泰坦尼克号电影英文ppt

⑴ 泰坦尼克号电影的英文介绍

On April 10, 1912, the luxury liner Titanic, known as the "miracle in the history of world instry", embarked on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York, USA.

1912年4月10日，号称“世界工业史上的奇迹”的豪华客轮泰坦尼克号开始了自己的处女航，从英国的南安普顿出发驶往美国纽约。

Rich girl Rose (Kate Winslet) was in first class with her mother and fianc Karl; on the other hand, Bohemian young painter Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) won second class tickets in a gamble at the dock.

影片以1912年泰坦尼克号邮轮在其处女启航时触礁冰山而沉没的事件为背景，讲述了处于不同阶层的两个人穷画家杰克和贵族女露丝抛弃世俗的偏见坠入爱河，最终杰克把生命的机会让给了露丝的感人故事。

⑵ 泰坦尼克英文简介

RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that collided with an iceberg and sank in 1912. The second of a trio of superliners, she and her sisters, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, were designed to provide a three-ship weekly express service and dominate the transatlantic travel business for the White Star Line.[1] Built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her sinking. During Titanic's maiden voyage (from Southampton, England; to Cherbourg, France; Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland; then New York), she struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hours and forty minutes later, after breaking into two pieces, at 2:20 a.m. Monday morning April 15.

英国皇家邮轮泰坦尼克号(RMS Titanic)是奥林匹克级邮轮的第二艘邮轮。20世纪初，由英国白星航运公司（White Star Line）制造的一艘巨大豪华客轮。由位于爱尔兰贝尔法斯特（Belfast）的哈兰德与沃尔夫（Harland and Wolff）造船厂兴建。是当时世界上最大的豪华客轮，被称为是“永不沉没的客轮”或是“梦幻客轮”。与姐妹船 奥林匹克号（RMS Olympic）和 不列颠尼克号（HMHS Britannic）一道为英国白星航运公司的乘客们提供快速且舒适的跨大西洋旅行。泰坦尼克号是同级的三艘超级邮船中的第二艘。1912年4月10日，泰坦尼克号从英国南安普敦（Southampton）出发，途经法国 瑟堡-奥克特维尔（Cherbourg-Octeville）以及爱尔兰 昆士敦（Queenstown），计划中的目的地为美国 纽约（New York），开始了这艘“梦幻客轮”的处女航。4月14日晚11点40分，泰坦尼克号在北大西洋撞上冰山，两小时四十分钟后，4月15日凌晨2点20分沉没.

⑶ 泰坦尼克电影 英文简介

Titanic is a romantic film proced by 20th century fox pictures and Paramount pictures.

（《泰坦尼克号》是美国二十世纪福斯电影公司、派拉蒙影业公司出品爱情片。）

Directed by James Cameron and starring leonardo dicaprio and Kate winslet.

（由詹姆斯·卡梅隆执导，莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥、凯特·温斯莱特领衔主演。）

The film is set in 1912 when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage.

（影片以1912年泰坦尼克号邮轮在其处女启航时触礁冰山而沉没的事件为背景。）

It tells the story of two people from different classes, jack and Ruth, who abandon their worldly prejudices and fall in love.

（讲述了处于不同阶层的两个人穷画家杰克和贵族女露丝抛弃世俗的偏见坠入爱河。）

Jack finally gives up his life to Ruth's touching story.

（最终杰克把生命的机会让给了露丝的感人故事。）

(3)泰坦尼克号电影英文ppt扩展阅读

《泰坦尼克号》剧情介绍：1912年4月10日，号称 “世界工业史上的奇迹”的豪华客轮泰坦尼克号开始了自己的处女航，从英国的南安普顿出发驶往美国纽约。

富家少女罗丝（凯特•温丝莱特）与母亲及未婚夫卡尔坐上了头等舱；另一边，放荡不羁的少年画家杰克（莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥）也在码头的一场赌博中赢得了下等舱的船票。

罗丝厌倦了上流社会虚伪的生活，不愿嫁给卡尔，打算投海自尽，被杰克救起。很快，美丽活泼的罗丝与英俊开朗的杰克相爱，杰克带罗丝参加下等舱的舞会、为她画像，二人的感情逐渐升温。

