The wreck exploring was an exciting and mysterious bit to watch, they were using special machinery so well that we can see everything in detail, which feels like we are under the deep sea exploring.
Rose is showed the video of exploring the old wreck Titanic and each piece of the ship reminds her of being on it. As Rose starts telling the story, it appeals to our hearts, because she says very sad things and starts to cry.
Later on in the film, we hear some of the actors say that the ‘ship might hit an iceberg’; this gets our attention to keep us watching, till the end, as it’s the most interesting part. Titanic is a great love story, where the pair try to meet secretly.
I like the way the film is set, it has got lots of different things happening each time, but I must admit that there was a bit too much talking by the characters. I liked the speech of the characters; they were all using a very formal language. I didn’t like the way the actors were dressed. This is the only part that doesn’t fit with today’s modern life, but it still keeps our attention somehow.
The first time Rose and Jack meet is when Rose attempts to commit suicide by jumping off the ship, but Jack who had won his ticket on the ship from a card game tries to stop her. Then Rose’s fiancé, Cal, overhears Roses screams and believes the penniless Jack attempted to rape her. Rose explains Jack saved her life, covering up her suicide attempts by explaining she slipped after trying to see the blades of the ship.
Jack and Rose make friends together as she thanks him for his saving her and he shares stories of his own life, travelling, and drawing.
Eventually the ship breaks in half and begins to sink completely letting everyone into the freezing Atlantic.
After the elderly Rose completed her story to the team, she walks along a ship, steps on to a railing, she drops the ‘Heart of the Ocean’ into the water. The film ends with young Rose being with Jack on a staircase in the Titanic.
James Cameron described the sinking of the Titanic as “like a great novel that really happened”. He described the film as ‘putting the audience in an experience of living history’.
Many characters came down with colds, flu, or kidney infections after spending hours in cold waters, including Kate Winslett. After almost drowning, chipping an elbow bone and getting flu, Winslett decided she would not work with Cameron again unless she earned ‘a lot of money’.
The sinking scenes in the freezing Atlantic were shot in a 350000 gallon tank, where the frozen bodies were created by applying a powder on actors that crystallized when exposed to water, and wax was coated on hair and clothes.
When I did my research I found some good opinions from critics about the film Titanic. ‘For me, Titanic is not only great in terms of action, effects, and visuals, but also provides excellent commentary on the issue of the class struggle’. I agree with this opinion, because in the film it was shown that first class passengers got to go on the lifeboats first, because they were rich, but in today’s life, no matter what social class you are you would still be saved. This shows a change in life. In the film, the story was told to the audience as a flashback.
The dialogue is brilliant. The movie is slow at times, but reaches the point when the ship sinks. When the richest people waited in half-full lifeboats, they were listening to the screams of people freezing to their deaths and didn’t do anything, but if a similar tragedy were to happen today, the result would be different, because we don’t separate different social classes today, we live together as a team.
The acting is excellent. The nice thing about a ship sinking is that it is slow.
‘Titanic is a movie not just to be seen, but to be experienced’. I disagree with this statement, because I am too scared to experience such a terrible event, and what if the lifeboats would run out, I would go mental.
The special effects in the film are still good; I think it’s similar to what is used today.
The love story really works with the film, because when the sinking starts we tend to care for the characters that we have seen and know their personality. The film rocketed the actors from no stars to great well known stars, so this proves that the film was very popular.
In conclusion, eleven years later, has Titanic stood the test of time? Of course it is, this fantastic 189 minute movie is still great to watch today.