The producer of the film wanted Matthew McConaughey to play the leading role, but director James Cameron insisted on using Leonardo DiCaprio.
James Cameron made the movie "Titanic" because he was able to search for the wreckage. The entire expedition dived into the deep sea 12 times in order to capture satisfactory images.
The opening scene with a special significance at the beginning of the film is the result of the director’s contemplation for 20 hours in the latter part of the editing work. At the beginning, part of the Titanic’s wreckage on the sea floor is real, and part of it is shot using a model. , The way to distinguish is that when there are two submarines in the camera, it is a model, and when there is only one submarine, it is the real wreck of the Titanic.
Jack's smoking scene when he first appeared in the film was criticized and was thought to mislead the children.
Kate Winslet took the trouble to send a letter of recommendation to the director time and time again. There was a rose in the letter. By the way, I was the Ruth you were looking for, and I finally got the role of Ruth in the book of the century.
The lifeboat search for survivors in the film was shot in a large tank filled with more than 350,000 gallons of water.
Because only the right half of the full-scale model of the Titanic is fully completed, the director specially came up with props with the opposite text to shoot, and then screened the film upside down, so if there are props that require text on board, they need to be straightened. Anti-two sets.
"Titanic" was the most expensive film at the time, and the filming and production process lasted five years.
Jack stood on the bow of the Titanic and shouted and then the camera slowly pulled back to overlook the entire Titanic. This short period of more than 10 seconds used advanced computer production technology and took 1 million US dollars to complete.
In the film, the scene where Jack and Ruth spit in the game was opposed by almost everyone from the producer to the actors, from the owner of the film company to the crew members, but the director believed that his film should not behave in accordance with the rules and must be innovative. In fact, this paragraph is also Become one of the scenes in the film that make the audience remember.
In the behind-the-scenes of the Collector’s DVD, you can see the precious shots of director James Cameron standing in the cold water with a camera in hand.
