(To celebrate "Titanic" and its impending 25th-anniversary re-release, we've put together a week of explorations, inquires, and deep dives into James Cameron's box office-smashing disaster epic.)
"Something Picasso? He won't amount to a thing," declares the pompous one-percenter Caledon "Cal" Hockley (Billy Zane) with unwavering confidence, after Rose (Kate Winslet) expresses her fascination for the painter in James Cameron's "Titanic." Even 25 years after its release, Cameron's acclaimed disaster film continues to have a hold on us, and its doomed central romance still elicits debates about whether Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) might've survived the ordeal. There's plenty to love about "Titanic" — Cameron weaves a bittersweet, almost-operatic odyssey about love and loss, where a fleeting encounter emerges as utterly transformative, and secondary characters also manage to be memorable. However, it is Zane's Cal who introduces a distinct brand of villainy to the drama that unfolds even before the ship hits the iceberg,...
"Something Picasso? He won't amount to a thing," declares the pompous one-percenter Caledon "Cal" Hockley (Billy Zane) with unwavering confidence, after Rose (Kate Winslet) expresses her fascination for the painter in James Cameron's "Titanic." Even 25 years after its release, Cameron's acclaimed disaster film continues to have a hold on us, and its doomed central romance still elicits debates about whether Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) might've survived the ordeal. There's plenty to love about "Titanic" — Cameron weaves a bittersweet, almost-operatic odyssey about love and loss, where a fleeting encounter emerges as utterly transformative, and secondary characters also manage to be memorable. However, it is Zane's Cal who introduces a distinct brand of villainy to the drama that unfolds even before the ship hits the iceberg,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
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