romance / shot / used to / essential
stars / fictionalized / voyage / imaginary
Titanic is a 1997 American epic (45)________disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A (46)_______account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it (47)_________Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden (48)_________.Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be (49)___________to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. The modern scenes on the research vessel were (50)_________on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. Scale models, computer-generated (51)________ , and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Playas de Rosarito in Baja California were (52)__________re-create the sinking. The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. It was the most expensive film made at that time, with an estimated budget of $200 million.