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泰坦尼克号经典电影英文影评

泰坦尼克号经典电影英文影评
泰坦尼克号经典电影英文影评

泰坦尼克号英文影评

Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it -- from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

In each of his previous outings, Cameron has pushed the special effects envelope. In Aliens, he cloned H.R. Giger's creation dozens of times, fashioning an army of nightmarish monsters. In The Abyss, he took us deep under the sea to greet a band of benevolent space travelers. In T2, he introduced the morphing terminator (perfecting an effects process that was pioneered in The Abyss). And in True Lies, he used digital technology to choreograph an in-air battle. Now, in Titanic, Cameron's flawless re-creation of the legendary ship has blurred the line between reality and illusion to such a degree that we can't be sure what's real and what isn't. To make this movie, it's as if Cameron built an all-new Titanic, let it sail, then sunk it.

Of course, special effects alone don't make for a successful film, and Titanic would have been nothing more than an expensive piece of eye candy without a gripping story featuring interesting characters. In his previous outings, Cameron has always placed people above the technological marvels that surround them. Unlike film makers such as Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, Cameron has used visual effects to serve his plot, not the other way around. That hasn't changed with Titanic. The picture's spectacle is the ship's sinking, but its core is the affair between a pair of mismatched, star-crossed lovers.

Titanic is a romance, an adventure, and a thriller all rolled into one. It contains moments of exuberance, humor, pathos, and tragedy. In their own way, the characters are all larger-than- life, but they're human enough (with all of the attendant frailties) to capture our sympathy. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Titanic is that, even though Cameron carefully recreates the death of the ship in all of its terrible grandeur, the event never eclipses the protagonists. To the end, we never cease caring about Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Titanic sank during the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic, killing 1500 of the 2200 on board. The movie does not begin in 1912, however -- instead, it opens in modern times, with a salvage expedition intent on recovering some of the ship's long-buried treasure. The expedition is led by Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton), a fortune hunter who is searching for the mythical "Heart of the Ocean", a majestic 56 karat diamond which reputedly went down with the ship. After seeing a TV report about the salvage mission, a 101-year old woman (Gloria Stuart) contacts Brock with information regarding the jewel. She identifies herself as Rose DeWitt Bukater, a survivor of the tragedy. Brock has her flown out to his ship. Once there, she tells him her version of the story of Titanic's ill-fated voyage.

The bulk of the film -- well over 80% of its running time -- is spent in flashbacks. We pick up the story on the day that Titanic leaves Southampton, with jubilant crowds cheering as it glides away from land. On board are the movie's three main characters: Rose, a young American debutante trapped in a loveless engagement because her mother is facing financial ruin; Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), her

rich-but-cold-hearted fianc? and Jack Dawson, a penniless artist who won his third-class ticket in a poker game. When Jack first sees Rose, it's from afar, but circumstances offer him the opportunity to become much closer to her. As the voyage continues, Jack and Rose grow more intimate, and she tries to summon up the courage to defy her mother (Frances Fisher) and break off her engagement. But, even with the aid of an outspoken rich women named Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), the barrier of class looms as a seemingly-insurmountable obstacle. Then, when circumstances in the Rose/Cal/Jack triangle are coming to a head, Titanic strikes an iceberg and the "unsinkable" ship (that term is a testament to man's hubris) begins to go down.

By keeping the focus firmly on Rose and Jack, Cameron avoids one frequent failing of epic disaster movies: too many characters in too many stories. When a film tries to chronicle the lives and struggles of a dozen or more individuals, it reduces them all to cardboard cut-outs. In Titanic, Rose and Jack are at the fore from beginning to end, and the supporting characters are just that -- supporting. The two protagonists (as well as Cal) are accorded enough screen time for Cameron to develop multifaceted personalities.

As important as the characters are, however, it's impossible to deny the power of the visual effects. Especially during the final hour, as Titanic undergoes its death throes, the film functions not only as a rousing adventure with harrowing escapes, but as a testimony to the power of computers to simulate reality in the modern motion picture. The scenes of Titanic going under are some of the most

awe-inspiring in any recent film. This is the kind of movie that it's necessary to see more than once just to appreciate the level of detail.

