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What is this special? How long is it?
On National Geographic. Cameron is in a think tank with a bunch of experts to piece together a definitive account of the sinking. 2 hours.
What is this special? How long is it?
Sounds excellent, I shall make a note not to pirate it tomorrow.On National Geographic. Cameron is in a think tank with a bunch of experts to piece together a definitive account of the sinking. 2 hours.
What is this special? How long is it?
Sadness. Thursday totals were actually down from Wednesday.
Americans have terrible taste confirmed.
There's a sequence of three shots in Titanic hit the perfect blend of tragedy, action, narrative and spectacle, near the end. Right after the Captain's demise as the ocean bursts in around him, the action transitions from the melee for the boats to the rising rear of the ship as panic sends those still on the ship in that direction. A shot panning up from scores fighting for the boats, tilting up. Then a mind-boggling shot moving along the length of the ship, and finally a shot from that point over, zooming in on our heroes and re-establishing the narrative focus on them, all set to an incredible cue in the score (re-used for the dome implosion).
In all my viewings I always end up with tears crawling down my face after those shots, partly from the build of emotion from the Nearer My God to Thee sequence, and partly from the sheer awe of those moments. The terms 'epic' and 'spectacle' and 'scale' are tossed around a lot when discussing Titanic, and they fit, but I've never seen anything, in any film, that really hit it out of the park as hard as Cameron does in those moments, where the sheer scale of it all is just overwhelming, beautiful, and terrifying.
Is it streaming on the interwebz?
Don't think so, it's on National Geographic Channel though. Pretty good so far though... and yes, Cameron being Cameron
Been a few times that someone else chimes in and I expect Cameron to backhand them.
Beard Guy loves his Titanic.
Yeah. That was a bit ridiculous when he started crying. He really needs to get a live. He's too obsessed with a chunk of metal at the bottom of the ocean.
I wonder if Cameron will update his film to make the ship break up part more accurate now. He already messed with the filters so why not? :x
DAMMIT WHY CANT I SEE THIS.
lol @ the iceberg idea.
I've honestly always wondered why this would not have been an option if it's as big it was supposed to have been.
Climate change PSA came out of nowhere.
That was enjoyable enough. I kind of wish they'd focused more on the actual discussion as oppose to Cameron narrating footage.
For me it's always the 'Unwilling to stay, unwilling to leave moment.' The perfect choice of shots. Horner's score coming in at exactly the right moment and the sound design with that acute focus on hearing the ropes going taught every time the boat is lowered really puts you in the boat with Rose and underscores the utter helplessness of seeing what very convincingly looks like the last dying memory of a loved one. The flare going off in the background is the magic that re-enforces a very personal and intimate moment that ultimately drowns out the very large-scale chaos around them.
That's the scene that nails the romantic and the tragic, absolutely. I'm a wreak by the time it's through; it's so perfect in each moment. The gradual fade out of the sound as the music moves to the fore and the emotion of what's happening starts to hit home. The cutting, filming and score as they work their way through the ship to meet is simply perfect. Gawd.
It, the dissolve on the flying scene, the pull back off Rose after the sinking, and the shots I described are probably my favorite in the film, the ones that hit me the hardest.
There's something in the composition of this shot that gets me every time. I can't put my finger on it, but more than any other in the film it's where I really get a lump in my throat (it progresses from there). The video quality I found on youtube was crummy, but it's this one:
Mine is the last scene, on the grand staircase, when Leo turns around and everyone claps... I can usually hold out until then, and even watching in 3D I had to focus on 'other' aspects of that scene to stop myself..
That scene destroys everyone. It seems cheesy on a surface narrative level, but the execution and idea of this random dying dream sequence is goddamn inspired. I just think 'Where the hell did he pull that out of?'
I dunno. I never came close to crying in Titanic. The crummy dialogue really does it in for me, I think, and takes me out of the moment. Everything else is great, though: music, shot composition, set design, etc.That's the scene that nails the romantic and the tragic, absolutely. I'm a wreak by the time it's through; it's so perfect in each moment. The gradual fade out of the sound as the music moves to the fore and the emotion of what's happening starts to hit home. The cutting, filming and score as they work their way through the ship to meet is simply perfect. Gawd.
It, the dissolve on the flying scene, the pull back off Rose after the sinking, and the shots I described are probably my favorite in the film, the ones that hit me the hardest.
There's something in the composition of this shot that gets me every time. I can't put my finger on it, but more than any other in the film it's where I really get a lump in my throat (it progresses from there). The video quality I found on youtube was crummy, but it's this one:
There are scenes with poor dialog in the film, but that's not one of them. It's all very well played; and besides, the heart of the sequence is wordless. There are certainly some clunkers in the film but you've got a heart of iron if that scene doesn't get you even a bit.I dunno. I never came close to crying in Titanic. The crummy dialogue really does it in for me, I think, and takes me out of the moment. Everything else is great, though: music, shot composition, set design, etc.
I was kind of using that scene as a pivot to talk about the movie overall and how, despite my feelings about the dialogue, the movie is able to pull its punches because it's very good at doing almost everything else (music, etc). I said in my first post coming out of the movie that, despite whatever the movie lacks in executing its love story, the ending is magnificent and it does tug at your heart. It's my favorite "love scene" out of the entire movie, actually (when neither character speaks, lol).There are scenes with poor dialog in the film, but that's not one of them. It's all very well played; and besides, the heart of the sequence is wordless. There are certainly some clunkers in the film but you've got a heart of iron if that scene doesn't get you even a bit.
This is an amazing article on the 3D conversion process and techniques.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124965-titanic-how-do-you-convert-a-movie-to-3d-anyway
Gonna go this Saturday night April 14th to the last showing. It'll be exactly 100 years to the day when it hit the iceberg and sunk.Should be really close to the exact time too. 2:20am.
CGI render of the Titanic sinking from the NGC special last night here.
CGI render of the Titanic sinking from the NGC special last night here.
I just love people calling Cameron an asshole because he's enthusiastic, knows his shit and has an ego (and all of us do lol). Seen the movie today, have seen it about ten times before and it was like seeing it for the very first time.
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This is a masterpiece, those who say otherwise are, I fear, missing the point.