Strengths And Weaknesses Of Titanic

Directed by James Cameron, Titanic had it flaws and strengths as demonstrated in the reviews of this movie. The Titanic was sailing from England to New York with 2200 passengers and crew aboard and met with tragedy five days later, when it hit an iceberg. Fifteen hundred lives were lost when the ship which was said to be unsinkable, sank in less than three hours. Titanic is both a historical and a love story, a class war between the rich and poor. This is evident at the very beginning of the movie when first class passengers are driven up to embark, while second class citizens waited to board. It is also shown when Rose’s mother is forcing her to marry rich Cal. Rose falls in love with a poor boy Jack, a struggling artist, who won his ticket in a poker game. The critics all agreed the $200 million dollar costs and the time it took to make this movie was overboard, but Titanic thrilled us like no other in 1997 and went on to make $1.843

He built a replica of the Titanic 90 percent to scale in Rosarito Beach, Mexico and reproduced the original interiors down to the silverware, wallpaper and carpeting. Cameron as director, writer, producer and editor, sticks his neck out, in combining his romantic fiction with real-life tragedy (2). Travers points out that Cameron astonished us with sights that we had never seen before and filled us with pity and terror from the moment the Titanic hit the iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland. The images of the ship breaking in two, passengers scrambling to get on the lifeboats that there are not enough of and of them clinging to the sides of the ship are unforgettable. Finally the scene where life-jacketed passengers screaming their faces blue before they are reduced to silent, floating corpses will linger in our minds