The release of Titanic 3D reproduces the tragic sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. The decision to re-release the original 1997 hit helped introduce the movie to the next generation of audiences.
Titanic runs for over three hours and it was ranked one of the most expensive films in Hollywood history at the time when it was released. For these extravagant qualities, it became one of the most successful films in history. The Titanic was inspired by the discovery of its remains in the North Atlantic and it takes place in that very spot. The plot of the movie introduces American treasure-seeker, Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) retrieving artifacts from the submerged ship. Lovett in the movie is on the hunt in the North Atlantic for diamonds and valuable jewelry when all the sudden the tables turn and he finds the unexpected, a drawing of a young woman who is completely nude, holding a sapphire necklace. When the unusual artifact is shown on public television, 102-year-old Rose (Gloria Stuart) reveals she’s the person in the portrait and is called to the wreckage site to tell her story of the 56-carat diamond necklace and her experience on the Titanic that happened 84 years ago.
The scene then shifts to 1912 Southampton were the Titanic is departing and passengers of different social classes are boarding on the ship. In this scene, the audience sees the two main characters, starving artist Jack Dawson (Leondardo DiCaprio) and rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), that are soon to fall in love despite their social classes. As their forbidden love unravels, the audience also develops a sense of impending doom, which takes its physical form in the iceberg that ultimately sinks the ship.
Cameron began the project after seeing Ballard’s 1987 National Geographic documentary on the wreckage. Blueprints of the real Titanic were followed during construction at Fox’s custom-built “Rosarito” studio, where a hydraulics system moved a model in a 17-million-gallon water tank. During three weeks aboard the Russian ship Academik Keldysh, underwater sequences were filmed with a 35mm camera attached on the Russian submersible Mir 1. When the ship neared the wreck, a video camera inside a remote-operated vehicle was sent into the Titanic’s 440-foot bow, bringing back footage of furniture.
The film being shown in 3D was more memorable because it portrayed each scene in even more vivid detail than when it was released over a decade ago. The scene where the water was lapping at Jack’s neck while he was chained to a beam, and Rose tried to break his handcuffs with an axe was truly a work of art. The 3D effects were so realistic that many felt they were trapped inside that room as well.
Expectations for 3D movies have been set sky-rocket high, due to the fact that 3D movies have become incredibly common . Obligated to watch through 3D glasses, people feel oddly more absorbed in the film and less likely to become distracted sitting in the theater audience. Titanic 3D caught the attention of many, and will certainly catch yours.
