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Titanic

Original theatrical poster for Titanic
Directed by James Cameron
Produced by James Cameron
Jon Landau
Written by James Cameron
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Kate Winslet
Billy Zane
Frances Fisher
Kathy Bates
Danny Nucci
Bill Paxton
Gloria Stuart
Music by James Horner
Cinematography Russell Carpenter
Editing by Conrad Buff IV
James Cameron
Richard A. Harris
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
(non-United States)
Paramount Pictures
(United States)
Release date(s) Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg 1 November, 1997 (premiere at Tokyo IFF)
Image:Flag of Australia.svg December 18, 1997
Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 19 1997
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg January 23 1998
Running time 194 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $200,000,000 USD<ref>"Box office statistics for Titanic (1997)". BoxOfficeMojo.com. Retrieved October 15 2006.</ref>
IMDb profile

Titanic is a romantic drama film written, directed and co-produced by James Cameron. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater respectively, members of different social strata who fall in love aboard the 1912 maiden voyage of RMS Titanic. The film co-stars Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Frances Fisher as Rose's mother, and Danny Nucci as Jack's best friend. Bill Paxton plays the leader of a treasure hunting expedition, while Gloria Stuart has the role of the elderly Rose (renamed Calvert), who narrates the story in 1996.

Because Titanic was not completed in mid-1997, problems rose in Hollywood and there was discussion of trimming its length, but director Cameron fought to release it without additional editing. It was released to North American theatres by Paramount Pictures (worldwide by 20th Century Fox) on December 19 1997, and while it performed well in its first weekend, it was not until the new year that the film would reach its highest ticket sales. It holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time, generating over US$1.8 billion worldwide. In 1998 it was nominated for fourteen Academy Awards and won eleven, including the title of 1997's "Best Picture". With Ben-Hur (1959) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Titanic holds the record for the most Academy Award wins. Despite Titanic's laudatory box office success, the film opened to mixed reviews by critics.

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[edit] Production

A brand-new studio was built for the making of this film, at Popotla, near Rosarito Beach in Mexico, just 40 kM south of the international border. A giant tower crane was used for aerial tracking shots of the 90% scale model of Titanic that was built in the ocean. When this epic disaster film was not finished in time for its scheduled July 1997 release, shockwaves were sent through Hollywood; executives started wondering if a situtation similar to that of Heaven's Gate would occur. The releasing studios 20th Century Fox (which handled the film's distribution outside the U.S.) and Paramount Pictures (which handled the U.S. distribution) panicked. With a budget of $200.1 million<ref>James Cameron, interviewed in London for UK broadsheet newspaper preceeding UK release in early 1998.</ref>, Titanic became the costliest film of all time by mid-1997. When director James Cameron delivered the film to Paramount, it ran over three hours and speculation arose whether he would work in Hollywood again. Cameron defended his production and threatened most executives that they were not going to shorten the film's length. Cameron admitted that he felt as though Titanic would be unsuccessful.

Titanic was released across North America on December 19 1997. In its first weekend it grossed $28 million in ticket sales, but it was not until the new year that the film had reached $100 million. Titanic was number-one at the box office for four months and became the top-grossing film of all time. It generated $1.8 billion in worldwide ticket sales. In 1998 Cameron was awarded the Academy Award for "Best Picture".

[edit] Plot summary

The year is 1996, and a treasure hunter, Brock Lovett, and his team explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic in their submersible. A safe is brought to the surface and is opened. It contains not the fabled treasure the adventurers had hoped for, but only papers. One of them is a pencil portrait dated April 14, 1912, and signed "JD". It shows a beautiful young woman reclining nude with casual modesty on a couch. On a necklace around her is the treasure they seek: the diamond "The Heart of the Ocean".

Rose DeWitt Bukater, known as Rose Dawson Calvert, an ancient but still lively woman of almost 101 years, watches a CNN report of the treasure hunt and sees the nude portrait. She phones the treasure hunter Brock Lovett and informs him that she knows about the diamond, the Heart of the Ocean, and also the identity of the beautiful young woman in the portrait: "Oh, yes. The woman in the picture is me." Rose, accompanied by her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, flies out to the recovery site and proceeds to tell the treasure hunters of her experiences on the Titanic.

