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  Titanic (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One of the survivors of the Titanic, Rose DeWitt Bukater, who had heard of the exploration of the wreck on television and is flown to the boat where the search is being led from to tell of what she remembers to help the search.
The Titanic had reports that the waters in the Atlantic they were sailing in were full of icebergs, but they ignored these warnings and proceeded at full speed as shown in the movie.
At the very beginning of the movie a septune recreation is used to recreate the scene when the actual people left the European coast on Titanic giving it distinction from the rest of the events of the film.
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  Titanic Movie
Titanic may have warned our century of the pitfalls of unfounded arrogance and faith in nearly everything, but it did not discourage the human penchant for exploration, innovation and creativity.
As Titanic slipped beneath the sea, those in the lifeboats heard the cries of the remaining survivors.
The Titanic sinking remains a compelling story, though, capturing our imaginations and reminding us of how, on the night of April 14, 1912, one world passed into history as another was being born.
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 Titanic
In 1912, the Titanic, a steamship in England's White Star Line, set out on its doomed maiden voyage, with 2,227 enthusiastic passengers and crew members on board for the history-making trip from Southampton, England, to New York City.
The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship.
Titanic boasted electric elevators, a swimming pool, a squash court, a Turkish Bath, and a gymnasium with a mechanical horse and mechanical camel.
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 Titanic (movie) - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Titanic (the movie) is a feature film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Orlando Bloom and Jet Lee.
The movie was released to theaters (the few that would take it) on September 11, 1973.
The producers deny any relationship between the movie and the ship called the Titanic, saying that the film was clearly meant to be about a Teen Titan named Nick, but the scripts got mixed up during post-production.
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 Movie Photos: Titanic
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The movie is both a great love story told with the disaster as a backdrop and a portrayal of one of the world's most memorable disasters made real and personal by seeing it through the eyes of two young lovers.
TITANIC is one of the few long films that doesn't suffer because of it.
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 The Reincarnation of Titanic
We've talked to two of the consultants on the epic movie, estimated to be the most expensive in movie history with a $200 million price tag.
Both Lynch and Marschall were hired as consultants on the movie after Cameron read their book, "Titanic in Illustrated History." Although Cameron is known to be somewhat of a tyrant to work with, his reputed ill behaviour was spared on them, they say.
Over the years, he's acquired parts of the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, and molds of his pieces were made for the interior set of the ship.
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 Titanic Movie Review
The ultimate irony of the story is that a young man's lucky hand of poker brings him in contact with a young woman who feels that she has nothing to live for, while on a doomed voyage.
Cameron fixates on these two characters, and it is their story, not the sinking of the ship, that is at the forefront of "Titanic"-- he has always put the relationships of his characters in the foreground, such as the Ripley-Newt relationship in "Aliens", or the Bud-Lindsey reconciliation in "The Abyss".
Whether it is the spectacular visualization of the Titanic's final death throes or something as minor as the icy breath of the shivering survivors, this film is a testament to how technology can contribute to dramatic storytelling.
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 Titanic (1997 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Titanic was number-one at the box office for four months and became the top-grossing film of all time.
It was the second movie to win that number (the first was Ben-Hur with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King matching the record in 2004).
Titanic was first released to DVD in 1999 in a widescreen-only (non-anamorphic) single disc edition with no special features.
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 Kate Winslet: Titanic - Movie
This movie is fairly descent but is definitely not worth best picture or the other millions of awards that it won.
Oh, and the fact that a movie this lousy is the one that won the most money ever (over 1 billion dollars) is pathetic.
Braveheart, the green mile, the shawnshank redemption, the hurricane, and movies like that should have won this amount of movie, and not a movie like this.
www.superiorpics.com /kate_winslet/movie/1997_titanic.html   (708 words)

  
 Phil's Titanic Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Titanic was equipped with four 400 kilowatt electrical generators, which meant that passengers could use electric lamps and heaters in their rooms.
The Titanic engineers were lost to a man whilst keeping the generators going, providing power for the lights and radio to help others escape, right up to within minutes of when she sank.
The Titanic was originally meant to sail in March 1912, but the collision between the Olympic and the cruiser, Hawke, and the need to repair the hull and replace one of the Olympic's propellor shafts delayed the completion of the Titanic because Harland and Wolff had to carry out the repairs.
titanic.pottsoft.com   (1631 words)

  
 Titanic movie review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Jack Dawson (Leonardo Di Caprio) is a young boy who wins passage to America aboard the Titanic in a lucky game of poker (upon boarding the ship, Jack tells to his friend that they are "the luckiest sons of bitches in the world").
In the movie, this story is presented to the audience as a flashback.
The movie is slow at times, but reaches its climax when the ship begins to sink.
www.ram.org /ramblings/movies/titanic.html   (496 words)

