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Title: James Cameron's Titanic by James Cameron, Ed Marsh, Jain Lemos ISBN: 0-00-649060-3 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 31 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (307 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delicious Softcover Testament to the year's biggest film
Comment: Despite the inevitable critical slashing a film this big recieves, TITANIC is a wonderful film. A magnificent piece of entertainment. The book JAMES CAMERON'S TITANIC is a glorious testament to the soaring movie. The layout of the book is generally from pre-production then running through the whole shoot and post-production, with a focus on chronological presentation of the movie's images. Which, incidently,contain some absolutely stunning stills which are as exciting to look at as the actual film. The behind-the-scenes story telling is purposeful and rich with fascinating insight, laced with several hundred gloriously high quality pictures. There is elements which may annoy the cynics, like James Cameron's pre-chapter voicings of his moral and artistic aims for the film. But that doesn't matter, his words aren't nearly as pretentious as you may expect. JAMES CAMERON'S TITANIC is a delightfully entertaining and satisfyingly authentic supplement to this mega-film. Buy it, keep it in good condition, and rather than watch TITANIC on VHS ten tousand times, pull this book down now and then to remind yourself just what a great film it is.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a great tribute!!!
Comment: This book is a reminder of the sacrifices it took to make the movie and of the movie itself. I have always felt a certain soul connection to the Titanic and its real life tragedy, as much as an outsider can. When I look through the book I am reminded of the many layers of "Titanic". Just as I am reminded of the whole experience of watching the movie... the roller coaster of emotions I felt as I sat back in my warm, dry, and safe seat in the darkness of the theater. What made the whole ordeal so much more compelling to me as I watched it was knowing that the film wasn't some fictional piece of work Cameron grabbed from thin air, but rather that the ship Titanic was real and that the tragedy aboard it was real, that over 1500 people-woman, chilren and men-lost their lives and loves. The movie opened my eyes and my heart so much further than expected in historical and personal ways. For example: through the fictional, yet very real on screen love story of Rose and Jack we were all allowed to enter into all the other true life non-fictional love stories and losses of loves on the Titanic. For two weeks solid "Titanic" haunted my mind and invaded my psyche and heart completely. Now the book acts as a reminder of my own personal awakenings. Just thinking of any given part of the tragedy fictional and non-fictional brought/brings me to tears. I can see the old couple, the "lower class" mother in bed with her two children, the countless frozen bodies bobbing in the ocean, and the mother frozen with her baby in arms. As I can still see Jack as Rose pries his hands from her own, releasing him to the sea as he slips under the blanket of icey cold water into the very depths of the heart of ocean. Roses decision to not give up was a difficult one for her, but as long as she lived so did Jack deep in her heart. To watch Rose at 100 years or so old stand on the edge of the ship and drop "The Heart of the Ocean" into the heart of the ocean, represented Roses and Jacks love story coming full circle. She indeed did live to be an old woman who had pursued positive adventures as shown in her pictures and indeed she did die an old woman warm in a bed that night (as Jack had said/made her promise she would) and finally Rose indeed was with Jack once again, this time Eternally. To know such love most people only dream of. Yet, I believe that we are each capable of creating our own form of pure love to some degree or another for ourselves. So many scenes stick in my mind, fictional or not. I have a renewed awakening to the souls that in real life lost their lives on the Titanic and to what Rose and Jack represent. We each have a story, our own loves and loses of loves. How nice that once in a while someone like James Cameron uses their skills to bring a good offering to the public. Whether "Titanic" is seen and accepted for just itself, an overwhelming piece of tragic history, or it is seen as "just" a place and time for an amazing love story to unfold, it is a true gift to us all. Personally, I remember holding my huband's hand and feeling a renewed love and desire to have a better marriage, family and life. We both walked out into the daylight hand and hand with one thing on our mind, our 17 month old son being watched by my father. All we wanted right then was to hold our son and to love him as deeply as we could for as long as we have on this Earth and then some. Each day truly is a blessing and a gift. We are each significant no matter what class of "deck" we sleep on. We each can bring something wonderful to this world if we choose and when we leave it sooner or later, our passings are grieved to one extent or another by someone. Life truly isn't about riches of wealth, but rather riches of the heart. May we all live and love fuller and better. What a great tribute-the making of the movie as shown in the book-to the lives that were lost and to those who were forever changed that day, and to love and life in general.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful movie companion!
Comment: "James Cameron's Titanic" has a little something for all different sets of movie fans. There's an incredible amount of photos and captures from the movie which will no doubt be scanned and posted on the net by hundreds of the movie's teenage fans (and those sites DO exist), while the way in which the making of the film is presented in words and behind-the-scenes photographs will surely please film students and buffs. The detail payed to the execution of the material is as meticulous and praise-worthy as the movie itself. This is a must-have for any fan of the movie, offering more than you could ask for for a movie that gives you everything you want from it.
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Title: Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay by Randall Frakes ISBN: 0060953071 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History by Paula Parisi ISBN: 1557043655 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Inside the Titanic by Ken Marschall ISBN: 0316557161 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:Titanic ASIN: B00000JLWW Publisher: Paramount Studio Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.59 |
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Title: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord ISBN: 0553278274 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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