Rose, 17-years-old in April 1912, boards the ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, society matron Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, industrialist Caledon Hockley. While Rose merely considers Caledon as a friend but not a suitable husband, her uncaring mother pushes for the marriage for financial security, to maintain their current lavish lifestyle and bolster the social cachet among the Philadelphia elite. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a poker game.

Rose is so unhappy about her forced engagement and her endlessly shallow life that she attempts to commit suicide by jumping off the ship's stern. Jack sees her and tries to intervene. The ship's crew find the two sprawled over the deck; at first they think this is a rape, but Rose explains to them that it was an accident. Caledon thanks Jack by reluctantly inviting him to dine with their party the following evening in the first-class dining saloon. In the meantime, Jack and Rose strike up a tentative friendship as he shares stories of his adventures in traveling and she expresses her own hopes, and he shows her his sketchbook of artwork. Their bond deepens when they leave the first-class formal dinner party for a much livelier gathering in third-class room with Fabrizio and Tommy Ryan, a man Jack and Fabrizio befriended earlier.

Forbidden love between Jack and Rose

Jack is falling in love with Rose, but she is inclined to ignore their growing affection because of her engagement and social standings. Eventually, she decides to offer her heart to Jack and asks him to sketch her wearing nothing but the Heart of the Ocean diamond. Unfortunately, Rose foolishly writes a taunting note for Caledon and puts it in the diamond's safe along with the drawing and the diamond itself. They later consummate their relationship in one of the ship's cargo hold cars, after being pursued by Spicer Lovejoy, Caledon's valet.

In the meantime, Captain Edward J. Smith and his crew have been seemingly ignoring many warnings about upcoming ice fields in the ship's path, and the Titanic maintains the high speed suggested by White Star Line managing director J. Bruce Ismay even as the ship heads into the night. On the night of April 14 1912, the two lookouts see an iceberg directly in the Titanic's path. Despite the many efforts of the crew and engineers, the ship strikes the iceberg and water begins to flood the compartments past their "unsinkable" capacity and causes the ship to begin sinking.

After finding Rose's taunt note in the diamond safe, Caledon discovers the relationship between Jack and Rose and frames Jack for stealing his diamond when they try to warn him about the sinking ship. Caledon orders the Master-at-Arms to handcuff and trap Jack in a room. Even though she has a chance to escape the sinking ship with her mother on a lifeboat, Rose runs away from Caledon — and her chance of getting into a lifeboat — to find Jack. Mr. Andrews tells her how to reach the room Jack is trapped in, and when she reaches it, Jack tells her to go and get help. She finds two men in the area, but both are unhelpful. Finally, she grabs the fire axe and frees Jack by cutting the chains. They try desperately to make their way back above decks to escape the rapidly sinking ship. While making their way to the boat deck, they encounter a locked door, and destroy it to a naive steward's dismay. They then try to get to a stairwell, but they encounter a locked gate and a crowd of steerage passengers attempting to enter the second-class level, at the refusal of a steward. Jack and Rose leave the crowd, and work their way to a smaller gate, where they are reunited with Fabrizio and Tommy. The gate is locked and one of the ship's crew refuses to let them through. Jack and his friends use a bench to break through to the upper level. Finally, the group makes it up to the boat deck where Caledon is searching for Rose.

On deck, the ship's officers are not letting any men on the lifeboats, and Rose refuses to get into a lifeboat without Jack. As Fabrizio and Tommy go off to check the other side, Jack and Caledon, who has been spending all night trying to find Rose and board a lifeboat, temporarily team up to convince Rose to get into the lifeboat, which she does. While they were trying to convince her, Caledon gave his coat to Rose to keep her warm, forgetting that he had put the diamond in the pocket. As the lifeboat lowers away Rose realizes that she can't separate herself from Jack, and she jumps back on the ship, and she and Jack reunite on the Grand Staircase, with Caledon and Lovejoy nearby. Infuriated beyond belief, Caledon takes Lovejoy's pistol and chases Jack and Rose down the staircase, shooting at Jack. Caledon runs out of ammunition when Jack and Rose reach the dining room, which is quickly flooding. He chooses not to continue pursuing them when he notices the water level. Jack and Rose try to make their way to the boat deck again, during which they unsuccessfully attempt to rescue a young boy in a flooding hallway. They then get stuck behind another locked gate. A steward tries to open it, but he drops the keys and runs away. Jack grabs them and opens the gate himself, seconds before the hallway floods.