  
 Un-Official Raise The Titanic!  Movie-Goofs Page
It runs from the prow (where Jack and Rose kissed in the 1997 TITANIC movie) aft to roughly where the ship's name is. This railing is "solid", and I have never seen it in any photo.
After the Titanic is raised and as the cameras are panning across the decks and finally past the bridge, you can see the horizon on which the tank and the ocean meet.
Including that the words "Titanic" and "Liverpool" on the stern were painted on, and not done in raised lettering as shown in the film.
www.raisethetitanic.com /movie/goofs.html   (1528 words)

  
 Titanic - Movie Glimpse
In the case of the Titanic disaster, the entire English-speaking world was shaken; and for us, at least, the tragedy can be regarded as a watershed between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Rose calls the Titanic, "the Ship of Dreams", and yet to her it was a slave ship taking her home to America.
During the worship service on board the Titanic, Rose (the true church) is surrounded by Cal (the devil) and her mother (the world).
www.movieglimpse.com /movies/titanic.htm   (2017 words)

  
 Titanic Movie Review
On board, Rose feels the stifling trappings of high-society's expectations, and resolves to escape from it all by throwing herself off the Titanic's stern, but is saved from her self-proclaimed fate by Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a passenger in third-class ("steerage", as it's referred to), who talks her out of jumping.
This by itself may have been largely compulsory in a film about the Titanic, but it transcends this status by putting these characters in direct conflict with the ship's crewmembers who strive to maintain order and assure that the first-class passengers are placed aboard the lifeboats before anyone else.
The interiors of the Titanic are nearly breathtaking with their elaborate trimmings and intricate detail, and one has very little doubt that the layouts are authentic.
www.killermovies.com /t/titanic/reviews/5xd.html   (1137 words)

  
 Flipside Movie Emporium: Titanic Movie Review
Titanic was released in December 1997, to ecstatic reviews and tremendous box-office success; a few months later it was crowned the Academy's Best Picture.
Upon seeing the DVD box for Titanic, they snickered and one called it "pure DiCaprio cheese." Obviously, it requires time -- usually years -- to accurately gauge the creative impact of a film.
Four years ago it was impossible to emancipate the picture from its surrounding media circus, but now it's easier to see it for what it is -- and easier to feel confident that yes, it is indeed a great film.
www.flipsidemovies.com /titanic.html   (543 words)

  
 Titanic Movie Story
It is said that the Titanic was carrying cursed Egyptian artifacts and the mummy of an unidentified pharaoh on its way to a museum in America.
As it was put aboard the Titanic the dock workers dropped it breaking one of their colleges legs.
He remembered the tragic history of the Titanic that had sunk on the same day and hour twenty three years before.
www.psychics.co.uk /coincidences/titanic_movie.html   (702 words)

  
 The Grave of the Titanic
One of the things that makes the Titanic so fascinating is that she represented the best of technology when she set sail on her ill-fated voyage in 1912, and it took the best of technology in the form of sonar, satellite tracking, and deep-dive technology to locate her grave 73 years later.
Although her crew had been warned about icebergs several times that evening by other ships navigating through that region, she was traveling at near top speed of about 20.5 knots when one grazed her side.
The remains of the Titanic were found in 1985 by Dr. Robert Ballard, an oceanographer and marine biologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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 ENTERTAINMENT NEWS | KHOU.com | News for Houston, Texas
NEW YORK — The release of the blockbuster that made her a household name, "Titanic," should have been a happy time for Kate Winslet.
She recalls in the Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006's Parade magazine that when "Titanic" was released she was mourning the loss of her first love, Stephen Tredre.
Tredre was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1994, and died three years later during the opening week of "Titanic." The two had ended their relationship but "talked every day," she says.
www.khou.com /sharedcontent/features/printwire/110306cckrcwEntTitanic.bccc54.html   (385 words)

  
 The Unknown Movies - unknownmovies.com
Naturally, the obvious source for inspiration is the James Cameron Titanic movie, with two young adults from different social backgrounds in love, though their sexes are swapped in a vain effort to hide the inspiration.
When the movie is not focused on the slight and inane love subplot (which is another of those where the characters are just in love with the other's looks), it's primarily focused on either dumb animal shenanigans or people tripping and bumbling around and making themselves look even more idiotic than they already are.
The first indication of this is with the opening five minutes of the movie consisting of footage consisting of the sinking of the Titanic and the passengers trying to stay alive - and we see this same footage near the end of the movie.
www.badmovieplanet.com /unknownmovies/reviews/rev317.html   (1757 words)