One of the most unique aspects of Titanic is its use of genuine documentary images to set the stage for the flashback story. Not satisfied with the reels of currently-existing footage of the sunken ship, Cameron took a crew to the site of the wreck to do his own filming. As a result, some of the underwater shots in the framing sequences are of the actual liner lying on the ocean floor. Their importance and impact should not be underestimated, since they further heighten the production's sense of verisimilitude.

For the leading romantic roles of Jack and Rose, Cameron has chosen two of today's finest young actors. Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo + Juliet), who has rarely done better work, has shed his cocky image. Instead, he's likable and energetic in this part -- two characteristics vital to establishing Jack as a hero. Meanwhile, Kate Winslet, whose impressive resume includes Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, and Jude, dons a flawless American accent along with her 1912 garb, and essays an appealing, vulnerable Rose. Billy Zane comes across as the perfect villain -- callous, arrogant, yet displaying true affection for his prized fianc? The supporting cast, which includes Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill (as Titanic's captain), and David Warner (as Cal's no-nonsense manservant), is flawless.

While Titanic is easily the most subdued and dramatic of Cameron's films, fans of more frantic pictures like Aliens and The Abyss will not be disappointed. Titanic has all of the thrills and intensity that

movie-goers have come to expect from the director. A dazzling mix of style and substance, of the sublime and the spectacular, Titanic represents Cameron's most accomplished work to date. It's important not to let the running time hold you back -- these three-plus hour pass very quickly. Although this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.

泰坦尼克号影评英文版.doc

The chase of life ----the Comments on Titanic Abstract : Looking at the portrait ,all the memories come before her --- rose , who lives in the high society . Because the nature of herself is pure , she don’t like the circle she lives in . She is screaming until she meets jack .They fall in love with each other . However , it is a tragedy that the sinking of the Titanic separate them far apart. Key words : love , moving , a superb epic , class differences , romance , The Titanic , the ship of dream , presents a young love between rose and jack , who lives in the polite society . She detests human injustice , hypocritical , and also don’t like people make unrealistic comparison with each other . She thinks herself just like a golden freckle , beautiful , shining with brilliance , envied by others , but to be herself , she feels lonely , helpless . She want to escape . Jack is a boy who comes form lower society . He is simply but happy , and she does things , which polite society can never accept , just he wants to do . He is different from the people rose meet . I think this is the most important reason that they fall in love with each other . In short , they have the same nature human , good and honest , or ugly and repulsive , will show out . If love is true love , nothing will be important . Just as the case between jack and rose . The most moving part is that jack gives the survival chance to rose . As the old say is going , love is selfless . The most moving part of this film is not only soul—stirring love between protagonists , but also for the tears on the face of people who just have seen it . A great shock the Titanic gives us lasting a very very long time . Life is precious , but love is more valuable . Always tragedy can leave a deep memory for audiences . But

