TITANIC

Orientation
Titanic is an epic film, romance, and disaster of the United States production of 1997 which is
scenario and directed by James Cameron. The film tells the story of a love affair between Jack
and Rose (played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) derived from a different social status
on board the RMS Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912.

Cameron's inspiration in making this film was based on his appeal to the wreck of the RMS
Titanic, he wanted to convey the emotional message of the tragedy and thought that the love
story interspersed with the tragedy of death was essential to create the message. The production
of the film began in 1995. A reconstruction of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja
California. Scale models and Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) techniques are also used to
describe the seconds of sinking of the ship. The film is funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th
Century Fox and at the time was the most expensive film ever made, with a budget estimated at
about $ 200 million.

Titanic won 14 nominations in the Academy Awards in 1998 and won 11 of them, including
Best Picture and Best Director. The film is also crowned as the best-selling film of all time for 12
years and new in early 2010 this film was toppled by another James Cameron film entitled
Avatar. The famous pearl word distributed by this film is "nothing on earth can come between
them" or in Indonesian means "nothing in the earth can separate them". On April 4, 2012, a 3-
dimensional version of the film was re-released in theaters (often referred to as Titanic 3D) in
commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

SINOPSYS
In 1996, a treasure hunter named Brock Lovett and his team explored the wreck of the RMS
Titanic to search for a precious diamond necklace that was believed to be buried in the sea floor
along with the wreck. A chest was found and taken immediately to the surface to be opened.
Unfortunately, the chest contains no precious treasure but only a few sheets of paper have been
destroyed by the sea water. One of them is a painting of a naked woman dated 14 April 1912 and
signed "JD". The painting depicts a naked woman leaning against a chair. On the neck there is a
diamond necklace they are looking for: "Heart of the Ocean - Ocean Heart".
 Heart of the Ocean
Rose Dawson Calvert, a 101-year-old woman, watched the news on CNN about the discovery of
the painting. He contacted Brock Lovett, asked about the Heart of the Ocean and convinced
Lovett that the woman in the painting was himself. Lovett was interested and then, Rose
accompanied by her granddaughter, Lizzy Calvert, flew to the discovery site of the painting and
then told more about her experience aboard the Titanic.

In April 1912 Rose (then called the 17-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater) rode RMS Titanic as a
first-class passenger with her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fianc, Caledon Nathan
Hockley (Cal), a successful businessman in the industry. Rose does not love Cal, but her mother
forces her to marry her because of financial problems and family honors. At the same time, a
man named Jack Dawson won a third-grade ticket in a poker game and took part in a Titanic
voyage from Southampton to New York.

Aboard the ship, the unhappy Rose for her engagement as well as her restless life decided to
commit suicide by jumping off the stern of the ship. Jack sees the event and manages to block it.
Upon this, with Cal's objection inviting Jack to dinner with them for the next day at a first-class
banquet to repay his services. Long story short, Rose and Jack make friends and share their
experiences and stories of life. Jack tells of his adventures as a painter while Rose shares his
despair and suffering story. Their bonds grew stronger as they escaped from a first-class dinner
party and took part in a party of passengers in third grade. Gradually, the seeds of love began to
grow between them. Jack had fallen in love with Rose now, but Rose tended to ignore the
feelings between those who thicken their engagement and social status. But Rose finally decided
to give up all that and give her love to Jack. One night, Rose asks Jack to paint himself by
wearing only the Heart of the Ocean diamond necklace, the same painting invented by treasure
hunters 84 years later.
At the same time, Captain Edward J. Smith and his crew seemed to ignore the warning about an
iceberg that was in the path traversed by the Titanic. Instead, on the orders of Joseph Bruce
Ismay, director of the White Star Line company, Titanic is accelerating speed even at that time of
night. On the night of April 14, 1912, two vessel inspectors spotted a massive iceberg just ahead
of the Titanic line and told the pavilion. First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to be
deflected and the engine backed off, but it was too late; the right side of the Titanic hit an
iceberg, thus creating a series of holes beneath the waterline. Five vessel-supplied waterproof
compartments. It is clear that this ship is threatened, because this ship can not survive if more
than four compartments leak.

Meanwhile, Cal had known the connection between Jack and Rose. Cal is so angry and then
designs a trap to slander Jack as if stealing his diamond. Although Rose had a chance to save
herself earlier from a boat disaster by riding the lifeboat with her mother, she chose to escape
from Cal - as well as her chances of saving herself in a lifeboat - to find and save Jack who was
handcuffed to a pole on the lower deck by Lovejoy, feet Cal's hand. Jack was released and now
they have to get out of there quickly. They were faced with many obstacles including locked
doors and Cal's anger that forced them back onto the lower deck. They both made it to the upper
deck but the lifeboat was gone, forcing them along with hundreds of other frightened passengers
looking for space to survive before the Titanic sank entirely into the bottom of the Atlantic
Ocean. The ship's stern was erect and towering so that the heavy imbalance made the ship break
two and at 2:20 am on April 15, 1912, the bow of the ship sank completely to the bottom of the
sea and was followed by the stern.

