Titanic By James Cameron: Plot And Reflection

12 February 2019, 8:10 p.m.

In 1912, the largest cruise ship in the world, the Titanic, sailed from the United Kingdom pier to the United States on its first and most only voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, the journey which was the first was also the last for the biggest liner.

James Cameron is a talented producer who created the masterpiece movie which is known as Titanic. The director, who had been going to create this movie for many years, managed to make it from such a significant and terrible event into a movie that is not only dramatic, but also romantic which made this movie the most discussed all over the world.

The plot that occurs in Titanic is familiar to everyone, the Titanic liner leaves the land and sets sail. There are several thousand excited passengers on the ship, and among all this crowd, poor painter Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and daughter of an impoverished aristocrat Rose (Kate Winslet) find each other. Their fate was ordained, they fell in love with each other, but their happiness “is broken;” a few days later, as they sail, they are torn apart by the collision of the liner with an iceberg.

In Titanic, well-chosen actors play their roles (Jack and Rose) and, generally speaking, the movie turned out very dramatically. The whole movie lasts almost 3 hours. Until the moment when the liner collided with the iceberg, the movie seemed to me a little bit boring. Of course, it had interesting moments such as: how Jack and Rose met each other, how Rose ran away from her boyfriend, and how the main characters danced on the lower tier. The whole interchange begins after the collision with an iceberg. The scenes were made very thoughtfully when the first pipe began to wring, then the Titanic split into two parts. The movie was very beautiful and touching.

If I did not know what movie that is, I would say this is an apocalypse, but in fact a large-scale and true story with a lot of details that help the movie to be interesting. A big role is played by minor characters who play in Titanic. The Captain, who locked himself in his cabin in anticipation of death with the ship, Mr. Smith immediately jumped into the dinghy for his rescue, an old couple who went to bed and tried to die together, as well as playing musicians who remained on the deck.

James Cameron tried to leave a tense atmosphere even when the ship sank. The dying Jack has a dialogue with Rose, the action that occurs in icy water makes it all more romantic. Our heroes spend their last moments together.

The movie ends with Rose in old age, and some fragments showing people diving to a sunken cruise liner, finding a lot of jewels on the deck. Brilliantly thoughtful scenes from the past and all the main halls/rooms, such a contrast gave a strong shape to what happened a hundred years ago, paying tribute to the past.

Works Cited

1. Titanic. Directed by James Cameron. Produced by James Cameron Jon Landau.
2. Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, 1997
3. Titanic facts. Eszlinger.com. Retrieved from http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html