"Nothing On Earth Could Come Between Them."
Directed by James Cameron
Produced by James Cameron, Jon Landau
Written by James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Bill Paxton, Gloria Stuart
Music by James Horner
Cinematography: Russell Carpenter
Edited by Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
Production companies: 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment
Distributed by 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures
Release date: 19 December 1997 (United States)
Running time: 195 minutes (Director's cut - 216 minutes)
Country: United States
Budget: $200 million
Box office: $2.187 billion
"Titanic" is a romantic drama film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. The story is about a seventeen-year-old aristocrat who falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson
- Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater
- Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan "Cal" Hockley
- Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater
- Gloria Stuart as Rose Dawson Calvert
- Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett
- Suzy Amis as Lizzy Calvert
- Danny Nucci as Fabrizio De Rossi
- David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy
- Jason Barry as Thomas "Tommy" Ryan
- Kathy Bates as Margaret "Molly" Brown
- Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews
- Bernard Hill as Captain Edward John Smith
- Jonathan Hyde as J. Bruce Ismay
- Eric Braeden as John Jacob Astor IV
- Bernard Fox as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV
- Michael Ensign as Benjamin Guggenheim
- Jonathan Evans-Jones as Wallace Hartley
- Ewan Stewart as First Officer William Murdoch
- Jonathan Phillips as Second Officer Charles Lightoller
- Mark Lindsay Chapman as Chief Officer Henry Wilde
- Ioan Gruffudd as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
- Edward Fletcher as Sixth Officer James Moody
- Lew Palter and Elsa Raven as Isidor Straus and Ida Straus
- Martin Jarvis as Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon
- Rosalind Ayres as Lady Duff-Gordon
- Rochelle Rose as Noëlle, Countess of Rothes
- Paul Brightwell as Quartermaster Robert Hichens
- Martin East as Reginald Lee
- Gregory Cooke as Jack Phillips
- Craig Kelly as Harold Bride
- Liam Tuohy as Chief Baker Charles Joughin
- Terry Forrestal as Chief Engineer Joseph G. Bell
- Kevin De La Noy as Third Officer Herbert Pitman
Who has never heard about "Titanic"? The classic film in genre "Epic" which can be described in three words: love, iceberg, ship. However the main feature of the picture isn't the sinking of the RMS Titanic, strange though it may seem - almost everyone is keen on rewatching it because of the love story of Rose and Jack, whose name have already become common. The feelings between a poor artist and a rich girl which are impossible in and of themselves supplement with the great disaster - here's the reason to shed a tear.
Performances of young Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet look a little bit overacted and naive but that's not a problem - their portrayals are charming is as a whole. And I also want to mention acting of Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan "Cal" Hockley, Gloria Stuart as Rose Dawson Calvert, Danny Nucci as Fabrizio De Rossi and Kathy Bates as Margaret "Molly" Brown - all of them make a viewer feel the atmosphere of the beginning of the twentieth century. And how can I forget about the enchanting music that I've even bought from iTunes?
Advantages
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson
- Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater
- Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan "Cal" Hockley
- Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett
- Kathy Bates as Margaret "Molly" Brown
- James Horner
- James Cameron
- Visual effects
- Special effects
- Acting
- Story
Disadvantages
- Some overacted moments
"Strangenesses"
- Man's vanity beat safety
Clue Moments
- The Heart of the Ocean
- The drawing of Rose
- Jump from the stern
- The car
- An iceberg
- The arrest of Jack
- The lifeboat
- The wooden pane
A century has sailed by since the luxury steamship RMS Titanic met its catastrophic end in the North Atlantic, plunging two miles to the ocean floor after sideswiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Rather than the intended Port of New York, a deep-sea grave became the pride of the White Star Line’s final destination in the early hours of April 15, 1912. More than 1,500 people lost their lives in the disaster. In the decades since her demise, Titanic has inspired countless books and several notable films while continuing to make headlines, particularly since the 1985 discovery of her resting place off the coast of Newfoundland. Meanwhile, her story has entered the public consciousness as a powerful cautionary tale about the perils of human hubris.