Rose and Jack plunge into the very cold sea together with many other passengers. There is only
one sheet of board big enough for one, floating not far from them. Jack raised Rose to the board,
saving her lover's soul from the deadly cold, while she clung to the side of the board holding
Rose's hand to comfort her. Rose and Jack along with hundreds of other passengers waiting for
help from a lifeboat that never came on the water. When the officers in the lifeboats decided to
come help, almost all the passengers had been killed due to hypothermia. Rose is disappointed
that Jack can not survive and leave her. He said good-bye then removed Jack's body that had
frozen into the ocean, then Rose called for the lifeboat that next came to save her. Passengers
who survived on the rescue boat waited for four hours until RMS Carpathia, the closest ship that
managed to answer and reply to the radio signal Titanic, came to their rescue. Upon arriving in
New York, Rose changed her name to Rose Dawson and found that she still had the Heart of the
Ocean stored in Cal's suit pocket she wore.

Back as an old lady in 1996, Rose headed for the expedition boat deck and dumped the Heart of
the Ocean into the ocean, where Jack was killed 84 years ago. Turning to Rose's room, there
were photographs of her life's journey, including a picture of horseback riding in Santa Monica
Pier, just the way she had planned with Jack. Rose lay and dreamed in her sleep. In his dream, he
returns to the sea floor, Titanic appears in the dark and everything turns new. A waiter opened
the door to the main staircase and there were all the Titanic passengers who died on the night of
the smile on Rose. Just above the ladder stood Jack, facing the big clock where they both had
promised to meet before. Jack turns and smiles at Rose who returns aged 17 years and Rose
smiles back. They kissed in front of a clapping audience.

Evaluation
Titanic is a very good movie, it tells the story of love between Rose deWitt Bukater and Jack
Dawson that is done in secret. Jack Dowson is a great painter, he gets Titanic tickets for winning
gambles. Rose deWitt Bukater is a man born with wealth. They met on the bridge when Rose
wanted to try to kill herself. The relationship was not what they wanted because Rose already
had a fianc who was on the Titanic.
Titanic itself is a ship (Boat) is very luxurious at the time. Titanic sank because it hit a block of
ice at the poles. Titanic sank into two halves.
The love story on Titanic itself ended because Jack Dowson died of cold when saving Rose. The
Titanic story is the most moving story for all who see it.
In addition to winning a great deal of praise and great selling, Titanic also triumphed in
prestigious film awards, starting with the Golden Globe (8 nominations, 4 wins), BAFTA (10
nominations), Academy Awards (14 Nominations, 11 win), MTV Movie Awards (8
nominations, 2 wins), ACE "Eddie" Award, ASC Award, Art Directors Guild Award, Cinema
Audio Society Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award, The Directors Guild of America Award,
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and so on.
In addition to these awards, Titanic also entered in the category of AFI 100 Years ... series
released by the American Film Institute.

Interpretative Recount
Rose DeWitt Bukater's Love Story between (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo
DiCaprio) spring cruise ship Titanic. Love between two people is a beautiful walk along the
magnificent boat trip. The beauty of the love story of having problems with the presence of
disaster when the ship hits an iceberg that caused the sinking luxury liner. So, how does the love
story of Jack and Rose at a time when everyone panicked and tried to flee, respectively. The
story of the sinking of the Titanic's history inspired a play that is owned by a passenger who falls
in love with the other passengers. James Cameron made a very neat in size at the time. No
wonder that many people praising Cameron, particularly the use of visual effects that are good
and presentable at the time. Cameron worked the dramatization also support this movie. This
Film is also the starting point for a good acting performances by Kate Winslet and Leonardo
DiCaprio that film offers endlessly for them after this movie. Weakness of the film is less useful
messages to the audience. The message conveyed the story well. Message that can inspire the
audience somewhat less. The focus of the film is a visual effects and drama as entertainment in
movies. As a result, it may be a bit heavy so this movie phenomenon in 1997-1998 will continue
to be remembered of all time even though it won many awards. Like Forrest Gump's potential to
become the movie of all time which can be seen in every generation.

