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Gore, Chris. "Titanic." //Film Threat.// Film Threat, 15 Dec. 1997. Web. 20 Nov. 2013.

Chris Gore writes about “Titanic” on the website filmthreat.com. His review is more of a list of things he thought was done well with the movie. He does this in a humorous way. He explains how there is a romance in the story, which the women will love and there is also action, which appeals to the men in the audience. Gore also writes about how much profit the movie made and even though it is three hours long it does not drag. He even comments on Kate Winslet’s body and how she is naked at one point. At the end he says how it is the movie of the year and they should receive their Oscars now and save all of us from watching them. The last thing Gore writes about is how the class differences in the movie also happened in the movie theatre in which he saw the movie.

Ebert, Roger. “Titanic." //Roger Ebert //. Roger Ebert, 19 Dec. 1997. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. The opening shots of Titanic shows the ship covered with silt after 85 years of being underwater. “A remote-controlled TV camera snakes its way inside, down corridors and through doorways, showing us staterooms built for millionaires and inherited by crustaceans” (Ebert 1). These shots add to the feel as, “the ship calls from its grave for its story to be told” (Ebert 1). Ebert says, “James Cameron's 194-minute, $200 million film of the tragic voyage is in the tradition of the great Hollywood epics. It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding” (Ebert 1). The story involves a woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater who is being forced by her mother to marry a man named Cal Hockley. Rose’s father left them penniless, so the marriage will assure her and her mother to be well taken care of. Instead Rose falls in love with a boy from steerage named Jack Dawson. Their story is told in a genious way as to show off the ship. The two find themselves in places like the first class dining room, the engine room, the deck, and an Irish dance in the crowded steerage. Cameron uses an ingenious story technique by using a modern story to explain the entire voyage. A man named Brock Lovett is exploring the wreck of Titanic, looking for a diamond.He ends up finding a drawing of Rose wearing the diamond. 101 year old Rose recognizes her drawing and is brought to Lovett’s ship to tell her story. Ebert says, the setup of the love story is fairly routine, “but how everyone behaves as the ship is sinking is wonderfully written, as passengers are forced to make impossible choices. Even the villain, played by Zane, reveals a human element at a crucial moment” (Ebert 1). “The image from the Titanic that has haunted me, ever since I first read the story of the great ship, involves the moments right after it sank. The night sea was quiet enough so that cries for help carried easily across the water to the lifeboats, which drew prudently away. Still dressed up in the latest fashions, hundreds froze and drowned. What an extraordinary position to find yourself in after spending all that money for a ticket on an unsinkable ship” (Ebert 1).

Cavagna, Carlo. "Titanic." //About Film//. About Film, Feb. 1999. Web. 18 Nov. 2013

James Cameron seemed to have broken the rules of storytelling. From the beginning he has told what will happen. He reveals that Rose lives and shows exactly how the Titanic sinks. One would think this would take away the suspense. But it doesn’t. The audience instead is forced into a feeling of dread as we watch Jack and Rose’s love story unfold knowing the outcome. Throughout the movie Cameron shows flashbacks of Titanic. All of these flashbacks start out with the sunken wreck of Titanic transforming into the spectacle of a ship it once was, 80 years before. By doing this Cameron made a link between the past and present and reminded the audience that the Titanic was real. Throughout the movie Cameron worked to stress the ship’s enormous size; up until the Titanic hits the iceberg. Once the ship hits, Cameron shows the ship from far away, to show that it really is a small vulnerable speck in comparison to the gigantic ocean. Cavagna states, “//Titanic// is bursting with splendid individual scenes and diverse characters, each of whom represents a thematic point or human dilemma” (Cavagna 1). Realism was not necessarily what Cameron was after in his story of the Titanic; but he paid much attention to historical detail, which Cavagna says is “remarkable”. The majority of the movie was filmed on a reconstructed model of Titanic that was 90% of its original size. Everything on the original Titanic was just how it was on the model, down to doors and table settings. The collision was recreated exactly how it happened as well. By making sure that all the little details were correct, Cameron made his story seem more real. Cavagna says, “The combination of myth and historical fact is profoundly moving. Quite simply, //Titanic// is one of the most extraordinary films ever made” (Cavagna 1).