James Cameron's film, Titanic has become an American classic over the past decade. It found a way into our hearts with its Romeo and Juliet-style love story and the devastating sinking of the ship that took so many lives. The Chicago Tribune called it "A film that draws us into a world of spectacle, beauty and excitement, a realm of fantasy unimaginable without the movies." But no matter how good a movie may be, it doesn't mean it's all based in fact. Yes, this film has many aspects that are actually historically accurate to the actual sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912; but there is also a part that was just created to give the story a plot and turn it into a Hollywood blockbuster. In the film we are introduced to Jack Dawson and Rose Calvert who become the main characters in the film's love story. In fact, these characters did not exist in real life but were created by the producers to give the story a Hollywood touch. Most of the film's main characters were fictional, including Rose's mother and boyfriend, but to give the film an authentic feel, characters based on the real people aboard the Titanic were included. One of the real-life people portrayed in the film was Margaret (Molly) Brown, known as "the unsinkable Molly Brown". In the film, actress Kathy Bates played Margaret and highlighted the role of the American socialite. The movie was pretty accurate about his character and how he handled things when the ship sank. She survived the sinking of the ship by sitting in Lifeboat 6 and in fact convinced the lifeboat crew to return and search for the remaining survivors, just like her character did in the film. She was a brave woman and always tried to ... middle of paper ... It was virtually impossible for Cameron to film exactly how the RMS Titanic sank, but he tried to make it as accurate as possible. The ship, however, broke in half as seen in the film and today still lies at the bottom of the Atlantic with its bow and stern separated. In “The Complete Titanic Chronicles” by Walter Lord we read: “of the 20 witnesses who described the final collapse of the American and British investigations, 16 firmly stated that the Titanic either split in two or was at least falling apart as it sank. .”In conclusion, James Cameron's Titanic was a very well thought out script. Inherently, there are differences between the film and what actually happened in the story. It may not be one hundred percent historically valid, but the film captured the essence of the RMS Titanic and evoked the devastating emotions displayed that fateful night.