




In this 1997 version about the sinking of the titanic featuring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater,The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some supporting characters (such as members of the ship's crew) are based on real historical figures. Production of the film began in 1995, Shooting took place on the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh for the modern scenes, and a reconstruction of the ship was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California. Some of the sets from the movie are now part of a museum located there. Cameron also used scale models and computer-generated imagery to recreate the sinking of the ship.
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