Sunday, March 30, 2008

Research Paper: Titanic

Even though I'd rather not mention my research paper or think about it because it's such a pain, I will. My research paper is on the movie The Titanic. The reason I wanted to write about this movie is because it's been my all time favorite movie since I was young and both the love story and the music was compelling for me.
Although there is some historical significance of this movie, which would be the whole ship disaster, I don't want to focus on that in my paper. Rather I want to focus on the love story between Jack and Rose because for me, that was the highlight of the movie and that is what spiced up the whole movie. Their love story was very common, you know rich girl falls in love with that poor boy who is madly in love with her, off course forgetting the fact that she is engaged. There are several arguments that I noticed about my topic. The first argument is that several critics thought that the movie had no depth and that it lacked values. I disagree with that because it showed viewers that love disregards class or wealth and that the "unsinkable" can sink, againest all odds. Those were the two lessons that I think that movie taught us....I can agree on the fact that the whole love scenario that happend on the Titanic is very common and nothing new. Typical poor boy, rich girl drama.
What I like best about the movie is the love story. I like how it happend, how Jack saved Rose's life and how he showed her how to have fun regardless of class. It seemed like she had the perfect life and that she had the greatest fiance but we fail to see her inner suffering. Jack brings out the joy and the fun child in her. I want to focus on that part of the movie and perhaps examine how often and how common it was for this stuff to happen back at that time and what the consquences are. I might research how important class was for people back in that time and how the regarded this.

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