Titanic by Cameron: why such a success?

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This paper focuses on the success of the most profitable movie the USA have ever known; the goal is to explain this success by analizing not only the movie, but also the OST, the promotion etc.

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[...] Titanic is longer than classical American movie, plays more on symbolism and on sound, and succeeds in creating a link between the audience and the movie, what is very often missing in typical American movies. D.L. KIDD “Cardboard Floats: Why Titanic Has Buoyed Above Criticism and Ridden the Waves of Financial Success”, Life style Juris Publici on the Web Schneider M. (1998), The sign, the thing and Titanic Chronicles of Love and Resentment, No Terry-Chandler F. (2000), Vanished circumstances : Titanic, heritage and film International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol Number pp. 67-76 Barton M. [...]

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[...] The story line First, let us focus on the story line, which may be the first thing that attracts people when choosing a movie. Though we seem to all know what will happen and when it will happen, somehow a kind of charm of the actors and of subtle humor of the writing sucks us anyway. An epic story Exploring the story of the movie, many clues indicate that it is a real traditional with a 1990's sensibility. The first characteristic demonstrating this epic dimension is the length (194 minutes). [...]

[...] Therefore, it obviously contributes to the success of the film, with music presence almost at every minute of the film, and with a presence that brings a lot to the interpretation of the actors. Titanic is the movie that registered the highest profits in the world; this success is justified not only by the story itself that is meaningful almost everywhere on the planet, but also by the talent of Cameron in structuring his movie, by the way the movie is anchored in today's reality, and also by the strong soundtrack that adds value to it. [...]

[...] Structure of the story More than three hours is very long for a movie, but not that much for Titanic; the point is that the structure of the movie itself breaks out the monotony; it begins with a 20-minute prologue that occurs in the present, with a reporter leading a search on the Titanic to find a diamond necklace, that a 101-year-old recognizes on TV. This woman then tells her own story as flashback, and at the end, it comes back to present, even more powerful. The main point of the way the story is told relies on symbolism; Cameron plays a lot on symbols and uses them a lot. [...]