Titanic

TITANIC was released in December 1997 and starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater.

The movie is based on the MS Titanic that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. The ship struck an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

According to Wikipedia.org, of the estimated 2 224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1 500 died – making the sinking at the time one of the deadliest of a single ship.

In the movie, DiCaprio and Winslet are members of different social classes. They meet and fall in love.

The site also reported that James Cameron, the director of the movie, drew inspiration for the film from his fascination with shipwrecks.

He felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster.

According to the list of the Top 100 film quotations in American cinema, compiled in 2005, Titanic ranked 100th for Jack Dawson’s yell of “I’m the king of the world.”

Wikipedia.org also reported that the movie was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, for the most Oscar nominations, and won 11, including the awards for best picture and best director.

With an initial worldwide gross of

more than $1.84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. It remained the highest-grossing film until Cameron’s Avatar surpassed it in 2010.

Where are they now?

DiCaprio, 46, has had a successful career. He won Academy Awards for The Aviator, Blood Diamond, The Wolf of Wall Street

and The Revenant.

He is currently working on the movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, which is set to be released later this year.

The movie is about members of the Osage tribe in the US who are killed under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking an FBI investigation.

Winslet, 45, has won an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.

She is currently working on the movie, The French Dispatch, to be released this year.

Winslet founded the Golden Hat Foundation, an NPO, with Margaret Ericsdottir.

They met while Winslet was filming the documentary, A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism, which focused on Ericsdottir’s son Keli Thorsteinsson, who is autistic and non-verbal.

The aim of the organisation is to change the way people with autism are perceived.