(To celebrate "Titanic" and its impending 25th-anniversary re-release, we've put together a week of explorations, inquires, and deep dives into James Cameron's box office-smashing disaster epic.)
Like many historical dramas, "Titanic" transplants a fictional story onto a real one. The ship and the tragedy were real, but Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), and the passion they shared weren't. That doesn't mean director James Cameron settled for inauthenticity. Even when showcasing digital alien worlds, Cameron is out to make his characters feel real.
Cameron shared how he sought this realism in a 1997 interview with Charlie Rose, shortly before the release of "Titanic." He spoke with someone who was alive in 1912 when the "Titanic" sank, but who had never been on the ship. By the late 1990s, less than a dozen Titanic survivors were still around and were all too young to remember what had happened. The last one,...
Like many historical dramas, "Titanic" transplants a fictional story onto a real one. The ship and the tragedy were real, but Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), and the passion they shared weren't. That doesn't mean director James Cameron settled for inauthenticity. Even when showcasing digital alien worlds, Cameron is out to make his characters feel real.
Cameron shared how he sought this realism in a 1997 interview with Charlie Rose, shortly before the release of "Titanic." He spoke with someone who was alive in 1912 when the "Titanic" sank, but who had never been on the ship. By the late 1990s, less than a dozen Titanic survivors were still around and were all too young to remember what had happened. The last one,...
- 2/9/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
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