Journey to the Center of the Earth(地心游记)2008经典电影英文影评

Journey to the Center of the Earth(地心游记)2008 There is a part of me that will always have affection for a movie like "Journey to the Center of the Earth." It is a small part and steadily shrinking, but once I put on the 3-D glasses and settled in my seat, it started perking up. This is a fairly bad movie, and yet at the same time maybe about as good as it could be. There may not be an 8-year-old alive who would not love it. If I had seen it when I was 8, I would have remembered it with deep affection for all these years, until I saw it again and realized how little I really knew at that age. You are already familiar with the premise, that there is another land inside of our globe. You are familiar because the Jules Verne novel has inspired more than a dozen movies and countless TV productions, including a series, and has been ripped off by such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, who called it Pellucidar, and imagined that the Earth was hollow and there was another world on the inside surface. (You didn't ask, but yes, I own a copy of Tarzan at the Earth's Core with the original dust jacket.) In this version, Brendan Fraser stars as a geologist named Trevor, who defends the memory of his late brother, Max, who believed the center of the Earth could be reached through "volcanic tubes." Max disappeared on a mysterious expedition, which, if it involved volcanic tubes, should have been no surprise to him. Now Trevor has been asked to spend some time with his nephew, Max's son, who is named Sean (Josh Hutcherson). What with one thing and another, wouldn't you know they find themselves in Iceland, and peering down a volcanic tube. They are joined in this enterprise by Hannah (Anita Briem), who they find living in Max's former research headquarters near the volcano he was investigating. Now begins a series of adventures, in which the operative principle is: No matter how frequently or how far they fall, they will land without injury. They fall very frequently, and very far. The first drop lands them at the bottom of a deep cave, from which they cannot possibly climb, but they remain remarkably optimistic: "There must be a way out of here!" Sure enough, they find an abandoned mine shaft and climb aboard three cars of its miniature railway for a scene that will make you swear the filmmakers must have seen "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Just like in that movie, they hurtle down the tracks at breakneck speeds; they're in three cars, on three more or less parallel tracks, leading you to wonder why three parallel tracks were constructed at great expense and bother, but just when such questions are forming, they have to (1) leap a chasm, (2) jump from one car to another, and (3) crash. It's a funny thing about that little railway: After all these years, it still has lamps hanging over the rails, and the electricity is still on. The problem of lighting an unlit world is solved in the next cave they enter, which is inhabited by cute little birds that glow in the dark. One of them makes friends with Sean, and leads them on to the big attraction -- a world bounded by a great interior sea. This world must be a terrible place to inhabit; it has man-eating and man-strangling plants, its waters harbor giant-fanged fish and fearsome sea snakes that eat them, and on the further shore is a Tyrannosaurus rex. So do the characters despair? Would you despair, if you were trapped miles below the surface in a cave and being chased by its hungry inhabitants? Of course not. There isn't a moment in the movie when anyone seems frightened, not even during a fall straight down for thousands of feet, during which they link hands like sky-divers and carry on a conversation. Trevor gets the ball rolling: "We're still falling!" I mentioned 3-D glasses earlier in the review. Yes, the movie is available in 3-D in "selected theaters." Select those theaters to avoid. With a few exceptions (such as the authentic IMAX process), 3-D remains underwhelming to me -- a distraction, a disappointment and more often than not offering a dingy picture. I guess setting your story inside the Earth is one way to explain why it always seems to need more lighting. The movie is being shown in 2-D in most theaters, and that's how I wish I had seen it. Since there's that part of me with a certain weakness for movies like this, it's possible I would have liked it more. It would have looked brighter and clearer, and the photography wouldn't have been cluttered up with all the leaping and gnashing of teeth. Then I could have appreciated the work of the plucky actors, who do a lot of things right in this movie, of which the most heroic is keeping a straight face. 1

《泰坦尼克号》英文影评

After seeing the film TITANICT,what impressed me most is that the film is really well written and I love the way it is told in flashback. It begins with a group of present-day treasure hunters exploring the wreckage of the Titanic (which results in some brilliant underwater footage). However They find nothing but an old safe that's completely empty save for a drawing of a woman. An elderly woman suddenly phones them and says she's the woman in the picture which makes them surprising. She then tells the divers and her granddaughter the main plot of the film. One thing that I really like as well about the flashback format is the editing. Each time the film always shifts between the past or present via a match cut, such as a video of the wreckage of the Titanic in the present day changing into the Titanic before it left in 1912 or a close-up shot of young Rose's eye to the eye of the elderly Rose in the present. The characters are all really well developed. I love how the film manages to blend some of the real historical figures (I.E. the crew of the Titanic) with fictional characters (I.E. Rose, Jack) and yet it is still incredibly believable, as if this really was a true story. The story is largely focused on the relationship between Rose and Jack, but the film constantly manages to develop other characters. Even the present-day characters are really well developed. The story is very well written, and I love the way how it changes in tone throughout. The film starts off exciting, with many people excited, yet still manages to portray Rose in a somewhat sympathetic role. A large portion of it is the romance between Jack and Rose, but the film manages to have some dramatic scenes, with a large sub-plot of the story being the conflict between Rose and the rest of her upper-class family. The film even manages to include a bit of humour here and there, but doesn't take it too far. However everything changes near the end, when we have the iceberg, and all of a sudden the film becomes very dark and tragic. The climax is very impressive. It takes place once the Titanic hits the iceberg. At this point, the film manages to successfully shift focus between different people. It manages to focus on the protagonists, but also manages to focus on the chaos and tension as the ship sinks and the crew struggle to keep order and get the passengers off safely. It brilliantly manages to capture the tragedy and horror of the disaster. Overall this movie is a cinematic masterpiece and one that you definitely should see if you haven't already.