Meanwhile, Caledon has bribed his way into the last lifeboat, with Jack's friends, Tommy Ryan and Fabrizio De Rossi, trying to get into the boat themselves. First officer William McMaster Murdoch, the officer in charge of launching the boat, threatens to shoot any man who tries to get into the boat, allowing only women and children to get in. When Caledon tries to get in, he throws the bribe money back at him. The crowd pushes Tommy toward the boat and he is shot by Murdoch. When Murdoch realizes that he just killed an innocent man, he looks around in shock before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. Caledon enters the lifeboat by pretending to look after an abandoned child. The water reaches the boat deck, and the lifeboat floats off. Fabrizio is washed into the water and killed when one of the ship's smoke stacks topples over.

Jack and Rose finally make their way to the top deck, but Jack sees that the lifeboats are gone and they, along with 1,500 terrified passengers and crew, have no choice but to head aft and stay on the ship for as long as possible before the Titanic sinks completely into the water. When they make it to the back of the stern, the deck is becoming harder to walk on because of the tilt of the ship. People begin to jump overboard, trying to swim to the lifeboats, but most of them do not make it and end up dying in the freezing cold water. Eventually, the ship's tilt is so steep that anybody not holding onto anything (deck railing, benches, lifeboat davits, etc.) slides down the deck into the water. The stern of the ship rises higher and higher. In the electrical room, the breakers short circuit and the power in the ship goes out. Seconds later, the weight causes the ship to break in two. The two sections are still attached at the keel, however, and the bow, which by now is completely flooded, goes under and pulls the stern upright so it is at a 90 degree angle. Jack and Rose have made it to the very aft deck railing, at the "top" of the stern and ready themselves for the final plunge. Eventually, the ship begins its final descent and everyone is washed into the cold, icy waters of the North Atlantic.

Jack and Rose stick together and wait with the hundreds of other passengers thrashing helplessly in the water, shouting desperately for those in the lifeboats to row back to rescue them. By the time Officer Harold Lowe decides to row back and help those in need, almost all of the passengers have died of hypothermia.

Jack offers Rose a small wooden plank to float on which is not big enough for the both of them. Jack also asks Rose to swear that she will do all in her power to survive this disaster and lead a fulfilling life. Later, as the lifeboats return Rose is heartbroken to realize that Jack has succumbed to hypothermia and died. Momentarily she lays her head down, willing herself to die with him, before remembering her promise. She then manages to gain the lifeboat's attention to come back and rescue her. The survivors in the lifeboats wait for hours until the RMS Carpathia, the closest ship to answer and heed the Titanic's radio distress signals, arrives to save them. Upon arrival at New York City, Rose discovers that she still has the Heart of the Ocean tucked into the pocket of Caledon's coat.

As an old woman in 1996, Rose now goes onto the deck of the Keldysh (the salvage ship used by Lovett and his crew) and throws the Heart of the Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean where Jack died.

Back in Rose's room, the viewers sees pictures of her life's achievements, including a photograph of her riding a horse at the Santa Monica Pier, just as she and Jack had planned to do together. There is also a roller coaster in the background of this picture, another reference to the plans that she and Jack made. Rose lies in a bed nearby as the shot pans across her sleeping face into darkness.

Underwater, the decaying Titanic looms out of the darkness and fades into view. Suddenly the eroded carcass of the deck morphs slowly into the original state. A steward opens the doors from the promenade deck to the Grand Staircase, where all those who had died on the ship smile in greeting at Rose. At the top of the staircase stands Jack, facing the clock just as he had earlier in the movie as he waited for Rose to come belowdecks with him. Jack turns and smiles at Rose, a young girl of 17 again, who smiles back as he helps her up the last few steps. They kiss as the crowd applauds, and the frame fades to the closing credits.