  
 TITANIC (The Movie) - by Jim Hull   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Both these things can happen because this movie so thoroughly involves you in that terrible sea disaster that you come away drenched with the shock and horror of a real experience.
Two days after I saw it, I awoke in the middle of the night with visions of the Titanic's stern rearing into the dark sky, screaming passengers hanging from railings or sliding off the decks to their deaths, as the broken ship begins its final plunge.
It's quite a trick Cameron's pulled off, this double invention, this new film paradigm, and he and his studios deserve the hundreds of millions of dollars that have poured in from record-setting ticket sales, and they deserve all the awards and kudos that have been lavished upon them.
www.titanic-nautical.com /RMS-Titanic-Movie.html   (747 words)

  
 Linux Helps Bring Titanic to Life | Linux Journal
Set on the Titanic during its first and final voyage across the Atlantic ocean, this tale had to be recreated on the screen in all the splendor and drama of both the ship and the tragedy.
Since building a full-scale model of the Titanic would have been prohibitively expensive, only a portion of the ship was built full size (by the production staff), and miniatures were used for the rest of the scenes.
During the work on Titanic the facility had approximately 350 SGI CPUs, 200 DEC Alpha CPUs and 5 terabytes of disk all connected by a 100Mbps or faster network.
www.linuxjournal.com /article/2494   (3279 words)

  
 Titanic -vs - The Phantom Menace
One of the questions on the minds of many movie fans this summer is if The Phantom Menace will Beat Titanic's Box Office Records.
One graph will compare the weekend domestic box office gross of the two movies, by week of release.
Note: For Titanic, weekends 5, 9 and 23 and for the Phantom Menace, weekend 2, represent extended holiday box office totals.
www.the-movie-times.com /thrsdir/titanicVSmenace.html   (292 words)

  
 Jim's FAQ about "Titanic" the movie
The new necklace was loaned to Celine Dion, who wore it during her performance of the movie's theme song at the Academy Awards in 1998.
So a turn to port was ordered by calling "hard a' starboard." Sources differ on whether the Titanic, like her contemporaries, had a direct-driven telemotor, which means turning the wheel counter-clockwise (toward the left) would cause the rudder to turn left, resulting in a turn to port.
At the end of the movie, when the elderly Rose is shown lying in bed and then joining Jack and all of the people that died on the Titanic, is she supposed to have died at that point, or just dreaming?
www.keyflux.com /titanic/mov_faq.htm   (2267 words)

  
 Raise the Titanic Movie -The 80s Rewind «
The Titanic Historical Society tried to get the production company to insert a scene of Edwina MacKenzie (Titanic Survivor) into that sequence by just filming her at her house at Hermosa Beach up against the sky, but the production people couldn't spare the $2500 to go there and film it.
The cowl vents were added on the Titanic model because the Athinai was not considered at the time, to be scrapped and they were to be left on.
Unknown to the writer of the novel and movie producers, the Titanic is not intact and lies in two sections on the ocean floor.
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 Titanic Movie: 1997 James Cameron's Titanic
The record setting movie "Titanic" is based on the true story of the Titanic and includes the love interest of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
Titanic had tied the 1950 Black and White film "All About Eve" starring Bette Davis as the most nominated film in Oscar history (Academy Awards held in 1951).
Titanic cruised for 15 consecutive weeks at number 1 before moving down to the number 2 spot.
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 Pete's Titanic Page
I have always been a huge fan of movies and especially the work of James Cameron which is why I created this site.
This is by far his biggest movie and I want to be there to give you all the information related to this incredible film.
Titanic are TM and © Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount Pictures.
www.petesmoviepage.com /Titanic   (173 words)

  
 Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - TITanic 2000 (1999)
When the actors fail to carry off the meager humor provided by their dialogue, the sound effects crew is kind enough to insert a wide variety of crude body noises to keep the frat boys chuckling.
That woman (Krause) just happens to be the girlfriend of a bombed-out rock-n-roller (who looks kinda like Howard Stern), and luckily for our vampire, she has just about had it with said beau, who ignores her need for monkey love and even her sexy strip-tease at the foot of the bed.
The discomfort reaches its climax when the ship begins to sink and the vampiress is finally able to convince her object of desire to give in and become one of the undead.
www.stomptokyo.com /movies/t/titanic-2000.html   (792 words)

  
 Movie Review: Titanic
The movie raises important questions about choices faced by the characters, as we see a wide range of behavior from the most honorable to the despicable.
It is interesting that the glimpses we get of Rose's life after the Titanic show her alone, though we meet her granddaughter and hear her refer to her husband.
Parents can have some very good discussions with teens about this movie by listening carefully and respectfully when they explain why it is important to them, as this is a crucial stage in their developing understanding of the adult world.
www.families-first.com /movies/titanic.htm   (947 words)

  
 S.O.S. Titanic - Moviefone
Titanic (1979) (TV) SOS Titanic on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
Titanic - Moviefone SOS Titanic - SOS Titanic movie details.
Halle was a hottie at the ceremony to celebrate her star on the Walk of Fame.
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