...climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it -- from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie. In each of his previous outings, Cameron has pushed the special effects envelope. In Aliens, he cloned H.R. Giger's creation dozens of times, fashioning an army of nightmarish monsters. In The Abyss, he took us deep under the sea to greet a band of benevolent space travelers. In T2, he introduced the morphing terminator (perfecting an effects process that was pioneered in The Abyss). And in True Lies, he used digital technology to choreograph an in-air battle. Now, in Titanic, Cameron's flawless re-creation of the legendary ship has blurred the line between reality and illusion to such a degree that we can't be sure what's real and what isn't. To make this movie, it's as if Cameron built an all-new Titanic, let it sail, then sunk it. Of course, special effects alone don't make for a successful film, and Titanic would have been nothing more than an expensive piece of eye candy without a gripping story featuring...
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...In the classical film, Titanic, written and directed by James Cameron, the key actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet played the part of the two star crossed lovers from different social statuses of whom were able to meet under the most unforeseen circumstances (IMDb). Against all odds they fell in love and were able to express unconditional love through whatever trail that may have confronted them. At the beginning of the film they were both introduced in their own status and was elaborated on with how they were and how their lives were before boarding the RMS Titanic. The setting starts off with them boarding and continues to take place on the RMS Titanic following them as their love blossomed. As the film progresses, the theme of the...
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...The movie "Titanic" Many people are attracted to different kind a movie. The best movie I have ever seen that attracted me with all kinds an emotion, the best looking and interesting actors and the music was "Titanic".The movie "Titanic" ignited many emotions and attractions on an audience. When it first came out in the theaters,everybody was talking only about "Titanic" and movie characters.Some of one was curios to see what happen and after almost three hours sitting in front of the screen they were full of all kinds an emotion.For sure "Titanic" got most of the Oscars for the best movie of the year,and I think it really deserved with all the best characters and the best picture.But what is that ,that really attracted me in that movie? The first attraction that I had is because it is based on one of the true stories ,that really happen .The plot was great and all characters are really amazing.When I first heard about "Titanic" I wasn't that much interesting to see it, but when my friend told me what is it about ,I was curious.Usually I don't like long movies ,but "Titanic" was something different,when I watched the time past so quickly,I was into movie so much that I didn't even felt how time goes so fast.However,the special effects were truly amazing.They gave me a sense of actually being there,and brought home how tragic the entire episode was. To see and hear those hundreds of people crying out while floating in water...
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...the North Atlantic and sunk. Many passengers did not survive because there were not enough lifeboats for everyone. Ironically, The Wreck of the Titan was written 14 years before the actual Titanic sank and they have many similarities. I will discuss the Titanic itself, the sinking of the ship, and lastly the movie that was made in 1997. When the Titanic was being built it was supposed to be one of the safest ships ever created. At the current time the Titanic was the biggest existing ship and the biggest moveable object ever built. It was 882 feet long and weighed about 46,000 tons. It was made to hold about 3,205 people. All first class parlor suites came with wardrobe room and private baths. Second class passengers had to share bathrooms and privacy was hard to come by. Third class passengers slept on bunk beds. Just like the second class passengers they too had to share a bathroom except the number of people sharing was much higher in third class. They were provided only two bathtubs, one for the men and one for the women. The bottom of the ship was divided into six-teen watertight compartments that were equipped with automatic water tight doors. These automatic doors could be immediately closed if water were to enter the compartments. These safety features concluded that the Titanic would be the safest sailing ship calling it “unsinkable”. I will now go into detail about the tragedy that occurred and how the ship sunk the morning of April 1912. The departure of the ship...
