Titanic is a 1997 American disaster/romantic/drama film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated maiden voyage of the ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ship’s passengers and crew) are based on historical figures. Gloria Stuart portrays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a modern day framing device, and Billy Zane stars as Cal Hockley, the overbearing fiancé of Rose’s younger self.
英文名字是RMS Titanic被译作铁达尼号泰坦尼克号英文名。 泰坦尼克号（RMS Titanic），又译作铁达尼号，是英国白星航运公司下辖的一艘奥林匹克级邮轮，排水量46000吨，于1909年3月31日在北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特港的哈兰德与沃尔夫造船厂动工建造，1911年5月31日下水，1912年4月2日完工试航。 1912年4月14日23时40分左右，泰坦尼克号与一座冰山相撞，造成右舷船艏至船中部破裂，五间水密舱进水。次日凌晨2时20分左右，泰坦尼克船体断裂成两截后沉入大西洋底3700米处。
泰坦尼克号（英文RMS Titanic），是20世纪初英国制造的一艘在当时世界最大的豪华客轮，在当时被称为是“永不沉没的”，但却在1912年4月15日从南安普顿至纽约的处女航中，在北大西洋撞上冰山而沉没，由于缺少足够的救生艇，1500人葬生海底，造成了在和平时期最严重的一次航海事故，也是迄今为止最著名的一次。 泰坦尼克号建造于北爱尔兰的最大城市贝尔法斯特的哈南德·沃尔夫造船厂。船体于1911年5月31日下水。她也是白星航运(White Star Line)公司在同一造船厂建造的奥林匹克级汽船的第二艘船。在当时是最大最有声望的载人游船。
Titanic
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I went into Titanic with trepidation: it is being hailed as one of the best love stories depicted on film. Cynical as I am, I don’t think much of movies with a romantic theme to them. However, I was curious to see the spectacle that director James Cameron had created. Fortunately for me, Titanic is not only great in terms of action, effects, and visuals, but also provides excellent commentary on the issue of the class struggle.
Jack Dawson (Leonardo Di Caprio) is a young boy who wins passage to America aboard the Titanic in a lucky game of poker (upon boarding the ship, Jack tells to his friend that they are “the luckiest sons of bitches in the world”). Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) is travelling to America, to be married to Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), a situation she is not thrilled about. Sparks fly when Dawson manages to talk Rose out of jumping overboard, but tragedy awaits as the unsinkable ship hits and iceberg and begins to flounder.
In the movie, this story is presented to the audience as a flashback. The narrator is Rose, 101 years old, with the last name Dawson. She tells the story to a treasure hunter (Bill Paxton), who is looking for the famous (and valuable) Heart of the Ocean, a diamond that was given to Rose by her fiance, Hockley.
The recreation of the ship, both the exterior (the rendering for which was done using Digital Alpha processors running Linux) and the interior are impeccable. The dialogue is witty and brilliant. The movie is slow at times, but reaches its climax when the ship begins to sink. The fact that Cameron takes his time in telling the story makes it all the more tense. Cameron could’ve skimped in any of these areas (dialogue, cinematography, effects, authenticity) and still come out with a great movie, but he doesn’t. He sticks to the formula that has worked in other great epic movies, and he pulls it off one hundred percent.
The ship was thought to be unsinkable, and so a compromise was made on the number of lifeboats aboard. When the ship did sink, it is the richest that got first priority on the lifeboats. While they waited in half-full lifeboats, they were exposed to the cries of people freezing to their deaths and didn’t do a thing to help them. If a similar tragedy were to happen today, would the result be any different?
The acting is excellent by all concerned, but I was most impressed by Zane. The nice thing about a ship sinking is that it is a relatively slow event, and Cameron takes every advantage of it. The depiction of the mighty ship going under is so much larger than life and I feel this is the most magnificent part of the movie. Just for that reason alone, Titanic is a movie not just to be seen, but to be experienced. So make sure you see it on the big screen. It goes to show that the concept of the disaster movie is far from dead.