Posted on 02/03/2023 3:59:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
Just like Rose, James Cameron can’t let go. After decades of debate about whether his “Titanic” heroine actually could have enabled Jack to survive in the Oscar-winning blockbuster, the director has finally settled the score.
For the staunch believers who are convinced Rose could have spared some room on the floating door for her maritime fling, their hearts might sink when they learn the truth.
In the preview for his upcoming celebration of the film with National Geographic, dubbed “Titanic: 25 years Later With James Cameron,” the “Avatar” filmmaker heads a science experiment to determine if there was really enough room for the lovebirds aboard the floating piece of debris. “We’ll find out once and for all whether Jack could’ve survived the sinking of Titanic,” Cameron says in the teaser for the special, which will debut next week.
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“she let go of his hand.”
Easily manslaughter.
I saw it and the mostly forgotten Raise The Titanic in theater.
The scene with the submersible imploding is still memorable.
Loved the book as a teenager.
Harry poem “The Convergence of the Twain” (which was read at a memorial service after the sinking of the Titanic):
The Convergence of the Twain
BY THOMAS HARDY
(Lines on the loss of the “Titanic”)
I
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
II
Steel chambers, late the pyres
Of her salamandrine fires,
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
III
Over the mirrors meant
To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls — grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
IV
Jewels in joy designed
To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
V
Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: “What does this vaingloriousness down here?” ...
VI
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
VII
Prepared a sinister mate
For her — so gaily great —
A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.
VIII
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
IX
Alien they seemed to be;
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history,
X
Or sign that they were bent
By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one august event,
XI
Till the Spinner of the Years
Said “Now!” And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
“My favorite DiCaprio movie was ‘Catch Me If You Can.’”
I don’t think I ever saw that.
Harry? Hardy. Thomas Hardy.
My wife would say you think too much too!! ;-)
“Well, the flamethrower scene where Susan Atkins gets burned was epic.”
In regards to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I have watched the ending over and over. If only that is what really happened instead of those poor people being slaughtered.
The Bible says there is no marriage in heaven. So I imagine you’d spend eternity with both spouses, but wouldn’t be married to either.
If you have been married for 25+ years to the same woman, wouldn’t you rather try being single for eternity?
What about the Mozart? I thought the whole point of EM was to hear Géza Anda playing K467?
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