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The Love Connection Of James Cameron 's Titanic

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The Love Connection in James Cameron’s Titanic: I’m Flying Titanic is a 1997 American romance film that was directed, written and co-produced by James Cameron based on the notorious sinking of the RMS Titanic in the early morning of April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. The sinking occurred when the ship came in contact with an iceberg during the voyage from Southampton to New York City. Throughout the film, there are two lovers that become the protagonists of the film, a young man Jake (Leonardo DiCaprio) of low social status, without any agenda in life who won a ticket to the ship out of a lucky poker hand. On the other hand, there is a woman Rose (Kate Winslet) of a high social class who feels very contained. They are both on a ship named the RMS Titanic, heading to New York City. This is where almost the entire movie and the story is set. The overall plot of Titanic was to display the pride and joy everyone had in 1912 while witnessing the largest moving object cruise across the water at that time, but while the story progressed it quickly got triumphed with horror and sadness. During this time the RMS Titanic was such of a huge milestone in the society because something built with such enormous magnitude was going to be cruising across the water which wasn’t common at all. While adding another layer to the interesting story of the notorious sinking of the Titanic, James Cameron wanted to invite

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