He brought in a fine cast to support his vision, including Leonardo Di Caprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, Billy Zane as Cal Hockley, Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater, Gloria Stuart as the older Rose, Kathy Bates as the Unsinkable Margaret “Molly” Brown, Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews, Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett, David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy, and Danny Nucci as Fabrizio De Rossi.Ĭameron’s vision, offering a love story and intimate portraits of the many people who lost their lives or survived the sinking, added a human dimension to the tragic backdrop of the Titanic voyage. He was provided with the largest budget ever for a film at that time – $200 million – and took it upon himself to do what had never been done before to produce, direct, write and edit a film. They bought his idea given his resume of directorial success, as they wanted to secure him for future projects. He pitched his story to 20th Century Fox executives as ‘Romeo and Juliet on the Titanic’. He believed that telling the story of the sinking of the great ship in and of itself was insufficient, so the addition of a love story as well as an intimate exploration of the lives of the people who died would add a compelling narrative to the tale. James Cameron had long been fascinated with shipwrecks and conceived to write a love story set on the greatest shipwreck of all time – the RMS Titanic.
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