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1、FilmTatinicTitanic (1997 film)Titanic is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of different social classes

2、who fall in love aboard the ill-fated maiden voyage of the ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ships passengers and crew) are based on real historical figures. Gloria Stuart plays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a

3、 modern day framing device.Production of the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the real wreck of the RMS Titanic. He envisioned the love story as a means to engage the audience with the real-life tragedy. Shooting took place on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh - which aided Cameron

4、 in filming the real wreck for the modern scenes, and a reconstruction of the ship was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California. Cameron also used scale models and computer-generated imagery to recreate the sinking. Titanic became at the time the most expensive film ever made, costing approximat

5、ely US$200 million with funding from Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox.3The film was originally to be released on July 2, 1997, but post-production delays pushed back the films release to December 19, 1997.4 Upon release, the film turned out to be an enormous critical and commercial success, w

6、inning eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.5 It became the highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide total of over $1.8 billion (it is the sixth-highest grossing in North America once adjusted for inflation).67PlotIn 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) and his team e

7、xplore the wreck of the RMS Titanic, searching for a necklace set with a valuable blue diamond called the Heart of the Ocean. They believe the diamond to be in Caledon Cal Hockleys safe, which they recover easily. However, when searching the safe they do not find the diamond, but a sketch of a nude

8、woman wearing the famed diamond. The drawing is dated April 14, 1912, the night the Titanic hit the iceberg. One-hundred-year-old Rose Dawson Calvert (Gloria Stuart) learns of the drawing, and contacts Lovett to inform him that she is the woman in the drawing. She and her granddaughter Elizabeth Liz

9、zy Calvert (Suzy Amis) visit Lovett and his skeptical team on his salvage ship. When asked if she knew the whereabouts of the necklace, Rose recalls her memories aboard the Titanic, revealing for the first time that she is actually Rose DeWitt Bukater, a passenger believed to have died in the sinkin

10、g.In 1912, the upper-class 17-year-old Rose (Kate Winslet) boards the ship in Southampton, England with her fianc Caledon Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), the son of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon, and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater (Frances Fisher). Both Cal and Ruth stress the importance of Roses engagement

11、to Cal, since the marriage will mean the eradication of the Dewitt-Bukater debts; while they have the outward appearance of being upper-class, Rose and her mother are experiencing severe financial troubles. Distraught and frustrated by her engagement to the controlling Cal and the pressure her mothe

12、r is putting on her to go through with the marriage, Rose attempts suicide by jumping from the stern. Before she leaps, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) intervenes. Initially, Cal, his friends, and the sailors, overhearing Roses screams, believe Jack attempted to rape her.

13、She explains Jack saved her life, hiding her suicide attempt by explaining she slipped after trying to see the propellers. Jack supports the claim, although Hockleys manservant, former Pinkerton agent Spicer Lovejoy (David Warner), is unconvinced. Jack and Rose strike up a tentative friendship as sh

14、e thanks him for his corroboration, and he shares stories of his adventures traveling and sketching. Their bond deepens when they leave a stuffy first-class formal dinner of the rapport-building wealthy for a much livelier gathering of Irish dance, music and ale in third-class.Cal is informed by Lov

15、ejoy of Roses partying in steerage and, during breakfast the following morning, flips the table in rage as he angrily forbids her to meet Jack again. However, after witnessing a woman encouraging her seven-year-old daughter to behave like a proper lady at tea, Rose defies him and her mother and meet

16、s Jack at the bow of the ship. It is there where they go up onto the rail and Rose finally learns to let go and open herself up to Jack, sharing a passionate kiss. The couple go to Roses stateroom where she asks Jack to sketch her nude and wearing only the Heart of the Ocean, an engagement present f

17、rom Cal. Afterwards, the two playfully run away from Lovejoy, going below deck, into the boiler room, and into the ships cargo hold. They enter William Carters Renault and proceed to make love in the backseat, before moving to the ships forward well deck. Rose decides when they arrive in New York, s

18、he will leave the ship with Jack. They then witness the ships fatal collision with an iceberg. After overhearing the ships lookouts discussing how serious the collision is, Rose tells Jack they should warn her mother and Cal. Meanwhile, Cal discovers Roses nude drawing and her taunting note in his s

