All in all it was good for a viewing but it can't compare to Cameron's TITANIC or A Night to Remember.
I completely agree with you! Personally, I believe that every Titanic adaption (good or bad) is unique and different when it comes to re-telling the story of the tragedy. At least they're keeping the story alive by remembering those who were lost on that fateful night.
At the end of the miniseries were the words "One hundred years later, Titanic hasn't been forgotten." - I choked up. It truly breaks my heart to think of how many families were torn apart and lost. When I saw the scene with the Allison family in Episode Four, it was quite distressing.
There will always be good and bad adaptions of the Titanic, but overall they're re-telling the story to remind people of the lives that were lost. I hope, one day, there will be a definitive adaption of the Titanic that focuses on the passengers and crew themselves.
Cameron's film and this miniseries were told from two different vantage points, where Cameron's stayed on-board the ship right until the final plunge this remained fixed on the point of view of those in the lifeboats and in that regard I think they did an admirable job.
My friends were very pleased with the sinking sequence in this miniseries. James Cameron's film focused more on the ship during the final plunge. I've always wanted an adaption where the final moments were more fixed on the point of view of those in the lifeboats. I definitely enjoyed the scene of lifeboat one in the foreground as the Titanic sinks in the background. I thought Lucile Duff-Gordon's remark: "Well Francatelli, there goes that beautiful nightdress you were so proud of." was a nice touch.
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WatchAD
12 years ago
However I strongly disagree about Cameron romanticizing TITANIC, if anything he went out of his way to make us forget that we were watching the famous TITANIC and that we were merely on-board a luxury liner in 1912, the sinking as depicted in his film was violent and terrifying as it was in real life.
Sorry, I phrased my post a bit wrong. Cameron didn't romanticise Titanic, I just mean that's how it made me feel in my head, as in, I really fell in love with the ship (altho I always have been since childhood - but Cameron almost let us see it in the flesh). I think it's a great film.
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Sparks19-12
11 years ago
I did like that we got to view the sinking in this miniseries from the perspective of those in the water and the Allison drowning scene was horrifying to watch...
However I can't agree that James Cameron's Titanic was romanticised... especially when it came to the sinking!
James Cameron was the first one to show the true horror and uncontrollable scenario the people on the ship would have been flung into in the last few minutes. When I first saw his version with people being sucked under water and through windows, the glass dome imploding on those still trapped inside, the mangled funnel falling on the swimming crowd as they tried to escape the overpowering wave which hit the boat deck, the ship ripping in half as people slid down the deck towards a hellish metal hole, the rear of the ship falling back on those swimming in the water, bodies whacking off of each other and metal rails and propellers when they lost their grip as she rose before the final plunge, the bitter cold and darkness in the ocean after the sinking and the slowly dying screams of those begging for the lifeboats to come back... I was horrified!
Cameron was the first one to really get across how hellish these last few moments must have been.
I can't call his 'romanticised' at all when compared to some of the earlier film versions i.e the 1953 version which has every passenger left onboard singing 'nearer my god to thee' in unison whilst waiting patiently for the inevitable (although that is still touching in its own right)
Camerons story can be faulted for the love story, which is not the strongest in the world by a stretch, however I do think he did an excellent job with the film and it is to date for me still the best Titanic film overall - just over taking a Night to Remember, purely because of the more accurate sinking at the end.
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