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Mario Roberts,
Mario Roberts,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
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James Cameron,
James Cameron
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: Paramount
: Drama, Disaster Action, Romance, Costume Drama/Period Piece, Seafaring, Weepies
: 194 min.
: English, French
: Spanish
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This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than $200 million, Titanic ranked as the most expensive film in Hollywood history at the time of its release, and became the most successful. Writer-director James Cameron employed state-of-the-art digital special effects for this production, realized on a monumental scale and spanning eight decades. Inspired by the 1985 discovery of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, the contemporary storyline involves American treasure-seeker Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) retrieving artifacts from the submerged ship. Lovett looks for diamonds but finds a drawing of a young woman, nude except for a necklace. When 102-year-old Rose (Gloria Stuart) reveals she's the person in the portrait, she is summoned to the wreckage site to tell her story of the 56-carat diamond necklace and her experiences of 84 years earlier. The scene then shifts to 1912 Southampton where passengers boarding the Titanic include penniless Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), returning to Philadelphia with her wealthy fiance Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). After the April 10th launch, Rose develops a passionate interest in Jack, and Cal's reaction is vengeful. At midpoint in the film, the Titanic slides against the iceberg and water rushes into the front compartments. Even engulfed, Cal continues to pursue Jack and Rose as the massive liner begins its descent.
Cameron launched the project after seeing Robert Ballard's 1987 National Geographic documentary on the wreckage. Blueprints of the real Titanic were followed during construction at Fox's custom-built Rosarito, Mexico studio, where a hydraulics system moved an immense model in a 17-million-gallon water tank. During three weeks aboard the Russian ship Academik Keldysh, underwater sequences were filmed with a 35mm camera in a titanium case mounted on the Russian submersible Mir 1. When the submersible neared the wreck, a video camera inside a remote-operated vehicle was sent into the Titanic's 400-foot bow, bringing back footage of staterooms, furniture and chandeliers. On November 1, 1997, the film had its world premiere at the 10th Tokyo International Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
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| Number one movie of the century
by larbeck
July 27, 2003 - 8:43 PM PDT
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2 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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Yes, it was the most expensive and it earned the most. But "Titanic" is so much more. Special effects that disappear and look like reality. A great, great story about a working-class Romeo and his high born Juliet. The masterful pacing - from the moment the iceburg is struck until the rudder of the Titanic goes under, the timing is in REAL TIME - just as it happened. That and skillfully blending so many movie cliche together seamlessly and a great, great score by James Horner, blending tradition instruments with human choir, orchestra, synthesisers, and samples. Tales of heroes and tales of people scared to death and acting the fool. As the band played on. And the story has a moral for our time, to remember that no matter how much we think our technology is prefect, we must be prepared for it to fail. I think I probably give this theme more weight, being in the computer industry, where we fail so many times. If I was to be taken to another planet and allow to bring only one movie, this would be it.
I have seen it six times at the theater and many times at home and never fails to move to tears. Especially at the end, when that great diamond is returned to the sea.
And it has the only Celine Dion song that I ever liked. This movie - and it is a movie and not a film - deserved every award it won. Thank you, James Cameron!
If you EVER have the chance to see it in 70mm, do it!
And finally, in Cameron's other words, "Titanic is not just a cautionary tale - a myth, a parable, a metaphor for the ills of mankind. It is also a story of faith, courage, sacrifice and, above all else, love." |
| Incredible epic
by jiannette
October 22, 2002 - 9:35 AM PDT
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2 out of 9 members found this review helpful
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| One of the most realistic and marvelous undertakings in the history of cinema. The impressive acting performances of Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, and Kathy Bates are worth the view alone. |
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