On the Sunday night I returned home from vacation, I was dealing with the normal post-vacation and pre-week jitters. Luckily I was greeted with a fantastic distraction on TV: Titanic.
It really will be hard for me to explain what this movie means to me exactly, but it evokes a wide range of emotions. I saw this movie 3 times in the theatre which still remains the only movie I've seen more than once before coming out onto film.
It's also the first movie I remember crying at in a theatre... and I mean really crying. The second time I saw it I started tearing up during the opening credits! That soft Celine started coming on while the passengers were happily waving to everyone, and I just kept thinking "They don't know they're all going to die!!" I cried for the rest of the film. All 3 hours. When my friend's mom picked us up I was such a red, puffy, sniffly mess she thought I was sick.
It's also the first movie I remember crying at in a theatre... and I mean really crying. The second time I saw it I started tearing up during the opening credits! That soft Celine started coming on while the passengers were happily waving to everyone, and I just kept thinking "They don't know they're all going to die!!" I cried for the rest of the film. All 3 hours. When my friend's mom picked us up I was such a red, puffy, sniffly mess she thought I was sick.
Speaking of that famed Celine Dion song, every time it starts to play in the movie it takes me back to the days where I would sit by my boombox, listen to Delilah, and try to record the song onto a tape when it would play on the radio. My friends and I were obsessed.
I also was mildly obsessed with the star. Good ol' Leo. Leonardo DiCaprio was my celebrity crush for most of my middle and high school days. Needless to say, seeing him in this romantic tragedy hit a soft spot in my heart. I still swoon and sigh longingly over his character.
Of course, none of these reasons are why this film has landed on AFI's top 100 list. This was one of the first movies to come out that was 3-hours in length (which is now normal) and it was filled with special effects. It was James Cameron at his pre-Avatar ground breaking best. I remember watching all of the specials they'd host on TV about how the movie was made: from filming, to digital images, to acting, and it's still pretty amazing how it all came together.
Watching the film now, I still can't help it. I realize the film is incredibly cheesy, but I still get into the plot, smile at the love story, feel for all of the different characters, and cry like a baby. Mark was a little confused when he found me and I was mid ugly-cry. He asked me what was wrong and I just responded, "They dont' know they're all going to die!"
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