Tonight on TV: It’s one of the world’s biggest blockbusters and it blows my mind every time you watch it

What if you ended the weekend with a little-known gem, a feature film about the love story of a poor artist and a rich bourgeois woman on a liner that hits an iceberg? OK, enough jokes, this Sunday evening we are joining TF1 to (re)discover an absolute classic that is not at all unknown: James Cameron’s Titanic, one of the biggest movie hits in the world!

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It’s still useful to imagine Titanic, the biggest hit in French box office history with its 21 million release and must-have break clocking in at 2 hours and 39 minutes? The film immerses viewers in Southampton on April 10, 1912. Famous for its sinking, the world’s largest and most modern liner sets sail for its maiden voyage. Four days later, it hits an iceberg. A poor artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a rich woman (Kate Winslet) fall in love on a ship.

But how does the idea come about? Titanic (Which some rare critics despised as holy) So he came to the seer James Cameron ? “When I did the research gapI was fascinated by the technology used to study the wreckage of the Titanic.– said the film director at the premiere at the microphone of our colleagues. “I really liked it Atlantic latitude 41 (1958, Roy Ward Baker) and Titanic (1953, Jean Negulesco), but I wondered if we couldn’t incorporate into the film what we now know about what happened that night and create a story that moves back and forth between the present and the past.”

“I also wanted to tell a love story”he continues. “I tried gap, but without putting a love story before a science fiction story. When these two ideas came together, everything seemed to fall into place.”

A pharaonic project… in spirit

With a whopping budget of $200 million, the construction of the set required three months of work, a shoot that lasted 160 days. Titanic, whose special effects were created by Digital Domain studios, the same ones that brought Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs to life, is a Pharaoh company. But a pharaonic enterprise in spirit, a film from which real magic emerges and which fascinates with every viewing.

A wonderful show unlike any other by an iconic cinematic duo Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, TitanicOf course, we will not forget to quote the song My heart keeps beating By Celine Dion, it’s just a monument. The feature film, the fourth-biggest blockbuster of all time with $2.2 billion worldwide, won 11 Oscars.

What if you had another three-hour encounter with this cinematic masterpiece?

Tonight on TF1 at 21:10.

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