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Soundtracks
- James Horner - Never An Absulution
- James Horner - Distant Memories
- James Horner - Southampton
- James Horner - Rose
- James Horner - Leaving Port
- James Horner - Take Her To Sea, Mr. Murdoch
- James Horner - Hard To Starboard
- James Horner - Unable To Stay, Unwilling To Leave
- James Horner - The Sinking
- James Horner - Death Of Titanic
- James Horner - A Promise Kept
- James Horner - A Life So Changed
- James Horner - An Ocean Of Memories
- Celine Dion feat. James Horner - My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From 'Titanic')
- James Horner - Hymn To The Sea
Quotations
* * *
Jack: Don't do it.Rose: Stay back! Don't come any closer!
Jack: Come on, just give me your hand. I'll pull you back over.
Rose: No, stay where you are! I mean it! I'll let go!
Jack: [He approaches slowly, gesturing to his cigarette to show that he is approaching merely to throw it over the side into the ocean] No, you won't.
Rose: What do you mean, "No, I won't"? Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do, you don't know me!
Jack: Well, you woulda done it already.
Rose: You're distracting me! Go away!
Jack: I can't. I'm involved now. You let go, and I'm, I'm 'onna have to jump in there after you.
Rose: Don't be absurd. You'd be killed!
Jack: I'm a good swimmer.
Rose: The fall alone would kill you.
Jack: It would hurt. I'm not saying it wouldn't. Tell you the truth, I'm a lot more concerned about that water being so cold.
[pause. She looks down at the water. Jack is slowly removing his boots]
Rose: How cold?
Jack: Freezing. Maybe a couple degrees over. You ever, uh, you ever been to Wisconsin?
Rose: What?
Jack: Well, they have some of the coldest winters around. I grew up there, near Chippewa Falls. I remember when I was a kid, me and my father, we went ice fishing out on Lake Wissota. Ice fishing is, you know, where you...
Rose: I know what ice fishing is!
Jack: Sorry. You just seem like, you know, kind of an indoor girl. Anyway, I, uh, I fell through some thin ice; and I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there...
[He gestures with his chin down toward the Atlantic Ocean]
Jack: ... it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. You can't breathe. You can't think. At least, not about anything but the pain. Which is why I'm not looking forward to jumping in there after you.
[They exchange glances]
Jack: Like I said, I don't have a choice. I guess I'm kinda hoping you'll come back over the railing, an' get me off the hook here.
Rose: You're crazy.
Jack: That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C'mon, give me your hand. You don't want to do this.
[She reaches her hand back, he reaches his forward, and he helps her back onto the deck]
Jack: Whew! I'm Jack Dawson.
Rose: Rose De Witt Bukater.
Jack: I'm gonna have to get you to write that one down.
* * *
Rose: I love you, Jack.Jack: Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes. Not yet, do you understand me?
Rose: I'm so cold.
Jack: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and you're gonna make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?
Rose: I can't feel my body.
Jack: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
Rose: I promise.
Jack: Never let go.
Rose: I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go.
* * *
Jack: I'm the king of the world!
* * *
Jack: Well, yes, ma'am, I do... I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
* * *
Jack: Do you love him?Rose: Pardon me?
Jack: Do you love him?
Rose: Well, you're being very rude. You shouldn't be asking me this.
Jack: Well, it's a simple question. Do you love the guy or not?
Rose: This is not a suitable conversation.
Jack: Why can't you just answer the question?
Rose: This is absurd. I don't know you and you don't know me and we are not having this conversation at all. You are rude and uncouth, and presumptuous, and I am leaving now.
[starts shaking Jack's hand]
Rose: Jack... Mister Dawson, it's been a pleasure. I've sought you out to thank you, and now I have thanked you.
Jack: And even insulted me.
Rose: Well, you deserved it.
Jack: Right.
Rose: Right.
