"You're so full of shit, boss" - Lewis commenting on Brock's narration

Lewis Bodine
Biological Information
Full name	Lewis Bodine
Nicknames	Lewie (by his co-workers)
Gender	Male
Background Information
Titanic Statistics
Production
Classification	Fictional character
Portrayal	Lewis Abernathy

Lewis Bodine is Brock Lovett's best friend. All that is known about him is that he is married.

He wears a beard and a long pony-tail and he is overweight and foul-mouthed, and sometimes even rude. He often swears and does not mind expressing his doubts to others even if insulting or discouraging. He also is seen wearing funny t-shirts.

He seems to be a buff of Titanic lore and the "geek" of the team on board the Keldysh, with some technical expertise. He operates the ROV Snoop Dog as it entered into the wreck of the RMS Titanic, and managed to uncover Caledon Hockley's safe.

When they did not find the Heart of the Ocean in the safe, Bodine mentioned Lovett of Geraldo's ruined career in an attempt to warn him.

While Rose Calvert was on her way to the Keldysh, Bodine recited to Lovett all his research on "Rose Dawson's" life, claiming insistingly that she was dead, and the woman coming to them was only a fraud seeking publicity. He also mentioned the case of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna which he thought similar.

When she arrived, Lewis demonstrated to Rose a 3D animation-simulation of the Titanic sinking, mimicking the sounds of the disaster with his mouth, concluding that it was "cool".

He later found funny that Rose wanted to jump off the Titanic, and laughed tactlessly adding that she could as well wait for only two days.

When Rose finished her narration, in what seeming a last loose end of doubt, he mentioned that there was no record of Jack Dawson, which was logical as Jack had boarded the Titanic without being registered.

He is lastly seen listening to Rose telling her stories about Titanic and mentioning that no record was ever found on Jack. In the alternate ending of the film, he is seen with Lovett and Bobby Buell frozen in terror as Rose was going to throw the Heart of the Ocean into the sea. He then shouted angrily at her and left to call his wife.

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Behind the scenesEdit

In the film, he was portrayed by Lewis Abernathy.

According to IMDB, Abernathy is a Houston pub owner and James Cameron's friend. Cameron wrote the part of Bodine having Abernathy as a model, at first with no intention to be played by him. After he failed to find an actor fitting the role, Abernathy took the part.

There some other connections between Abernathy and Cameron: Abernathy directed the thriller DeepStar Six. The film was "competing" with Cameron's The Abyss since not only both films featured underwater action and the discovery of underwater aliens, but were also released the same season (1989-1990).

Furthermore, DeepStar Six in some countries was released under the title "Aliens from the Deep". Coincidentally, Aliens of the Deep is the name of a (more recent) documentary filmed by Cameron.