How Long The Titanic Takes To Sink In The Movie vs. Real Life
James Cameron’s Titanic is based on a real-life tragedy, and while its main story is fictional, it features characters based on real-life passengers of the ship and other historically accurate details, including how long it took for the Titanic to sink, and it added this in a very subtle way. James Cameron’s name has become synonymous with big-budget productions and emotionally charged stories, and one of his most successful projects is the 1997 disaster drama Titanic, the most expensive movie ever made at the time and the highest-grossing movie of all time for many years.
Based on the real-life tragedy of the RMS Titanic in 1912, Cameron’s Titanic tells the story of two passengers from opposite social classes: Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), a wealthy woman traveling with her fiancé, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), and her mother, Ruth (Frances Fisher), and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a third-class passenger who won his ticket on a very «lucky» hand of poker minutes before the ship sailed. Over the course of four days, Rose and Jack met, got to know each other, and fell in love, but their romance ended in tragedy as Jack froze to death after the Titanic sank, while Rose was eventually rescued.
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The story of Jack and Rose is fictional, but there are many elements in Titanic taken from the real-life tragedy of the ship, such as some characters like Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), J. Bruce Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), and Captain Edward John Smith (Bernard Hill), and, of course, the events that led to the sinking of the ship. Cameron showed the Titanic hitting the iceberg and the way the ship began to sink, including how it split into two parts, but he also
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