On the real ship, Edith Evans gave up her seat in the last lifeboat to another woman just 15 minutes before the ship sank. We started together, and, if need be, we'll finish together.” When an officer asked if he could put the girl in a boat, she replied, “Not on your life. On the real ship, a young couple was seated on the Promenade Deck. Charlotte Collyer kicked to get free, but her husband yelled, “I'll get a seat on another boat.” (He did not.) On the real ship, men literally tore women from their husbands and threw wives into lifeboats. Father, mother and little two-year-old Lorraine went down with the ship. Unbeknownst to the Allisons, the nurse had taken the baby to a lifeboat. On the real ship was the Allison family of Montreal, who refused to get into a lifeboat without their baby. Which brings me to: Wasn't the real story of the Titanic dramatic enough without inventing a preposterous love triangle? The “I'm flying!” scene of Winslet at the Titanic’s bow is a nod to the evocative Women's Titanic Memorial, unveiled in 1931 and dedicated to the men who "gave their lives that women and children might be saved."
Cameron went to the trouble of recreating a famous picture of a boy spinning a top on the deck of the Titanic taken by aspiring priest and amateur photographer Francis Browne. I've been reading about this ship since I was 12 years old, and I know a fellow buff when I see one. It's clear that Cameron loves the Titanic.
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The cheesy dialogue, cardboard characters and silly narrative might have earned the film a place of honor in the “craptacular” category of disaster films (“Poseidon Adventure,” “Towering Inferno,” and just about every volcano or earthquake movie ever made) were it not for stars Winslet and DiCaprio and the special effects in the film's second half. Washington Post writer Ann Hornaday recently called the film a “hackneyed pastiche” with "caricatured villains and melodramatic hokum." She's not wrong. But in a way, that was part of the problem. I was not a big fan of the regular “Titanic.” As always, the unmiscastable Kate Winslet was glorious, and Leonard DiCaprio wasn't bad himself. His family today insist he was unfairly persecuted.Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in a scene from the 3-D version of James Cameron’s romantic epic "Titanic." (AP/AP) Still, Ismay, played by Jonathan Hyde in Titanic, didn't shirk his responsibilities: He spent the rest of his life paying out insurance claims to family members who lost loved ones on the Titanic. However, this exchange was considered unlikely to have happened, and the scathing criticism against him in America was most likely due to his falling out with newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst prior to the tragedy.ĭespite an official British investigation affirming Ismay's defense that he only boarded the last lifeboat after all available women and children were boarded, London society also rejected him, and he lived out his life being seen as a coward. " Stories circulated that he was to blame for the sinking, having purportedly pushed the ship's crew to increase Titanic's speed to get ahead of their scheduled arrival and garner positive press. The American Press crucified Ismay, calling him "J.
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