The Titanic
Beyond its impressive values, Titanic is primarily a romance between 17
years old passenger Rose Dewitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), a member of high
school society, and Jack Dawson (Leonardo Dicaprio), an artistic drifter
who has finagled passage to America by winning a third class ticket at
a dockside poker game. Rose is fated for a stultifying, leisured life with
priggish fiance Cal Hockley [Billy Zane]. Jack lives existence of the free
spirit but no one to share it with. When the tousled artist talks the disconsolate
Rose out of leaping into the ocean, their inevitable coupling begins.
Their affair is prefaced nicely by a framing story in the present day.
Eighty-four years after the tragedy, a beautiful, aged woman (Gloria Stuart)
hears about a search for an expensive diamond necklace from wreckage of
the Titanic. The clue of the gem : a drawing of a naked woman with necklace
around her neck. The woman in the picture, she tells expedition leader
Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) is none other than herself.