Titanic
A NIGHT FORGOTTEN: THE MOST HISTORICALLY ACCURATE TITANIC FILM
The most historically accurate depiction of the disaster is supposed to be a 1958 British production, A Night To Remember. In the introduction to the book of the same name by Walter Lord, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe and a subtle sense of tragedy the last hours of the ship. With superbly restrained performances, A Night To Remember is cinema’s most nuanced and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century disaster. “
A night to remember
JAMES CAMERON HE HAS MADE 33 WRECK DIVES ON THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC
Before he signed on to do Titanic James Cameron he had already made 12 trips to the wreckage of the Titanic in a submerged one. He was quoted as saying, “Titanic was the Everest of wrecks, and as a diver, I wanted to get it right. According to one report, Cameron has done over 70 underwater dives, including 33 on the Titanic. He is quoted as saying, “You don’t want to put too much emphasis on it because you’re there to do a job and stay focused. But every time I close the hatch of a submarine I say to whoever is gathered to leave us, “I’ll see you in the sun. Of course there’s no sunshine down there, so to say that means you’re coming back to the surface.
The Titanic through the cinema lens
SAVED FROM THE TITANIC: THE FIRST MOVIE ON THE TITANIC
The first film about the Titanic was the 1912 film Saved From The Titanic. Dorothy Gibson, who starred in the film and was also credited as a co-writer, was one of the survivors of the disaster. He was a first class passenger on the Titanic.
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