[edit] A promise kept?

One of the biggest controversies in the film questions whether old Rose died or was dreaming at the end of the film. However, there is no publicly solidified answer. Cameron is quoted in his commentary toward the end of the film refusing to give away the ending as a way of keeping the film open-ended and exciting for the viewer:

Now, of course, the big ambiguity here is, 'Is she alive, and dreaming?', or 'Is she dead, and on her way to Titanic heaven, here?' And of course, I'll never tell. I mean, I know what we intended at the time. But that doesn't mean I have to go blurting it out. So, I know you've gone and bought this, you know, expensive special edition DVD, and you were, you know, hoping for the answer. But, the answer is, has to be something that you supply personally, individually.

The lyrics of the film's theme song "My Heart Will Go On" begins with "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you", which could indicate that Rose is asleep and is dreaming of Jack in the final scene.

However, it would also be in keeping with the script if Rose's long life finally ends, warm in her bed, having lived a fulfilling life, per Jack's promise.

[edit] Cast

Actor Role
Leonardo DiCaprio Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane Caledon Hockley
Frances Fisher Ruth DeWitt Bukater
Kathy Bates Margaret "Molly" Brown
Eric Braeden Colonel John Jacob Astor IV
David Warner Spicer Lovejoy
Martin Jarvis Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon
Rosalind Ayres Lady Lucille Duff Gordon
Danny Nucci Fabrizio De Rossi
Gloria Stuart Old Rose (Rose Dawson Calvert)
Victor Garber Thomas Andrews
Bernard Hill Captain Edward J. Smith
Jonathan Hyde J. Bruce Ismay
Bernard Fox Colonel Archibald Gracie
Jason Barry Tommy Ryan
Ewan Stewart First Officer William McMaster Murdoch
Jonathan Phillips Second Officer Charles Lightoller
Ioan Gruffudd Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
Michael Ensign Benjamin Guggenheim
James Lancaster Father Thomas Byles
Rochelle Rose Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes
Suzy Amis Lizzy Calvert
Bill Paxton Brock Lovett
Anatoly Sagalevitch Dr. Anatoly Milkailavich
Lewis Abernathy Lewis Bodine
Elsa Raven Ida Straus
Lew Palter Isidor Straus

[edit] Characters

[edit] Jack Dawson

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson

According to the script, Jack Dawson was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1892. When he was 15, his parents died and he started to travel the world by himself. His travels took him to many places, like Los Angeles and Paris. He was an artist who drew sketches for ten cents a piece; one of his favorite models was a one-legged French prostitute whom he drew nude. Jack and his friend Frabrizo De Rossi both won tickets from a poker game with two other people just before the RMS Titanic departed from Southampton, England.

[edit] Rose DeWitt Bukater (aka Rose Dawson Calvert)

A seventeen-year-old American socialite, Rose DeWitt Bukater is on a transatlantic journey aboard RMS Titanic, from Southampton to New York City to marry young business tycoon Caledon Hockley, a man she does not love, in order for her and her mother, society matron Ruth DeWitt Bukater, who does not care for Rose and only wants her to marry Hockley, to survive and regain their wealth and status again. As a token of his devotion, Caledon which is going to be her future husband presents her with a large diamond called "The Heart of the Ocean", which Rose sees as a symbol of her oppression. Feeling pushed into a marriage she does not want, and stifled by the restrictions of upper class society, she tries committing suicide by jumping off the back of the Titanic. However, a friendly young tramp, Jack Dawson, saves her, and eventually they fall deeply in love. She even lets him draw her whole body while nude, save for the diamond necklace around her neck.

[edit] Caledon Hockley

The son of American steel tycoon Nathan Hockley, Caledon Hockley is on the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic from Southampton, England, to New York City in order to marry his 17-year-old fiancée, Rose DeWitt Bukater. Rose does not want the marriage and only considers Hockley as a friend, but not a suitable husband. He either is oblivious to this or chooses to ignore it only for personal gain.