1912年4月14日，星期天晚上，一个风平浪静的夜晚。泰坦尼克号撞上了冰山，“永不沉没的”泰坦尼克号面临沉船的命运，罗丝和杰克刚萌芽的爱情也将经历生死的考验。

⑷ 泰坦尼克号 英文简介（急求）

◎译 名 泰坦尼克号/铁达尼号
◎片 名 Titanic
◎年 代 1997
◎国 家 美国
◎类 别 剧情/爱情
◎语 言 英语/公映国配/导演评论/演员评论/历史学家评论
◎字 幕 外挂中文/英文/导评中字/演评中字/学家评论中字
◎IMDB评分 7.0/10 (101,437 votes)
◎IMDB链接 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338
◎文件格式 X264 + AC3
◎视频尺寸 704*304
◎文件大小 4CD 4 x 49 x 15MB
◎片 长 194 Min
◎导 演 詹姆斯·卡梅隆 James Cameron
◎主 演 莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥 Leonardo DiCaprio .... Jack Dawson
凯特·温斯莱特 Kate Winslet .... Rose DeWitt Bukater
比利·泽纳 Billy Zane .... Caledon 'Cal' Hockley
凯茜·贝茨 Kathy Bates .... Margaret 'Molly' Brown
比尔·帕克斯顿 Bill Paxton .... Brock Lovett
弗朗西斯·费舍尔 Frances Fisher .... Ruth DeWitt Bukater

影片剧情：
英文简短剧情：
Its name stirs the imagination... Titanic. The unsinkable ship. The unimaginable catastrophe. The untold stories that lay in mystery two and a half miles beneath the waves of the North Atlantic. What buried tale of love, bravery, treasure and treachery, hidden by time and tragedy, waits here to be discovered? A beautiful socialite. A penniless artist. A priceless diamond. A romance so passionate that nothing on earth could stop it. A destiny so incredible that no one could have imagined it. A collision of lives that could only have happened on Titanic, the ship of dreams. The secrets are about to unfold...

