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On the night of April 14, 1912, the great luxury liner, Titanic, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. In less than three hours, the great ship sank taking with it the lives of 1,523 of its passengers and crew. Throughout maritime history, no other ship tragedy has affected so many generations and whose story has been retold time and time again. Over the years since her sinking, several movies have been produced to tell their versions of what happened during Titanic’s short voyage. No one can be sure of every event that transpired during the journey. Of all the movies produced since her sinking, James Cameron’s “Titanic” has been the most profitable. Take away the love story and several fictional characters and you would have a fairly accurate documentary of Titanic’s first and last voyage.
The main characters of the love story in the movie Titanic are fictional. Rose, her mother, Cal Hockley and Lizzy Calvert are not listed on any of the passenger lists for the Titanic. There is a J. Dawson listed on the crew list as a trimmer but no Dawson appears on any of the third-class passen
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piritualist, Broadway producer Henry B.
The differences class makes is apparent in the number of survivors of the sinking. The furnishings and layout of the movie sets were replicas of the original ship.
The scenes of the ship and its various rooms in the movie show how the ship looked back in 1912. The characters are fictional but the dress and the manners they portray are keeping with the period. One cannot be sure if these scenes in the movie portrayed what really happened, but the confusion of the lower class passengers is representative of the facts. The official description of the saloon spared no adjective; “It is an immense room decorated in a style peculiarly English, reminiscent of early Jacobean times; but instead of the somber oak of the 16th and 17th centuries, it is painted a soft, rich white, which, with the coved and richly-molded ceilings and the spacious character of the apartment, would satisfy the most aesthetic critic.
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. The opening scenes of the third-class or steerage passengers give the feel of seeing the poor and immigrants looking for a new life in America. ” Most certainly, the ship’s crew would have broken up the party and dancing shortly after Jack and Rose’s arrival. The only thing that is certain is that you stood a greater chance for sur!
viving if you were a first-class passenger.
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