Just in time for Valentine’s day! our hearts will go on with our sweethearts because James Cameron’s Academy Award winning movie “Titanic” is getting re-released in theaters. We all get to relive our crush days with Jack Dawson and the epic love story between him and Rose. Now we get to a witness a remastered version in 3D 4K HDR and high-frame rate. I know many can’t wait to see certain scenes up close and personal. It will be interesting because Cameron said he originally wanted to film in 3D for the water scenes alone.
The film won a record of 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects. Upon its initial release in 1997, the film became the #1 all-time global box office champ and is currently the third highest grossing film worldwide. The blockbuster film held No. 1 at the box-office spot for a total of 15 straight weeks ultimately earning $2.2 billion worldwide which was the record it held until Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar.
Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Studios present A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, “Titanic,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, Gloria Stuart, David Warner, Victor Garber and Bill Paxton. Written and Directed by James Cameron, the film was Produced by Cameron and Jon Landau, with Rae Sanchini serving as Executive Producer.
See trailer below:
Is Titanic based off a true story?
Titanic was based off a true story. The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time. Titanic was equipped with 16 lifeboat, each capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total of 48 boats. She carried only 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch while she was sinking. It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. The disaster drew public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada.
The film itself takes from most of this but Cameron fabricated many true events and added fictional characters to make the movie dramatic and thrilling for the purposes of Hollywood magic. Modifying historical facts related and important events that happened. Including Rose and Jack and other characters such as Rose’s mother Ruth, her fiancé Caledon ‘Cal’ Hockley, Jack’s friends Fabrizio and Tommy, and Cal’s valet Spicer Lovejoy are fictional as well.
The film’s running time is 3 hours and 15 minutes. So grab your popcorn and valentine and head to the theaters on Friday, February 10, 2023.