中文剧情：
为了寻找1912年在大西洋沉没的泰坦尼克号和船上的珍贵财宝－价值连城的“海洋之心”，寻宝探险家布洛克从沉船上打捞起一个锈迹斑斑的保险柜，不料其中只有一幅保存完好的素描－一位佩戴着钻石项链的年轻女子。这则电视新闻引起了一位百岁老妇人的注意,老人激动不已，随即乘直升飞机赶到布洛克的打捞船上。原来她名叫罗丝道森，正是画像上的女子。
看着画像，往事一幕幕重新浮现在老人的眼前：1912年4月12日，准备首航的泰坦尼克号停泊在港口，码头上人山人海，争相目睹人类有史以来最庞大、最豪华的轮船。罗丝，一位美丽漂亮而又不乏气质的贵族小姐与她的母亲及未婚夫－钢铁大王之子卡尔霍利一同登上了头等舱。与此同时，影片的另一位主人公－年轻的流浪画家杰克道森靠赌博幸运地赢到了三等舱的船票，高喊着“我们是世界上最幸运...”的他在最后一刻登上了巨轮。泰坦尼克号启航了，早春的大西洋上风和日丽，碧波万里，杰克和他的伙伴站在船头眺望前方，高声欢呼，兴奋不已，仿佛此时世界已属于他们。
罗丝在上层社会的交际圈中生活，早已厌倦了贵族们的无聊谈话，感觉自己无异于笼中之鸟，她愁眉不展地来到甲板上眺望远方，排遣愁情。杰克一看到罗丝，就被她的气质所深深吸引。夜幕降临，又一场灯红酒绿之后，罗丝对未来和婚姻感到万分无奈；她冲向甲板，试图跳入大海结束一生。杰克及时发现并且在关键时刻以自己的真诚和独到的幽默说服了罗丝。尽管卡尔很不情愿，但为答谢杰克的救妻之恩，他只好邀请杰克到头等舱里进餐。卡尔本想借机寒碜杰克一番，没想到杰克在餐桌前的坦诚之言竟博得满堂喝彩。杰克和罗丝两人从此相识并开始了解对方，罗丝向杰克吐露心中郁闷："我觉得这一生不外如此，就象已经活了一辈子似的。无数的宴会、舞会、游艇赛、马球赛，能接触到的都是思想狭隘、有口无心的人。我感觉就象站在悬崖边，没人拉我回来，没人关心，甚至无人理会。”在杰克的开导和陪伴下，罗丝找回了失去已久的快乐，灿烂的笑容终于重新洋溢在她的脸庞。
罗丝的未婚夫卡尔发现了杰克和罗丝的来往之后，心中十分不快，他送给罗丝一条价值连城的钻石项链“海洋之心”，并对她表白了自己的心迹意图博得罗丝的欢心。然而在罗丝的眼里，卡尔只是一个十足的势利小人，她从心底里不愿嫁给他。可是在母亲与未婚夫的压力之下，罗丝不得不有意回避杰克的感情，可正因为这样罗丝才意识到自己已经深深的爱上了杰克。
从相知到相爱，虽然只是短短几天时间，罗丝和杰克已经无法分开。在卧室中，罗丝戴上了“海洋之心”，由杰克绘出了那张令她永生难忘的画像。罗丝决定无视家庭和礼数的压力在泰坦尼克号靠岸后与杰克一起生活，幸福似乎距离这对情侣仅咫尺之遥。
白星航运公司经理布鲁斯伊斯梅为了让泰坦尼克号创造横跨大西洋的最快纪录，不顾潜在的冰山威胁暗示船长史密斯提高船速。14日夜晚，海面出奇的平静，泰坦尼克号仍然全速行驶。了望台发现正前方的冰山后立刻通知了驾驶舱和大副，可是惯性极大的轮船已来不及躲避, 船身右侧被冰山割裂，六个舱室进水。号称永不沉没的泰坦尼克号将在两小时内沉没。而此时船上的救生艇只够一半乘客使用，船上陷入一片恐慌。
不料，这时杰克却被霍利以偷窃钻石之名栽赃陷害，并被关在下层船舱。不明真相的罗丝随众人一起在甲板上等候救生艇，可她终究还是相信杰克是无辜的。罗丝不顾一切回到空无一人的船舱寻找杰克，并在紧要关头找来救生斧救出他。两人来到甲板，罗丝在杰克的劝说下上了救生艇。救生艇徐徐放下，罗丝神情恍惚，突然她放弃了也许是最后的逃生机会跳回泰坦尼克号，这对情侣紧紧地拥抱在一起。
“梦幻之船”泰坦尼克号开始缓缓下沉，一幕悲剧开始上演。漆黑的海洋和天空连成一片，无情的吞噬着绝望的乘客。杰克带着罗丝跑到船尾，爬上栏杆（也就是他们爱情开始的地方）坚持到最后，直到泰坦尼克号沉没。两人全力挣扎出巨大的漩涡之后，杰克将罗丝推上一块漂浮木板，自己却浸泡在冰冷的海水中。
几个小时之后，救援船返回救起了奄奄一息的罗丝，而此时早已冻僵的杰克却被冰海无情的吞没。罗丝信守对杰克许下的诺言，勇敢地活着。
八十四年后，罗丝又来到泰坦尼克号沉没的地方，将“海洋之心”抛入海中，以告杰克在天之灵……

⑸ 用英文介绍泰坦尼克号

英文：

April14,1912,acalmnight,notevenabitofwind.Iftherewereany,..3knotsacrossthedark,icysurfaceoftheocean.ficefrommanyshipsnearby.

Itwasawarmwinter,.(,whodidnotenponboard),.

Itwas23o'clockandthatmanFrederickfry,whowasfoundtosurvive,foundadarkphotoofa"twotable".."there'sanicebergrightahead!".,moody,informedtheonenexttomurdoch.

:"allenginesslowdown!!!Reversepropellerno.3.'sstarboardside..Just37secondslater,.

