After dinner, the two run off to explore the ship.
Rose is immediately smitten with Jack’s devil-may-care attitude, just as he is smitten with her beauty and grace. The unsinkable Molly Brown (Kathy Bates) offers Jack a tuxedo, and he now rubs shoulders with the world’s elite. Jack, however, rescues her, and he is thanked by Cal through an invitation to join their party in first class for dinner. The two heroes do not meet until the first night, where Rose, overcome with dread, hangs off the bow considering suicide. The ship leaves port, and the distinctions between first and steerage class are well defined. Also boarding the ship is Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a vagabond American artist who has won a steerage class ticket during a card game. Although Cal professes his love for Kate, he severely restricts her activities and makes her feel inferior. She is joined by her wealthy, arrogant fiancé, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). Brock helicopters her to the mother ship, and it is there that Rose tells her story of the 1912 trip.Ī savvy and somewhat too modern young woman, Rose (Kate Winslet) feels like a slave of her snooty mother who has forced Rose to board the Titanic to travel first class back to America to marry the fiancé she doesn’t love. The story is broadcast on TV, and later, the 101-year-old Rose calls Brock and tells him that she is the woman in the drawings.
On one such trip, they utilize a remote controlled robotic arm to actually go inside the ship and explore for a legendary jewel, “the heart of the ocean.” Discovering a safe, the team takes it to the surface, only to discover that the safe contains nothing more than some drawings of a nude woman wearing the jewel. Brock and his raunchy crew of divers (who seem like cookie-cutter characters from TWISTER) have been taking the two-and-a-half hour dives to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to videotape and explore the remains of the ship. Her yarn is book-ended by the story of a diver/researcher, named Brock Lovett (played by Bill Paxton). The story of the tragedy is told by survivor Rose DeWitt Bukater (whom director Cameron modeled on artist Beatrice Wood and who is played in modern times by Gloria Stuart and in the past by Kate Winslet). Director James Cameron has proven again (after megahits TERMINATOR and T2) that no expense should be spared in recreating the grandeur, opulence and horrifying tragedy of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. TITANIC is not for children, but those who are not offended by the foul language, nudity and fornication may be moved by this tragic tale Content:įollowing the hype, delayed release, over-budgeting, rumors, and special effects touch-ups, the verdict on TITANIC is that is pure entertainment, although it is not without its faults, both artistically and morally. On the other hand, families protect families, a Christian church service is held and a priest recites prayers and the Bible. While everyone can enjoy the beauty of the set and appreciate the tragedy, moral Americans may be offended at the foul language, brief upper female nudity, implied fornication, and some scary scenes. Regrettably, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are too modern for the period. TITANIC is extremely photogenic with lavish costumes, colorful sets and great special effects.
They locate the woman, Rose, now 101-years-old, who tells of her adventure on the Titanic when she abandoned her fiancé for young rouge artist named Jack, who saved her life as the ship sank. When diver/researcher Brock Lovett and his crew search the wreckage for a famed jewel, they find a safe containing a drawing of a young nude woman wearing the jewel. Survivor Rose DeWitt Bukater (modeled on artist Beatrice Wood and played in modern times by Gloria Stuart and in the past by Kate Winslet) recounts the tragedy. After all the hype, delayed release and over-budgeting, TITANIC is pure entertainment.