Titanic

Film Data:

Date of Release: December 19, 1997

Director: James Cameron

Written By: James Cameron

Genre: Drama, Romance

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

Budget: $200,000,00

Gross: $658,672,302

Runtime: 194 minutes

Rating: PG-13

Production Company: Twentieth Century FoxFilm Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment

Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

Synopsis:

After a crew finds the resting place of the sunken Titanic ship and retrieve goods from 101 year old Rosa DeWitt Bukator (Kate Winslett) tells the story of the ship of dreams 84 years later.

April 10th, 1912 was the day the Titanic departed. The two main characters Jack Dawson (Leo DiCaprio) a poor artist who won a ticket on the ship a few hours before the departure and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukater fall in love. 

This is a story about their forbidden love because Rose was engaged to be married to Caledon Hockley (Billy Zane). Caledon finds out about Rose and Jack's love affair 

and sets Jack up on a night that he draws a nude portrait of Rose. He places a nice expensive necklace and has Jack arrested on the ship. 

Then, that same night, things take a turn for the worse. The Titanic collides with the iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, there weren't enough life boats on the ship and once it sinks Jack and Rose try to beat all odds to survive that cold night in the water. Unfortunately Jack loses that fight and Rose survives.

 When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the six saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The immigration officer asks Rose what her name she takes on Jack's last name and is now Rose Dawson. 

She seen Cal looking for her, but he does not see her. Her family presumes that she has died. Cal later commits suicide. The movie ends with old Rose Dawson throwing the necklace that Jack drew her in, back in the ocean and later it is implied that she has died in her sleep.

Commentary:

In 1998 this movie won an Academy award for Best Cinematography and being the highest grossing film in history it is certain not to disappoint.

It is a look at forbidden love. Cameron probably chose this story line in order to appeal to audiences but it was certainly interwoven beautifully into what this movie really highlighted; The Titanic Ship.

I especially noticed how perfectly the sound blended in with the scenes and made the audience feel excitement, peace, and then tragedy. There are shots in which the camera pans to show the whole ship and then those shots turn into the sunken ship as we go back to present time with older rose saying the story.