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...sinking ship: Titanic When I’m with my classmates every once in a while the conversation will turn to "favorite movies." I'll mention Titanic, and at least a couple people will snicker. I pay them no mind because I know that five years ago, these same people were moved to tears by that very movie. And they're too embarrassed now to admit it. I just watched Titanic for the first time in a long time. Expecting to simply enjoy the story again, I was surprised to find that the movie has lost none of its power over these five years. I cried again in all the same places. At first, I avoided watching this film for the longest time. Long before it was even released I had dismissed it as an over-hyped, over-blown, overly romanticized piece of Hollywood, and I wanted nothing to do with it. I never watched it in the theatre. I shook my head in disbelief at the 11 Academy Awards - even though I had never seen it. The director, James Cameron does a great job of creating an almost "you are there" type of atmosphere. One doesn’t just watch it, but one really feels it. The lead performances from Kate Winslet (as Rose) and Leonardo DiCaprio (as Jack) are excellent but both were first rate. They had their rich girl/poor boy characters perfectly. In my opinion, stealing the show was Frances Fisher as Rose's mother. She was perfect as the snobby aristocrat, and one could sense the fear and loathing she felt every time she looked at Jack. I'm not an expert on the sinking of the Titanic, but I have...
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...Through out the years, movies have so many influences on society. From sociology view points, some movies are challenging to analyze how movies shows how really people are. One good example of a movie that shows how society was influence is the film Titanic. This film was take place in the US in 1997 in English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, and Russian language; the run-time of the film was three hours and fourteen minutes. The director and writer of the film was by James Cameron and the main characters are Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater. The storyline of the movie is about two people who is from different class and were felt in love despised who they are. The titanic passage had a mix of upper and lower class passengers from Europeans to Far-East Asians who wanted to start a new life in America. In the beginning of the movie the...
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...Titanic Summary Rose is an American girl on her way back home on the maiden voyage of the ship HMS Titanic. the largest and fastest ship to be built at that time. She's heading back to the states with her mother and rich fiancé' Cal. We first see Rose running to the front of the ship frantically. She climbs to the railing and contemplates jumping and slips and a passenger named jack stops her from falling off the ship. Her screams brings people running and they assume that Jack has caused her some harm but she states she almost fell and he helped her. Cal doesn't like the fact that Jack touched his fiancé. Jack is inviting to have dinner at the captain's table. Soon he and Rose go down to the steerage quarters to dance and drink. Jack is a steerage passenger who won his ticket in a card game minutes before the ship sailed. Rose fall in love and she decides to leave Cal for Jack. Cal and his ego cannot believe she would rather be poor and with jack than to be rich and marry him and he smacks her but it is after the point that the iceberg has hit the ship. after many things in between Rose gets on one of the last boats leaving the ship but jumps back on the ship to die with Jack and those who are still on the ship. We see jack die and before doing so he tells her that she will not die there but in her bed an old lady. A few boats return and Rose gets rescued but doesn't let Cal and her mother know she survived and uses jack's last name of Dawson when they dock in NY. ...
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...When people think of the sinking of the Titanic, they will most likely think of the great Hollywood blockbuster movie that was more a love story then a historical movie with documentation of what happened on that cold night of April 14, 1912. Historians like to tell people what happened from the facts that are given to them, and eye witness accounts of what had happened on the ship the night it plunged to its deep dark grave. Everyone knows that the ship sank and that it is gone, but what they don't know is what had happened while people were being loaded into the lifeboats and what was occurring after the ship went down. Men played a big role in all of this; some were looked upon as cowards and others as heroes. There are different view points of what the roles of men were. Not only during the night the Titanic went down, but also the roles they played in society in 1912. For everyone who survived the sinking, should be thankful and happy because more then half the people on the ship that night passed away. The male survivors however had to justify how they survived, because the rule of the sea was women and children got on the life boats first. The men aboard the Titanic had responsibilities after the ship collided with an iceberg. They were looked at as if they knew they weren't going to live, but they had to save the women and children who were aboard the Titanic. As for the men who just wanted to save their own lives and didn't care about anyone else, these men were...