Jack: [Rose is still shaking his hand] I thought you were leaving.
Rose: [turns to leave] I am. You are so annoying.
Jack: Ha, ha.
Rose: [turns back to Jack] Wait, I don't have to leave, this is my part of the ship. You leave.
Jack: Oh ho, ho, well well well, now who's being rude?
* * *
Old Rose: Fifteen-hundred people went into the sea, when Titanic sank from under us. There were twenty boats floating nearby... and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six... out of fifteen-hundred. Afterward, the seven-hundred people in the boats had nothing to do but wait... wait to die... wait to live... wait for an absolution... that would never come.
* * *
[the Titanic is about to sink]Rose: Jack! This is where we first met.
* * *
[Rose shows Jack the diamond]Rose: Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls. Wearing this...
Jack: All right.
Rose: Wearing *only* this.
* * *
Lewis Bodine: We never found anything on Jack... there's no record of him at all.Old Rose: No, there wouldn't be, would there? And I've never spoken of him until now... Not to anyone... Not even your grandfather... A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now... only in my memory.
* * *
Jack: Where to, Miss?Rose: To the stars.
* * *
Old Rose: It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
* * *
Rose: Hello Jack. I changed my mind. They said you might be out here.Jack: Shhh. Gimme your hand. Now close your eyes, go on. Now step up. Now hold on to the railing. Keep your eyes closed, don't peek.
Rose: I'm not.
Jack: Step up on the railing. Hold on, hold on. Keep your eyes closed. Do you trust me?
Rose: I trust you.
[Jack opens Rose's arms]
Jack: All right. Open your eyes.
Rose: [gasp] I'm flying, Jack!
[Jack starts singing]
Jack: Come, Josephine, in my flying machine, going up, she goes up, up she goes.
[they kiss]
* * *
Jack: I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this.
* * *
[Jack is kissing Rose's hand]Jack: I saw that in a nickelodeon once and I always wanted to do it.
* * *
Cal Hockley: You're a good liar.Jack: Almost as good as you.
* * *
[as the Carpathia is arriving in New York]Carpathia Steward: Can I take your name, please love?
Rose: Dawson, Rose Dawson.
* * *
Fabrizio: I can see the Statue of Liberty already!... Very small, of course.
* * *
Rose: Teach me to ride like a man.Jack: And chew tobacco like a man.
Rose: And spit like a man!
Jack: What, they didn't teach you that in finishing school?
* * *
Rose: I know what you must be thinking. "Poor little rich girl, what does she know about misery?"Jack: No, no, that's not what I was thinking. What I was thinking was, what could've happened to this girl to make her think she had no way out?
* * *
Tommy Ryan: Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in first class.
* * *
[Looking at a salvaged hand mirror]Old Rose: This was mine. How extraordinary! And it looks the same as it did last time I saw it... The reflection's changed a bit.
* * *
Brock Lovett: 26 years of experience working against him. He figures anything big enough to sink the ship they're gonna see in time to turn. The ship's too big with too small a rudder. It doesn't corner worth a damn. Everything he knows is wrong.
* * *
Old Rose: [about Jack drawing her naked] My heart was pounding the whole time. It was the most erotic moment of my life. Up until then, at least.Lewis Bodine: So what happened next?
Old Rose: You mean, did we "do it"? Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Bodine, but Jack was very professional.
* * *
Rose: The last thing I need is another picture of me looking like a porcelain doll.
* * *
Old Rose: I saw my whole life as if I'd already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared... or even noticed.
* * *
Rose: It's so unfair.Ruth: Of course it's unfair. We're women. Our choices are never easy.
* * *
Rose: I don't know the steps!Jack: Neither do I! Just go with it!
* * *
Ruth: So this is the ship they say is unsinkable.Cal Hockley: It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship.
* * *
[Jack and Rose are inside the car]Jack: Are you nervous?
Rose: No. Put your hands on me, Jack.
* * *
Rose: Mr. Andrews... I saw the iceberg and I see it in your eyes... please, tell me the truth.Thomas Andrews: The ship will sink.
