Titanic (10th Anniversary Edition)
by James Cameron
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Actor: Billy Zane, Frances Fisher, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprioDirector: James Cameron
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 194 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Titanic (10th Anniversary Edition)
DVD Review: Watch for fantasy, not fact
Summary: 3 Stars
Of all the movies made about the fabled and tragic sinking of the Titanic, this one is definitely the most entertaining. The attention toward costume and set detail is impressive, except women did not wear nearly that much makeup in 1912. Lipstick was fairly new and didn't really become mainstream until the later part of the decade. On the other hand, I sat next to a couple of teenage girls while watching Titanic in the theatre. Upon the scene of Rose's entrance on Titanic, one girl said to the other, "My mother said they never would have worn that color back then." Her mother was wrong. Lavender was an extremely popular color at this time and often found in young ladies attire. Rose was supposed to have just come from a shopping trip in Paris and the costume designer took great pains to give her the most cutting edge wardrobe any girl could have in 1912.
Aside from the asthetic trivial, this movie does its fair share of "keeping the mystic alive". There has always been considerable mystery shrouding the sinking of the Titanic. This is largely due to the media's inability (or refusal) to ever really set the story straight. Why, if the mystery is taken away, movies may not sell tickets, books may not sell off shelves, this is a long fabled tragedy that can make some people some money...if they tell the story in a way that sells.
It is interesting in the movie Titanic, Rose tells Cal, "It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauretania." Whereupon Call responds, "Titanic is bigger and far more luxurious.." A myth buster would have been had the scene played more like: Rose says, "It doesn't look any bigger than the Olympic." Cal could not have responded as he did in his answer regarding the comparison to Cunard's Mauretania. The Olympic was the Titanic's sister ship. The first of 3 new luxury liners from White Star, the Olympic was the first one built, the first one launched, the last to survive, and was every bit as big as it's little sister Titanic. The Titanic was heavier than the Olympic, concentrated on a few more luxury suites with private promenades, more restaurants, and smaller luxurious details such as a clock on the landing of the forward grand staircase (yes, there were 2, the forward grand staircase is the one that gets all the publicity, but the aft grand staircase was nearly identical). In fact, the Olympic and the Titanic were so identical in construction and design, the only way you could tell them apart from the outside was from such details as the forward portion of the promenade deck being glassed in on the Titanic, whereas on the Olympic it was not. So much for "the biggest ship in the world". Olympic had been sailing for nearly a year before the Titanic and was every bit as big-just not as heavy. The Britannic, the 3rd of the White Star line's sister ships, was even more luxurious than Titanic and was being built as the Titanic sunk. This ship, sadly saw only war time activity, being converted into a hospital ship for World War I, then sunk. Besides, it would only be a couple of more years until another ship came along that was bigger than the Olympic, Titanic, and last built Britannic. Do you know which ship that was?
Another thing this movie does to sell tickets but really dates the movie was the most unfortunate decision to make fools and/or villains out of all the rich folk on board. This is perhaps the most blatant misrepresentation this film has to offer. If it were not for this wealthy class of people, the Titanic would never have been built! Not to mention the immense number of jobs many of these wealthy people created for others. The way this movie demonizes the rich and the defined classes between the people is a crime. Right or wrong, that is simply the way it was. It was so strongly entrenched for such a long period of time, we still see traces of this today. Airlines still have a "first class" to this very day, although, the accommodations these days for first class anything are nothing compared to what they were on board a luxury ocean liner in 1912. Captain Smith was made a martyr in the film. In real life, Captain Smith had quite a string of maritime man just wasn't great at seamanship to say the least. Although, Captain Smith was not on the bridge when the Titanic struck the iceberg. He had gone to bed. He left orders to wake him if anything looked doubtful regarding the many ice warnings received by Titanic that day. The movie so demonizes, or flat out ignores the real actions of the first class passengers while filming most of the action around 1srt class! Poor 2nd class is NEVER covered. It will be always first or 3rd class passages that get the most publicity. To site a couple of instances with 1st class passengers who come off extremely underrated are: The Countess of Rothes. In the movie, the Countess of Rothes may only utter no more than 2 words, and the actress hired to play her was not nearly as beautiful as the real Countess was. The movie fails to mention that the Countess of Rothes handled the tiller of lifeboat 8 because none of the men knew how to do it! Furthermore, when rescued by the Carpathia, the Countess of Rothes helped out on deck to make sure other survivors had blankets and were comfortable, etc. When a Titanic officer present in lifeboat 8 was asked at the inquisition just how it came about that her ladyship, the Countess of Rothes, ended up handling the tiller of the life boat, the officer said so very tactfully, "Well, the lady had quite a bit to say about the matter." For someone who wasn't given more than 2 lines to say in the movie, and in actuality played an important and heroic part in manning one of the lifeboats, I'd say the Countess was severely misrepresented to suit the current times of 1997.
