Word: dicaprio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film's main character. The story of the ill-fated voyage is seen through the eyes of Rose (Gloria Stuart) who at the age of 100 tells her experiences to Titanic excavator Brock Lovell (Bill Paxton). Her story involves her romance with the impoverished passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio...
...director had busted budgets before (on The Abyss, Terminator II, True Lies). But his pictures have grossed more than $1 billion, all told. So Fox was moved at once to green-light his tale of young lovers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) who meet aboard the ill-fated ship. It's seen through the eyes of an elderly survivor of the 1912 disaster (Gloria Stuart), who recounts her ordeal to treasure hunters (led by Bill Paxton) seeking a jewel believed to be submerged in the wreck...
...Paramount president John Goldwyn called Fox to inquire if Paramount might step in. Paramount had teamed with Fox on Braveheart, Mel Gibson's epic, with the happiest of results: good box office, Oscars. Paramount's tough but charming chairman, Sherry Lansing, had concerns. Could a young star like DiCaprio carry a film this big? And the $100 million budget seemed low. But that Sunday afternoon, Fox executive Tom Rothman eloquently persuaded Lansing that Titanic would be an epic on a par with Doctor Zhivago or Gone With the Wind. The deal was done. Paramount would release the film...
Fine, Jim--build the damned ship, sink the damned ship. But in the 90 or so minutes before the iceberg slices open the starboard side, some compelling romantic fiction is in order. Here the film fails utterly. It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate...
...like, four lines, but he was totally believable and he was really good and at the end of the day, he was in Bullitt. He's in all these great movies because he doesn't do this kind of thing." The role later went to Leonardo DiCaprio...