Titanic Reaction
Added 2025-04-09 11:22:38 +0000 UTCSorry for the delay, I had mic issues that was bugging me when on playback but that's because my dial was low (oop)
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The reason I suggested this now is because it's coming up to the anniversary. Perhaps I should have waited a week. Oh well. :) Recently I try to watch it every year around April 14th to commemorate the disaster. Although it's a great, iconic movie in any case, I think there's a chance the current time of year may have helped it to win the poll. Still an amazing feat that Cameron basically rebuilt the Titanic in order to film this. Not a lot of CGI in the late 90s. Most of the background info is based on reality, including the officers' names and the binoculars not being usable (someone forgot to bring the key to their case onboard). The two biggest exceptions are First Officer William Murdoch shooting someone, which his descendants were understandably very angry about (that was based on an eyewitness account of one of the officers, but he was a lot more heroic irl), and J Bruce Ismay urging maximum speed, which Cameron knew wasn't true but it had become such a big rumour in real life that he felt compelled to include it anyway because people would expect it. The drinking chef, the guy preparing to drown in his best, the engineers working to keep the lights on even as it sank, and the musicians playing, are all historical record. I don't think it's 100% confirmed that they finished with 'Nearer My God to Thee', but the real life band leader was interviewed before 1912 and said that that would be the song he would play if he knew he was going to die. Which he did, as did all of them. There was also definitely the singing of 'For Those in Peril on the Sea' on the Titanic on the Sunday morning before it hit the iceberg that night, but not in the same place. 3 of the dogs survived. There might be a few too many instances of 'Jack' and 'Rose' as dialogue towards the end, but honestly I don't know what Balthazar's problem with the movie was. Maybe just his natural angelic detachment. May post more after finishing.
Ed Green
2025-04-10 09:17:08 +0000 UTCYaay! This is such a great movie. Cameron really has an eye for details in his movies.
ingrid vedeld
2025-04-09 12:05:02 +0000 UTC
