![]() And here, the film is so well served by two wonderful actors bringing home the devastation of the last few hours of the ship’s demise. ![]() But it’s the moment when “ the violins kept playing” the poignant “Nearer, my God, to thee” still remained the breaking point for me (the musicians perished along with the ship), along with Captain Smith (Bernard Hill) and ship designer Thomas Andrews (Victor Garber) shockingly resigned to their fates to go down with the ship. As the villainous Cal Hockley, Billy Zane plays it to the hilt, while scene-stealing Kathy Bates’s ‘Unsinkable’ Molly Brown still remains such a fun, fantastic character. It’s why it justifies the three+ hours where every minute counts.īut it’s not just the two main stars-who would later become household names, thanks to the enormous success of Titanic-but seeing it again reminded me how impeccably cast the films was. It’s Rose’s and Jack’s passionate narrative that propels the action forward, transforming a disaster movie into a masterful story with greater depth and where the stakes couldn’t be higher: for survival, for enduring love, for freedom. As tensions rise from the development of their emotional connection, it forms the foundation of the harrowing disastrous events that transpire all around them. ![]() There have been several versions of the 1912 sinking told on the big screen, but what set James Cameron’s epic depiction was the love between the two witnesses to the ship’s massive destructive scenes, Rose and Jack, from two vastly different classes. ![]()
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