19、afe, so he frames Jack for stealing the Heart of the Ocean by having Lovejoy plant it in Jacks pocket. Jack is arrested and taken down to the Master-at-armss office. Cal slaps Rose across the face due to his anger. Rose runs away from him (spitting in his face as Jack taught her to earlier) and her

20、mother (who is in a lifeboat) to rescue Jack from imprisonment. With his cell being at the bottom of the ship and the ship sinking, the office slowly begins to flood. Rose eventually gets to him and frees him with an axe.Jack and Rose return to the top deck. Cal and Jack, though enemies, both want R

21、ose safe, so they persuade her to board a lifeboat by Cal telling her that he had an arrangement with a man working the boats, and that he and Jack would get off safely. After Rose is on the boat and out of earshot, Cal admits that there was an arrangement, but he would not use it to help Jack. Afte

22、r realizing that she cannot leave Jack, Rose jumps back on the ship and reunites with him in the ships first-class staircase. Infuriated, Cal takes Lovejoys pistol and chases Jack and Rose down the decks and into the flooded first-class dining saloon. When Cal runs out of ammunition, he sarcasticall

23、y wishes them well in their last moments and then realizes he left the Heart of the Ocean in Roses overcoat. Cal abandons Lovejoy and returns to the boat deck, where he boards Collapsible A by pretending to look after an abandoned child, as the officer he had previously bribed into letting him onto

24、a lifeboat throws the money in his face, telling him his money cant save him anymore. When Jack and Rose return to the top deck, the lifeboats have gone and they take temporary refuge on the now vertical stern, which washes them into the freezing Atlantic Ocean. Jack and Rose manage to grab hold of

25、a carved oak door, which can only support one person. Jack suffers from severe hypothermia, and dies in Roses arms. Rose is rescued when Fifth Officer Harold Lowe returns with Lifeboat 14 with five other survivors.Rose is taken by the RMS Carpathia to New York, where she gives her name as Rose Dawso

26、n (adopting Jacks surname, leading everyone to believe Rose DeWitt Bukater died on the Titanic). She also sees Cal for the last time on Carpathias deck, looking for her (she explains he later married, then committed suicide following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, after he lost everything). Having c

27、ompleted her story, the elderly Rose goes to the stern of Lovetts ship. After she steps onto the railing, it is revealed she still has the Heart of the Ocean in her possession. She drops the diamond into the water, sending it to join the remains of the most important event of her life. The film ends

28、 with a shot of Rose in bed. Around her are pictures of her doing everything she said she would do with Jack throughout her life. The final shot of the film is where the young Rose is reunited with Jack at the Grand Staircase of the Titanic, surrounded and applauded by those who perished on the ship

29、, as they kiss passionately.CastFictional characters Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson: One of the films protagonists, Jack is a penniless Wisconsin man who has toured parts of the world, primarily Paris. At the start of the film, he wins two tickets to the RMS Titanic in a poker game and travels as

30、a third-class passenger with his friend, Fabrizio. He is attracted to Roses beauty at first sight and incidentally talks to her when Rose attempts to throw herself off the back of the ship. This heroic act enables him to mix with the first-class passengers for a night. Billy Crudup and Stephen Dorff

31、 were considered for the role of Jack.89 Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater: Rose is the films other protagonist. She is a seventeen-year-old woman, originally from Philadelphia, who is forced into an engagment to Caledon Hockley so she and her mother, Ruth, can maintain their high-class status fol

32、lowing her fathers death, whose debts left them a reputated empty shell. Along with Cal and Ruth, Rose boards the RMS Titanic as a first-class passenger, where she meets Jack, a third-class passenger. Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan Cal Hockley: The films primary antagonist, Cal is Roses fianc and the

33、quintessential arrogant and snobbish first-class gentleman. Cal is the heir to an enormous steel fortune in his native Pittsburgh. He becomes increasingly embarrassed, jealous, and cruel over Roses relationship with Jack. He gives Rose the famous Heart of the Ocean diamond necklace as a token of his