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Titanic is a 1997 American romantic film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It features Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated voyage of the ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ship's crew) are based on real historical figures. Gloria Stuart plays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a modern day framing device.
In 1997, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic, searching for a necklace set with a valuable blue diamond called the Heart of the Ocean. Unsuccessful, they instead discover a drawing of a young woman reclining nude, wearing the Heart of the Ocean, dated the day the Titanic sank. 101-year-old Rose Calvert learns of the drawing, and contacts Lovett to inform him she is the woman in the drawing. She visits Lovett on his salvage ship. Rose Calvert recalls her memories aboard the Titanic. In 912, the upper-class 17-year-old Rose boards the ship in Southampton, England, with her fianc', Caledon "Cal" Hockley and her mother. Distraught and frustrated by her engagement to Cal and her controlled life, Rose attempts suicide by jumping from the stern, but a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson intervenes. Jack and Rose strike up a tentative friendship. Cal forbids Rose to meet Jack again. However, Rose defies him and her mother, asking Jack to sketch her nude, wearing only the Heart of the Ocean, an engagement present from Cal. They then witness the ship's fatal collision with an iceberg.
Size of all sorts mattered for James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic, whose magnitude was in all ways unprecedented. Cameron and two studios spent $200 million on a 90% scale Titanic replica at a newly constructed Mexico studio. A few doubts were expressed over the Jack-Rose...