Titanic

James Cameron and His Titanic

Titanic became the biggest event of 1912 when it succumbed to the cold waters and raging hardness of the Arctic Ocean . Eighty-five years later , it repeated its fate by breaking the record for the highest grossing film of all time . Taking off as the highest budgeted movie at the start of its production in 1996 , it went on to claim the record-breaking movie , as its first week income was higher than its first week by 23 . The next year of that gave the movie another smashing record

of tying up with the most number of nominations , and finishing off as the movie with the most number of wins in the history of the Academy Awards

The director , James Cameron , was born to an engineer father and an artist mother . He went to college with physics as his course . However after watching the greatness of the Star Wars film , he frequented the movie archives of the university where he was studying . This gave him the drive and the will to give up his career on truck driving and joined the film industry . Starting as assistants for special effects , he easily rose to his first directorial debut in the movie Piranha II : The Spawning after the original director left . He always wanted realistic films . With this on his mind , he brought his crew and stars to the location in Great Cayman Islands . He also did pioneering innovations in terms of special effects in films like The Abyss and the Terminator series . This cemented his reputation as a first-class director in the field of science fiction and fantasy

Greatly fascinated by underwater scenes , he conceptualized films from it . Taking off from the effects he used in the film The Abyss , he sold the script of his new film Titanic to film executives . The selling was not easy as they were seeing an impossible resource for the special effects , a 200-million production budget and the recurring dominance of assumed recycled plot

With a dramatic sunset yellow tinge , the movie was started with a glimpse of the day the Titanic showed its magnificence . The music jived well with the mixed emotion of the people that day - smiles of happiness , wide-eyed expressions of excitement , and the tears of missing someone who was about to leave . The lighting used was heartfelt , and truly set the low level of emotion

Then the plot jumped to the present day with the emergence of two light sources from darkness . These lights were from the ship of the exploration team . The depth of the location was reflected on the strong contrast of the background and the light itself . The exploration team was trying to find a precious jewelry named as the Heart of the Ocean The audience could feel the excitement in the heart of Brock Lovett as camera moved in a very definitive angle showing him narrating over a circular window peering into the lighted remnant of the ship

When they found out that the...