Have you seen Titanic, the one from 1997 that James Cameron did?
Yes! I did. It's a great film!
Cameron's inspiration came from shipwrecks.  He was fascinated with them.
I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised.
He shot actual footage from the real Titanic wreck for the movie.
Wow, that's cool! The underwater wreck scenes were just a few of the many great scenes
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
from when he switched from the sciences to the arts in college. So when an IMAX film was made from footage shot of the wreck itself, he decided to seek Hollywood funding to "pay for an expedition and do the same thing". It was "not because I particularly wanted to make the movie," Cameron said. "I wanted to dive to the shipwreck."
Cameron wrote a scriptment for a "Titanic" film, met with 20th Century Fox executives including Peter Chernin, and pitched it as