Titanic (1997 movie)
| Titanic | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | James Cameron |
| Produced by | Jon Landau James Cameron |
| Written by | James Cameron |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Russell Carpenter |
| Editing by | Conrad Buff IV James Cameron Richard A. Harris |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | December 19, 1997 |
| Running time | 194 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20,000,000 |
| IMDb profile | |
Titanic is a 1997 American romantic drama movie directed, written, and co-produced by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson respectively, members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated 1912 maiden voyage of the ship.
The movie was both a critical and commercial success, winning eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture, and became the highest grossing movie of all time, with a total worldwide gross of $1.8 billion.
Its most famous line is "I'm the king of the world!", said by Jack Dawson. In 2005, it ranked 100 on AFI's list of the one hundred most popular quotations of all time. Two years later, it was the 83rd most popular movie on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies 10th anniversary list.
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[change] Plot summary
84 years later a 100-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon 'Cal' Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.
After winning a trip on the RMS Titanic during a dockside card game, American Jack Dawson spots the society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater who is on her way to Philadelphia to marry her rich snob fiancé Cal Hockley. Rose feels helplessly trapped by her situation and makes her way to the aft deck and thinks of suicide until she is rescued by Jack. Cal is therefore obliged to invite Jack to dine at their first-class table where he suffers through the slights of his snobbish hosts. In return, he spirits Rose off to third class for an evening of dancing, giving her the time of her life. Deciding to forsake her intended future all together, Rose asks Jack, who has made his living making sketches on the streets of Paris, to draw her in the nude wearing the invaluable blue diamond Cal has given her. Cal finds out and has Jack locked away. Soon after wards, the ship hits an iceberg and Rose must find Jack while both must run from Cal even as the ship sinks deeper into the freezing water.
In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team has reached the most famous shipwreck of all - the RMS Titanic. Emerging with a safe believed to contain a famous diamond called the "Heart of the Ocean", he discovers that the safe does not hold the diamond, but a drawing of a beautiful young woman wearing it. When Lovett is later interviewed on television, he shows the drawing to the cameras, and Rose Dawson Calvert, now 101, recognizes the young woman in the drawing - herself. She and her granddaughter Lizzy visit Lovett on his research ship over the wrecksite, and tells her story of the Titanic and its ill-fated maiden voyage.
In 1912, 17-year-old society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater boards the ship's first class suites with her fiance, Pittsburgh Steel tycoon owner Caledon Hockley, and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, in Southampton. Also boarding are poor artist Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi, after a lucky poker game wins them in steerage. When Rose attempts suicide by jumping off the stern in third class, Jack pulls her back onto the ship... and a bond is forged between them as Jack is invited by her into first class the following day. Rose's mother and Cal try desperate measures to keep them apart as Jack and Rose fall in love, until the Titanic collides with an iceberg and is critically damaged. Now Jack and Rose must fight to stay alive, as their passionate romance becomes a struggle for survival, but Jack is already doomed because of his lower status as a steerage passenger.
[change] 3D Conversion and Re-release
James Cameron announced that Titanic is being converted to 3D and is due for a 2012 re-release. It is set to come out April 6, 2012, for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which is on April 15.
[change] Main cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Kate Winslet | Rose DeWitt Bukater |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Jack Dawson |
| Billy Zane | Caledon Hockley |
| Frances Fisher | Ruth DeWitt Bukater |
| Kathy Bates | Margaret "Molly" Brown |
| Victor Garber | Thomas Andrews |
| Bernard Hill | Captain Edward J. Smith |
| Jonathan Hyde | J. Bruce Ismay |
| David Warner | Spicer Lovejoy |
| Danny Nucci | Fabrizio De Rossi |
| Jason Barry | Tommy Ryan |
| Bill Paxton | Brock Lovett |
| Gloria Stuart | Old Rose (Rose Dawson Calvert) |
| Suzy Amis | Lizzy Calvert |
| Lewis Abernathy | Lewis Bodine |
| Eric Braedon | Colonel John Jacob Astor |
| Bernard Fox | Colonel Archibald Gracie |
| Ewan Stewart | First Officer William Murdoch |
| Jonathan Phillips | Second Officer Charles Lightoller |
| Ioan Gruffudd | Fifth Officer Harold Lowe |
[change] Other websites
- Titanic official website
- Titanic official US website
- Titanic at the Internet Movie Database
- Titanic at Rotten Tomatoes
