Word: dicaprios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although everybody knows how the movie must end, director James Cameron drains the tension by framing the story of the Titanic through the eyes of Rose (Kate Winslet), who tells about her romance with the impoverished passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). The two run the events of normal cinematic romance, and Cameron's script presents the lead actors with incredible cliches. Each of the other characters represents a segment of society rather than a person. As the ship breaks apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. Overall...
...must be hard being a teen idol. This must have been the thought on Leonardo DiCaprio's agent's mind when he or she urged DiCaprio to take the starring roles in what must be the billionth (the Internet Movie Database lists six previous versions) adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask (L'homme au masque du fer), the sequel to the even more well-known The Three Musketeers. "Leo, baby," one can almost hear the agent saying, "you need a break after Titanic. Why don't you take this film? You'll hardly have...
...Iron Mask is a puff piece, good for one of those weekends when there's nothing else to do and the quality of the movie is not too much of an issue. DiCaprio plays both the young King Louis XIV, a philandering and utterly obnoxious young man, and his secret twin brother Phillipe. Phillipe has been locked up in a dungeon for the last six years with an iron mask on his face to conceal his identity. When Louis sends ex-Musketeer Athos' (John Malkovich) son Raoul (Peter Sarsgaard) back to war so that he can pursue his betrothed Christine...
...poor dialogue stems directly from poor character development; Cameron's most amazing feat in making Titanic was that he could not find the time to create any three-dimensional characters in such a long film. None of the characters break through their stereotypes. Leonardo DiCaprio is the street-savvy pauper who attracts Kate Winslet with his wit, good looks and carefree lifestyle. Winslet is the helpless rich girl who feels trapped by the rigid conformity of her class that seem to govern her entire life. Their love is a for-bidden one since she has already been betrothed...
Titanic is a very entertaining film. The cinematography is beautiful, the characters are good-looking and DiCaprio and Winslet have good chemistry. The film is a nice romance with $200 million worth of scenery, and I am glad that I spent my $7.75 on it. If you have not seen it (i.e. you are an astronaut just returning to earth or a senior working on your thesis) it is a spectacle worth viewing on the big screen...