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101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship.
Oct 17, 2024 · As a newly wealthy socialite, Molly's candid wit and down-to-earth demeanor provide a welcome contrast to the stuffy atmosphere aboard Titanic. Her tireless advocacy for the less fortunate and her bravery in the face of danger make her a beloved and inspirational figure both on and off the screen.
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Titanic, American romantic adventure film, released in 1997, that centres on the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The film proved immensely popular, holding the all-time box-office gross record for more than a decade after its release.
The film begins with the robotic exploration of the Titanic’s wreckage by treasure hunters who hope to locate a fabled massive blue diamond, known as the Heart of the Ocean, that was supposedly lost when the ship sank. They recover a safe that contains some papers, including a drawing of a nude woman wearing a necklace with the gem in it. After the illustration is aired on television, the team is contacted by an old woman (played by Gloria Stuart) who tells them that she is the one depicted in the drawing, Rose DeWitt Bukater, thought to have died in the accident. Hoping that she can help them find the jewel, the treasure hunters bring Rose to their expedition ship. Most of the film’s story is then told in flashbacks as she recounts the Titanic’s fateful 1912 voyage.
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Upper-class Rose (now played by Kate Winslet) boards the ship with her mother (Frances Fisher) and her well-to-do fiancé, Cal (Billy Zane), whom she is marrying for financial reasons. Distraught by the pressure of her arranged marriage, Rose contemplates suicide on the ship’s stern. She is talked down by third-class passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a handsome but penniless artist. Over the course of the voyage, she becomes increasingly attracted to Jack. Meeting in secret, Rose asks him to draw her wearing the Heart of the Ocean necklace, which was a gift from Cal. Rose and Jack subsequently make love, and Rose tells Jack that she will go with him once the ship docks. Later that night, however, they witness the Titanic’s fatal impact with an iceberg.
As the ship begins to sink, the couple seeks out Rose’s mother and Cal, who has discovered Rose’s romantic entanglement. He frames Jack for theft by having the necklace placed in Jack’s coat pocket. Jack is arrested, and Cal later puts the necklace in his own pocket. Though she initially hesitates, Rose comes to believe Jack’s claims of innocence, and she eventually finds him in the master-of-arms’ office, handcuffed around a pipe. Using an axe, she is able to free him as water floods the room. The lower-deck gates are locked, but Jack helps break down the one trapping them. He and Rose return to the upper deck, where Rose is placed in a lifeboat by Cal, who wraps his jacket around her—still containing the necklace. Cal lies to her, saying Jack will be able to leave the Titanic safely, but she refuses to leave Jack behind and jumps back onto the ship. Cal chases them in a jealous rage but eventually gives up to board a lifeboat, using a crying child as an excuse for passage. Rose and Jack are left on the ship as it breaks apart and sinks, the lifeboats having all been launched. Jack helps Rose onto a floating piece of the wreckage so that she can later be rescued by a returning lifeboat, while he himself dies of hypothermia. Onboard the Carpathia, the ship that rescued Titanic’s survivors, she adopts the name “Rose Dawson” and discovers the necklace in Cal’s jacket. The film returns to the present day, and centenarian Rose is revealed to still have the jewel in her possession. Her story told, she drops the famous necklace into the ocean.
•Studios: Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount Pictures, and Lightstorm Entertainment
•Director and writer: James Cameron
•Producers: James Cameron and Jon Landau
•Music: James Horner
•Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson)
•Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater)
•Billy Zane (Caledon [Cal] Hockley)
•Kathy Bates (Molly Brown)
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•Lead actress (Kate Winslet)
•Supporting actress (Gloria Stuart)
•Art direction*
•Cinematography*
•Costume design*
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- Kate Winslet As Rose DeWitt Bukater. Rose is a 17-year-old from Philadelphia who is being forced into marrying a 30-year-old aristocrat so that her mother can maintain their high-class status.
- Leonardo DiCaprio As Jack Dawson. Also leading the Titanic cast is Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack. He is a poor orphan from Wisconsin, but his lively nature encourages him to travel all over the world.
- Billy Zane As Caledon Hockley. Caledon "Cal" Hockley is the 30-year-old socialite and an heir of a Pittsburgh steel empire who is intent on marrying Rose despite her disinterest.
- Frances Fisher As Ruth DeWitt Bukater. Ruth is an uptight widow whose main goal in the journey is to arrange her daughter Rose's marriage to Cal. Like many other upper-class passengers on the Titanic, Ruth is unabashedly elitist and condescending.
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912.
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