Somehow, Cameron found just the right ingredients to forumlate cinematic success, and it showed as the film sustained box office domination for months after its initial release (which just doesn't happen). While Cameron's script wasn't necessarily the most brilliant you might read for a romance or historical film, he was certainly no dummy for casting two beautiful actors as the leads and surrounding them with respectable acting talent. Using the story of lower class and upper class teens who fall in love on this doomed vessel catered to my generation and reeled us in by making us care for dear Jack and Rose and their ill-fated romance. Cameron was bringing to life the disaster on screen in a way no one had ever seen before (or since). The fact that Cameron recreated much of the ship to 90% of its original scale, using many of the original manufacturers of the same things featured on the ship (like carpet and fine china and such), just further interested me. The love story did pique my young love interests, but it was also the film's setting: at sea on the glorious ship of Titanic that really interested me. I had first seen Titanic in theaters (three times, too, I think) as a teenager in the close of '97 and beginning of '98. But before I get to the high definition transfer and remastering of the 1997 movie, I'd like to briefly re-evaluate the film. Now, in the late summer of 2012, Titanic finally makes its blu-ray debut. In 2012, 100 years after the sinking of Titanic on its maiden voyage, James Cameron's once-top-box-office-hit (his follow-up Avatar dethroned Titanic in 2009) was re-released to the cinemas after a 3D conversion. (I wonder what survivors, if they could see all of this today, would say about such milking of a terrible disaster.) And even since Cameron's epic, the story has been retold in television films and miniseries. As a book and a movie, A Night to Remember was previously one of the more well-known tellings of this story (And Cameron admits to that film being the inspiration for making his movie).
Granted, Cameron's Titanic was NOT the first time this story had been told in film. It all sounded like a movie, and in 1997, acclaimed director James Cameron made that idea a reality. Ballard's history-making discovery of the wreckage in 1986 spawning numerous books and documentaries, I just marveled at the photos and paintings of the wreckage and wanted to know more about how this massive ocean liner could have possibly become nothing more than twisted, rusted hunks of metal and ghostly images hidden deep beneath the ocean's surface.
You see, I grew up with a morbid fascination of Titanic and its horrific and unthinkable disaster.
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In fact, it was the film, due to its subject matter, content and popularity, that inspired me to begin writing movie reviews for this very website in early 1998. Looking back now nearly fifteen years on the release of the epic film Titanic, it amazes me to think it's been so long since I first saw this film when it debuted in theaters. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main).
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