Rose: You're certain?
Thomas Andrews: Yes. In an hour or so, all of this will be at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Cal Hockley: What?
Thomas Andrews: Please, tell only who you must. I don't want to be responsible for a panic. And get to a boat quickly, don't wait. You remember what I told you about the boats?
Rose: Yes... I understand.
* * *
Ruth: You're not to see that boy again. Do you understand me? Rose, I forbid it.Rose: Oh stop it, mother. You'll give yourself a nose bleed.
* * *
Molly Brown: [to the group who are dining at the same table] Hey, uh, who thought of the name Titanic? Was it you, Bruce?Ismay: Yes, actually. I wanted to convey sheer size, and size means stability, luxury, and above all, strength.
Rose: Do you know of Dr. Freud, Mr. Ismay? His ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to you.
Ruth: [whispering] What's gotten into you?
Rose: Excuse me.
[She rises and leaves]
Ruth: I do apologize.
Molly Brown: She's a pistol, Cal! Hope you can handle her.
Cal Hockley: Well, I may have to start minding what she reads from now on, won't I, Mrs. Brown?
Ismay: Freud? Who is he? Is he a passenger?
* * *
Old Rose: The others were gracious and curious about the man who had saved my life. But my mother looked at him like an insect. A dangerous insect, which must be squashed quickly.
* * *
[Talking about Caledon Hockley]Old Rose: That's the last time I ever saw him. He married, of course. And inherited his millions. But the crash of '29 hit his interests hard, and he put a pistol in his mouth that year. Or so I read.
* * *
Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people.Jack: I see you.
Rose: And?
Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.
* * *
Jack: Rose! How did you find out I didn't do it?Rose: I didn't. I just realized I already knew.
* * *
Ruth: Tell us of the accommodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson. I hear they are quite good on this ship.Jack: The best I've seen, ma'am. Hardly any rats.
* * *
Rose: Mr. Andrews, forgive me. I did the sum in my head and with the number of lifeboats times the capacity you mentioned, forgive me, but it seems that there are not enough for everyone aboard.Thomas Andrews: 'Bout half, actually. Rose, you miss nothing, do you?
* * *
[Rose throws a dime to Jack]Rose: As a paying customer, I expect to get what I want.
* * *
Rose: You liked this woman. You used her several times.Jack: Well, she has beautiful hands, see?
Rose: I think you must have had a love affair with her.
Jack: No no no, just with her hands.
[turns page]
Jack: She was a one-legged prostitute. See? Ah, she had a good sense of humour though.
* * *
Jack: That's one of the good things about Paris: lots of girls willing to take their clothes off.
* * *
Tommy Ryan: That's typical. First class dogs come down here to take a shite.Jack: That's so we know where we rank in the scheme of things.
Tommy Ryan: Like we could forget.
* * *
[scoffs as Rose's paintings are being unpacked]Cal Hockley: God, not those finger paintings again. They certainly were a waste of money.
Rose: The difference between Cal's taste in art and mine is that I have some. They're fascinating. It's like being inside a dream or something. There's truth but no logic.
Trudy Bolt: What's the artist's name?
Rose: Something Picasso.
Cal Hockley: [scoffs] Something Picasso? He won't amount to a thing.
[pause]
Cal Hockley: He won't, trust me. At least they were cheap.
* * *
Fifth Officer Lowe: Is there anyone alive out there? Can anyone hear me?
* * *
Benjamin Guggenheim: No, thank you. We are dressed in our best and are prepared to go down as gentlemen. But, we would like a brandy.
* * *
Thomas Andrews: Sleep soundly young Rose for I have built you a good ship, strong and true, she's all the lifeboats you need.
* * *
Musician: What's the use? Nobody's listening to us anyway.Wallace Hartley: Well, they don't listen to us at dinner either.