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...Young1 RICHARD BALLARD PROFILE By definition, Richard Ballard was a great oceanographer. Ballard had always been interested in the sea since he was a little child. His curiosity got the best of him and he has accomplished so much since then. He has written a variety of books to go along with his scientific research and findings within the ocean floors. One of his most popular discoveries was The Titanic. His underwater archaeology work is amazing. It is pretty impressive to know that Ballard has a sense of humor when it comes to storytelling in his books. It is pretty incredible to go submarine diving and not know if you will surface because you are on a mission to find the impossible artifacts within the black sea. Ballard was also known for his natural discoveries during his deep-sea expeditions. Even though Ballard is known for his discoveries, his first expedition was unsuccessful. There are many written pages that discuss Richard Ballard’s underwater discoveries. “During Richards long career he conducted more than one hundred-twenty deep-sea expeditions using the latest in exploration technology, and he is a pioneer in the early use of deep-diving submarines” (Richard Ballard). As the president of an Exploration Institute, Ballard received many prestigious awards for his discoveries, television appearances and books to go and prove his findings. Many of Richards’s expeditions are well known. “He led the 1977 expedition that discovered deep-sea hydrothermal vents...
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...Hollywood VS Bollywood Bombay is the largest city in world. Also its economic in power support Indian film industry become one of the largest movie market in world. With the support of the Indian Government and the movie industry. The Indian movie become popular all over the world and be accepted by people from different parts of the world. The unique Indian culture is also the reason making the bollywood movie dynamic. In another hand. Hollywood film has been an important part of our life by and by.and almost every people watched many Hollywood film. Like the Hollywood coverage of the American culture，the culture over the Hollywood culture exhibiton highlighted the gap between scholarly trends and popular understanding of history. The advantage of Bollywood film is that its story including the emotional elements which makes audience get touched easily. Besides，The Indian traditional dance and music in the film also consists the typical bollywood film. For example . An famous Indian movie “DDLJ” ，girl meets guys and girl begin to sing and dance inexplicably，hundred of people singing together ，the location from village in India transfer to the Alps in Switzerland Suddently. These are typical plots in Indian movie but its music and dance have attracted many audience. Give a example，“Bombay Dreams” telling a traditional love story. Even though its story is old fashioned but as a musical film，Its music have combined traditional Indian music and a lot of pieces of western...
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...me think of the film --- Titanic, the most classical movie in 20th center. Titanic is not just a love story, it also connects with the big history disaster ---Titanic sink in the ocean. Titanic no doubt is a commercial as well as the future of the film and the development trend of trends. Her highest grossing and the excellent graphics technology make the film into the classic of classic. Leonardo Dicaprio plays Jack, Kate Jools plays Ross is an eternal remembrance of the people and yearning. Titanic was one of the highest grossing films which had made almost $2,000,000,000 in total. It had also picked up 11 academy awards including the best picture, best director and the best original song and so on. According to the Wikipedia, the file received steady attendance after opening in North America on Friday December, 19, 1997. By the end of that same week, theaters were begging to sell out (Wikipedia). The film earned $8,658,814 on the opening day. By March 1998, it was the first film to earn more than $1billion worldwide. The film stayed in theaters in North America for almost ten months. Titanic made double its domestic amount overseas, generating an interactional gross of $1,242,413,080 and accumulating a grand total of $1,843,201,268 worldwide. It became the highest- grossing file in history, and remanded so for twenty years. The film of Titanic started in 1996, treasure Hunter Brock Lovett dives above the wreck of the Titanic looking for the diamond...
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...The Titanic must be one of the most famous ships ever built. She set off on her maiden voyage in April 1912, crossing from Southampton in England to New York City in America. In between, she would make stops at France and Ireland. The Titanic was such a huge ship that she weighed more than 46 000 tons and was about 270 meters long. Thought to be virtually unsinkable, she was built such that any flooded compartment could be sealed off quickly and easily, preventing the spread of water through the ship. Passengers would then have ample time to be rescued since the builders of the ship believed that in the worst scenario, the Titanic would probably take two to three days to be completely submerged. That fateful night, the temperature was close to zero degree Celsius. Two lookouts stationed at a high point on the ship were freezing but they had to be alert to watch for any signs of danger that the giant ship might face. In that temperature, icebergs-huge mountains of ice floating in the sea -- were a constant threat. It was already close to midnight, so the darkness that surrounded them greatly impeded their field of vision. Even if they perceived any dangerous icebergs, it might be too late to avert a disaster. The moonless sky only worsened the situation. Then the worst happened. One of the lookouts spotted a huge iceberg right in the path of the Titanic. He immediately rang the alarm. The captain of the ship reacted just as promptly and ordered the Titanic to change her...
