TITANIC

TITANIC
Titanic is a dramatic American catastrophe film from 1997 directed and written by James
Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Gloria
Stuart and Bill Paxton.2 3 The plot, a romantic epic, 3 4 relates the relationship of Jack
Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, two young men who know each other and fall in love
aboard the ocean liner RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to
New York, USA. UU., In April of 1912. Belonging to different social classes, they try to get
ahead despite the adversities that would separate them definitively, among them Rose's
fiancee, Caledon «Cal» Hockley (a wealthy one of whom she is not in love, but her mother
has forced her to stay with him to guarantee a prosperous economic future) and the
sinking of the luxurious ship after colliding with an iceberg.
While Jack and Rose are fictional characters, several other secondary characters such as
Margaret "Molly" Brown (first class passenger), Thomas Andrews (designer of the ship)
and Edward John Smith (captain of the ship) are people who really lived the historical
events of the 1912.5 6 7 The images of the real Titanic sunk in the bottom of the Atlantic
Ocean, which appear in the initial scenes, for which three million US dollars of the total
budget of the production were allocated, are also real.8
Cameron was fascinated by the wreck of the Titanic and his interest in it increased when
he met Robert Ballard, 9 who discovered the wreckage of the ship in the 1980s, 10 during
the production of The Abyss.9 The filmmaker sought sponsors in Hollywood to carry out
an expedition to the site of the shipwreck, without yet having the intention to make a film
about the events.11 Later he wrote a sketch for a tape about the Titanic12 and presented
it to the executives of 20th Century Fox, 13 who gave "green light" to the project,
although they were not very convinced about the success it could have.14 Cameron did
not start writing the script until after making the shots of the real Titanic and to study
carefully each of the characters and historical passages of the ship, as he wanted to honor
all who had died in the wreck.12 15 13
Fox invested 57 million US dollars16 in the acquisition of 161,874 m² of the southern coast
of Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, where he began to build the Fox Baja
Studios designed especially for filming the project in May 1996.17 18 19 In this study the
ship was built on a full scale.19 The main shoot started in September of that same year,
lasted 160 days and was completed in March 1997.16 20 In turn, the composition of the
band The soundtrack went to James Horner and included the participation of the
Norwegian singer Sissel.21 Like the film, it enjoyed commercial and critical success; sold
more than thirty million copies, 22 eleven million of them in the US UU., Which earned it
the certification of "11 x Platinum" by the RIAA.23 A second album titled Back to Titanic
was distributed starting on August 25, 1998, a week before the release of the film on
VHS.24 25
After its premiere on December 19, 1997 in the United States, 1 despite the fact that
several analysts and industry experts predicted a failure at the box office as it was once
considered "the most expensive film production of all Times ", 26 the film became a
success both in the commercial aspect and in the evaluation of the critique: it obtained an
83% acceptance in Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 74 over 100 in the Metascore.27 28
Only in his first day in EE. UU and Canada raised 8 658 814 US dollars.29 In its first week
on the charts, it made a profit of 52.9 million dollars.30 It maintained a similar collection
for several weeks, and remained in the first place in EE. . UU and Canada for sixteen
consecutive weeks and in the top 10 until the week number 26.30 Finally it closed with
more than 600 million USD in the US. UU and Canada and more than 1800 million dollars
internationally.31 32 33 With these numbers, it became the highest grossing film in
history worldwide, a title that retained for more than a decade until being displaced by
Avatar (directed also by Cameron), which raised more than 2,700 million dollars, after
which Titanic came to occupy second place in the list.34 35 The film won 89 awards,
including eleven Academy Awards ( figure only matched by Ben-Hur and The Lord of the
Rings: the return of the King), 36 four Golden Globes, eight Satellite awards, a pair of
People's Choice awards, two more from MTV Movie, a SAG recognition and a statuette
Annie.37
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James Cameron
Dirección
Producción James Cameron
Jon Landau
Diseño de producción Peter Lamont
Guion James Cameron
Música James Horner
Fotografía Russell Carpenter
Montaje Conrad Buff IV

James Cameron
Richard A. Harris
Vestuario Deborah Lynn Scott
Narrador Gloria Stuart
Protagonistas Leonardo DiCaprio

Kate Winslet
Billy Zane
Gloria Stuart
Bill Paxton
Kathy Bates
Frances Fisher
Victor Garber
Bernard Hill
Jonathan Hyde
David Warner
Bernard Fox
Danny Nucci
Ioan Gruffudd
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Fotografía Russell Carpenter

Montaje Conrad Buff IV

Vestuario Deborah Lynn Scott

Narrador Gloria Stuart

Protagonistas Leonardo DiCaprio

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