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Topic History of: Titanic again on Ch4 Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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The Cat
Yes, back to "Titanic". I haven't seen the movie all the way through but it seems to have been made more as a fictitious love story rather than an accurate account of events. One of my favourite movies is "A Night To Remember" starring Kenneth More. Apparently that earlier version was more of a docu-drama and so much closer to reality. Rather similar to how "Tora Tora Tora" was more about historical events than "Pearl Harbour" which was mainly a love story.
Metal Mickey
robbiex wrote: ... we all know what happens in the end anyway, so it's totally predictable.
Well, you know the boat sinks at least. One of the cleverest things about the film is the way it's structured, starting in the present day, telling us something true we didn't know (that the boat broke in half while sinking), then introducing us to characters we can invest in when the inevitable occurs. It's not a great film (the dialogue is some of the worst I've heard in a major film) but it definitely works.
The Cat
Ah ... remember it well.
Here is that wonderful moment.
veritas
JC wrote: Nice that someone corrected my spelling. I always spell it as Greece. Maybe it's a subconscious block against the actual spelling, protecting me from it's full damaging influence.
I was a teenager when it was first released. I cherish the lasting memory of Bob Geldof on TOTP slowly tearing a photo of John Travolta in half when the Boomtown Rats replaced him at No.1. JT's part was played by Luke Goss when I saw it on stage.
Now I like it if Geldorf tore up Travolta's pic.
I think people mistake an inane story with great toe-tapping music.
But I like Joseph & his Technicolour Dreamcoat so who am I to talk ?
JC
robbiex wrote: JC wrote:
I was a teenager when it was first released. I cherish the lasting memory of Bob Geldof on TOTP slowly tearing a photo of John Travolta in half when the Boomtown Rats replaced him at No.1. JT's part was played by Luke Goss when I saw it on stage.
If you hated it so much, then why did you go and see it on stage, particularly with the blonde balding Luke Goss in the role of the teenage Danny.
I didn't really hate it. I just was fed up of hearing about it everywhere I went - school, buses, trains, shops, cafes, etc. It was over 20 years before I could bring myself to go see the stage version which was a different experience from going to the movie, because it was a live event and live theatre has an atmosphere of it's own. Luke Goss was a tiny figure on the stage but I assume he wore a wig, not that this was an issue for me. I was way up in the balcony and it could have been anyone down there.
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I always spell it as Greece. Maybe it's a subconscious block against the actual spelling, protecting me from it's full damaging influence.