Titanic is told through the perspective of older Rose, which has led to theories about her being an unreliable narrator and changing her story according to her intentions at the moment, and one suggests she embellished her story about Jack to give Brock Lovett a valuable life lesson. Although James Cameron is now mostly associated with the sci-fi genre, one of his biggest projects is far from that world: Titanic, a disaster drama movie that was the most expensive movie ever at the time and Cameron’s most ambitious project.
Based on the real-life tragedy of the RMS Titanic in 1912, Titanic tells the story of Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), two passengers from opposite social classes who fall in love aboard the infamous ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. The tragic story of Jack and Rose is told by older Rose (played by Gloria Stuart) after she recognizes the drawing Jack made of her as it was recovered from the wreck by Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) and his team. Lovett was on a mission to find the Heart of the Ocean, the diamond necklace Rose was wearing when Jack drew her, and he hoped Rose knew where it was.
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The Heart of the Ocean was a gift from Rose’s fiancé, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), but she only wore it once (not counting when he gave it to her), when Jack drew her only wearing the necklace. Given its high value, Lovett and his crew had been looking for it in the wreck of the Titanic for years, and when Rose claimed to be the woman in the drawing, Lovett thought he had found the diamond when he met her. Before he could even know where the Heart of the Ocean could have ended at, Rose told him, his crew,
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