Titanic Criteria

“The Titanic”
Over time there has been great movies produced. Any movie can be deemed a great movie, but not every movie can say they’ve won an Academy Award. The movie Titanic was an Academy Award Winner because of many reasons. Some of those reasons were that it was based on a real event, the actors and actresses fit the roles, and the soundtrack was very popular.
One of the reasons that made the movie an Academy Award Winner was because it was based on a real event that occurred in history. The Titanic was a British passenger liner that crashed into an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sank killing hundreds of passengers. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,500 lost their lives in the disaster. (Titanic). It was a tragic disaster and it cost the lives of many people. Not only was the crash the cause of the disaster, but there were also many flaws to the design of the Titanic. The Titanic’s creators believed they had built an unsinkable ship that could not be defeated by the laws of nature (Titanic). In the article Titanic it said, “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” (Titanic). Since the watertight compartments contained flaws, it caused the ship