Rose herself stands in the dining room criticizing them all. While she herself and her mother are traveling under the disguise as being well to do and staying in the most luxurious suites Titanic has to offer payed for by her fiancé! This would have been completely unacceptable etiquette in 1912.
Molly Brown is the only 1st class passenger who comes off remotely well. Alas, she is from a poor class working people and has run into money with her husband. Separate movies and plays will be done about this woman and her actions on in the lifeboat, but not on word toward someone who did the same thing, the Countess of Rothes, in a life boat that was hoisted up by the Carpathia the same as Molly Brown's. The fact is it was actually far more unusual for someone like a Countess to handle the tiller of a lifeboat than someone like Molly Brown to handle the rowing in her life boat. Nobody ever in the entire world gets that. They were both hero's. But, I'd wager to say the Countess did more than Mrs. Brown that night and was far more out of her element in doing so.
They make fun of the builder of the Titanic. As if he didn't have a clue as to who Sigmund Freud really was. It is very unlikely that J. Bruce Ismay would not have conveyed the meaning of Rose's callus remark.
Another myth buster is the amount of well known wealthy passengers in first class. Many people confuse super natural irony with the natural course of the wealthy set of the day. The truth is, it was not at all unusual for there to be so many well known wealthy passengers in first class. It would have been more unusual had there not been. In fact, there were fewer well to do sailing on the Titanic's maiden voyage than would be expected. In this day and age, the gilded age, the wealthy were treated the way our movie stars are today. Their lives were followed and read about at every turn. If there was some big world event taking place, it was not at all unusual for them to see one another there. It was expected for many to be at such events, and the maiden voyage of the most luxurious ocean liner in the world would qualify as such an event. And so, there they were.
There are a number of other equally qualifying issues I could continue with, but I think you get my drift, so to speak. The movie Titanic is very entertaining. I love to watch it. Just don't look too much into it for serious fact.
Description of Titanic (10th Anniversary Edition)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-nominatee Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. From acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron comes a tale of forbidden love and courage in the face of disaster that triumphs as a true cinematic masterpiece.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY UPC: 097361313443 Manufacturer No: 131344When the theatrical release of James Cameron's Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron's $200-million disaster epic would cause the director's downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era, and sink Paramount Pictures as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Titanic would surpass the $1-billion mark in global box-office receipts, win 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director, launch the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time, and make a global superstar of Leonardo DiCaprio. A bona fide pop-cultural phenomenon, the film has all the ingredients of a blockbuster (romance, passion, luxury, grand scale, a snidely villain, and an epic, life-threatening crisis), but Cameron's alchemy of these ingredients proved more popular than anyone could have predicted. His stroke of genius was to combine absolute authenticity with a pair of fictional lovers whose tragic fate would draw viewers into the heart-wrenching reality of the Titanic disaster. As starving artist Jack Dawson and soon-to-be-married socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won the hearts of viewers around the world, and their brief, but never forgotten, love affair provides the humanity that Cameron needed to turn Titanic into a moving emotional experience. Although some of the computer-generated visual effects look artificial, others--such as the climactic splitting of the ship's sinking hull--are state-of-the-art marvels of cinematic ingenuity. It's an event film and a monument to Cameron's risk-taking audacity, blending the tragic irony of the Titanic disaster with just enough narrative invention to give the historical event its fullest and most timeless dramatic impact. --Jeff Shannon
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