35 Facts About Titanic 3D

Scale models, computer-generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic 3D built at Baja Studios were used to re-create the sinking.

Titanic 3D was almost past the point in his life when he felt he could consider an undersea expedition, but said he still had "a mental restlessness" to live the life he had turned away from when he switched from the sciences to the arts in college.

Cameron wrote a scriptment for a Titanic 3D film, met with 20th Century Fox executives including Peter Chernin, and pitched it as "Romeo and Juliet on the Titanic 3D".

Titanic 3D wanted to honor the people who died during the sinking, so he spent six months researching all of the Titanics crew and passengers.

Titanic 3D liberally copied some dialogue and scenes from that film, including the lively party of the passengers in steerage, and the musicians playing on the deck during the sinking of the ship.

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Cameron felt the Titanic 3D sinking was "like a great novel that really happened", but that the event had become a mere morality tale; the film would give audiences the experience of living the history.

Harland and Wolff, the RMS Titanic 3D builders, opened their private archives to the crew, sharing blueprints that were thought lost.

Sets representing the interior rooms of the Titanic 3D were reproduced exactly as originally built, using photographs and plans from the Titanic 3D builders.

Principal photography for Titanic 3D began in July 1996 at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with the filming of the modern-day expedition scenes aboard the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh.

Cameron chose to build his RMS Titanic 3D on the starboard side as a study of weather data revealed it was a prevailing north-to-south wind which blew the funnel smoke aft.

Many previous films about the RMS Titanic 3D shot water in slow motion, which did not look wholly convincing.

The 744-foot-long exterior of the RMS Titanic 3D had its first half lowered into the tank, but as the heaviest part of the ship it acted as a shock absorber against the water; to get the set into the water, Cameron had much of the set emptied and even smashed some of the promenade windows himself.

Titanic 3D "wanted to depict it as the terrifyingly chaotic event that it really was".

Titanic 3D said there were aspects of retelling the sinking that seemed important in pre- and post-production, but turned out to be less important as the film evolved.

Titanic 3D tells Brock that life is priceless and throws the diamond into the ocean, after allowing him to hold it.

Titanic 3D did not want to disrupt the audience's melancholy after the Titanic sinking.

Cameron wrote Titanic 3D while listening to the work of Irish new-age musician Enya.

Titanic 3D offered Enya the chance to compose for the film, but she declined.

Titanic 3D had tried twenty-five or thirty singers before he finally chose Sissel as the voice to create specific moods within the film.

Box Office Mojo estimates that Titanic 3D is the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time in North America when adjusting for ticket price inflation.

Titanic 3D was the first foreign-language film to succeed in India, which claims to have the largest movie-going audience in the world.

Titanic 3D would hold this record until 1999 when it was taken by Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Scott Meslow of The Atlantic stated while Titanic 3D initially seems to need no defense, given its success, it is considered a film "for 15-year-old girls" by its main detractors.

Titanic 3D acknowledged his own rejection of the film as a child while secretly loving it.

Titanic 3D garnered mainly positive reviews from film critics, and was positively reviewed by audiences and scholars, who commented on the film's cultural, historical, and political impacts.

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Titanic 3D is a sumptuous assault on the emotions, with a final hour that fully captures the horror and the freezing, paralysing fear of the moment.

Titanic 3D described the script as earnest and straightforward, and said it intentionally "incorporates universals of human experience and emotion that are timeless – and familiar because they reflect our basic emotional fabric" and that the film was able to succeed in this way by dealing with archetypes.

Titanic 3D began its awards sweep starting with the Golden Globes, winning four: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song.

Titanic 3D won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as four Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Titanic 3D eventually won nearly ninety awards and had an additional forty-seven nominations from various award-giving bodies around the world.

Since its release, Titanic 3D has appeared on the American Film Institute's award-winning 100 Years.

Titanic 3D was released worldwide in widescreen and pan and scan formats on VHS on September 1,1998.

Titanic 3D was re-released to DVD on October 25,2005, when a three-disc Special Collector's Edition was made available in the United States and Canada.

Titanic 3D agreed to send film director Cameron a corrected view of the sky, which was the basis of the new scene.

Titanic 3D Live was a live performance of James Horner's original score by a 130-piece orchestra, choir and Celtic musicians, accompanying a showing of the film.