{"id":1781913,"date":"2022-12-20T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781913"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:48:04","slug":"25-years-later-titanic-would-sink-not-soar-in-modern-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/25-years-later-titanic-would-sink-not-soar-in-modern-america\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Later: \u2018Titanic\u2019 Would Sink, Not Soar, In Modern America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F25-years-later-titanic-would-sink-not-soar-in-modern-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781913&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood can keep churning out movies month after month, year after year, but it\u2019s unlikely another cultural phenomenon like James Cameron\u2019s \u201cTitanic\u201d will ever happen again.<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons to blame for this beyond the fact that the three hour and 30-minute drama revolves around a heterosexual white couple. It would be impossible to explain to teens today just how much \u201cTitanic\u201d captivated the nation\u2019s attention for months.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they loved it or intentionally avoided \u201cTitanic\u201d for being so popular, everyone knew about the moment Rose croaked, \u201cI\u2019ll never let go, Jack. I\u2019ll never let go,\u201d just before watching her young love sink into the icy abyss.<\/p>\n<p>I was 13 years-old when \u201cTitanic\u201d came out and am only slightly ashamed to admit that I saw it seven times in theaters and cried through every single showing. I was so obsessed with the story of the poor young artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) falling in love with first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) that a classmate actually wrote in my yearbook that spring, \u201cThe boat sank. Get over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t the only one swooning. Though it had a bit of a slow start at the box office, \u201cTitanic\u201d remained the number-one movie in America for 15 consecutive weeks and earned over $2.2 billion. None of this was guaranteed; in fact, some critics feared the overly ambitious, over-budget film would sink faster than the ship it was based upon. It could have been a colossal failure just as easily as it was a success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end, \u201cTitanic\u201d was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won 11, including awards for Best Picture and Best Director. The film managed to impress audiences as much as critics for several reasons that would be almost impossible by today\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost is society\u2019s extreme lack of attention span. Movie hype today won\u2019t ever reach \u201cTitanic\u201d heights because people are constantly seeking the next big thing, which leads to movie studios cycling through sequel after sequel to constantly have something new to share. Superhero franchises have the best chance for success with the current model.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences are likely to latch onto the hot movie of the moment, but the concept of that production remaining at the top of the charts for four solid months is almost inconceivable. Also, would audiences even sit through a movie that was more than three hours long?<\/p>\n<p>Another thing \u201cTitanic\u201d had going for it was widespread appeal that just doesn\u2019t exist anymore. There were definitely teenage girls like me who already had posters of Leonardo DiCaprio hanging on their walls before the movie came out and could therefore be expected to buy tickets for multiple showings just to see him on screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Cameron\u2019s epic historical drama held appeal for a much bigger audience, including history enthusiasts who were fascinated with the real-life sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and moviegoers who appreciated big-budget productions which benefited from surround sound and giant screen.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201990s, people were less likely to have state-of-the-art theaters in their basements and would therefore be drawn to movie theaters to see a blockbuster like \u201cTitanic.\u201d In present day, theater attendance started dwindling before the COVID pandemic and has yet to recover from closures that dragged on for months in its wake. A Gallup <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/388538\/movie-theater-attendance-far-below-historical-norms.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> from last year found that Americans watched an average of 1.4 movies in a movie theater, while a record number of people (61%) didn\u2019t go to the movies in a theater once.<\/p>\n<p>At least one publication credited \u201cTitanic\u2019s\u201d popularity with the rise of hater culture due to the number of people who despised it purely based on its popularity. They called Cameron\u2019s film overhyped and overdone, cheesy and performative.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, they hated the hype surrounding the movie more than the actual film \u2013 which they swore they\u2019d never watch \u2013 and pegged it as proof of how gullible people would always just follow a crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s backlash would be very different. In no time, critics would note how the ill-fated ship didn\u2019t feature a single person of color despite the fact that the real Titanic only had one black passenger. Mainstream outlets would further complain about Jack, a straight white male, falling in love with Rose, who is also straight and white. They\u2019d lambast Cameron for failing to meet LGBTQ representation quotas and accuse him of being a blatant transphobe, homophobe, and possibly racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTitanic\u201d wasn\u2019t perfect. But the narrative did focus on the concept of sacrificial love, which is no longer a popular concept. While modern cultural institutions promote self-satisfaction at any cost, the world of \u201cTitanic\u201d at its core featured a man who would give his life for a woman. The main villain in the movie was Rose\u2019s intended fiance, Caledon \u201cCal\u201d Hockley, who pretends to be a father so he can secure passage on a lifeboat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood can keep churning out movies month after month, year after year, but it\u2019s unlikely another cultural phenomenon like James Cameron\u2019s \u201cTitanic\u201d will ever happen again. There are many reasons to blame for this beyond the fact that the three hour and 30-minute drama revolves around a heterosexual white couple. 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