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...There were many important events in Dorothy’s life. She was named Titanic Survivor. She stayed for a while with her grandparents in England after she got kicked out of school. There they had a servant named Mrs Hawkins and her two children who would come and play with Dorothy named Owen and Mille, the twins. The three little kids would play characters of famous stories or plays for example “The Three Musketeers.” Her grandfather would teach her important lessons in life every day of her visit there, for example, a question could be “How do you know if animals feel pain the way we do, as they can’t talk?” Another important event is the moment she met the people on the Titanic. For example Miss Pugh (the adult responsible for her), Marjorie (first friend), the little french boys, Beryl (her seamstress) and Joe (Beryl’s love). Another was the sinking of the Titanic were Miss Pugh, Joe, Marjorie's dad, the little boy's father, and another 1,500 people died. She was one of the survivors but doesn’t like to talk about those events. The diary she keeps talk about her life before the Titanic ship left, the experience of the Titanic including the sinking, and life once she was on the Carpathia and so on. She was also invited to the movie premiere of “The Titanic” but refused to go and called it weedy. These events reflect who she was during the 1900s....
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...that had to do with like comedy like a show, or movie; for example Ridiculousness, the Kevin Heart shows, or Tosh.0. When I kept going to class and the lectures progressed I still viewed entertainment as something to do with comedy but also I saw it as something to do with drama. In drama where plays take place and emotions are brought out with the movement of your body language. Some people view plays as entertainment but it can also be seen as art for others. The ones who, to me, view it as both art and entertainment are the actors. They love what they do and they love to keep people entertained. I recently watched Titanic with my family and for the most part I thought that the writer of the movie wrote it more to entertain people because even though it tells the story about how the titanic sank, the writer also makes it a love story. The writer has to put some much work into what the actors say to each other so that the audience can feel what he wants us to feel. When Jack and Rose fall in love the audience knows it is something that shouldn’t happen because Rose is engaged to Cal but the audience is happy to see that because the writer of the movie makes Cal the bad guy and Jack the good guy. The actors are supposed to convey the audience into feeling what they want us to feel. I feel like in this movie the main characters/actors did a good job in doing so because towards the end of the movie I cried and I watched this movie with my family and they also cried so based off...
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...Mariah Henley Mrs. Brady English 4A Pd. 5 11 February 2015 Why Hasn't Leonardo DiCaprio Won an Oscar? Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated to win an Oscar quite a few times, but he has yet to win against his competition and take home the award. What exactly is keeping someone who has been acting for twenty years from winning an Oscar? DiCaprio deserves to win an Oscar despite the fact that he has a rowdy behavior outside of acting, the roles he takes on aren't jaw-dropping, and that he's picky with the movies he will be in. Now that Leonardo is making $20 million per movie and is a single forty-year-old rich man, he takes his fame for granted and gets in trouble at huge parties and has been since he was a teenager. Tom Beer, author of the expose "Leonardo DiCaprio: Back in the Game," wrote, "He was partying in the clubs, he was picking fights with basketball players, he was dating every supermodel in sight." Beer's statement proves that DiCaprio is out of control and that people are starting to notice his ridiculous behavior. The Academy pays attention to celebrities and their actions outside of filming. Many people assume that just because a person is acting like an animal, they won't get the opportunity to receive an Oscar. In DiCaprio's defense, I don't think his personal life should determine whether or not he wins an award. Dedication and hardwork should be what gets recognized, not the decisions an adult is making outside of his career. DiCaprio has taken on...
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