Word: cameronism
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...early scene in Titanic, a character scolds the captain for referring to the length of the ship by mentioning Sigmund Freud's then-new theories about preoccupations with size. Perhaps James Cameron, who wrote as well as directed, edited and produced the film, should have heeded such warnings himself before embarking on what became the most expensive film ever made...
Although everybody knows how the movie must end, Cameron drains the tension by framing the story of the Titanic decades later through the eyes of the film's main character. The story of the ill-fated voyage is seen through the eyes of Rose (Gloria Stuart) who at the age of 100 tells her experiences to Titanic excavator Brock Lovell (Bill Paxton). Her story involves her romance with the impoverished passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio...
...event and starred an actress who had been onboard. There was a Teutonic Titanic, a Nazi-financed epic featuring an imaginary German hero. The 1958 British A Night to Remember is still revered for its balance of newsreel realism and humanist pluck. But diving into crowded waters is James Cameron's M.O. Except for The Terminator and The Abyss, all his films have been sequels or remakes, each grander and pricier than the movies that preceded it. What gargantuan retread can be next--History of the World Part...
Bigness was, of course, an attraction of the actual ship. In the film, the ship company's boss says, "I wanted to convey sheer size." Cameron could be his spiritual heir. The man who made The Terminator for $6 million has become the high priest of Hollywood bloat. He is also the movies' mad toymaster: he keeps falling in love with an imposing machine (a cyborg, an alien, a submarine, a Harrier jet, an ocean liner) that he then spends great amounts of time and energy destroying...
...film doesn't play to Cameron's strength as a ringmaster of burly metaphorical fantasy. His story of Jack, Rose and Cal isn't half as poignant as the true ones known from books and films of the event. On this vast canvas, the problems of these three little people really don't amount to a hill of beans...