Re: Titanic Revisited (in three glorious dimensions!)

[Jeff Breuer] " If you could give a group of students the facts about Titanic and tell them to put a love story on it, this, to me, is a great template on how to construct a movie from a set of details. There's a lot of good stuff here"

That's true. Maybe it was just so big a movie that people couldn't help but try and take it down. And the easiest thing to attack is the moderately cheesy "I'm flying, Jack! I'm flying!!" type romance stuff. It's rare you saw a critic be like "The romance was good, but I was relatively bored after the ship hit the iceberg... (sips brandy, puts on Mozart)".


In terms of the modern day boat folk, and Rose throwing the diamond in the water.... It won't stop bugging me. Actually, I don't even see how it's closure. The diamond essentially had no emotional connection to Jack, other than the fact she was wearing it when he drew her like "one of his French girls" (btw, Winslet breast in 3D, that's what I'm talkin' about! [nudges arms, winks creepily]). When you boil down to it, the diamond is essentially a gift (albeit a *really* expensive gift) from an abusive a-hole of an ex-boyfriend. Why it would bring her closure for Jack, or Titanic, doesn't really make sense to me. If anything, it's confusing why she would even want to hold on to it at all, if it didn't really mean anything to her. The diamond's connection to Jack was rather thin, I'm saying. She even wore it during the sketching because she wanted to write that snarky burn of a note to Billy Zane when she put it back in the safe. She used it to insult her ex-boyfriend! It shouldn't be a symbol of her love for Jack, it should be a reminder of how "awful" her life was before she met Jack.

Just sell it to Bill Paxton and leave the money to your great-grandchildren.



[Jeff Breuer] "Watch it today, 15 year old girls will be crying right along with our women and our mothers. It needs the big spectical of the boat wreck at the end to be one of the top grossing movies of all time, but with the story, the characters in care of the people involved, that is all great stuff no matter how much CG we see."

I suppose that's true. In terms of injecting a fictional story into a historical context, it did about as good a job as it's going to do. I actually like it when people do that kind of thing, such as X-Men First Class or Watchmen or something. Not to go wayyyy off topic here, but I mean comparing Cameron's nice love story to something as potentially stupid as the fiction/history story of like Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter... Titanic is going to look pretty brilliant every time.