Titanic – The American Blockbuster Movie

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Titanic is an American film written, directed, and co-produced by James Cameron. The movie is about the sinking of RMS Titanic, considered as the world’s largest passenger steamship in 1912. RMS Titanic was once called the “unsinkable ship” that even God himself could not sink it.

The movie Titanic featured Leonardo DiCaprio who portrayed Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet, who played the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater. Both came from different social background – a penniless man who loves seeing the world and a 17-year-old woman who is forced to be engaged with a rich man so she and her mother could keep their high class statue after her father’s demise left them with nothing but debts. Jack and Rose fell in love with each other during their journey aboard the Titanic.

The characters of Jack and Rose are both fictional. Cameron used their love story to make the audience be engaged with real-life tragedy. However, after Cameron completed the script for the movie, he discovered that there was indeed a real “J. Dawson” an Irish who died aboard the RMS Titanic. His remains were buried in Nova Scotia and his grave stone has been one of the most visited tombs in the cemetery.

Titanic was made with a US $200 million budget, the most expensive film ever made during that time. On December 19, 1997, the film was released and it was critically acclaimed having won eleven Academy Awards including the Best Picture. It was also a massive commercial success, earning more than $1.8 billion and became the highest-grossing film of all time for a period of 12 years. It was only in 2010, that the record set by Titanic was surpassed by another Cameron’s film -Avatar. With Titanic’s achievement, it is indeed one American film that gave so much pride to the US flag.