Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. It is based on accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its maiden voyage. Cameron’s inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of USD 200 million.
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Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. It is based on accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its maiden voyage. Cameron’s inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of USD 200 million. Upon its release on December 19, 1997, Titanic achieved significant critical and commercial success. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron’s Avatar surpassed it in 2010. A 3D version of Titanic, released on April 4, 2012, earned it an additional USD 343. 6 million worldwide, pushing the film’s worldwide total to USD 2. 18 billion and making it the second film to gross more than USD 2 billion worldwide. In 2017, the film was re-released for its 20th anniversary and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The film was co-financed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox; the former handled distribution in North America while the latter released the film internationally. It won 11 Academy Awards, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben-Hur for the most Oscars won by a single film.
With an initial worldwide gross of over USD 1. 84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team board the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh to search the wreck for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace dated April 14, 1912, the day the ship struck the iceberg. Rose Dawson Calvert, the woman in the drawing, is brought aboard KeldYSh and tells Lovett of her experiences aboard Titanic. Rose and Jack develop a tentative friendship, despite Cal, his valet Spicer Lovejoy, and Ruth, being wary of him. Rose rebuffs Jack’s advances, but later realizes she prefers him over Cal. After rendezvousing on the bow at sunset, Rose takes Jack to her state room; at her request, Jack sketches Rose posing nude in an automobile inside the cargo hold. On the forward deck, they witness the ship’s collision with an iceberg and overhear its officers and its builder discussing its seriousness. Cal retaliates by having Jack and Rose attempt to inform Cal of the collision, having him arrested and restrained in the master-at-arms’ office. As the ship sinking, Rose flees and Cal and her mother, who has boarded a lifeboat, frees her.
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