I like true tragedies better than cliché love

Bernhard 2022-11-29 09:03:50

Snow strikes people, and some friends from the north show Blizzard in the circle of friends. Surround the furnace, look at Roy. Ward's Shipwreck in the Ice Sea (1958), the pores are blown up and his thoughts are rolling. The Titanic without Jack and Ruth is more real, and the coldness in black and white is more cold. Tragedy is to show people the good destruction. How many disaster movies have not reached the height of tragedy. They show off disasters, play with disasters, and use disasters as stimulants to stimulate the numb nerves of modern people, so disasters become entertainment, like sex, violence, The war became entertainment.

Cameron's "Titanic" is very clever, it retains all the great tragic and magnificent of "Ice Sea Sunken", its strong epic and documentary nature, and its portrayal of the various details of the characters. He also deliberately added a main line of love on it, so "Titanic", as he said, has indeed become a romance film. Think about it, class difference, eruption of passion, difference between life and death, fireworks-like youthful love takes place on the most magnificent and largest mail ship, and this ship is about to sink into the ice sea with the lives of 1,500 people, which is touching. It's more exciting and flattering. But I don't like this kind of kitsch, and I don't like the glaring eroticism of movies. Man-made births and deaths, love encounters and passions have weakened the huge tragedy inherent in true history. Just imagine, if the so-called love between Jack and Ruth did not happen on this ship, and was not illuminated by the gorgeous and tragic spotlight of this ship, then how clichéd this story is. Cameron’s greatness lies in his adeptness and boldness in using modern film technology. He has made the dream machine of film extremely powerful, the height of computer special effects, the unprecedented magnificence of the scene, and the extremely complicated scene scheduling. The great and most beautiful ship is resurrected on the screen. This is Roy 40 years ago. Ward could not imagine.

Looking back at "The Shipwreck in the Ice Sea", the focus is on the historical tragedy itself, the development of the event, various factors: the owner, the captain, the chief mate, the telegrapher, the California, and the passengers of all classes on the ship. It has both the focus and the priority. Each character has a prominent and rich interpretation, and the composition of amorous paintings is fully expressed in the event. Instead of attaching a cheap and clichéd love story to history to attract the audience, it uses the details of the historical event itself to generate tension. Why do Jack and Ruth need such a big theme as the sinking of the Titanic? Human beings created this magnificent ship because of their own strength, and the vain they produced because of their own strength destroyed the ship. Just showing this is powerful enough.

Not to entertain me, but to conscientiously and artistically show the process of major historical events, the cause and effect, and the performance of human nature. This is what I am most grateful for "Ice Sea Shipwreck".

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  • Wireless Operator Cyril Evans: Hear it?

    [hands Groves his headphones]

    Wireless Operator Cyril Evans: That's the "Titanic".

    Third Officer Charles Groves: [listens then gives the headphones back to Evans] What's she saying?

    Third Officer Charles Groves: "Best wishes to Joe and Hattie. Wish you were here. See you Wednesday. Love Myra and Bill". Private stuff. Yes, there must be a lot of money on that ship. He's been at it the best part of the day.

  • Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller: Listen to this, Sylvia.

    [reads from magazine]

    Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller: The new White Star Liner "RMS Titanic", the largest vessel in the world. It is not only in size, but also in the luxury of her appointments that the "Titanic" takes first place among the big steamers of the world. By the provision of Vinolia Auto Toilert Soap for her First Class passengers the "Titanic" also leads as offering a higher standard of toilet luxury and comfort at sea.

    [laughs]

    Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller: Let me see.

    [takes paper]