中文：

1912年4月14日，一个平静的夜晚，没有一丝风。如果有的话，船员们会发现海浪拍打着冰山一角。泰坦尼克号以22.3节的极快速度穿过黑暗冰冷的海面。史密斯船长接到附近许多船只的冰块报告后，命令守望者仔细观察。

这是一个温暖的冬天，冰山比平常南漂更远。但泰坦尼克号上的船员找不到双筒望远镜，英文唯一的双筒望远镜是由第二名警官锁在柜子里的，而那位保管柜子钥匙的二副最后并没有上船，值班人员不得不用肉眼观察。

当时是23点40分，了望员弗雷德里克·弗利特发现在远处有一张“两张桌子”的深色照片，照片很快就变高了。他从桥上敲了三下，抢过了电话。“前面有一座冰山!”。接电话的六副穆迪，通知了旁边的人默多克。

默多克立即下令开火:“所有引擎减速!”，螺旋桨反向。仅仅过了37秒，了望员就发现冰山撞到了船的右舷。大副随即下令左满舵、全船推进器紧急倒退二个指令。后来证实第一个命令是一个致命的错误，就在他下令37秒后，泰坦尼克号因为太大，速度太快，无法停下来而撞上冰山。

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1912年4月10日，世界最大的客运轮船“泰坦尼克号”从英国南安普顿出发，开始了它的首航。“快乐的乘客根本没有意识到，他们刚刚登上了一座浮动的坟墓。”四天后，号称“永不沉没”的巨轮撞上冰山，沉入大西洋，1500多人葬身海底。

1997年，电影《泰坦尼克号》再现了这段和平时期最大的海难。它讲述了美丽优雅的落魄贵族小姐在“永不沉没”的巨轮泰坦尼克号上，穷帅小伙杰克拯救了原本对生活失去了希望的露丝，在两人光速相爱感觉找到了灵魂伴侣的时候船沉了，杰克把唯一一块救生的木板让给了露丝并让她连同自己的那份一起好好活下去的故事。

⑹ 泰坦尼克号简单故事叙述英语

泰坦尼克号故事英文：

On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, known as a miracle in the history of world instry, sailed from Southampton, England, to New York, USA. Rose, a wealthy girl, boarded the ship with her mother and fiance Carl. On the other hand, Jack, an unruly young painter, won the ticket by a gamble on the dock. Rose had long known that Carl was a snobbish who was unwilling to marry from the bottom of her heart. He even planned to throw himself into the sea.

At the critical moment, Jack hugged Rose, a young girl, and the two young people met. To alleviate the sadness in the girl's heart, Jack and Rose constantly find the joy of life. Soon, Rose, beautiful and lively, fell in love with Jack, who was handsome and cheerful. Rose took off her clothes and put on the necklace Carl had given her, so that Jack could paint her as a witness of their love. When they had sex, the Titanic hit an iceberg.

The terrible tragedy happened. The Titanic was in chaos. In crisis, the goodness and ugliness, nobility and inferiority in human nature were more distinct. Jack gave his lover Rose the chance to survive, and he was frozen to death in the ice. After the old-fashioned Rose talked about this sad love, she sank the valuable jewelry into the bottom of the sea and let it sleep with Jack and the love for a long time.

泰坦尼克号故事中文：

1912年4月10日，被称为世界工业史上的奇迹的泰坦尼克号从英国的南安普顿出发驶往美国纽约，富家少女罗丝与母亲及未婚夫卡尔一道上船，另一边，不羁的少年画家杰克靠在码头上的一场赌博赢到了船票，罗丝早就看出卡尔是个十足的势利小人，从心底里不愿嫁给他，甚至打算投海自尽。

关键时刻，杰克一把抱住了少女罗丝，两个年轻人由此相识。为排解少女心中的忧愁，杰克带罗丝不断发现生活的快乐之处。很快，美丽活泼的罗丝与英俊开朗的杰克相爱了，罗丝脱下衣服，戴上卡尔送她的项链，让杰克为她画像，以此作为他们爱情的见证。当他俩做爱时，泰坦尼克号撞上了冰山。

惨绝人寰的悲剧发生了，泰坦尼克号上一片混乱，在危急之中，人类本性中的善良与丑恶、高贵与卑劣更加分明。杰克把生存的机会让给了爱人罗丝，自己则在冰海中被冻死。老态龙钟的罗丝讲完这段哀恸天地的爱情之后，把那串价值连城的珠宝沉入海底，让它陪着杰克和这段爱情长眠海底。

