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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2009 5:41:58 GMT
So ........... I am one of the few people on the planet who has never seen Titanic. I found it online tonight in three parts. Loaded all of them and watched parts one and two. End of part two: Ship sinking fast. All the lifeboats have been deployed. On edge of seat. Click over to part three and ............................................... Rose comes to tell Jack that she's changed her mind ....... in Japanese. Where is part three?! Eeeeeee.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 5:57:23 GMT
My lips are sealed. I'm not telling you how it ends.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2009 6:56:01 GMT
Whew! Thank goodness I found the last part.
Terrible, terrible script, but Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio gave it their all and really pulled it off. Good entertainment.
Generally I don't care about those "the making of ..... " things, but it would be interesting to see how this movie was made because of the amazing effects.
Dumb quibble -- did the lights really stay on until the very end, as shown in the movie?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 10:44:03 GMT
Another movie about the sinking of the Titanic is A Night to Remember. I think it is far better then the aforementioned.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 12:00:48 GMT
I will always wonder if I had accepted the offer to be an extra in that movie, if I would have been all dressed up in the grand dining room, grimy in the steerage, or floating around with the styrofoam ice in the big water tank they used in Mexico. Maybe all three.
When I was in "Havana," I was all dressed up in a 1959 suit with slick hair in the casino, which I strolled around with my little 'wife' in a Jackie Kennedy outfit.
I also stood at the bar with my drinking buddies while Robert Redford tried to seduce Lena Olin in a booth.
All for nothing -- all on the cutting room floor!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2009 18:19:45 GMT
Aaarrgh! Do you have any photos from that stint? Not only could you have been floating around with the styrofoam ice, but you'd have been covered in that white dead-person makeup. I know people who were extras in the tv movie, Louisiana, (filmed in my home town) and they said that wool uniforms were used, which almost killed some of the people playing soldier in the Louisiana summer sun. Hmm. This is reminding me that I've seen neither Louisiana nor Havana.
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Post by Jazz on Jul 25, 2009 20:19:45 GMT
Titanic has its own website with everything you might possibly want to know, www.titanic.com/Bixa, there are a few documentaries about the making of the film, but I was fascinated by Last Mysteries of the Titanic. This was a two hour documentary on the Discovery channel in 2005. Cameron and his team went below again with his new specially developed cameras. He was alarmed at how quickly it was eroding and wanted to revisit and film what he could. There is footage of the opulent Turkish baths. It is a great documentary. www.discoverychannel.co.uk/top-20-ultimate-discovery/james-camerons-last-mysteries-of-the-titanic/index.shtmlA Night to Remember was much more moving. But, I saw it when I was very young and I didn't know the story of the Titanic. I do think that the lights stayed on. Men such as John Jacob Astor chose to give their places in the few boats to the women and children and go down with the ship, like 'gentlemen'.
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Post by Jazz on Jul 25, 2009 20:22:59 GMT
All for nothing -- all on the cutting room floor! Ah yes, but you went on to far greater glory on Any Port in a Storm.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2009 22:13:54 GMT
Oh, thank you for those links, Jazz. I did find this documentary: vodpod.com/watch/1244371-titanic-documentary-date-unknown. The quality is not very good, but it's fascinating because Titanic survivors are being interviewed. It's undated, but I'm guessing from the interviewer's hair style that it was done in the '80s. I've seen A Night to Remember at least a couple of times. Because of that, I was wondering if the detail of the band playing would be included. I have to confess that, watching Titanic last night, when the violinist played the first strains of "Nearer My God to Thee", I lost it.
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Post by bjd on Jul 27, 2009 13:43:57 GMT
Kerouac, don't regret being on the cutting room floor of Havana. I saw it and thought it was a terrible movie. It's a shame because I'm sure it could have been much better and concerns an important and interesting time.
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Post by imec on Jul 27, 2009 14:12:17 GMT
I had the pleasure of meeting this artist at his home in Gallatin Gateway on a trip to Montana last year. He and his family did in fact accept the offer to be extras in the movie and spent some time in Baja for the filming - they were, as kerouac puts it "dressed up in the grand dining room. He was so moved by the real story that he wrote a beautiful poem (and I don't even like poetry) about the Titanic which he hung on his wall (the poem, not the ship). I wish I had written it down or photographed it. Perhaps I'll email him.
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