【正文】 idlocked and buried in snow, except for where they39。s sensational claims. Before long, however, it is snowing in India, and hailstones the side of softballs are ripping into Tokyo. Birds, which are always wise in matters of global disaster, fly south doubletime. Turbulence tears airplanes from the sky. The president (Perry King) learns the FAA wants to ground all flights and asks the vice president, What do you think we should do? Meanwhile, young Sam Hall (Jake Gyllenhaal) goes to New York with an academic decathlon team, which includes Laura (Emmy Rossum of Mystic River) and Brian (Arjay Smith). They39。s also very scary. The special effects are on such an awesome scale that the movie works despite its cornball plotting. When tornados rip apart Los Angeles (not sparing the Hollywood sign), when a wall of water roars into New York, when a Russian tanker floats down a Manhattan street, 英文影評 5 / 19 when snow buries skyscrapers, when the crew of a space station can see nothing but violent storm systems well, you pay attention. No doubt some readers are already angry with me for revealing that Jack, Sam, Laura, Jason, Dr. Lucy Hall and the little cancer patient survive. Have I given away the plot? This plot gives itself away. When cataclysmic events shred uncounted lives but the movie zeroes in on only a few people, of course they survive, although some supporting characters may have to be sacrificed. What39。s bestseller debut novel 5point Someone, thought he is credited in Titles producer says it is an Original story, which for seems impossible because more than 80% of movie is based on book. The film is Entertaining in parts and Enjoyable , but the moment it deviates from book, it goes overboard,looses it39。s nononsense manservant), is flawless. While Titanic is easily the most subdued and dramatic of Cameron39。s sense of verisimilitude. For the leading romantic roles of Jack and Rose, Cameron has chosen two of today39。s from afar, but circumstances offer him the opportunity 英文影評 3 / 19 to bee much closer to her. As the voyage continues, Jack and Rose grow more intimate, and she tries to summon up the courage to defy her mother (Frances Fisher) and break off her engagement. But, even with the aid of an outspoken rich women named Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), the barrier of class looms as a seeminglyinsurmountable obstacle. Then, when circumstances in the Rose/Cal/Jack triangle are ing to a head, Titanic strikes an iceberg and the unsinkable ship (that term is a testament to man39。s longburied treasure. The expedition is led by Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton), a fortune hunter who is searching for the mythical Heart of the Ocean, a majestic 56 karat diamond which reputedly went down with the ship. After seeing a TV report about the salvage mission, a 101year old woman (Gloria Stuart) contacts Brock with information regarding the jewel. She identifies herself as Rose DeWitt Bukater, a survivor of the tragedy. Brock has her flown out to his ship. Once there, she tells him her version of the story of Titanic39。t changed with Titanic. The picture39。s real and what isn39。t just watch Titanic, you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and onehalf miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot neverbefore seen documentary footage specifically for this movie. In each of his previous outings, Cameron has pushed the special effects envelope. In Aliens, he cloned . Giger39。s magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has bee a rarity. You don39。t be sure what39。t make for a successful film, and Titanic would have been nothing more than an expensive piece of eye candy without a gripping story featuring interesting characters. In his previous outings, Cameron has always placed people above the technological marvels that surround them. Unlike film makers such as Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, Cameron has used visual effects to serve his plot, not the other way around. That hasn39。re human enough (with all of the attendant frailties) to capture our sympathy. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Titanic is that, even though Cameron carefully recreates the death of the ship in all of its terrible grandeur, the event never eclipses the protagonists. To the end, we never cease caring about Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio). Titanic sank during the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic, killing 1500 of the 2200 on board. The movie does not begin in 1912, however instead, it opens in modern times, with a salvage expedition intent on recovering some of the ship39。 Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), her richbutcoldhearted fianc? and Jack Dawson, a penniless artist who won his thirdclass ticket in a poker game. When Jack first sees Rose, it39。s necessary to see more than once just to appreciate the level of detail. One of the most unique aspects of Titanic is its use of genuine documentary images to set the stage for the flashback story. Not satisfied with the reels of currentlyexisting footage of the sunken ship, Cameron took a crew to the site of the wreck to do his own filming. As a result, some of the underwater shots in the framing sequences are of the actual liner lying on the ocean floor. Their importance and impact should not be underestimated, since they further heighten the production39。s captain), and David Warner (as Cal39。s important not to let the running time hold you back these threeplus hour pass very quickly. Although this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Dir