 Romance/Love: April 11, 2012 Issue [#4988] |
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This week: Titanic: A Love Story? Edited by: Crys-not really here  
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My name is Crys-not really here and it is my pleasure to be the editor of the Romance/Love newsletter this week! This week, I'd like to talk about a currently hot movie, Titanic and my shifting opinions about Jack and Rose's romance after 15 years. |
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Titanic: A Love Story?
I first saw the movie Titanic when I was 14 years old. Leonardo DiCaprio was so hot the time, and Kate Winslet was beautiful with her hips and fancy dresses. I wanted to look just like her. The movie was perfect for a teenager: two hot stars and plenty of romance. I remember sitting in the theater with my mom and friends from orchestra just bawling my eyes out. At the time I thought to myself "What a sad love story!"
15 year later, and 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, the movie has been re-released in theaters in 3D. I hadn't seen the movie in years when I viewed it in 3D this past weekend, but my attitude toward the main characters, Jack and Rose, has changed somewhat.
Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater were not really on the Titanic. They were characters made up to add drama and romance to the already dramatic sinking of the Titanic in 1912. While I enjoyed the film the second time around, it took on a whole new, even more disturbing turn for me in 3D. I felt like I was being overtaken by the water. I cried as the people jumped off the boat. But I didn't feel as connected to Jack and Rose as I did the first time around.
Maybe it's because I have matured in the past 15 years, but I no longer see Titanic as a love story. I guess I'm just old enough to appreciate the historical significance of the sinking. (In fact, it has become somewhat of an obsession for me in recent years.) Jack and Rose are the typical romantic movie characters from "opposite sides of the tracks" but in a not-so-typical disaster. But it makes me wonder, who were the unknown couples of the Titanic? Is it possible that a romance was formed on the sinking ship? What kind of true story could be told about the people on the doomed ship?
If I were going to write an historical romance, I think it would address those questions. |
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