Seven(七宗罪)1995经典电影英文影评

Seven(七宗罪)1995 David Fincher's classic tale of inventive serial killing and urban degredation, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman on excellent form Who'd have thought? An absurd-sounding tale of a serial killer basing his crimes around the seven deadly sins, directed by the man behind the mess that was Alien3, turning out to be one of the most chilling and original thrillers of the 1990s. From the outset, through the film's brilliantly designed deliberate under-lighting - we see very little blood and guts - and muffled sound, the audience is encouraged to lean towards the screen, immerse itself in the film's unbearably grim world. Pitt is in career-making form as Mills, a simple cop moving with his sweet young wife (Paltrow) to a grim, anonymous city, determined to make a difference, to do some good. He is assigned to track down a vengeful killer, and works alongside Somerset (Freeman), a jaded, wise policeman on the verge of retirement. The two are that modern movie cliché -the mismatched pair thrown together by circumstance, who gradually learn mutual respect. But Fincher and Walker take these hackneyed ingredients, play with them in the context of a brilliantly cohesive plot, and present something consistently fresh - the police finding themselves with too much evidence, the premature unmasking of the killer - and very, very dark. 1

泰坦尼克号观后感影评5篇

泰坦尼克号观后感影评5篇 《泰坦尼克号》这部耗资巨大的影片确实给人带来的感触颇深,我想任何人看完了都会陷入沉默深思。这里给大家整理了一些有关泰坦尼克号的观后感,希望对大家有所帮助. 泰坦尼克号观后感1 在我的心目中,《泰坦尼克号》一向是我心目中的最佳感情片之一,它不止让我在电影院里模糊了双眼,也让我的泪在电脑前一流再流。1912年4月,一艘号称“永不沉没”的轮船沉睡在大西洋底,至今还成为人们津津乐道的话题。可能船上未必真的有Jack和Rose,但我却如此执着的相信这个感情故事,相信有那样两个人,一见钟情,一见永别。 电影是在用插叙的形式讲故事,Rose透过摄影机看到沉入海底锈迹斑斑的泰坦尼克号时,回忆起了那艘邮轮上的明亮的灯火,精致的回廊,喧嚣的筵席,但最美的但是是某人单纯的笑容,尽管他从未说出“ILoveYou”。 我更喜欢用“浪漫”来形容这部电影,毕竟,这是个一见钟情的故事。Jack靠打牌赢来了两张船票,对于他这样一个穷小子来说,能有机会登上泰坦尼克号简直是世界上最完美的事。大船起航,Jack向岸边挥手,对于我这个明白结局的人来说,他如此幸

运又如此不幸,他登上了这艘豪华的游轮,他遇见了此生的真爱,但他又在最灿烂的时候陨灭,在冰冷的大西洋里。 如果说电影的前半部分给人的大多是温馨的感觉,那么当大船撞上冰山之后,你能够感受到各种情绪都即将爆发。《泰坦尼克号》的伟大之处在于它不仅仅仅呈现了一段绝美的感情,也展现了灾难来临前的各种冲突。下等舱的乘客被关在闸门之外,务必在上等舱的乘客之后上船,是谁决定了他们不该被拯救?为了减缓进水速度,锅炉房的闸门落下,但是又有多少工人们被活生生淹死在水里呢?有的人没有资格上救生艇,有的人却在抱怨救生艇上位置太挤;有人千方百计的疏通船员,只为了救生艇上的一个位置,有的人拿起小提琴,拿起大提琴,谱写生命最后的悲歌。“与各位合作是我的荣幸。”——这是怎样的一种从容,应对死亡而以歌曲送别,他们纵然是贵族眼中低人一等的演奏家,纵然在这慌乱的时刻没有人认真听他们的音乐,但在电影里,那些或欢快或沉郁的曲调成为了震耳欲聋的背景音,船上的惊慌奔跑的人群都已成了远景,生命的最后,只应当这样尊严的告别。 泰坦尼克号的沉没是恐怖的,船身越来越倾斜,船尾高高翘起,巨大的螺旋桨暴露在空气中,船上灯光全灭,广阔的大西洋,无人救援。Jack攀在木板上,Rose说,“Jack,Iloveyou。”这是全片唯一的一句告白,在濒死的时刻,在期望快要破灭的瞬间。最

