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On April 15, 1912, one of the largest cruise ships ever built, the RMS Titanic, sank to the bottom of the sea after colliding with an iceberg. In 1997, James Cameron and a 200 million dollar budget created a romantic epic about this tragedy entitled The Titanic. By comparing the actual RMS Titanic to the ship in the movie The Titanic, by James Cameron, we can see that the movie gives a very historically accurate account of the ship from its design and furnishings to its actual sinking. From the 7/8 model built to the exact specifications of the real ship to the furnishings put in the model, James Cameron strived for historical perfection. With a budget of over two million dollars and a set built to exact specifications, The Titanic was the most expensive movie ever made to this day. According to Peter Waal, author of “The Making of James Cameron,” Cameron explained spending more than 100 milli