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Titanic captured the harrowing journey with a mix of real and fictional characters, reigniting passion for the historical event. Characters like Jack, Rose, and Cal Hockley brought to life the drama and romance of the ill-fated voyage. Real figures like J. Bruce Ismay, Margaret Brown, and Thomas Andrews added depth to the story of the Titanic's tragic sinking.

The sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912 is displayed on screen in as Titanic perfectly captured the harrowing maiden journey of the world's most famous ocean liner through the compelling narratives of its passengers. The characters he positioned to tell his tale were comprised of both fictional and real historical figures, some of whom survived, and some of whom joined the 1,517 poor souls at the bottom of the ocean. The story followed the ill-fated romance of Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet), but a large ensemble filled out the movie's narrative.

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In James Cameron’s Titanic, as the ocean liner plunged deeper into the Atlantic’s icy waters, First Officer William Murdoch drew his gun. Passengers were pushing for spots in what few lifeboats the ship had to offer, and Murdoch was struggling to keep order. Panicked, he fired into the crowd. An Irish worker, Tommy Ryan, collapsed to the floor, cradled by a friend as he bled to death on the sinking deck. Realising the horror of what he’d done, Murdoch gave one last nautical salute to a nearby colleague before turning the gun on himself.

When the blockbuster hit cinemas in 1997, audiences lapped up this pulse-racing scene. Except, that is, in the small town of Dalbeattie,...

Titanic featured a variety of characters from both the first and third-class sides of the ship, and many of them can be spotted at the end of the movie when Rose (Kate Winslet) returns to the Titanic in what is understood to be her version of heaven. In 1997, James Cameron brought the disaster drama movie Titanic, which at the time became the most expensive movie ever made and with good reason, as Cameron paid attention to every single detail while recreating the Titanic and telling the stories of Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet).

Taking the real-life sinking of the Rms Titanic as inspiration, Titanic tells the fictional love story of Jack and Rose and how they defended their romance from those who looked down on them, and along the way, they met and interacted with different characters from both first and third-class. At the end of Titanic,...

After winning 11 Academy Awards, including 'Best Picture,' and becoming the first movie to pass the $1 billion mark at the worldwide Box Office (via Variety), Titanic is one of the most successful movies of all time. Even with the movie being over 20 years old, many fans always enjoy revisiting the movie since it had a compelling love story in Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose's (Kate Winslet) and a lot of authentic performances from the actors too.

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Many cinephiles will also agree that there are a lot of memorable quotes in Titanic that had a huge impact. Although not all of them have ended up in the American Film Institute's "100 Greatest Movie Quotes Of All Time," there are certainly a few of them that should be in contention since they were quite significant to the story and easy to remember.