Rose is deeply unhappy and resents both her arranged marriage to Cal and the suffocating social atmosphere she finds herself in. How did he afford to do so? He and his friend, Fabrizio (Danny Nucci), won a pair of tickets in a game of poker.
At the same time, Jack Dawson, a poor, adventurous, artistically talented American itinerant from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, ecstatically boarded the ship as well. When she was 17-years old, Rose DeWitt (her maiden name) boarded the Titanic with her mother, Ruth (Frances Fisher), and her arrogant, snobbish fiancée, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), a steel fortune businessman. She gets very emotional and begins to tell them all her story. Rose travels with her granddaughter, Lizzy (Suzy Amis), and the two meet the research crew. She phones Lovett and reveals her identity. Their televised discovery draws the attention of centenarian Rose Dawson Calvert (Gloria Stuart). They discover a large diamond necklace (called the “Heart of the Ocean”) alongside a nude drawing of a young woman. The film’s premise: Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) and his team survey the wreckage of the Titanic aboard their research vessel, the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. But…yes…yes…all the Hollywood glamorousness and memory-lane expeditions shouldn’t distract us from what really made this film so timeless-its real-life historical and disaster-related elements! DiCaprio was a major male hunk at the time (he was just 23 years old), and every older-millennial girl and gen-Xer likely had a celebrity crush on him.
In the late 1990s, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio starred as the young and beautiful romantic duo- Rose DeWitt and Jack Dawson (respectively). Titanic was also the film that temporarily catapulted Canadian singer Celine Dion to fame for her soundtrack song, “My Heart Will Go On.” “Paint me like one of your French girls” became another one of the film’s famous quotes, as did the more historically appropriate quote: “Iceberg! Right ahead!” Titanic- James Cameron’s Oscar-winning historical disaster drama (released December 1997)- was the movie where you heard it. “I’m king of the world!!” If you are of a certain age, you likely remember that movie quote very well.
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