Titanic Film

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Titanic

Theatrical poster

Directed by James Cameron

Produced by

James Cameron

Jon Landau

Written by James Cameron

Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio

Kate Winslet

Billy Zane

Frances Fisher

Gloria Stuart

Music by James Horner

Cinematography Russell Carpenter

Editing by

Conrad Buff

James Cameron

Richard A. Harris

Studio

20th Century Fox[1]

Paramount Pictures[1]

Lightstorm Entertainment[1]

Distributed by

Paramount Pictures (USA)

20th Century Fox (International)

Release date(s)

November 1, 1997 (Tokyo International Film Festival)

December 19, 1997 (United States)

Running time 194 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Budget $200 million[2][3][4]

Box office $2,185,372,302[5]

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. The modern scenes were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. A reconstruction of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, and scale models and computer-generated imagery were also used to recreate the sinking. The 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. Nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, it won eleven, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben Hur (1959) for most Oscars won by a single film. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, it was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time since 1998, until Cameron's 2009 film Avatar surpassed its gross in 2010. A 3D version of the film, released on April 4, 2012 (often billed as Titanic 3D), to commemorate the centenary of the sinking of the ship, earned it an additional $343.6 million worldwide, which pushed Titanic's worldwide total to $2.18 billion. It became the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide (the first being Avatar).

Contents  [hide] 

1 Plot

2 Cast

2.1 Fictional characters

2.2 Historical characters

2.3 Cameos

3 Pre-production

3.1 Writing and inspiration

3.2 Scale modeling

4 Production

5 Post-production

5.1 Effects

5.2 Editing

5.3 Music and soundtrack

6 Release

6.1 Initial screening

6.2 Box office

6.2.1 Initial theatrical run

6.2.2 Commercial analysis

6.3 Critical reception

6.4 Accolades

6.5 Home media

6.6 3D conversion

7 References

8 Further reading

9 External links

Plot

In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team explore the wreck of RMS Titanic, searching for a valuable 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. Hearing about the drawing, an elderly woman named Rose Dawson Calvert calls Lovett and claims that she is the woman depicted in the drawing. She and her granddaughter, Lizzy Calvert, visit him and his team on his salvage ship. When 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. She then begins her story as follows:

In 1912, 17-year-old first class passenger Rose boards "Titanic" in Southampton with her fiancé Cal and her mother Ruth DeWitt Bukater. Ruth stresses the importance of Rose's engagement, as the marriage would 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. Pressed, Jack confirms her account. Cal is at first aloof to Jack, but when

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