Tess(苔丝)1979经典电影英文影评

Tess(苔丝)1979 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which Roman Polanski has turned into a lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie, might at first seem to be the wrong project for Mr. Polanski in every way. As a new biography of the director reports, when Tess was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the press pointed nastily and repeatedly to the coincidence of Mr. Polanski's having made a film about a young girl's seduction by an older man, while he himself faced criminal charges for a similar offense. This would certainly seem to cast a pall over the project. So would the fact that Hardy's novel is so very deeply rooted in English landscapes, geographical and sociological, while Mr. Polanski was brought up in Poland. Finally, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is so quintessentially Victorian a story that a believable version might seem well out of any contemporary director's reach. But if an elegant, plausible, affecting Tess sounds like more than might have been expected of Mr. Polanski, let's just say he has achieved the impossible. In fact, in the process of adapting his style to suit such a sweeping and vivid novel, he has achieved something very unlike his other work. Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean. In a preface to the later editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Mr. Hardy described the work as "an impression, not an argument." Mr. Polanski has taken a similar approach, removing the sting from both the story's morality and its melodrama. Tess Durbeyfield, the hearty country lass whose downfall begins when her father learns he had noble forebears, is sent to charm her rich D'Urberville relations. She learns that they aren't D'Urbervilles after all; instead, they have used their new money to purchase an old name. Tess charms them anyhow, so much that Alec D'Urberville, her imposter cousin, seduces and impregnates her. The seduction, like many of the film's key scenes, is presented in a manner both earthy and discreet. In this case, the action is set in a forest, where a gentle mist arises from the ground and envelops Tess just around the time when she is enveloped by Alec. Alec, as played by Leigh Lawson, is a slightly wooden character, unlike Angel Clare, Tess's later and truer lover, played with supreme radiance by Peter Firth. Long after Tess has borne and buried her illegitimate child, she finds and falls in love with this spirited soul mate. But when she marries Angel Clare and is at last ready to reveal the secret of her past, the story begins hurtling toward its final tragedy. When Tess becomes a murderer, the film offers its one distinctly Polanski-like moment—but even that scene has its fidelity to the novel. A housemaid listening at a door hears a "drip, drip, drip" sound, according to Hardy. Mr. Polanski has simply interpreted this with a typically mischievous flourish. Of all the unlikely strong points of Tess, which opens today for a weeklong engagement at the Baronet and which will reopen next year, the unlikeliest is Nastassja Kinski, who plays the title role. Miss Kinski powerfully resembles the young Ingrid Bergman, and she is altogether ravishing. But she's an odd choice for Tess: not quite vigorous enough, and maybe even too beautiful. She's an actress who can lose her magnetism and mystery if she's given a great deal to do (that was the case in an earlier film called Stay As You Are). But here, Mr. Polanski makes perfect use of her. Instead of a driving force, she becomes an echo of the land and the society around her, more passive than Hardy's Tess but linked just as unmistakably with natural forces. Miss Kinski's Tess has no inner life to speak of. But Mr. Polanski makes her surroundings so expressive that her placidity and reserve work very beautifully. Even at its nearly three-hour running time, Mr. Polanski's Tess cannot hope for anything approaching the range of the novel. But the deletions have been made wisely, and though the story loses some of its resonance it maintains its momentum. There are episodes—like one involving Tess's shabby boots and Mercy Chant, the more respectable girl who expects to marry Angel—that don't make the sense they should, and the action is fragmented at times. That's a small price to pay for the movie's essential rightness, for its congruence with the mood and manner of the novel. Mr. Polanski had to go to Normandy and rebuild Stonehenge to stage his last scene, according to this same biography. As is the case throughout his Tess, the results were worth the trouble. 1

