Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Billy Zane
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in the movie Titanic 1998. Love is eternal....! Love is so romantic!!!
I still remember the flood when the film was released, not only in France, where he sits top of the table with more than 20 million entries, but around the world, a lot of fans boasting to see him countless times. Myself I went 2 times and I confess that even today I can not resist ...
While doing research to find a jewel of great value in the wreck of the Titanic, Brock Lovett and his team discover a safe paperwork. However, a detail catches her attention, he kept a drawing of a woman who wears this jewel: the Heart of the Ocean. That woman, Rose Dewitt Butaka, approaching a hundred, then returns to the story she has lived on the ship unsinkable.
When James Cameron decided to revive the Titanic, he even claims that making such a film was just a good excuse to visit the wreck of the liner at the bottom of the ocean. Yet this is not the first film which tells the shipwreck, a well known TV movie is being distributed on our screens, but it is certainly the most realistic one.
If one were to define an element for James Cameron, this is water, the liquid but as destructive. His first film, Piranha 2 is a first example, then follow Abyss and magical but dangerous depths, Terminator 2, where the liquid is no longer that of water but of molten metal that will undercut T-1000 and T-101. Trues Lies, which offers an explosive scene in the toilet of a shopping center that will be annihilated.
The story is well done. Researchers searched the wreckage to find an object but do not discover a drawing that shows a portrait of one of the survivors still alive today. This latest recall comes this terrible journey through 3 flashbacks. And yes, this is one of the strengths of this story is not told that the three lengthy flashbacks, interspersed with very short breaks. Thus it is not lost between the present and the past, the story becomes the main story to the point that almost forget that this is a story. Cameron chooses somehow form of storytelling to tell us this shipwreck, so that the viewer comes to see a story that plunges quickly into another story and finds herself more drawn into the story.
The story of Jack and Rose is definitely one of the greatest love stories in film, rooting for Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1950) and many others. Romance could be described as "mushy" although here it is water instead of sea salt, especially since Cameron does not go with the back of the spoon, abusing effects Romantic (slow, poignant music, visual effects, fireworks on two characters saying goodbye the next and finally to a few minutes later with the simple truth that united: you jump, I jump. Two fates forever as we like to see and do in a situation that at no time did we feel that their feelings are free and abusive.
Indeed, Cameron also wants to show pride and pretension of the upper classes of the bourgeoisie, who claim to rule the world. The ship, many times called the "unsinkable" by the same class was the largest, most beautiful, most luxurious, in short everything we can do better on land, thereby rivaling what God had been done. Also, with the crossing of these two characters that any objection: Rose comes from the bourgeoisie and Jack is from the poorest social classes, Cameron manages to show, as is already the case in many films, it is useless to be rich, let alone whether it is a matter of survival "your money will not save you more than it will save me." But these people who claim to be the strongest, are actually chained to their desires and do not live life as it should "account for that day" proclaims loud and Jack faces a diners who would rather see him ridicule.
So romantic a moment!
It is this philosophy of life for the most natural things that Rose who will fall in love with him. The girl can not stand him and even face a shrewish mother and a violent future husband. Each of them traumatized by images shameful they can give them. Cameron wanted to make a film about love, it succeeded with a true love that nothing seems able to separate .... Yet this is not what will prevent Jack from dying and Rose make a life without him. Predictably, otherwise the film would not have as extensive, the death of one of the fact that this adventure that brings her characters at the height of their feelings is not for the duration, and the viewer can not stand the tragedy: that of the shipwreck and the separation of people who risked their lives for one another.
But beyond this love story, Cameron did not want the laugh of his film and that's why he was thoroughly prepared to become one of the most realistic representations without make a documentary. Indeed, from the beginning, it plunges us into the mood with archival footage taken at the outset in 1912, then follows with actual images of the liner at the bottom of the ocean. Passing from one era to another, we seem already set the tone: What happened to arrive the first images to those of today? A vacuum will have to fill it through this film. The documentation gathered during the preparation can also lend credibility to the story of our characters and anchor it in reality, with various facts: a child playing at the top with his father, a luxury car traveling in the hold, dogs that come to their need on the deck of the poorer classes, the orchestra plays to the end, those characters who choose to die with honor inside the ship, setting up brand new from the images Archives and remnants of the ship, as if the Titanic is now a piece of scrap greenish corroded by rust and algae, it has nevertheless been a brand new ship that knew no degradation during his lifetime.
My Heart Will Go On
Thus more than a romance that gives us the director, he offers us far beyond a real reconstruction of this boat and events that take place. The camera wanders through the corridors of the various bridges to show us how life had been on board and how events could unfold. One could almost say that if the shipwreck is a pretext for the love story, it would become fashionable to say that it is the love story is an excuse to show us around this ship, cabin Commander of the engine room.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet: I like their movie so much!!!
Titanic Trailer 1997
Finally, I want to talk about visual effects that are simply beautiful. Cameron plays with contrasting colors: glowing air suffocating the engine room facing an icy blue water. The highlight seems to be given at the end of the first flashback, when Jack kisses Rose for the first time on the bow of the Titanic, on a calm sea and sky blend of golden hues of red, orange and pink, like a photo postcard: the heroes assembled against the sunset paradise, then a long fade, the beauty of this moment becomes reality, the sky will thicken to dark and cold, and the boat crashed to become the wreck. Cameron does not abuse these effects, and whenever he plays, he puts us in full view. Playing on a steady pace, he is not trying to lose our sense of the assembly, and that's good, because the beauty of his images deserves attention.
Kate Winslett, she is so beautiful!
Ultimately, Titanic is a great love story. Cameron confirms once again that he is a true author more than just a director who manages to enchant his glance to excite our sense of movie.
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