This year the film is being re-released, in 3D, I assume for both the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, as well as production company Paramount, who made this film. The 3D is most readily visible in shots of the underwater wreck and the modern day story, and the early scenes on the ship, but disappointingly, during the spectacular hour long section when the ship slowly sinks, there were not many 3D elements that I could make out at all. (This portion of the film does not need 3D to make it any more exciting and believable, so I would suggest you skip the upgrade to 3D if possible.)
Do we all know this film by now? The modern day story that frames the historic love story is about a treasure hunter (Bill Paxton) who has found the long-wrecked Titanic, and hopes to find a noted blue diamond that he believes sunk with the ship. An old woman (Gloria Stuart) sees a news report and contacts him. She is Rose, who was a young woman when her fiancé gave her that diamond while they were on board the Titanic. Her story brings us back over 80 years to when she was 17 (played by the perfectly casted Kate Winslet), betrothed much against her wishes to the dastardly Cal (Billy Zane, figuratively twirling his mustaches in every scene). Due to the death of Rose’s father, her mother Ruth (Frances Fisher) hopes to make this lucrative match so that she and her daughter will be set up financially and remain in high society.
Meanwhile, Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a young, poor American adventurer and artist, is on his way back home from Paris. He gambles for and wins two tickets for the Titanic in a poker game, allowing him and his Italian friend Fabrizio (Danny Nucci) to gain entrance to the doomed ship bound for America.
