I don't understand what the titanic meant to everyone in the all time world box office. I understand how Americans would like that long arduous movie but the entire WORLD?????
-is there some prospect of Titanic that I'm not aware off???
2006-11-30 15:44:33 · 7 answers · asked by trratut 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
It was a good movie,..plus a good love story. Teeny boppers went multiple times to see it. It had much wider appeal then LOTR.
2006-11-30 15:51:03 · answer #1 · answered by sw_fan2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How old are you? I'm assuming you're a little on the young side, so allow me to try and explain the climate of 1998 to you.
First off, the song was a massive hit before the movie was even released. There was a lot of attention paid to the movie for its slavish details; they reproduced everthing from the paint scheme of the ship down to the china pattern in the dining room to be authentic. The sinking of the ship was "real time", meaning the time they hit the ice berg to the time the boat sank was the same amount of time it was in real life. So all those details helped make people interested.
Then once you saw the movie, it was a love story that captured people's imaginations about what could've been. People found it heartbreaking and beautiful but somehow inspiring all at once. And Leonardo DiCaprio was only the biggest teen heartthrob of the day, and Kate Winslett was a new unknown actress that was showing a lot of talent and looked different from the leading actresses of that time.
Also, in 1998, movies didn't go to video as quickly as they do now, and DVD wasn't as prevalant. So a lot of people still went to the theater if they wanted to see a movie, and it wasn't unheard of to see the same movie several times.
Add to that the marketing factors. "Titanic" was a mass appeal film. LotR appealed to a more limited fan base, and therefore had a smaller target audience. The LotR films still did better in theaters than most people anticipated.
Just my two cents.
2006-11-30 15:54:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Well, for one thing MOST of the passengers were Europeans. Another thing, almost all of the builders were English and Europeans, so they had ALLOT tied up in it. Titanic was a BRITISH SHIP, so of course it would have an enormous fan base there. You have to realize the magnitude of the entire scope of the work that went into the Titanic. It had a sister ship that was built around the same time, but didn't get as much fanfare, especially because of Titanics sinking.
My Great-Aunt used to sing me the Titanic song (she was 11 when it sank) and it was so cool that she remembered it. Of course she died when I was a teenager but still . . . its people like me who heard from those who "heard from those who heard the news first hand from the papers, radios, etc., that made the show interesting." If only Leo DeCraprio wasn't in it. . .
2006-11-30 15:59:03 · answer #3 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original movie Titanic was a B&W production made in 1953 and starred Clifton Webb. It wasn't too bad.
I feel a sleep during the most recent version.
2006-11-30 19:19:02 · answer #4 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Teeny boppers and all the lonely hearts of the world loved it. I was not fond of it because I thought Leo looked like he was 12 and Kate looked 30.
2006-11-30 16:49:55 · answer #5 · answered by tootsie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i hated the movie..you know the end to it, the ship sunk and lots of people died in the freezing water.
Saved from the Titanic (1912)
2006-11-30 17:37:01 · answer #6 · answered by alex l 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's a love story, that's all you need to know
2006-11-30 16:45:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