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Titanic

In early 1912, construction and sea trials of the world’s largest ship named Titanic were completed. It was a floating gigantic marvel at almost 270m in length and fifty thousand tons in weight. It could carry almost three thousand people both passengers and crew. The engineers called it the unsinkable. Consequently, its first voyage was highly publicized and passage booked by the wealthiest and the poor alike. Unfortunately, the ship would hit an iceberg in April the same year that would lead to the world’s largest oceanic disaster as over fifteen hundred people perished in the water. The high number of deaths was a result of the few lifeboats that were available onboard. The lifeboats were uneven to a large number of the ship’s occupants. In 1997, James Cameron wrote and directed one of the world’s highest grossing films of all time going by the ship’s name ‘Titanic.' The film had the largest budget at the time amounting to almost two hundred million US dollars. The film’s main stars were Leonardo Dicaprio, Kate Winslet, and Billy Zane among others. Although the movie had some flaws, it had a great success and it became one of the best movies ever created.

Titanic was the most famous movie loosely based on the shipwreck disaster as many film and literature lovers took the wreck as inspiration and wrote books, made films or other forms of art, based on the incident. Consequently, this entire disturbance elevated the incident into a legend of sorts in popular culture. James Cameron made the movie in a bid to recreate the sinking moments of the ship by tying in a fictional love story with the disaster. The film is the recounting of one survivor’s, Rose, tragic love story aboard the Titanic. Rose contacts some scientists who are looking at the Titanic who happen to be searching for a necklace that was given to her as a gift on the Titanic. Rose is an aristocrat engaged to Cal to get some much-needed money for her impoverished family. She does not love Cal and wants to commit suicide. A young con artist Jack Dawson saves her. Jack and Rose fall in love with each other but are star-crossed due to their different social classes. Cal notices this and frames Jack as the thief of his fiancé’s betrothal necklace. By the time Jack is arrested and handcuffed to a pipe, the Titanic has already hit the iceberg and water is rushing into the ship. The upper classes, women, and children are put into the lifeboats and instructed to go to safety. Most of the boats leave while they are only half-full. This is the most moving part of the film as it draws on facts to recreate the scenes. When the lifeboats are over, people wait for help. When the hull breaks, thousands more plunge to their deaths as Rose is saved by Jack and put on a piece of wood that can only support one. Jack dies with the boat while Rose lives and changes her name to Rose Dawson in fear of Cal, who commits suicide in 1929 when his stocks crash in the Wall Street Crash.

Titanic is a cinematic genius not just because of the countless number of emotions it includes across the globe with its tragic story of a love so great that it transcends social classes and arrogance, but also because of the way it adheres to the facts of the 1912 disasters. It recreates the Titanic and its horrific crash complete with wall paintings and vintage dressing that belonged to 1912. The fictional love story almost seems to run in real time as the crash making an otherwise abstract tragedy into a more relatable story of love and loss. The story explores the difference in attitude between the upper and lower classes. It shows how the rich are put in lifeboats first while a child and mother wait for their turn as they board last since the rich have to go first. The film is a titanic success not just in its ever-growing viewership among the young and old alike or its high gross and cinematic techniques but also in its simplicity. It is a film whose stories reflect with different people for different reasons and should be watched by anyone who has not.

It is crucial to admit the audience’s reaction to the movie when it was first introduced to the public. In fact, “The weekend Titanic hit theaters in 1997, it earned $28.6 million at U.S. box offices”. Moreover, it remained one of America’s best selling films for more than two years and there is hardly a person who had not seen “Titanic”. All in all, people still tend to cherish this piece due to its everlasting themes of cultural and class diversity as well as the role of wealth in life of the nineteenth-century society.

The scenes of the film contain particular flaws or blemishes that can be noticed after almost 20 years of publication. “With such a giant film like Titanic, there are bound to be mistakes and errors.” (Andrade 2). To begin with, Rose’s beauty mark above her lip switches sides. Secondly, in the episode where she breaks the glass to get an axe, the material mysteriously reappears. In addition, the editors did not pay attention to the color and form of the clothes used in the scenes. Lastly, there can be seen camera reflections in the door glass (Andrade 2).

Overall, it can be claimed that the movie still remains one of the best selling love-story works. It was popular in the year of its release and it is a beloved film nowadays. Nonetheless, there is a tremendous amount of defects throughout the episodes. After noticing them once, it is impossible to normally watch the film .

Works Cited

Andrade, Christyn. “19 Big Mistakes in The Movie Titanic That You Totally Missed.”

Perfection. 2 May 2015. 25 March 2016. http://diply.com/perfection/mistakes-in-movie-

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