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
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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
The quotes make it more of a tragedy, for example, in the quote “ Of course I should have known he wouldn’t have left without me” This shows the tragedy of his father being gone. This quote also shows how this story is realistic because on the Titanic many people
Conclusion Even though Margaret Ann’s stay at the Titanic was tragic and the trauma and guilt that it gave her stayed in her memory her whole life, she at least still managed to get what she wanted, to be with her brother once again. The diary of Margaret Ann Brady has helped a lot of people understand the reality of what really happened to the passengers during the sinking of the
This essay will examine the functions and effects of cinematography in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws Jaws follows the police chief Brody, along with scientist Hooper and shark hunter Quint, in their attempt to protect the town of Amity against a Great White shark that is terrorising beachgoers. It was adapted from Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name. Following its release in summer 1975, Jaws became the highest grossing film As Jaws was one of the first motion pictures to be shot partially on water, the production came across issues with the prosthetic shark, and as a result, Spielberg decided to only suggest the appearance of the shark as often as possible, as opposed to showing the prosthetic body during attacks. This sparing use of the prosthetic, and primary focus instead on creating suspense and dread without the shark visibly present, proved to be an inspired decision, as Jaws is considered a pioneering achievement in the horror genre.
The Titanic was a ship that was built to survive, but destined to fail from it’s safety standards and the crew’s failure to address an issue as life threatening as an
The movie was a huge commercial success, and it grossed over $2 billion at the box office and won eleven Academy Awards, with the inclusion of the Best Picture Award (Scott 75). The Titanic tells the story of Jack’s and Rose’s love story as well as the tragic sinking of the “unsinkable” Titanic. The film’s message reveals the dangers of hubris and human arrogance, and the significance of sacrifice and love. The
Titanic 1500 people died on the catastrophic night of April 14th, riding the Titanic. The ship had around 2240 people on it and over half perished. Captain Edward Smith was to drive the ship from England to New York. Smith went to school as a child, but dropped out at age 12 to be a sailor. He had sailed a lot of cargo ships, but not many passenger ships.
Cohen Cummings Mrs. Vidro Language Arts 29 March 2023 An Avoidable Tragedy Approximately 1,500 people died on the Titanic, a seemingly ‘unsinkable’ ship that fell to irony. Most people point the blame on the poor leadership of the captain. But, with evidence, there is no doubt that the architect of the ship, Thomas Andrews, was the primary factor and cause of why the Titanic sank. The materials of the ship were imperfect and caused the Titanic to burst open on impact with the iceberg.
The book has an illustration of the lobby of the Titanic, I compared it with a real picture and it was extremely similar. Lauren Tarshis (author of the I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic) included Thomas Andrews, the builder of the ship, into the story. In the back of my version of the book the author says “All the facts about the Titanic are true, but the main characters came from my imagination. George, Phoebe, Aunt Daisy, Marco and Enzo are based on people I learned about while researching the Titanic.” When I tried to find real passengers relating to the main characters I did not find anything though.
He desperately tries to break the glass with little success as water comes rushing in. This strong contrast between the vastness of the air and the ocean to the confined cockpit demonstrates Nolan’s use of pathos as he attempts to appeal to the audience’s sense of fear and dread by inducing a sense of claustrophobia into the audience. All in all, Nolan’s use of pathos is crucial to the story as it helps the audience understand the various emotions and challenges that the soldiers are facing throughout the
1. In light of what you already know about the fate of Titanic, how does the opening statement's description create dramatic irony? The description of the Titanic could highlight the greatness and luxury of the ship, the greatness and apparent invincibility of the ship is often emphasized, comparing it to a lifeboat, presenting it as an engineering marvel and an unsinkable ship. This description creates dramatic irony because the audience knows that the Titanic sank and many passengers lost their lives.
The Titanic’s maiden voyage was a disaster because the people didn’t prepare for things like this. Most ships go over a safety procedures, but the Titanic didn’t do such a thing. They only rescued wealthy people, which I felt was wrong. Some passengers jumped off the ship in desperation. Whoever drove the ship couldn’t have been paying attention.
Titanic was deemed unsinkable because it had 15 watertight bulkheads and a double bottom. The problem with this though was that “the watertight compartment design contained a flaw that was a critical factor in Titanic’s sinking: While the individual bulkheads were indeed watertight, the walls separating the bulkheads extended only a few feet above the waterline, so water could pour from one compartment into another, especially if the ship began to list or pitch forward.” Many people say that the ship was doomed from the start. On April 10th 1912, The Titanic set sail for Cherbourg, France and then to Queenstown, Ireland.
One of the several themes that Priestley has introduced to the play is ‘Time,’ and this theme not only interlinks with some others like ‘Age and Youth’ and ‘Social Responsibility,’ but also introduces a very important drama technique into the play for the audience called the dramatic irony. In Act One, Mr. Birling, as a representative of the older generation of the play and the head of the family, is talking to the others about the progress humanity is making and mentions the liner, Titanic saying it is “unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.” The word ‘absolutely’ in this context shows just how confident in his words Mr. Birling is, without understanding that it will all change. As the play is set back in 1912, but is performed much later in 1946, after the audience knows, and finds it ironic that Mr. Birling, thinking he is an old, wise man says such nonsense, as time will show.
1- Introduction. It was the night between the 14th and the 15th of April 1912. The British ocean liner Titanic, described as " unsinkable " by the builders and the ship-owners, sank due to a collision with an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean , ending with a tragedy that cost the lives of 1517 people ( 2223 in total ) [1]. What went wrong ?
‘Titanic’ was released in December 1997, while Cameron started shooting the footage since 1995. One naturally marvels at the special effects of the shipwreck, especially the crux of the plot, which is the breaking of the ship. As the ship loses its electricity, people who are still on board panic: they are grabbing everything they can to prevent them from falling into the abyss. There are people trying to jump off the board, but end up crushing themselves on the turbine of the ship. The cue accompanying the shipwreck scene is atonal, which adds more chaos to this disastrous scene.