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James Cameron's Titanic
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James Cameron's Titanic (1997) (edit title/settings)

by Ed W. Marsh (Author) (edit contributors)

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James Cameron's Titanic   chronicles the cinematic re-creation of the most legendary ocean disaster of all time as seen through the eyes of a master storyteller. Set against the ship's fateful maiden voyage, Cameron's much anticipated motion picture epic weaves a rich human tapestry of... read more

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  • James Cameron: film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor.
  • Kate Winslet: English actress, plays leading lady Rose DeWitt Bukater
  • Leonardo DiCaprio: American actor, plays leading man Jack Dawson
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  • “"and above all the lesson: that life is uncertain, the future unknowable...the unthinkable possible"”
    James Cameron
  • “"Welcome to the ship of dreams. You'll find the lifebelts on top of the wardrobe...just in case"”
    James Cameron
  • “"The story could not be written better, the juxtaposition of rich and poor, the gender roles played out unto death (women first), the stoicism and nobility of a bygone age, the magnificence of the great ship matched in scale only by the folly of the men who drove her hell-bent through the darkness"”
    James Cameron
  • “"The tragedy has assumed an almost mythic quality in our collective imagination, the passage of time has robbed it of it human face"”
    James Cameron
  • “"But the deaths of 1,500 innocents is too abstract for our hearts to grasp, although the mind can form the number easily"”
    James Cameron

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Some jump, some fall, each dotting the water's surface like a period at the end of a sentence. Then, the stern slips under the water, plunging everyone into a coldness so intense it is indistinguishable from fire. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. The inchoate wail of fifteen hundred souls slowly fades to individual cried from the darkness. "We know you can hear us! Save one life! Seven hundred survivours stand by in lifeboats built to hold twelve hundred, afraid to act in fear of being swamped. They tell themselves that the voices from the water do not belong to their husbands or their loved ones. They are merely the cries of the damned...

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Ed W. Marsh (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. James Cameron (Foreword)
  2. Douglas Kirkland (Photographer)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States of America (New York)
Publication Date: 1997
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Page Count: 178

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