Friday, April 13, 2012

Dinesh Kamath's article on 'Titanic in 3D' Part 1 that was published in Newsband



Title Titanic in 3D refers to the 2012 re-release of 1997 film Titanic, converted to 3D format. The film is a fictional account of the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic and the shipwreck sinking, during April 1912.
The film will be released April 4, 2012 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
The 1997 Titanic will also be re-released in digital 2D and in 2D IMAX versions struck from the new 4K master created in the process.
The movie has an interesting plot. Titanic is a fictionalized account of the voyage and sinking of the RMS Titanic. Jack (Leonardo di Caprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) are members of two different social classes and fall in love during the voyage and are torn apart during the ship's sinking. The film mixes historical and fictional characters. The film is narrated in a modern-day framing device by a 100 year-old Rose (Gloria Stuart).
I will help you recall the story of the film. In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team explore the wreck of RMS Titanic, searching for a diamond necklace called the Heart of the Ocean. They recover Caledon "Cal" Hockley's safe, believing the necklace to be inside, but instead find a sketch of a nude woman wearing it, dated April 14, 1912, the night the Titanic hit the iceberg. An elderly woman named Rose Dawson Calvert, hearing about the drawing, calls Lovett and claims that she is the woman depicted and she and her granddaughter, Lizzy Calvert, visit him and his team on his salvage ship. Asked if she knows the whereabouts of the necklace, Rose recalls her time aboard the Titanic, revealing that she is Rose DeWitt Bukater, a passenger believed to have died in the sinking.
In 1912, 17-year-old first class passenger Rose boards the ship in Southampton with her fiancé Cal, the son of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon, and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater. Ruth stresses the importance of Rose's engagement, as the marriage will solve the DeWitt Bukaters' secret financial problems. Distraught by her engagement, Rose considers suicide by jumping off the ship's stern. A drifter and artist named Jack Dawson stops her. Discovered with Jack on the stern, Rose tells Cal that she was looking over the ship's edge in curiosity and that Jack saved her from falling. At Rose's insistence, Cal invites Jack to dinner the following night to show his appreciation. Jack and Rose develop a tentative friendship, though Cal and Ruth are wary of the young third-class man. Following the first-class dinner that night, Rose secretly joins Jack at a party in the ship's third-class quarter.
Forbidden to see Jack by Cal and Ruth, Rose attempts to rebuff Jack's continuing advances. She soon realizes, though, that she prefers him over Cal, and meets him at the bow of the ship during what turns out to be the Titanic's final moments of daylight. They go to Rose's stateroom and she asks Jack to sketch her nude wearing the Heart of the Ocean, Cal's engagement present. Afterward, the two evade Cal's bodyguard, and make love in the ship's cargo hold. Going afterwards to the ship's forward well deck, they witness the ship's collision with an iceberg and overhear the ship's officers and designer outline its seriousness. Rose tells Jack that they should warn her mother and Cal.
Cal discovers Jack's drawing and a mocking note from Rose in his safe along with the necklace. Furious, he has his bodyguard slip the necklace into Jack's coat pocket. Accused of stealing it, Jack is arrested, taken down to the Master-at-arms's office and handcuffed to a pipe. Cal puts the necklace in his coat. Rose runs away from Cal and her mother (who has boarded a lifeboat) and releases Jack. The ship then starts to launch fireworks in order to attract any nearby ships.
Once Jack and Rose reach the deck, Cal and Jack persuade her to board another lifeboat, Cal claiming that he has arranged for himself and Jack to get off safely. After she boards, Cal tells Jack that the arrangement is only for himself. As Rose's boat lowers, she realizes that she cannot leave Jack, and jumps back on board the Titanic to reunite with him. Infuriated, Cal takes a pistol and chases them into the flooding first-class dining saloon. After exhausting his ammunition, Cal realizes to his chagrin that he gave his coat with the diamond to Rose. With the situation now dire, he returns to the boat deck and boards a lifeboat by pretending to look after a lost child.
Jack and Rose return to the top deck. All lifeboats have departed and passengers are falling to their deaths as the stern rises out of the water. The ship breaks in half, and the stern side rises 90-degrees into the air. As it sinks, Jack and Rose ride the stern into the ocean. Jack helps Rose onto a wall panel only able to support one person's weight. Holding the panel's edge, he assures her she will die an old woman, warm in her bed. Meanwhile, Fifth Officer Harold Lowe has commandeered a lifeboat to search for survivors. He saves Rose, but is unable to reach Jack before he dies from hypothermia.
Rose and the other survivors are taken by the RMS Carpathia to New York, where Rose gives her name as Rose Dawson. She hides from Cal on Carpathia's deck as he searches for her. She learns later that he committed suicide after losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Her story complete, Rose goes alone to the stern of Lovett's ship. There she takes out the Heart of the Ocean, which has been in her possession all along, and drops it into the ocean. While seemingly asleep in her bed, the photos on her dresser are a visual chronicle that she lived a free life inspired by Jack. The young Rose is then seen reuniting with Jack at the Grand Staircase of the RMS Titanic, cheered and congratulated by those who perished on the ship.
The film has Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater/Dawson, Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan "Cal" Hockley, Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater, Gloria Stuart as Rose Dawson Calvert, Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett, Suzy Amis as Lizzy Calvert, Danny Nucci as Fabrizio De Rossi, David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy and Jason Barry as Thomas "Tommy" Ryan.
The actors who played historical characters include Kathy Bates as Margaret "Molly" Brown, Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews, Bernard Hill as Captain Edward John Smith, Bernard Fox as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV, Jonathan Evans-Jones as Wallace Hartley, Ewan Stewart as First Officer William Murdoch, Jonathan Phillips as Second Officer Charles Lightoller, Mark Lindsay Chapman as Chief Officer Henry Wilde, Ioan Gruffudd as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe, Edward Fletcher as Sixth Officer James Moody, Lew Palter and Elsa Raven as Isidor Straus and Ida Straus, Martin Jarvis as Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Rosalind Ayres as Lady Duff-Gordon, Scott G. Anderson as Frederick Fleet, Paul Brightwell as Quartermaster Robert Hichens, Martin East as Reginald Lee, Simon Crane as Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall, Gregory Cooke as Jack Phillips, Craig Kelly as Harold Bride, Liam Tuohy as Chief Baker Charles Joughin and Terry Forrestal as Chief Engineer Joseph G. Bell.
The film is set to be re-released on April 6, 2012, four days shy of 100 years after the maiden voyage began (and just over a month before the 100th birthday of Paramount Pictures). So do watch the film Titanic in 3D which is worth watching once again even if you have already seen it.

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