on its first voyage, symbol of man's hubris, and that sort of thing. Then there was that rich asshole who dove down to the wreck and started looting the dead bodies, which offended some people but others were like dude I totally want to buy a pocketwatch from the Titanic that would be awesome!
Young people after the movie came out: "OH MY GOD, you mean the Titanic was REAL?!?!"
i read lots of outdated books saying it was a big mystery and where could it be? not realizing it had been found long ago (1985 to be exact).
I heard about as much about the Titanic as I did the Hindenburg - just a famous disaster.
Our protagonist, a grizzled plainclothes cop, shoots the iceberg but the kickback sends the titanic into an uncontrollable tailspin and it explodes. He can be seen rowing a life raft away without looking back, love interest and buddy cop buddy in tow.
Remember documentaries about it in the 90's that probably spurred from the popularity of the movie.
I figured knowing about the Titanic was more of a pop culture thing than anything else, pushed hard into the cultural consciousness by the movie and then stuck there like a bunch of other movies from the late 20th century, but I guess I don't really know whether that's the case
All I know is there was enough room on that floating door for the both of them.
