I really wish that, instead of creating this Fellowes turkey, ITV had simply spent the budget re-filming ANTR with minor adjustments to the script (to clarify names - eg. naming the Duff Gordons and Ismay) and using modern effects. The thought of the 1958 movie with modern effects (or even the effects of the 1997 film) is incredibly exciting!
Or even including some different real-life passengers, like Michel Navratil and his two little sons. His marriage had broken down and he snatched his two little sons from their mother, planning to take them to the USA aboard the Titanic. He was lost but the children were saved - it took a while to identify the "Titanic Orphans". Really, the true stories are so much better than the fiction.
I've never really considered the Barbara Stanwyck film to be a "Titanic" film - it's a super film of its type, but not for its Titanic content.
I enjoyed the 1953 film. I didn't mind that it got a lot of things wrong, though the end was a bit strange, very suddenly cut off. Not a fan of the singing scene either.
Well, I suspect this will be the last Titanic film / drama for a very very long time. After the centenary, with so many dramas documentaries and movies (including the 2nd largest BO of all time)... I think it has well and truly been done.
Oddly enough, I found myself thinking that a film of the Britannic disaster would be pretty compelling. I only recently read the details, it's hair raising stuff - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic . Tell you what, here's the story - Violet Jessop survived sinkings of both Ttanic and Briattanic (and was even in a near-disaster on The Olympic, so she really had the full White Star disaster set). In the case of Britannic, she jumped from her lifeboat which was getting sucked into the propellers, then got sucked underwater. How much more dramatic do you want?! And hey, you only need to build one ship, just trash it 3 times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
Uh...if true, was it ever in doubt? It's Fellowes we're talking about, one of the most predictable writers in television.
Nope. Sigh.
We know Harry will die because he did on the real titanic, so there's already one Rose/Jack type story with him and Georgiana. Why do we had to have the same outcome for P/A as well. Oh well.
Here's where I read it *warning - contains spoilers about who lives and dies*.
Not sure how this person has already seen it so it may not be true, but going off what clips and trailers I have seen promoting the show, it sounds about right.
Here's where I read it *warning - contains spoilers about who lives and dies*.
Not sure how this person has already seen it so it may not be true, but going off what clips and trailers I have seen promoting the show, it sounds about right.
Well, I suspect this will be the last Titanic film / drama for a very very long time. After the centenary, with so many dramas documentaries and movies (including the 2nd largest BO of all time)... I think it has well and truly been done.
You might want a spoiler free review but I want a spoiler review!
That spoiler button on that post from earlier is really tempting me... but I'll wait until Sunday to find out who lives and dies, even though the trailer pretty much gave it away.
Some "recently discovered" letters from the Duff Gordons shed new light on the sinking:
Just when it could safely be assumed that every rivet of the Titanic had been examined, every myth exhausted and every survivor story told, chance has thrown up a rich hoard of new material written by two of the most vilified first-class passengers to escape drowning.
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Or even including some different real-life passengers, like Michel Navratil and his two little sons. His marriage had broken down and he snatched his two little sons from their mother, planning to take them to the USA aboard the Titanic. He was lost but the children were saved - it took a while to identify the "Titanic Orphans". Really, the true stories are so much better than the fiction.
I've never really considered the Barbara Stanwyck film to be a "Titanic" film - it's a super film of its type, but not for its Titanic content.
And why the hell does Lord Bloody Manton (who I find irritating) survive instead? :mad:
where's the link?
Uh...if true, was it ever in doubt? It's Fellowes we're talking about, one of the most predictable writers in television.
Oddly enough, I found myself thinking that a film of the Britannic disaster would be pretty compelling. I only recently read the details, it's hair raising stuff - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic . Tell you what, here's the story - Violet Jessop survived sinkings of both Ttanic and Briattanic (and was even in a near-disaster on The Olympic, so she really had the full White Star disaster set). In the case of Britannic, she jumped from her lifeboat which was getting sucked into the propellers, then got sucked underwater. How much more dramatic do you want?! And hey, you only need to build one ship, just trash it 3 times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
Hmm. Britannic centenary on November 21 2016.
Nope. Sigh.
Here's where I read it *warning - contains spoilers about who lives and dies*.
Not sure how this person has already seen it so it may not be true, but going off what clips and trailers I have seen promoting the show, it sounds about right.
http://whistlelikethis.tumblr.com/post/20857869166
Does anyone else think its odd that they gave so much away in the trailers? lol :rolleyes:
thanks there's also a list on imdb that I found
postie has just delivered the dvd
I wonder if Annie dies
There was no real Annie Desmond on any crew list of the Titanic I've ever seen so she might be ok!!
Unfortunately it has never been done well.
Please could you give us a spoiler free review for the last episode once you've watched it? Pretty please?
You might want a spoiler free review but I want a spoiler review!
Yes - but the apparent choice of survivors is very odd? Amidst all the death and disaster surely you want some feelgood?
Also I didn't realise brandy had such strong powers!:D
Not the ship. The ratings I mean
I do agree but at least it's different
Your opinion - be that as it may, there will be no appetite after this frenzy for many, many, MANY years. For good or ill, It has been done.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/titanic-anniversary/9202821/Titanic-survivors-vindicated-at-last.html
Did you watch it? Who died? I heard this episode is good