Titanic (1997 film)
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Titanic is a 1997 film released by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. The film is about Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, two young lovers aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage in 1912. It won eleven Academy Awards, including best picture for 1997.
- Written and directed by James Cameron.
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[edit] Jack Dawson
- I'm the king of the world!
[edit] Old Rose
- [looks at a salvaged mirror] This was mine. How extraordinary! And it looks the same as it did the last time I saw it. The reflection has changed a bit.
- It was the ship of dreams to everyone else. To me, it was a slave ship taking me back to America in chains. Outwardly, I was everything a well-brought up girl should be. Inside, I was screaming.
- I saw my whole life as if I already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared or even noticed.
- Fifteen hundred people went into the sea when Titanic sank from under us. There were twenty boats floating nearby and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six... out of fifteen hundred. Afterward, the seven hundred people in the boats had nothing to do but wait. Wait to die, wait to live, wait for an absolution that would never come.
[edit] Others
- Benjamin Guggenheim: [after being offered a lifebelt] No, thank you. We are dressed in our best, and are prepared to go down as gentlemen. But we would like a brandy.
- Wallace Hartley: Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.
[edit] Dialogue
- Brock Lovett: Louis XVI wore a fabulous stone that was called the Blue Diamond of the Crown, which disappeared in 1792, about the same time old Louis lost everything from the neck up. The theory goes that the crown diamond was chopped too... recut into a heart-like shape that became known as the Heart of the Ocean. Today it would be worth more than the Hope Diamond.
- Old Rose: It was a dreadful, heavy thing. I only wore it this once.
- Lizzy Calvert: [looking at Rose's drawing] You actually believe this is you, nana?
- Old Rose: It is me, dear. Wasn't I a dish?
- Old Rose: It's been 84 years...
- Brock Lovett: It's okay. Just try to remember anything. Anything at all.
- Old Rose: Do you want to hear this or not, Mr. Lovett? It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: I don't see what all the fuss is about. It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauretania.
- Caledon Hockley: You can be blasé about some things, Rose, but not about Titanic. It's over a hundred feet longer than the Mauritania and far more luxurious. Your daughter is far too difficult to impress, Ruth.
- Ruth DeWitt Bukater: So this is the ship they say is unsinkable.
- Caledon Hockley: It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship.
- Molly Brown: Hey, uh, who thought of the name Titanic? Was it you, Bruce?
- J. Bruce Ismay: Yes, actually. I want to convey sheer size; and size means stability, luxury and, above all, strength.
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: Do you know of Dr. Freud, Mr Ismay? His ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to you.
- [Molly Brown and Thomas Andrews chuckle.]
- Ruth DeWitt Bukater: [whispering] What's gotten into you?
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: Excuse me. [rises and leaves]
- Ruth DeWitt Bukater: I do apologize.
- Molly Brown: She's a pistol, Cal. Hope you can handle her.
- Caledon Hockley: Well, I may have to start minding what she reads from now on, won't I, Mrs. Brown?
- J. Bruce Ismay: Freud? Who is he? Is he a passenger?
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: Look, I know what you must be thinking. "Poor little rich girl, what does she know about misery?"
- Jack Dawson: No! No, that's not what I was thinking. What I was thinking was, "What could've happened to this girl to make her think she had no way out?"
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: It was everything. It was my whole world and all the people in it, and the inertia of my life. Plunging ahead and me powerless to stop it. [shows Jack her engagement ring]
- Jack Dawson: God, look at that thing! You would've gone straight to the bottom.
- J. Bruce Ismay: So you've not yet lit the last four boilers?
- Captain Edward Smith: No, I don't see the need. We are making excellent time.
- J. Bruce Ismay: The press knows the size of Titanic. Now I want them to marvel at her speed, too. We must give them something new to print. This maiden voyage of Titanic must make headlines!
- Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Tell us about the accommodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson. I hear they are quite good on this ship.
- Jack Dawson: The best I've seen, ma'am. Hardly any rats.
- [Rose is on top of a door in the water and Jack is hanging off the side, shivering.]
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: It's getting quiet.
- Jack Dawson: It's gonna take a couple of minutes to get the boats organized. I don't know about you, but I intend to go write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all this.
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: I love you, Jack.
- Jack Dawson: Don't you do that. Don't you say your good-byes. Not yet, do you understand me?
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'm so cold.
- Jack Dawson: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on, and you're gonna make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: I can't feel my body.
- Jack Dawson: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor. You must promise me that you'll survive, that you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: I promise.
- Jack Dawson: Never let go.
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go.
- [As the Carpathia arrives in New York, Rose stands in the rain, staring at the Statue of Liberty.]
- Carpathia Steward: Can I take your name, please, love?
- Rose DeWitt Bukater: Dawson. Rose Dawson.
- Carpathia Steward: Thank you.
- [The scene returns to the present day.]
- Old Rose: Can you exchange one life for another? A caterpillar turns into a butterfly. If a mindless insect can do it, why couldn't I? Was it any more unimaginable than the sinking of the Titanic?
- Lewis Bodine: We never found anything on Jack. There's no record of him at all.
- Old Rose: No, there wouldn't be, would there? And I've never spoken of him until now. Not to anyone. Not even your grandfather. A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.
[edit] Taglines
- Collide with Destiny.
- Nothing on Earth could come between them.
[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 |
| Gloria Stuart | Old Rose (Rose Dawson Calvert) |
| Bernard Hill | Captain Edward J. Smith |
| Jonathan Hyde | J. Bruce Ismay |
| Victor Garber | Thomas Andrews |
| David Warner | Spicer Lovejoy |
| Danny Nucci | Fabrizio De Rossi |
| Suzy Amis | Lizzy Calvert |
| Bernard Fox | Colonel Archbald Gracie |
| Bill Paxton | Brock Lovett |
| Eric Braeden | Colonel John Jacob Astor IV |
| Ewan Stewart | First Officer William Murdoch |
| Ioan Gruffudd | Fifth Officer Harold Lowe |
[edit] See also
- A Night to Remember, a 1958 film retelling of the Titanic tragedy.
- Titanic: A New Musical, a 1997 musical telling of the Titanic's maiden voyage, but being more focused on the crew, passengers, and E.J. Smith, J. Bruce Ismay, and Thomas Andrews (it is a complete far cry from the film, which released the same year as the musical).
