Titanic (1997 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"And all the while I feel I'm...

... standing in the middle of a crowded room...

... screaming at the top of my lungs...

... and no one even looks up."

"But the purpose of university is to find a suitable husband."

"All life is a game of luck."

"Now they retreat to congratulate each other on being masters of the universe."

"Of course it's unfair.  We're women.  Our choices are never easy."

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."

Titanic (1997 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.

Cameron's inspiration for the film was predicated on his fascination with shipwrecks; he wanted to convey the emotional message of the tragedy, and felt that a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to achieving this.  The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, and, at the time, was the most expensive film ever made, with an estimated budget of $200 million.


Upon its release on December 19, 1997, the film achieved critical and commercial success. Nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, it won eleven, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben Hur (1959) for most Oscars won by a single film. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, it was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time for twelve years, until Cameron's 2009 film Avatar surpassed its gross in 2010. A 3D version of the film, released on April 4, 2012 (often billed as Titanic 3D), to commemorate the centenary of the sinking of the ship, earned it an additional $343 million worldwide, which pushed Titanic's worldwide total to $2.18 billion. It became the second film to pass the two-billion mark (the first being Avatar).  

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On one of my mother and sister's visit to Atlanta, took them to the Titanic exhibit near midtown off Seventeenth St.  Upon entering, they took our picture in front of a lime green background as well as handing us each a boarding pass with the name of an original passenger that ill fated voyage.

 

Upon finishing the tour at the end, we were to compare our boarding pass to the names listing those who survived and those who did not.   Mine was  2nd class Benjamin Hart.  Although his wife and daughter survived...

I did not.   

 

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