* * *
Robert Hitchins: You don't understand. If we go back, they'll swamp the boat, they'll pull us right down, I'm tellin' you!Molly Brown: Knock it off. You're scaring me. C'mon girls! Grab an oar, let's go!
Robert Hitchins: Are you out of your mind? We're in the middle of the North Atlantic! Now do you people want to live, or do you want to die?
Molly Brown: I don't understand a one of you. What's the matter with ya? It's your men out there! There's plenty o' room for more!
Robert Hitchins: And there'll be one less on this boat, if you don't shut that hole in your face!
* * *
Rose: Staring up at the sky, Look. It's so beautiful. SO vast and endless. They're so small. My crowd, they think they're giants. They're not even dust in Gods eyes.Jack: Well, there's been a mistake. You're not one of them. You got mailed to the wrong address.
Rose: Laughs, I did, didn't I? LOOK, a shooting star!
Jack: It was a long one. You know, my Pop's used to tell me, every time he saw one, it was a soul going to heaven.
Rose: I like that. Are we supposed to wish on it?
Jack: Why? What would you wish for?
Rose: Something I can't have.
* * *
[about his silverware during dinner]Jack: Are these all for me?
Molly Brown: Just start from the outside and work your way in.
* * *
Brock Lovett: Dive six, here we are again on the deck of Titanic. Two and a half miles down. Three-thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one meters. The pressure outside is three-and-a-half tons per square inch. These windows are nine inches thick, and if they go, it's sayonara in two micro-seconds.
* * *
Tommy Ryan: Ah, forget it, boyo. You're as like to have angels fly out your arse as get next to the likes of her.
* * *
Molly Brown: Why do they insist on announcing dinner like a damned cavalry charge?
* * *
Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller: Get back, I say, or I'll shoot you all like dogs! Keep order here! Keep order I say. Mr. Lowe, man this boat.
* * *
Lovejoy: What could possibly be funny?Cal Hockley: I put the diamond in the coat. And I put the coat on her!
* * *
Tommy Ryan: If this is the direction the rats are going that's fine with me!
* * *
Rose: I will do this with or without your help, sir, but without, it will take longer.
* * *
Ruth: The purpose of university is to find a suitable husband. Rose has already done that.
* * *
Rose: I am not a foreman in one of your mills that you can command. I am your fiancée.Cal Hockley: My fian... my fiancée! Yes, you are, and my wife. My wife in practice if not yet by law, so you will honor me. You will honor me the way a wife is required to honor a husband. Because I will not be made a fool, Rose. Is this in any way unclear?
Rose: No.
* * *
Rose: I don't see what all of the fuss is about. It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauritania.Cal Hockley: You can be blasé about some things, Rose, but not about Titanic. It's over a hundred feet longer than the Mauritania and far more luxurious.
* * *
Bert Cartmell: It's a big boat, huh?Cora Cartmell: Daddy, it's a ship!
Bert Cartmell: You're right.
* * *
Molly Brown: Ain't nothing to it, is there, Jack? Remember, they love money so pretend like you own a gold mine and you're in the club.
* * *
Jack: There's, uh, there's no arrangement is there?Cal Hockley: No, there is. Not that you'll benefit much from it. I always win Jack, one way or another.
* * *
Cal Hockley: Where are you going? To him? To be a wh*re to a gutter rat?Rose: I'd rather be his wh*re than your wife!
* * *
Brock Lovett: Seeing her coming out of the darkness like a ghost ship, it still gets me every time.
* * *
Cal Hockley: I hope you enjoy your time together!
* * *
Smith: Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch. Let's stretch her legs.
* * *
1st Officer William Murdoch: Women and children only!Cal Hockley: [Referring to a large amount of money he gave Murdoch as a bribe to allow Hockley to board a lifeboat] Mr. Murdoch, we had a deal!
1st Officer William Murdoch: [Throws the money at Hockley] Your money can't save you any more than it can save me.
* * *
You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 9/10
Entertainment: 9/10
Acting: 8/10
Originality: 9/10
Music and Sound: 10/10
9/10
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