Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film
directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized
account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate
Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship
during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Cameron's inspiration for the film was
predicated on his fascination with shipwrecks; he wanted to convey the
emotional message of the tragedy, and felt that a love story interspersed with
the human loss would be essential to achieving this. Production on the film
began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. he film
was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, and, at the
time, was the most expensive film ever made, with an estimated budget of $200
million. Upon its release on December 19, 1997, the film achieved critical and
commercial success. It equaled records with fourteen Academy Award nominations
and eleven wins, receiving the prizes for Best Picture and Best Director. With
a worldwide gross of over $2 billion, it was the first film to reach the
billion dollar mark, remaining the highest-grossing film of all time for twelve
years, until Cameron's 2009 film Avatar surpassed its gross in 2010. A 3D
version of the film was re-released in theaters (often billed as Titanic 3D) on
April 4, 2012, to commemorate the centenary of the tragedy.
In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team explore
the wreck of RMS Titanic, searching for a diamond necklace called the Heart of the
Ocean. They recover Caledon "Cal" Hockley's safe, believing the
necklace to be inside, but instead find a sketch of a nude woman wearing it,
dated April 14, 1912, the night the Titanic hit the iceberg. An elderly woman
named Rose Dawson Calvert, hearing about the drawing, calls Lovett and claims
that she is the woman depicted and she and her granddaughter, Lizzy Calvert,
visit him and his team on his salvage ship. Asked if she knows the whereabouts
of the necklace, Rose recalls her time aboard the Titanic, revealing that she
is Rose DeWitt Bukater, a passenger believed to have died in the sinking.
In 1912, 17-year-old first class passenger Rose boards the
ship in Southampton with her fiancé Cal , the
son of a Pittsburgh
steel tycoon, and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater. Ruth stresses the importance
of Rose's engagement, as the marriage will solve the DeWitt Bukaters' secret
financial problems. Distraught by her engagement, Rose considers suicide by
jumping off the ship's stern. A drifter and artist named Jack Dawson stops her.
Discovered with Jack on the stern, Rose tells Cal that she was looking over the ship's
edge in curiosity and that Jack saved her from falling. At Rose's insistence, Cal invites Jack to
dinner the following night to show his appreciation. Jack and Rose develop a
tentative friendship, though Cal and Ruth are wary of the young third-class
man. Following the first-class dinner that night, Rose secretly joins Jack at a
party in the ship's third-class quarter.
You know how it ends, the reader. For recall after a century
the sinking of Titanic, History Channel made a biography film, named, ‘Titanic
Mistery Solved’
For more info about movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)
Nothing on Earth could come between them,
The Storyteller
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