Titanic

James Carmeron’s Titanic quickly became the most expensive movie. Costing over 200 million dollars. Who’s going to pay to see a 194 minute historical romance with a known ending and no stars?

 At the box office, Titanic made over 25 million dollars and lasted on screens for up to seven weeks.

 It’s a love story. Loenardo Dicaprio plays a poor boy who wins a ticket aboard the Titanic in a game of poker. Kate Winslet plays an unhappy member of a rich family who is bored by social rules. She runs into Dicaprio and then begins a romance as grand and glorious as the Titanic itself. But there’s Billy Zane, Wenslet’s cold family member, and Wenslet’s mother, extremely afraid of losing her social status. The two main characters, they are both deeply human.

 The special effects are amazing, and they help the story and its characters. That’s how movies should be. Films should be about their characters, not about their special effects or action sequences.

 The tragic sinking, when it comes, is brutal and frightening. It’s also very well constructed. And how brutal ! The many people who die when the Titanic sinks look real.