James Cameron truley outdid himself. The epic movie TITANIC, the most expensive movie made at the time, shows how dedicated and non-willing to sacrifice quality Cameron is. The movie took a long time, over 200 million dollars, and much collaboration to get it done. This article explains some of the efforts Cameron put into the film.
One of the main challenges he faced was how to make a [almost] real-life Titanic ship, film it, controllably, and sink it. Since there wasn't a studio big enough to do all the filming in, Cameron had to actually have a 9/10 scale model of the Titanic built. Trying to limit the time it would take to make it, he only filmed from one side, having the other side raw- pipes/scaffolding and all. This shows that he was a very creative director, trying to make all ends meet and still have the final product be amazing. The facts that he hired Titanic historians to overview the interior of the model ship, actually took 12 dangerous dives to the actual Titanic shipwreck site, and spent so much time and money making it look acurate historically show the dedication he has as a filmmaker and how articulate he is in his ideals.
I also believe that Cameron stepped out of his box on this film. In the past, he had made mostly sci-fi thriller type of movies. Titanic seems to be drastically different, with a passionate love story at the heart of the movie. It shows that Cameron is able to produce an enormously sleek, beautiful film after all of his alien-type movies. I'm very curious to see if any of his techniques from Titanic will carry over into some of his other films!
One of the main challenges he faced was how to make a [almost] real-life Titanic ship, film it, controllably, and sink it. Since there wasn't a studio big enough to do all the filming in, Cameron had to actually have a 9/10 scale model of the Titanic built. Trying to limit the time it would take to make it, he only filmed from one side, having the other side raw- pipes/scaffolding and all. This shows that he was a very creative director, trying to make all ends meet and still have the final product be amazing. The facts that he hired Titanic historians to overview the interior of the model ship, actually took 12 dangerous dives to the actual Titanic shipwreck site, and spent so much time and money making it look acurate historically show the dedication he has as a filmmaker and how articulate he is in his ideals.
I also believe that Cameron stepped out of his box on this film. In the past, he had made mostly sci-fi thriller type of movies. Titanic seems to be drastically different, with a passionate love story at the heart of the movie. It shows that Cameron is able to produce an enormously sleek, beautiful film after all of his alien-type movies. I'm very curious to see if any of his techniques from Titanic will carry over into some of his other films!
3 comments:
I like that you referred to the film as "sleek." It made me smile. I also think it's great to learn about all of the background work that went into the making of Titanic. Sometimes I get the feeling that people write it off as just a hopelessly romantic story whose film doesn't have much substance. But in reality, enormous amounts of research and preparation went in to this film. When you spoke of all of the work in your blogpost - especially about the 9/10 model of the Titanic - it just boggles my mind to think of it. Clearly Cameron put his whole life and effort into the making of this film. And it was definitely worth it.
seriously! but didn't you kind of think that... 9/10ths, really? why not just make it full scale? that did a little bit frustrate me. But I guess 1/10 is probably a lot of big and additional money, blah blah blah. And sleek- I really don't know how else to describe all the like smooth camera moves and like the fast tracking across like establishing shots- you know? And I guess I just think sleek is an under-used word, but that's another story.
Whitney!, question: would you really want someone to recreate the Titanic before we do, and if he had done it exact scale the ship wouldnt have even been in the north atlantic, and don't you think that a little sac relig!
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