Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Although the central roles and love story are fictitious, some characters are based on genuine historical figures. Gloria Stuart portrays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a modern-day framing device, and Billy Zane plays Cal Hockley, the overbearing fiancé of the younger Rose. Cameron saw the love story as a way to engage the audience with the real-life tragedy.
Production on the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. The modern scenes were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the actual wreck. A reconstruction of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, and scale models and computer-generated imagery were also used to recreate the sinking. The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox – respectively, its American and international distributor – and at the time, it was the most expensive film ever made, with an estimated budget of US$200 million.
The film was originally scheduled to open on July 2, 1997, however, post-production delays pushed back its release to December 19 instead. Titanic was an enormous critical and commercial success. It was nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, eventually winning eleven, including Best Picture and Best Director. It became the highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over $1.8 billion, and remained so for twelve years until Cameron's next directorial effort, Avatar, surpassed it in 2010.Titanic also has been ranked as the sixth best epic film of all time in AFI's 10 Top 10 by the American Film Institute. The film is due for theatrical re-release in 2012 after Cameron completes its conversion into 3-D.
Serra da Estrela is the name given to the Sierra mountain range and where the highest elevation of Portugal, and the second largest in the Portuguese territory (only Pico, the Azores, the beats). It is situated in the center of the Natural Park of Serra da Estrela.
The highest point, the Tower is located in the municipality of Seia, Guarda district. The municipality of Seia lies to the Vodafone Ski Resort, the only ski resort in Portugal, performing the same slopes of the mountain belonging to the parish of Loriga. The lowest temperatures are recorded in Portugal at the summit of the Sierra, with lows reaching the mark of -20 ° C in winter.
The National Park Peneda-Geres, is the only national park in Portugal and is located in the extreme northeast of Minho, bordering Galicia, covering the districts of Braga (municipality of Terras de Bouro), Viana do Castelo (district of Melgaço Valdevez and Arcos de Ponte da Barca) and Vila Real (district Montalegre) in a total area of about 70,290 hectares [1].It is one of the greatest natural attractions of Portugal, with rare and stunning natural beauty and ecological value and variety of wildlife (deer, wild horses, wolves, birds of prey) and flora (pine, yew, chestnut, oak and various medicinal plants) . It stretches from the mountains of Geres, south, passing through the Peneda to the Spanish border.Includes excerpts from the Roman road linking Braga to Astorga, known as Geira. [3] In the park are located in two important centers of pilgrimage, the Shrine of Our Lady of Peneda, a replica of the shrine of Bom Jesus, and St. Benedict the Open Door, a place of great popular devotion
Isabella "Bella" Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player. Bella attracts much attention at her new school and is quickly befriended by several students. Much to her dismay, several boys compete for shy Bella's attention.
When Bella is seated next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed by her. He disappears for a few days, but warms up to Bella upon his return; their newfound relationship reaches a climax when Bella is nearly run over by a fellow classmate's van in the school parking lot. Edward saves her life when he instantaneously appears next to her and stops the van with his bare hands.
Bella becomes determined to find out how Edward saved her life, and constantly pesters him with questions. After a family friend, Jacob Black, tells her the local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are vampires who drink animal blood rather than human. Edward confesses that he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was too desirable to him. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love.