人性的礼赞——关于泰坦尼克号的影评

人性的礼赞 ——关于《泰坦尼克号》的影评 流光容易把人抛,红了樱桃,绿了芭蕉。转眼十五年,《泰坦尼克号》已经披上了她怀旧的外衣……我们呢?十五年前,我还是一个懵懂的小学生,远远没能领悟《泰坦尼克号》带来的震撼。 时隔久远,它依然是我最喜欢的一部电影。反复地观赏使其中的情节和人物深深烙印在我的脑海里。下面我就来侧重盘点下电影里的灵魂人物和它对于人性的礼赞吧! 一、灵魂人物分析 1.Jack Jack出场于赌桌上。Jack其实是个“人生的赌徒”,或者说,是个彻底的存在主义者,全部的家当都带在身上,四海为家,今朝有酒今朝醉,绝不虚度人生,从他在贵族酒桌上的一席话可以看出这点。他说:’我喜欢早上一起来是一切都是未知的,不知会遇见什么人,会有什么样的结局。”他知道,人生充满不确定性,每天醒来都是崭新的一天,因此他努力生存,享受每一天的日出与日落,欣然接受上帝赐予的每一个机会与运气。 他和Rose的第一次对话很有趣。对于Rose的诉苦,他一直追问一个问题“你到底爱不爱他”。因为他真正关注的是人的内心感受,人必须坦诚对待自己的心,不能逃避。只有当你尊重自己的感受,和自己沟通的时候,你才能找到出路。人最高贵的地方在于选择。 通常在表白时大家都会说我对你的爱“天长地久、永远不变”,但这个痴情种说的却是“我对你的爱火总有一天会熄灭的”。这是多么的出人意料!其实他想表达的是:我们拥有的只有当下,即使我们的身份地位相差悬殊,但是,这一刻,我们彼此相爱,我爱你,我也知道你爱我,那我们就应当把握当下,别管未来。我不能保证我爱你生生世世,但我保证这一刻,我对你的爱火是那么炙热!其实这是一番非常坦诚、也非常感人的表白。 2.Rose Rose读弗洛伊德。在二十世纪初读弗洛伊德,说明她是个思想非常前卫的姑娘,她脱离了她所在的贵族阶级,接受新潮的后现代主义思想,但她的身份禁锢了她的思想,她试图以自己的力量来反抗,但没什么用。Rose喜欢毕加索和莫奈的画。他们一个是抽象主义大师(虽然当时还不是),一个是印象派先驱,这两种艺术思潮在当时还算前卫和小众。她对这些艺术家的欣赏折射出她在艺术修养上的独特品味。Rose来自一个没落的贵族家庭。母亲利用她钓到Cal这样一个金龟婿,以排解家中的经济之忧。但这种观念把Rose绑得紧紧,让她无法追求自我。她特立独行,跟Jack去参加三级舱派对、他们喝酒、跳舞、大声欢笑、在船舷上摆出整个世纪最拉风、被后世人无数次COS的浪漫造型、画像、和管家玩捉迷藏、在老爷车里做爱......Jack的爱让Rose找到自我,追求自由。

泰坦尼克号观后感(英语)

“泰坦尼克号”英文观后感 After the appreciation of the film “Titanic”,I have noticed some meaningful details behind the peoples' general impression of simply an affectional film. The wreck of the Titanic occurred in 1912, in which the great recession started from the end of the 19th Century still hasn't ended. Most critics pointed out that the sinking of the Titanic represents the collapse of the Capitalism in the end of the 19th Century. However, I would like to say that, in this movie, the director had not only foreran the crisis of the Capitalism, but also showed some of the human nature, from both gloomy and brilliant aspects, like selfish, mammonish, vainglorious, and love, hope, bravery, faith, and so on. In this essay, I will first reveal this film's indication of the social context of that age, then I will analyse the two contrary aspects of human nature indicated in this film through some impressive shots. Under the development of industrial technology, the economy in the Capitalism countries took off. People lived a rich, luxury and expensive life, and this rapid economic development lasted for almost 20 years. People had got used to this kind of life. The huge development in machinery changed people's life greatly. Innovations of transportation, such as vehicles and tankers, allowed people to travel around. The appearance of these modern transportations was an important milestone of the industrialization. People thus became very confident on human intellectual capabilities. They believed their power of conquering the nature is inapproachable. While the Titanic is also called “The Ship of Dreamers”,in this film, when it bearing in with the ocean in the darkness, the mysterious ocean represents the unknown nature and the ship itself represents the advanced material capabilities people owned. In a shot that Mr Bruce explains his design of the Titanic, he said “the ship possesses huge size, stability, luxury, and strength”,and that“ the supremacy will never be challenged”。In fact, all these words can be thought of the symbols of the Capitalism of that time in many people's eyes. They thought the Capitalism

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