I really enjoyed that movie Titanic growing up, i didnt even know it was a true story.
Yup, its probably the best romance-disaster film in existence. I still cry when I see it.
Imagine if he had gotten on a boat! he might still be alive today
I mean its still a fictionalized account so I don't think his character existed in real life. Or did he?
wait, what are you saying? it didnt really happen? 
It did, Cameron shot footage of the actual "Titanic" wreck. What I meant to say is that I don't know if DiCaprio's character existed in reality
oh, well i think thats something i need to look into then.
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 shot on board the "Akademik Mstislav Keldysh", which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. Scale models, computer-generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the "Titanic" built at Baja Studios were used to re-create the sinking. The film was co-financed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox
. And the studio botched the selling of it. I mean, they liked the movie, and they tried to reissue it, even, with a different campaign, and it still bombed."
"It's been looked back on as if it was some great success whereas, in fact, it was pretty much a disappointment in its day," he said. Dante later called the film "probably the movie that I had made up to then that was the closest to my intention. As a result,