(6)泰坦尼克号电影英文ppt扩展阅读：

泰坦尼克号创作背景：

《泰坦尼克号》3D版本工程浩大，不论是时间还是成本，在规格上都堪比制作一部新电影。詹姆斯·卡梅隆参与了每一帧画面的转制过程，有300位计算机工程师为此辛苦了逾60周。

他们要画出每一个物体和每个角色脸部的轮廓，放进正确的深度位置，并且通过非常精巧的处理让这些效果完全融入并不留痕迹。因原版《泰坦尼克号》没有数字母带，所以转制3D从修复开始，先清理掉原来2D素材的噪点，尽量让影片像全新的。

团队在搭建人工湖、摄影棚的同时，泰坦尼克号巨大的船体模型也在艺术总监Charles
Lee的带领下建造着。一开始团队打算用临时的帆布来搭建这些场景，但是考虑到拍摄周期将会很长，最后决定使用钢结构。

为了进度，船上的布景建设必须同时进行。还有大部分的内部设施，舱餐厅、那个豪华楼梯等都是在墨西哥城制作完成，再拆开运到罗萨里托，再由工作人员装配起来 。

参考资料来源：网络—泰坦尼克号

⑺ 泰坦尼克的英文简介

"Titanic" is USA twentieth Century Fawkes and Paramount Pictures co financed, photographed in 1994 an epic romantic disaster movie,written by James Cameron, editing, proction, director and procer, Hollywood actor Leonardo Dicaprio, starring Kate Winsleet.In the 1912 film Titanic cruise ship set sail in the virgin of the rocks an iceberg and sank events as the background, describes in thedifferent segments of the two people -- poor painter Jack and noble women abandon Ruth crashed into the secular bias in love, Jack finally put the life of opportunity to give Ruth's story. The filmpremiered in Tokyo in November 1, 1997.
The film premiered at the global box office of more than $1800000000 between 1997 and 2010, is the highest grossing film,and won the seventieth Oscar Award for best film, best director award11 prizes. "Titanic" was released again in April 4, 2012 to 3D version,commemorating the 100 anniversary of the Titanic disaster, 3Dedition after the release China box office is 987000000 yuan, the North American box office of $57000000, $344000000 in global box office, has grossed $2187000000.

《泰坦尼克号》是美国20世纪福克斯公司和派拉蒙影业公司共同出资，于1994年拍摄的一部史诗浪漫的灾难电影，由詹姆斯·卡梅隆创作、编辑、制作、导演及监制，好莱坞演员莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥、凯特·温斯莱特主演。影片以1912年泰坦尼克号邮轮在其处女启航时触礁冰山而沉没的事件为背景，描述了处于不同阶层的两个人——穷画家杰克和贵族女露丝抛弃世俗的偏见坠入爱河，最终杰克把生命的机会让给了露丝的感人故事。影片于1997年11月1日在东京首映。
该片上映全球票房超过18亿美元，是1997年至2010年间票房最高的电影，并获得第70届奥斯卡金像奖最佳影片、最佳导演奖等11项奖。《泰坦尼克号》在2012年4月4日以3D版形式再度上映，纪念泰坦尼克号沉船事件100周年，3D版上映后中国票房是9.87亿元，北美票房5700万美元，全球票房3.44亿美元，总票房已达到21.87亿美元。

⑻ 跪求泰坦尼克号电影情节英文介绍

84 years later a 100-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukator tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Cal Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

After winning a trip on the RMS Titanic ring a dockside card game, American Jack Dawson spots the society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater who is on her way to Philadelphia to marry her rich snob fiancé Cal Hockley. Rose feels helplessly trapped by her situation and makes her way to the aft deck and thinks of suicide until she is rescued by Jack. Cal is therefore obliged to invite Jack to dine at their first-class table where he suffers through the slights of his snobbish hosts. In return, he spirits Rose off to third class for an evening of dancing, giving her the time of her life. Deciding to forsake her intended future all together, Rose asks Jack, who has made his living making sketches on the streets of Paris, to draw her in the nude wearing the invaluable blue diamond Cal has given her. Cal finds out and has Jack locked away. Soon after wards, the ship hits an iceberg and Rose must find Jack while both must run from Cal even as the ship sinks deeper into the freezing water.

