Fill in the blank with a word/ phrase in the box. romance shot used to essential stars fictionalized voyage imaginary Titanic is a 1997 American epic (1) disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A (2) account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it (3) Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden (4) . Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be (5) 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 (6) on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. Scale models, computer- generated (7) , and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Playas de Rosarito in Baja California were (8) re-create the sinking. The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20 th Century Fox. It was the most expensive film made at that time, with an estimated budget of $200 million.