Titanic: Love it or hate it ?

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by lashbear

Don't make me have to do my Shelley Winters impression again, Stoat.

Oooh! Oooh! Can you be Shelley Winters in Cleopatra Jones?

[MouseWife]

Ah, why are the best threads started when I am away?

Oh, Lash!! I LOVED 'Titanic'!!! All things 'Titanic'. I have posters, I have photos, I have a pair of sweatpants of Leos from when he was visiting a friend here in San Diego {yes, I am the person they called to give them to as he was never going to come back for them.....}. I thought it was a wonderful movie.

It was years prior that I was sitting in a doctors office and came across a National Geographic type magazine with photos from the actual ship. It has always touched me, fascinated me. So, so sad.

But, back to the movie, I loved the clothing, I loved everything {I really loved Molly Brown!!}. Back in the day, wow, I don't know how many times I saw the movie but I cried every time. My young son picked up singing the song as I always did. Aw, that is making me *sniffy* remembering him belting it out {he was about 4 at the time}. But, he hadn't ever actually seen the movie. So, this past vacation, I brought it with us and one night in San Simeon {by the ocean, no less!} we got cozy and watched it with him. He thought it was pretty good. {actually a good time for him, being 14, he is probably getting interested in girls and all things lovey dovey...}.

Crush on Leo? I love him! I saw a trailer for a new movie he set to star in with Russell Crowe. Gawd, yes, I do love him. He is one of my favorite actors. Favorite with the family as well. {except, of course, for that teenaged girl who got me into his movies....}.

*sigh* purging is good for the soul..........

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

Crush on Leo? I love him!

Between this and MBC's earthquake thread I'm starting to wonder, Mousewife.

[innerSpaceman]

Not just to vex scaeagles, but I love the Titanic Musical. I think we should do LoT production, and figure out a way to insert the famous movie song that's never sung in that movie either. That means either Cadaverous Pallor or MouseWife will have to play Rose.



How we will decide gives nuance to the term Casting Couch.

[JWBear]

I'd make a good Captain Smith!

And NA has to be Maggie Brown.

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Between this and MBC's earthquake thread I'm starting to wonder, Mousewife.

Yeah, and didn't we just miss...by days...a rendevous in Monterey?

LOL iSm, I think Rose is somewhere inbetween CP and myself. I have a bit of the Rubinesque {sp} thing going for me but CP has the youth and beauty.

And, yes, alphabassettgrrl, I also think Kate Winslet is beautiful. I love how they made her up in that movie, even though she is a thoroughly modern Millie. If I could look like someone, it would be her. {where are my 3 wishes??}

Oh, 'twood be wonderful to get a cast together!!!

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

I have a pair of sweatpants of Leos from when he was visiting a friend here in San Diego {yes, I am the person they called to give them to as he was never going to come back for them.....}.

But, back to the movie, I loved the clothing, I loved everything {I really loved Molly Brown!!}

It's a shame you never made it out to Fox Studios here in sydney when they had the "Titanic: The Experience" attraction !! I loved going on it. You went into a huge soundstage, and after seeing all the props & models from the movie, the end of the soundstage opened up and you walked over the gangplank into the Titanic !! (a great illusion to make the ship's hull look real-size: Think 'Mile-Long Bar' and you'll guess how they did it)

Once inside, you were in 3rd class. Full set recreation. Once underway, you see the iceberg through the portholes, all goes horribly wrong, and you're evacuated from steerage in two groups. One via the boiler rooms, and one via first-class. There were two different endings, depending on which route you took.

If you were en-route to the Boiler Room, first you went through the cargo hold, and yes, there was the car, complete with misty handprint... There is a scuffle, and dialogue between actors, and they roll the car out of the way to allow egress into the Boiler room. This is in turnoil, with water all around and explosions, steam, fire, and then, the final explosion, a mist of water and..... you drown !! In the darkness the whole side of the boiler room splits and moves aside revealing the Grand Staircase as it was in the sunken ship footage - all caustic refraction lighting, seaweed, barnacles etc. We as the 'dead passengers' ascend the staircase to the exit where we are re-united with the other party.

If you were evacuated via first class, you went through some corridors and climbed a stairway to.. a locked gate ! *EEK* - Some dialogue between actors and we are let through into the Gym, and through this to Above Decks.

The Deck is tilting greatly and this angle increases dramatically as we make our way to the ramp leading to the life-boats. The lifeboats when full move across the water away from the ship, blackness falls, we swivel [to face a giant screen] and then we dimly see the Titanic hull ahead of us rising higher and higher... and then, the boat snaps in two, and the hull comes crashing down into the water in front of us, splashing us with water, and blacking out the scene once again.

We then disembark from the boats and take a short walk to join the other party.

I LOVED IT !!! (but it's closed now )


Oh, and Stoat has the recipe (I found it for him) and will be posting it soon.

[innerSpaceman]

Alas, I'd make a decent Ismay. But at least I get (part of) a good song.


TeeHee, I'm loving the idea of a mash-up of the various Titantics that we'd have to write as well as produce and star in. There's no Rose in the musical, but who else would sing the song that's not in either version?

Let's throw in the Barbara Stanwyck character and storyline, and some of the great officers from A Night to Remember. I'm thinking the heroic Lightoller rather than the sniveling version offered up in the Cameron version.

Oooh, this could be fun.


ETA: OMG, Lashbear, that sounds utterly incredibly fantastic! I wonder if it ever came to the States and, if so, how I possibly could have missed it!

[JWBear]

Yes, you would make a good Ismay. Who would be our Thomas Andrews?

(ETA: GD has the pornstache, and could play Ismay too. Just a thought!)

[MouseWife]

That experience would totally give me the chills!!!! So realistic!!! I would love to experience it, even if it would leave me shaken up. Didn't it leave you a bit shaken? Like you'd gone through it for real?

iSm~I know there was an exhibit of sorts in the states, I never made it to any. I can't remember why. Could be that for a long time I did not have a reliable vehicle, not sure. At a time, going anywhere meant renting a car.

How about the movie that Cameron put out after? At the Imax?