[edit] Spicer Lovejoy

Spicer Lovejoy is a former Pinkerton's detective who was the valet and bodyguard of Caledon Hockley, and accompanied him on the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic.

[edit] Ruth DeWitt Bukater

Ruth DeWitt Bukater is the mother of Rose DeWitt Bukater. Ruth is set on having Rose marry Caledon Hockley to regain her status in society and to ensure her and Rose's survial in the life to which she has grown accustomed. It seems that her late husband's unexpected death and unknown debts left them in financial ruin. Therefore Ruth, in order to ensure their survial, forces Rose into a loveless match with Caledon Hockley.

[edit] Old Rose DeWitt Bukater

Gloria Stuart as 101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater

Having survived the sinking, Rose lives the rest of her life doing the things that she and Jack talked about doing, like riding horses in Santa Monica, California and becoming a motion picture actress. Eventually, she marries and moves to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and starts a family. She later revealed that Caledon committed suicide after the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

In 1996, almost 101 years old and living with her granddaughter, Lizzy Calvert, the portrait Jack sketched of her is discovered in the wreck of RMS Titanic. After contacting the recovery crew, Rose is invited to go out to the scene, where a search has been underway for the Heart of the Ocean. Even though Rose already knows where the diamond is, she tells no one. After telling her fellow shipmates her Titanic story, she walks to the bow and drops the diamond overboard, to the late Jack Dawson, her true love.

[edit] Reception

[edit] Box office

The film received steady attendance after opening in North America on December 19 1997. By Sunday that same weekend, theatres were beginning to sell out. The film debuted with $28,638,131. By the new year Titanic had increased in popularity and theatres continued selling out; unusually, it took fifteen weeks for its weekly gross to decline 50%, the most for any film in the 1990s. By March 1998 it was the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide. The movie stayed in theatres for over 6 months.

Titanic holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time in the North American market with $600, 788, 188. The previous North American record of $460,998,000 was held by Star Wars (another 20th Century Fox film).<ref>Box Office - The New York Times</ref>. Titanic also holds the record for the highest-grossing movie of all time in the worldwide box office with $1.845 billion. The second place Return of the King is about $700 million short of Titanic's record. However, it will only placed sixth, if the ticket price is adjusted for inflation, in North America. Gone with the Wind would be the number one movie on this ranking<ref>[1]</ref>.

[edit] Criticism

Titanic received a great deal of negative advance publicity for its budget overruns and delayed release. When it was released, reviews were favorable. Roger Ebert said "It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding."<ref>Ebert, Roger: “Titanic”, Roger Ebert.com, December 19 1997.</ref> It was one of his top ten films of 1997 <ref>[2]</ref>.

James Berardinelli gave the film four stars out of four, placing it #2 of the year 1997 (behind The Sweet Hereafter). In his review he mentioned:

Cameron's flawless re-creation of the legendary ship has blurred the line between reality and illusion to such a degree that we can't be sure what's real and what isn't. To make this movie, it's as if Cameron built an all-new Titanic, let it sail, then sunk it... Titanic represents Cameron's most accomplished work to date. It's important not to let the running time hold you back -- those three-plus hours pass very quickly. Although this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.

Some reviewers felt that the story and dialogue were weak while the visuals were spectacular. Jeff Millar of the Houston Chronicle wrote, "When the ship does hit the berg, at the one-hour-and-45-minute point, we are immediately compensated for the padding in writer-director James Cameron's basic narrative — a shipboard romance."<ref>Millar, Jeff: “Jaw-dropping spectacle fills 'Titanic'”, Houston Chronicle, December 16 1997.</ref> Kenneth Turan's review in the LA Times was particularly scathing. Dismissing the emotive elements, he says "what really brings on the tears is Cameron's insistence that writing this kind of movie is within his abilities. Not only isn't it, it isn't even close."[citation needed] Barbara Shulgasser of San Francisco Examiner gave Titanic one star out of four, citing a friend as saying "the number of times in this unbelievably badly written script that the two [lead characters] refer to each other by name was an indication of just how dramatically the script lacked anything more interesting for the actors to say."[citation needed]

