TITANIC
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 爱情 story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to achieving this. Production on the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual 泰坦尼克号 wreck.
In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Keldysh 搜索 the wreck of RMS 泰坦尼克号 for a 项链 with a rare diamond, the 心 of the Ocean. They recover a 安全 containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace. It is dated April 14, 1912, the 日 the ship struck the iceberg.[Note 1] Rose Dawson Calvert, claiming to be the person in the drawing, visits Lovett and tells of her experiences aboard the ship.
In 1912 Southampton, 17-year-old first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, her fiancé Cal Hockley, and her mother Ruth board the Titanic. Ruth emphasizes that Rose's marriage will resolve the DeWitt Bukaters' financial problems. Distraught over the engagement, Rose considers committing suicide 由 jumping from the stern; Jack Dawson, a penniless artist, convinces her not to. Discovered with Jack, Rose tells Cal that she was peering over the edge and Jack saved her from falling. Cal is indifferent, but when Rose indicates some recognition is due, he offers Jack a small amount of money. After Rose asks whether saving her life meant so little, he invites Jack to dine with them in first class the following night. Jack and Rose develop a tentative friendship, though Cal and Ruth are wary of him. Following dinner, Rose secretly joins Jack at a party in third class.
Aware of Cal and Ruth's disapproval, Rose rebuffs Jack's advances, but later realizes that she prefers him over Cal. After rendezvousing on the bow at sunset, Rose takes Jack to her state room and displays Cal's engagement present: the 心 of the Ocean. At her request, Jack sketches Rose posing nude wearing it. They evade Cal's bodyguard and have sex in an automobile inside the cargo hold. They later visit the 前锋, 期待 deck, witnessing a collision with an iceberg and overhearing the officers and designer discussing its seriousness.
Cal discovers Jack's sketch of Rose and a mocking note from her in his 安全 along with the necklace. When Jack and Rose attempt to tell Cal of the collision, he has his butler slip the 项链 into Jack's pocket and accuses him of theft. He is arrested, taken to the Master-at-arms' office, and handcuffed to a pipe. Cal puts the 项链 in his own 涂层, 外套 pocket.
With the ship sinking, Rose is desperate to free Jack. She flees Cal and her mother, who has boarded a lifeboat, and rescues him. They return to the 船, 小船 deck, where Cal and Jack encourage her to board a lifeboat; Cal claims he can get himself and Jack off safely. After Rose boards one, Cal tells Jack the arrangement is only for himself. As her 船, 小船 lowers, Rose decides that she cannot leave Jack and jumps back on board. Cal takes his butler's pistol and chases Rose and Jack into the flooding first class dining saloon. After using up his ammunition, Cal realizes he gave his 涂层, 外套 and consequently the 项链 to Rose. He later boards a collapsible lifeboat 由 carrying a 迷失 child.
After braving several obstacles, Jack and Rose return to the 船, 小船 deck. All the lifeboats have departed and passengers are falling to their deaths as the stern rises out of the water. The ship breaks in half, lifting the stern into the air. Jack and Rose ride it into the ocean and he helps her onto a wooden panel only buoyant enough for one person. Holding the edge, he assures her that she will die an old woman, warm in her bed. He dies of hypothermia but she is saved.
With Rose hiding from Cal en route, the RMS Carpathia takes the survivors to New York. There she gives her name as Rose Dawson. She later learns that Cal committed suicide after losing everything in the 1929 墙 街, 街道 Crash.
Lovett abandons his 搜索 after hearing Rose's story. Alone on the stern of the Keldysh, Rose takes out the 心 of the Ocean—in her possession all along—and drops it into the sea over the wreck site. While she is seemingly asleep in her bed, 照片 on her dresser depict a life of freedom and adventure, partly inspired 由 Jack. A young Rose reunites with him at the ship's Grand Staircase, applauded 由 those who perished.Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson: Cameron 说 he needed the cast to feel as though they were really on the Titanic, relive its liveliness, and "to take that energy and give it to Jack, [...] an artist who is able to have his 心 soar".[6] Jack is portrayed as a homeless, poor man from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin who has toured numerous places in the world, primarily Paris. He wins two tickets onto the RMS 泰坦尼克号 in a poker game and travels as a third-class passenger with his friend Fabrizio. He is attracted to Rose at first sight and meets her when she attempts to throw herself off the stern of the ship. This enables him to mix with the first-class passengers for a night. When casting the role, various established actors, including Matthew McConaughey, Chris O'Donnell, Billy Crudup and Stephen Dorff, were considered, but Cameron felt that a few of the actors were too old for the part of a 20-year-old.[7][8][9][10] "Tom Cruise expressed an interest in [portraying] the character, though his superstar asking price was never taken seriously."[8] Cameron considered Jared Leto for the role but he refused to audition.[11] DiCaprio, 22 years old at the time, was brought to Cameron's attention 由 casting director Mali Finn.[7] Initially, he did not want to portray the character, and refused to read his first romantic scene on the set (see below). Cameron said, "He read it once, then started goofing around, and I could never get him to focus on it again. But for one 分裂, 拆分 second, a shaft of light came down from the heavens and lit up the forest." Cameron strongly believed in DiCaprio's 表演 ability, and told him, "Look, I'm not going to make this guy brooding and neurotic. I'm not going to give him a tic and a limp and all the things 你 want." Cameron rather envisioned the character as a James Stewart type.[7]
Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater: Cameron 说 Winslet "had the thing that 你 look for" and that there was "a quality in her face, in her eyes," that he "just knew people would be ready to go the distance with her".[6] Rose is a 17-year-old girl, originally from Philadelphia, who is forced into an engagement to 30-year-old Cal Hockley so she and her mother, Ruth, can maintain their high-class status after her father's death had left the family debt-ridden. Rose boards the RMS 泰坦尼克号 with Cal and Ruth, as a first-class passenger, and meets Jack. Winslet 说 of her character, "She has got a lot to give, and she's got a very open heart. And she wants to explore and adventure the world, but she [feels] that's not going to happen."[6] Gwyneth Paltrow, Claire Danes, and Gabrielle Anwar had been considered for the role.[7][12][13] When they turned it down, 22-year-old Winslet campaigned heavily for the role. She sent Cameron daily notes from England, which led Cameron to invite her to Hollywood for auditions. As with DiCaprio, casting director Mali Finn originally brought her to Cameron's attention. When looking for a Rose, Cameron described the character as "an Audrey Hepburn type" and was initially uncertain about casting Winslet even after her screen test impressed him.[7] After she screen tested with DiCaprio, Winslet was so thoroughly impressed with him, that she whispered to Cameron, "He's great. Even if 你 don't pick me, pick him." Winslet sent Cameron a single rose with a card signed "From Your Rose" and lobbied him 由 phone. "You don't understand!" she pleaded one 日 when she reached him 由 mobile phone in his Humvee. "I am Rose! I don't know why you're even seeing anyone else!" Her persistence, as well as her talent, eventually convinced him to cast her in the role.[7]
Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan "Cal" Hockley: Cal is Rose's 30-year-old fiancé. He is arrogant and snobbish, and the heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune. He becomes increasingly embarrassed, jealous, and cruel about Rose's relationship with Jack. He later commits suicide after losing his fortune in the 墙 街, 街道 Crash of 1929. The part was originally offered to Matthew McConaughey.[8]
Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Rose's widowed mother, who arranges her daughter's engagement to Cal to maintain her family's high-society status. She loves her daughter and believes that social position is 更多 important than having a loving marriage. She scorns Jack, even though he saved her daughter's life.
Gloria Stuart as Rose Dawson Calvert: Rose narrates the film in a modern-day framing device. Cameron stated, "In order to see the present and the past, I decided to create a fictional survivor who is [close to] 101 years, and she connects us in a way through history."[6] The 100-year-old Rose gives Lovett information regarding the "Heart of the Ocean" after he discovers a nude drawing of her in the wreck. She tells the story of her time aboard the ship, mentioning Jack for the first time since the sinking. At 87, Stuart had to be made up to look older for the role.[8] Of casting Stuart, Cameron stated, "My casting director found her. She was sent out on a mission to find retired 女演员 from the Golden Age of the thirties and forties."[14] Cameron 说 that he did not know who Stuart was, and Fay Wray was also considered for the role. "But [Stuart] was just so into it, and so lucid, and had such a great spirit. And I saw the connection between her spirit and [Winslet's] spirit," stated Cameron. "I saw this joie de vivre in both of them, that I thought the audience would be able to make that cognitive leap that it's the same person."[14] Winslet and Stuart stated their belief that the character dies at the end of the film,[15][16] while Cameron states in his DVD commentary that he prefers to leave the viewers to form their own interpretation of the ending.[17] Stuart died on September 26, 2010, at age 100, approximately the same age elder Rose was in the film.[18]
Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett: A treasure hunter looking for the "Heart of the Ocean" in the wreck of the 泰坦尼克号 in the present. Time and funding for his expedition are running out. He later reflects at the film's conclusion that, despite thinking about 泰坦尼克号 for three years, he has never understood it until he hears Rose's story.
Suzy Amis as Lizzy Calvert: Rose's granddaughter, who accompanies her when she visits Lovett on the ship.
Danny Nucci as Fabrizio De Rossi: Jack's Italian best friend, who boards the RMS 泰坦尼克号 with him after Jack wins two tickets in a poker game. Fabrizio does not board a lifeboat when the 泰坦尼克号 sinks and is killed when one of the ship's funnels breaks and crashes into the water.
David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy: An ex-Pinkerton constable, Lovejoy is Cal's English valet and bodyguard, who keeps an eye on Rose and is suspicious about the circumstances surrounding Jack's rescue of her. He dies when the 泰坦尼克号 splits in half, causing him to fall into a massive opening.
Jason Barry as Thomas "Tommy" Ryan: An Irish third-class passenger who befriends Jack and Fabrizio. Tommy is killed when he is accidentally pushed 前锋, 期待 and shot 由 a panicked First Officer Murdoch.
