As 2007 born all this discourse abt titanic makes me think of it's impact and why it's iconic. Like when it first came out what kind of impact did it make?? And I hv seen the movie. I enjoyed but it was nothing out of the ordinary for me and a lot of my friends who hv seen it also felt the same. Like did titanic do something that no other movie at the time had done?? Or was it something else?? Like what makes it so iconic??
Yeah, like in technical terms, Titanic was doing visual effects in a way that hadn't been seen before, so the ship breaking in half was a huge deal
and so was learning that Cameron and the crew actually didn't break it in half, I believe they had to break it in three parts.
It was also at the time the most expensive movie ever made so there was a lot of hype around that. And the fact that it was based on a true story of a famous tragedy gave it some juice.
Celine Dion and her ballad. My Heart Will Go On. The DRAMA of it, this was also when music videos were a real *thing*.
You couldn't go anywhere without hearing that song. It was the number 1 song of 1998. It was the first pop song I ever learned to play on the piano because it was everywhere.
Leo was a HUGE draw, I don't think I can fully express or explain how popular he was in the 90s, like I was a kid but I do remember how feral teens would get over him, even kids my age
first because of Romeo + Juliet and then he was elevated to a bona fide heartthrob in Titanic, like Kate and Leo became inescapable in a time when there was no social media
so think of the hottest up-and-coming celebrities you know like currently who aren't quite established in Hollywood yet or at least they're not household names yet starring in the most expensive movie ever made that looks gorgeous and epic for its time
and they have the right chemistry and the most dramatic romance
that is swooning and earnest
where they have to deal with all the tropes. Disapproving Mother and Abusive Fiance and Poor Boy Rich Girl and Literal Death
and the soundtrack is doing its thing and there are iconic shots (which will be repeatedly spoofed for years to come)
and this movie that has great scale, it isn't that it just looks pretty, it has an epic scale to it
is 90% dedicated to this star-crossed romance where in the backdrop multiple people experience horrible, dramatic deaths
and picture seeing this, whatever this looks like to you in current terms, from, like, 7 to 21 years old.
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