Nevertheless, the film garnered mostly positive reviews from the critics. It has been a "Certified Fresh" film on Rotten Tomatoes with 85% overall approval from critics and 80% from the users <ref>[3]</ref>. The film also received a 74 out 100 metascore on Metacritic, classified as a generally favorable reviewed film. The metacritic users also awarded it with a 7.4/10 average rating <ref>[4]</ref>.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Won

Titanic won Oscars in almost every category it was nominated in (14 nominations and 11 wins). It was the second movie to win that number (the first was Ben-Hur with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King matching the record in 2004). At the time, it was also the only movie in which two people playing the same person (Kate Winslet as Rose and Gloria Stuart as Old Rose) were both nominated for an award (coincidentally, the second film to do so, Iris, also starred Winslet). Cameron's screenplay received no nomination.

This was the second film distributed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox to win the Academy Award for "Best Picture" in three years. The other was Braveheart (1995).

[edit] Academy Awards

Award Person
Art Direction Peter Lamont
Michael Ford
Michael Foster
Cinematography Russell Carpenter
Costume Design Deborah Lynn Scott
Best Director James Cameron
Film Editing Conrad Buff IV
James Cameron
Richard A. Harris
Music (Original Dramatic Score) James Horner
Best Original Song for My Heart Will Go On James Horner
Will Jennings
Best Picture James Cameron
Jon Landau
Best Sound Gary Rydstrom
Tom Johnson
Gary Summers
Mark Ulano
Sound Effects Editing Tom Bellfort
Christopher Boyes
Visual Effects Robert Legato
Mark A. Lasoff
Thomas L. Fisher
Michael Kanfer
Nominated:
Best Actress in a Leading Role Kate Winslet
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Gloria Stuart
Best Makeup Tina Earnshaw
Greg Cannom
Simon Thompson

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: Titanic (soundtrack)
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  • Problems playing the files? See media help. </li> </ul> </div> </div> The soundtrack CD for Titanic was composed by James Horner and sold more than twenty-seven million copies, notable because it included only one pop song with lyrics. The soundtrack includes performances from the Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø, and the famous Canadian singer Céline Dion. It became a worldwide success, and led to the release of a second volume that contained a mixture of previously unreleased soundtrack recordings with newly-recorded performances of some of the songs in the film, including one track recorded by Enya's sister, Máire Brennan of the Irish band Clannad. "Hymn to the Sea" features Bad Haggis's Eric Rigler on the uilleann pipes and whistles. James Horner wrote the song "My Heart Will Go On" in secret with Will Jennings because Cameron did not want any songs with singing in the film. Dion agreed to record a demo with the persuasion of her husband René Angélil. Horner waited until Cameron was in an appropriate mood before presenting him with the song. After playing it several times, Cameron declared its approval, although worried that he would have been criticized for "going commercial at the end of the movie".<ref>Parisi, Paula (1998). Titanic and the Making of James Cameron. London: Orion, 195. ISBN 075281799.</ref>

    [edit] DVD

    Titanic was first released to DVD in 1999 in a widescreen-only (non-anamorphic) single disc edition with no special features. Cameron stated at the time that he intended to release a special edition with extra features at a later date. Six years later, on October 25, 2005, a special edition release finally occurred with a 3-DVD set in North America that included an anamorphic widescreen-only presentation of the movie divided onto two of the discs, 45 minutes of deleted scenes, an alternate ending, a faux 1912-style newsreel, a crew tribute/gag reel, and other features. An international two-disc and four-disc edition followed on November 7, 2005.

    [edit] Deleted scenes

    The 2005 Special Collector's Edition DVD included about 47 minutes worth of deleted scenes and also a 9 minute "Alternate Ending" that were cut from the film either for pacing [to shorten the film to a marketable running time] or for reasons James Cameron describes in his commentary as "tonal". Some of the deleted sequences are minor additions, while others are major scenes. The public were first made aware of these deleted scenes with the publication of 'TITANIC' Illustrated Screenplay in 1998 and a few of them were first shown in a Fox TV special "Breaking New Ground", and later Cameron incorporated some of the deleted scenes into his "Titanic Explorer" CD-ROM.

    [edit] Notes

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