James Cameron's Titanic
by Ed W. Marsh
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Author: Ed W. MarshPhotographer: Douglas Kirkland
Foreword: James Cameron
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-12-10
ISBN: 0067575161
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Harper
Book Reviews of James Cameron's Titanic
Book Review: What a great tribute!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a reminder of the sacrifices it took to make the movie and of the movie itself. I have always felt a certain soul connection to the Titanic and its real life tragedy, as much as an outsider can. When I look through the book I am reminded of the many layers of "Titanic". Just as I am reminded of the whole experience of watching the movie... the roller coaster of emotions I felt as I sat back in my warm, dry, and safe seat in the darkness of the theater. What made the whole ordeal so much more compelling to me as I watched it was knowing that the film wasn't some fictional piece of work Cameron grabbed from thin air, but rather that the ship Titanic was real and that the tragedy aboard it was real, that over 1500 people-woman, chilren and men-lost their lives and loves. The movie opened my eyes and my heart so much further than expected in historical and personal ways. For example: through the fictional, yet very real on screen love story of Rose and Jack we were all allowed to enter into all the other true life non-fictional love stories and losses of loves on the Titanic. For two weeks solid "Titanic" haunted my mind and invaded my psyche and heart completely. Now the book acts as a reminder of my own personal awakenings. Just thinking of any given part of the tragedy fictional and non-fictional brought/brings me to tears. I can see the old couple, the "lower class" mother in bed with her two children, the countless frozen bodies bobbing in the ocean, and the mother frozen with her baby in arms. As I can still see Jack as Rose pries his hands from her own, releasing him to the sea as he slips under the blanket of icey cold water into the very depths of the heart of ocean. Roses decision to not give up was a difficult one for her, but as long as she lived so did Jack deep in her heart. To watch Rose at 100 years or so old stand on the edge of the ship and drop "The Heart of the Ocean" into the heart of the ocean, represented Roses and Jacks love story coming full circle. She indeed did live to be an old woman who had pursued positive adventures as shown in her pictures and indeed she did die an old woman warm in a bed that night (as Jack had said/made her promise she would) and finally Rose indeed was with Jack once again, this time Eternally. To know such love most people only dream of. Yet, I believe that we are each capable of creating our own form of pure love to some degree or another for ourselves. So many scenes stick in my mind, fictional or not. I have a renewed awakening to the souls that in real life lost their lives on the Titanic and to what Rose and Jack represent. We each have a story, our own loves and loses of loves. How nice that once in a while someone like James Cameron uses their skills to bring a good offering to the public. Whether "Titanic" is seen and accepted for just itself, an overwhelming piece of tragic history, or it is seen as "just" a place and time for an amazing love story to unfold, it is a true gift to us all. Personally, I remember holding my huband's hand and feeling a renewed love and desire to have a better marriage, family and life. We both walked out into the daylight hand and hand with one thing on our mind, our 17 month old son being watched by my father. All we wanted right then was to hold our son and to love him as deeply as we could for as long as we have on this Earth and then some. Each day truly is a blessing and a gift. We are each significant no matter what class of "deck" we sleep on. We each can bring something wonderful to this world if we choose and when we leave it sooner or later, our passings are grieved to one extent or another by someone. Life truly isn't about riches of wealth, but rather riches of the heart. May we all live and love fuller and better. What a great tribute-the making of the movie as shown in the book-to the lives that were lost and to those who were forever changed that day, and to love and life in general.
Summary of James Cameron's Titanic
Some jump, some fall, each dotting the water's surface like the period at the end of a sentence. Then, the stern slips under the water, plunging everyone into a coldness so intense it is indistinguishable from fire. Ten minutes.Twenty minutes. The inchoate wail of 1500 souls slowly fades to individual cries from the darkness. We know you can hear us! Save one life! 700 survivors stand by in lifeboats built for 1200, afraid to act for fear of getting swamped. They tell themselves that the voices from the water do not belong to their husbands or their loved ones. They are merely the cries of the damned....-- From James Cameron's Titanic
James Cameron's Titanic is a book conceived on the epic scale of the movie--not only do the massive page size and sky-high production values of the book do justice to the big ship, they give Kate Winslet's titanic hats an impact comparable to what the big screen gives them. It's also fun to get the effect of exploring a set as vast, complex, and fiscally and physically dangerous as the one Cameron created for Titanic the film. He is Hollywood's answer to Ahab, so he deserves a great big book.
Nor will fans be disappointed to hear Winslet break character--she plays an upper-class lass from the stuffiest circles--and explain how she helped her costar prepare for their first scene together, in which she stripped for her dishy portrait. "I was naked in front of Leo on the first day of shooting," says Winslet in the book. "She had no shame with it," says DiCaprio, who apparently despises shame. "She wanted to break the ice a little beforehand, so she flashed me. I wasn't prepared for that, so she had one up on me. I was pretty comfortable after that."
While the stars were getting acquainted and the wild-eyed director was figuring out historically unprecedented ways of blending live footage with computer imagery ("Cheat the size of the tugboats 10 percent smaller ... It will make the ship look even more majestic as it leaves Southampton!"), the core cast of 150 extras was taking a crash course in manners. Etiquette coach and choreographer Lynne Hockney even taught the Core (as they were called) that there was a proper way to laugh. "It was the Gilded Age, a time of the grand hostess, lavish parties and tireless pleasure-seeking," Hockney says in the book. "And each social class was scrambling to reach the one above it. This made proper behavior terribly important.... You cannot slouch in a corset, for example. You perch." One wishes there was a frame or two from the Hockney film running on a tape loop in the wardrobe building, Titanic Etiquette: A Time-Traveler's Guide. If it were available for sale, people would be buying it.
On the other hand, there's always the movie. Or this book. --Tim Appelo
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