Evaluative Summation
Titanic garnered mainly positive reviews from film critics, and was positively reviewed by
audiences and scholars, who commented on the film's cultural, historical and political
impacts. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 88%
based on 178 reviews, with a rating average of 8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A
mostly unqualified triumph for Cameron, who offers a dizzying blend of spectacular visuals and
old-fashioned melodrama. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating to reviews, the
film has a score of 74 based on 34 critics, indicating "generally favorably reviews". Audiences
polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale, one of fewer
than 60 films in the history of the service to earn the score.
With regard to the film's overall design, Roger Ebert stated, "It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently
constructed, strongly acted, and spellbinding... Movies like this are not merely difficult to make
at all, but almost impossible to make well." He credited the "technical difficulties" with being "so
daunting that it's a wonder when the filmmakers are also able to bring the drama and history into
proportion" and "found [himself] convinced by both the story and the sad saga".[112] He named it
his ninth best film of 1997. On the television program Siskel & Ebert, the film received "two
thumbs up" and was praised for its accuracy in recreating the ship's sinking; Ebert described the
film as "a glorious Hollywood epic" and "well worth the wait," and Gene Siskel found Leonardo
DiCaprio "captivating". James Berardinelli stated, "Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and
intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just
watch Titanic, you experience it. It was named his second best film of 1997. Almar Haflidason
of the BBC wrote that "the sinking of the great ship is no secret, yet for many exceeded
expectations in sheer scale and tragedy" and that "when you consider that [the film] tops a bum-
numbing three-hour running time, then you have a truly impressive feat of entertainment
achieved by Cameron. Joseph McBride of Boxoffice Magazine concluded, "To
describe Titanic as the greatest disaster movie ever made is to sell it short. James Cameron's
recreation of the 1912 sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner is one of the most magnificent pieces of
serious popular entertainment ever to emanate from Hollywood.
The romantic and emotionally charged aspects of the film were equally praised. Andrew L.
Urban of Urban Cinefile said, "You will walk out of Titanic not talking about budget or running
time, but of its enormous emotive power, big as the engines of the ship itself, determined as its
giant propellers to gouge into your heart, and as lasting as the love story that propels it. Owen
Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly described the film as, "A lush and terrifying spectacle of
romantic doom. Writer-director James Cameron has restaged the defining catastrophe of the
early 20th century on a human scale of such purified yearning and dread that he touches the
deepest levels of popular moviemaking." Janet Maslin of The New York Times commented that
"Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the first spectacle in decades that honestly invites comparison
to Gone With the Wind. Richard Corlissof Time magazine, on the other hand, wrote a mostly
negative review, criticizing the lack of interesting emotional elements.
Some reviewers felt that the story and dialogue were weak, while the visuals were
spectacular. Kenneth Turan's review in the Los Angeles Times was particularly scathing.
Dismissing the emotive elements, he stated, "What really brings on the tears is Cameron's
insistence that writing this kind of movie is within his abilities. Not only is it not, it is not even
close.", and later claimed that the only reason that the film won Oscars was because of its box
office total. Barbara Shulgasser of The San Francisco Examiner gave Titanic one star out of four,
citing a friend as saying, "The number of times in this unbelievably badly written script that the
two [lead characters] refer to each other by name was an indication of just how dramatically the
script lacked anything more interesting for the actors to say. Also, filmmaker Robert
Altman called it "the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life". In his 2012
study of the lives of the passengers on the Titanic, historian Richard Davenport-Hines said,
"Cameron's film diabolized rich Americans and educated English, anathematizing their
emotional restraint, good tailoring, punctilious manners and grammatical training, while it
made romantic heroes of the poor Irish and the unlettered".
Titanic suffered backlash in addition to its success. In 2003, the film topped a poll of "Best Film
Endings", and yet it also topped a poll by Film 2003 as "the worst movie of all time". The British
film magazine Empire reduced their rating of the film from the maximum five stars and an
enthusiastic review, to four stars with a less positive review in a later edition, to accommodate its
readers' tastes, who wanted to disassociate themselves from the hype surrounding the film, and
the reported activities of its fans, such as those attending multiple screenings. In addition to this,
positive and negative parodies and other such spoofs of the film abounded and were circulated
on the internet, often inspiring passionate responses from fans of various opinions of the
film. Benjamin Willcock of DVDActive.com did not understand the backlash or the passionate
hatred for the film. "What really irks me...," he said, "are those who make nasty stabs at those
who do love it." Willcock stated, "I obviously don't have anything against those who
dislike Titanic, but those few who make you feel small and pathetic for doing so (and they do
exist, trust me) are way beyond my understanding and sympathy.
Cameron responded to the backlash, and Kenneth Turan's review in particular. "Titanic is not a
film that is sucking people in with flashy hype and spitting them out onto the street feeling let
down and ripped off," he stated. "They are returning again and again to repeat an experience that
is taking a 3-hour and 14-minute chunk out of their lives, and dragging others with them, so they
can share the emotion." Cameron emphasized people from all ages (ranging from 8 to 80) and
from all backgrounds were "celebrating their own essential humanity" by seeing it. He described
the script as earnest and straightforward, and said it intentionally "incorporates universals of
human experience and emotion that are timeless and familiar because they reflect our basic
emotional fabric" and that the film was able to succeed in this way by dealing with archetypes.
He did not see it as pandering. "Turan mistakes archetype for cliche," he said. "I don't share his
view that the best scripts are only the ones that explore the perimeter of human experience, or
flashily pirouette their witty and cynical dialogue for our admiration.
Empire eventually reinstated its original five star rating of the film, commenting, "It should be no
surprise then that it became fashionable to bash James Cameron's Titanic at approximately the
same time it became clear that this was the planet's favourite film. Ever.
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