Titanic.

pretty much.

if you see a news story about a bus crash where ten people have dies - do you really think that much about it?

now suppose you see a news story about a bus crash where ten people have died including someone you know - my money says you think a bit more about it than the first crash.

it's human nature - there's no getting away from it.

Iain
 
I saw some of the deleted scenes for Titanic ages ago on a TV special (never got round to buying the DVD..) and there was a section in the film about the attempts to get through to the other ship. If my memory serves me right, they actually had the crew of the other ship ignoring them blatantly, saying something a long the lines of "the Titanic is unsinkable, what a joke". I could be wrong, but there definately was more filmed about the SOS signals.

They cut it out because they felt it was too long as it was, and they wanted to focus on the disaster more..
 
I completely disagree with how they portrayed William Murdoch in these last scenes. Just for the record...

20TH ADMITS TITANIC MISTAKE

In response to an outpouring of complaints by the family of Titanic's First Officer, William Murdoch, about how he is portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie, an executive of 20th Century Fox has conceded that "there is no irrefutable link" between the movie character and the real Murdoch. Murdoch, who drowned in the disaster, has been honored with a plaque in the town hall of Dalbeattie, Scotland, his home town, for reportedly showing great heroism in his final hours and, in the end, giving his life jacket to another passenger. Accounts of his valor have been confirmed by historians. In the film, however, he is shown shooting passengers trying to board lifeboats and then turning his gun on himself. As reported in today's (Wednesday) London Times Fox executive vice president Scott Neeson has told Murdoch's relatives that he was happy to set the record straight and that the studio will contribute to an $8,500 memorial fund for Murdoch -- but he stopped short of issuing an apology. 08-Apr-98

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It's the Jack and Rose bit that I always find hard to take when I see this film, but I agree that the rest is done really well and is as "real life" as it could be I guess.

Although the family of the officer who shoots himself after killing the Irish guy weren't too pleased when the film came out if I remember rightly. Did that bit actually happen ?

Also, there is no mention of the "Californian" in this film. By all accounts, this ship saw the distress flares and could have helped had they realised the gravity of the situation. The guy sending distress flares on Titanic also knew there was another ship in the area as he could see it and it was them (the Californian) whose attention he was trying to get.

For some reason, they didn't investigate.

Why wasn't this in the film ?
 
He's always been interested I read. Not sure whether he'd been to the wreck before he was interested in making a Titanic film though. He's done loaRAB of dives to the wreck and during these dives they had to actually invent new camera techniques to film inside the ship etc.
 
In 1912 you could travel on land from Lisbon to Moscow with no passport. Passports and border control weren't around then and your name was just taken instead.
 
Oh, I've 1/2 paid attention to it about 5 other times in addition to the 6 I have actually watched, usually paying attention from the moment it starts going down and, remarkably, I still manage to blub like a baby. :o Jesus, I only have to listen to the soundtrack sometimes and I'm off. :cry:
 
The scenes in "A Night To Remember" between the Watch and the Captain of the Californian do make very uncomfortable viewing.

They're along the lines of:

Watch: "That large steamer seems to be firing distress rockets!"

Captain: "They're probably just company signals, put it in the log."

Watch: "I think I can see a light sending a morse code distress signal"

Captain: "It is probably just a light on the mast head, doubt it is anything to worry about. Put it in the log"

Watch: "Now it seems to listing!"

Captain: "It's probably the angle you're looking at it from. Put it in the log."

Watch: "It seems to have gone now!" (They've unknowingly watch the Titanic sink, without doing anything to help)

Captain: "That's ok then, put it in the log."

Must have been hard to deal with when they found out the truth.
 
I see where you're coming from but it doesn't work for me in the case of this film.

I have to care about the characters in a film, or a book for that matter, and nothing about Jack and Rose or Rose's awful fiance and even worse mother made me that bothered about them in the film. Had it been handled differently, I might have done.

Rose's situation was certainly worthy of a lot of attention, but why have her fall for the first bit of rough that came her way ?

Why did they have to concentrate so much the action on the two people who were wetter than the sea itself.
 
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