The Titanic Film Review

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Reviews of the Titanic
Directed by James Cameron, Titanic had its 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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

Cameron’s magnificent Titanic is the first spectacle in decades that honestly invites comparison to “Gone With the Wind.” She said, it is a thrilling three and a quarter hour experience that lures viewers into the beauty and heartbreak of its lost world (1). The delayed release and outrageous costs made “Titanic” the joke of the summer. Now it’s the movie of the year (1). Mr. Cameron rises to the occasion with a simple, captivating narrative style, one that cares little for delicacy, but overflows with well-chosen Hollywood nonsense. The early brashness gives way to near-religious humility when the moments of reckoning arrive (Maslin 1). Maslin shares the views of both Travers and Ebert when he said this film is an unforgettable vision in the sight of passengers adrift in icy seas on that last, moonless night. The film flawlessly recreates its monument to Gilded Age excess. Mr. Cameron persuaded the original carpet manufacturer to make an 18,000 square foot reproduction of its Titanic weave. Costumes of vintage clothing, even the silver White Star ashtrays had to be right. A group of 150 extras worked with an Edwardian etiquette coach throughout the filming providing an image that the privileged past. Cameron shows the passengers from the rich to the third-class passengers being checked in and how differently they were treated. The “Titanic” created a life-changing courtship between Jack and Rose in a few days, and showed

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