Titanic (1997)
April 9th, 2008
“I’m King of the world”, was the lines spoken by Leonardo de Caprio as he stands on the bow of the Titanic. One of the highlights of the movie, where a pauper meets the woman of her dreams who just happens to be out of his reach for she is with one of the richest and most arrogant men on board and is bound to be his bride. The doomed Titanic was the most expensive films of all time (estimated to $200,000,000) but overcame that by being a blockbuster in theaters worldwide. The inclusion of footage film of the actual ship below the seas were taken by specially built IMAX cameras that had to be engineered to withstand 400 times the pressure of the atmosphere at sea level. The film was initially conceived to be one of two fictional characters over which the whole film was to revolve around. After the script was finished, the director was stunned to find out that there was a real Jack Dawson who was on board the Titanic that fateful night that it sank and took many lives.