Titanic 1. Wikipedia. Titanic is a 1. American epic romance 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 Di. Caprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill fated maiden voyage. Camerons 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. Production began in 1. Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. The modern scenes on the research vessel were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. Scale models, computer generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Playas de Rosarito in Baja California were used to re create the sinking. The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 2. Century Fox. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of 2. Upon its release on December 1. Titanic achieved critical and commercial success. Nominated for 1. 4 Academy Awards, it tied All About Eve 1. Oscar nominations, and won 1. Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben Hur 1. Oscars won by a single film. With an initial worldwide gross of over 1. Titanic was the first film to reach the billion dollar mark. It remained the highest grossing film of all time until Camerons Avatar surpassed it in 2. A 3. D version of Titanic, released on April 4, 2. It became the second film to gross more than 2 billion worldwide after Avatar. Plot. In 1. 99. 6, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh search the wreck of RMS Titanic 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 1. Note 1 Rose Dawson Calvert, the woman in the drawing, is brought aboard Keldysh and tells Lovett of her experiences aboard Titanic. In 1. 91. 2 Southampton, 1. Rose De. Witt Bukater, her fianc Cal Hockley, and her mother Ruth board the luxurious Titanic. Ruth emphasizes that Roses marriage will resolve their familys financial problems and retain their high class persona. Distraught over the engagement, Rose considers suicide by jumping from the stern Jack Dawson, a penniless artist, intervenes and discourages her. Discovered with Jack, Rose tells a concerned Cal that she was peering over the edge and Jack saved her from falling. When Cal becomes indifferent, she suggests to him that Jack deserves a reward. He invites Jack to dine with them in first class the following night. Jack and Rose develop a tentative friendship, despite Cal and Ruth being wary of him. Following dinner, Rose secretly joins Jack at a party in third class. Aware of Cal and Ruths disapproval, Rose rebuffs Jacks advances, but 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 wearing Cals engagement present, the Heart of the Ocean necklace. They evade Cals bodyguard, Mr. Get A Horse Video Download here. Lovejoy, and have sex in an automobile inside the cargo hold. On the forward deck, they witness a collision with an iceberg and overhear the officers and designer discussing its seriousness. Cal discovers Jacks sketch of Rose and an insulting note from her in his safe along with the necklace. When Jack and Rose attempt to inform Cal of the collision, Lovejoy slips the necklace into Jacks pocket and he and Cal accuse him of theft. Jack is arrested, taken to the master at arms office, and handcuffed to a pipe. Cal puts the necklace in his own coat pocket. With the ship sinking, Rose flees Cal and her mother, who has boarded a lifeboat, and frees Jack. On the boat deck, Cal and Jack encourage her to board a lifeboat Cal claims he can get himself and Jack off safely. After Rose boards one, Cal tells Jack the arrangement is only for himself. As her boat lowers, Rose decides that she cannot leave Jack and jumps back on board. Cal takes his bodyguards pistol and chases Rose and Jack into the flooding first class dining saloon. After using up his ammunition, Cal realizes he gave his coat and consequently the necklace to Rose. He later boards a collapsible lifeboat by carrying a lost child. After braving several obstacles, Jack and Rose return to the boat deck. The lifeboats have departed and passengers are falling to their deaths as the stern rises out of the water. The ship breaks in half, lifting the stern into the air. Jack and Rose ride it into the ocean and he helps her onto a wooden panel only buoyant enough for one person. He assures her that she will die an old woman, warm in her bed. Jack dies of hypothermia Jack is portrayed as an itinerant, poor orphan from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, who has toured numerous places in the world, including Paris. He wins two tickets onto the RMS Titanic in a poker game and travels as a third class passenger with his friend Fabrizio. He is attracted to Rose at first sight and meets her when she contemplates throwing herself off the stern of the ship. Her fiances reward, an invitation to dine with them the next evening, enables Jack to mix with the first class passengers for a night. When casting the role, various established actors, including Matthew Mc. Conaughey, Chris ODonnell, Billy Crudup, and Stephen Dorff, were considered, but Cameron felt that a few of the actors were too old for the part of a 2. Tom Cruise was interested in portraying the character, but his asking price was too much for the studio to consider. Cameron considered Jared Leto for the role, but Leto refused to audition. Di. Caprio, 2. 1 years old at the time, was brought to Camerons attention by casting director Mali Finn. Initially, he did not want to portray the character and refused to read his first romantic scene on the set see below. Cameron said, He read it once, then started goofing around, and I could never get him to focus on it again. But for one split second, a shaft of light came down from the heavens and lit up the forest. Cameron strongly believed in Di. Caprios acting ability and told him, Look, Im not going to make this guy brooding and neurotic. Im not going to give him a tic and a limp and all the things you want. Cameron rather envisioned the character as a James Stewart type. Although Jack Dawson was a fictional character, in Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where 1. J. Dawson. The real J. Dawson was Joseph Dawson, who shoveled coal in the bowels of the ship. It wasnt until after the movie came out that we found out that there was a J. Dawson gravestone, said the films producer, Jon Landau, in an interview. Kate Winslet as Rose De.