Deep-sea explorer Brock Lovett has reached the most famous shipwreck of all - the Titanic. Emerging with a safe believed to contain a diamond called 'The Heart of the Ocean', he discovers the safe does not hold the diamond but a drawing of a beautiful woman wearing it. When Brock is later interviewed on TV, he shows the drawing to the cameras, and a 100-year-old woman named Rose Calvert living in Michigan recognizes the woman in the drawing - herself! On a visit to Brock's explorer ship over the wreck, Rose tells her story of the Titanic and its ill-fated voyage. Engaged to a would-be steel magnate, Caledon Hockley, she boards the Titanic's first-class suites with him & her mother in Southampton. Also boarding are Jack Dawson & his friend Fabrizio, after a lucky poker game wins them tickets in steerage. When Rose attempts suicide by jumping off the stern in 3rd class, Jack pulls her back onto the ship...and a bond is forged between them as Jack is invited by her into 1st-class the following day. Rose's mother & Cal Hockley try desperate measures to keep them apart. But that strategy goes out the window when the Titanic collides with an iceberg, and e to a design flaw begins to sink - despite being proclaimed 'unsinkable'. Now Rose & Jack must fight to stay alive, but is young Jack already doomed because of his lower status as a steerage passenger?

Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn't see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20's, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

Beginning with genuine footage of the departure of the Titanic on its fateful voyage, this epic movie tells the events of that tragic night from the perspective of fictional survivor Rose. As an old lady of 100 she recounts her story of ty, love and disaster to a salvage crew searching for a lost gem.

⑼ 《泰坦尼克号》英文简介

Plot Summary

On April 15th, 1912, the Titanic, the largest and most luxurious passenger ship built
until that time, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean while on its maiden voyage
from Southhampton, England to New York City. 1,517 of the ship’s 2,207 passengers died
when the great ship---which was generally thought to be unsinkable---went down to the
bottom of the ocean floor just two hours after striking the iceberg. Among the dead
were some of the richest people alive, but in fact the majority of those who died
were relatively poor people who were trapped in the bottom of the ship, in what was
called the ‘steerage’ quarters.

This film tells the story of that tragic event from the point of view of Rose, a 100 year
old woman who survived the sinking, and is now looking back at what happened, 85 years
later. This happens because one day, Rose recognizes a painting of herself that was being
shown on TV, after it had been recovered by a group of undersea explorers who were filming
the remainsof the Titanic on the ocean bottom. After she sees her portrait, she and
her granddaughter contact Brock, the leader of the exploration ship, so that she can tell
him the story of her amazing adventure.

At the time of the sinking, Rose was a charming but spoiled 17 year old woman who was
sailing back to America in order to get married to Cal Hockley, a rich, arrogant and
truly disagreeable businessman who was going to eventually inherit millions of dollars.
Rose was desperate to avoid this fate, but she was being pushed to do so by her mother, a
snobby woman who had recently discovered that her recently deceased husband had left her
and Rose without any money, despite their rich family name.

In a moment of great depression, Rose considers jumping off the Titanic, but is convinced
not to do so by Jack Dawson, a charming young artist who travels around the world, painting
the people that he sees. Jack has no money and is clearly not from the same social class as
Rose or Cal, but over the next couple days, they quickly fall in love, which obviously does
not please either Cal or Rose’s mother. Yet for Rose herself, meeting Jack is probably the
best thing that would ever happen to her, for ring the course of their two short
days together, Jack saves her "in every way that a person can be saved."

A Brief Note on the Titanic and Social Class: While the plot is focused on the love
story between Jack and Rose, this film often explores the role of social class in the
lives of the indivial characters. Indeed, in real life, the passengers on the Titanic
were clearly divided along class lines, and thus when the ship sunk, few of the survivors
were from 3rd class steerage, which was where the poorer passengers stayed, on the lowest
levels of the ship.