Originally Posted by
TerraCanis:
“... and while thinking about comparisons between Raise the Titanic and Titanic...
At roughly the same time that he composed the soundtrack for Raise the Titanic, John Barry also penned the score for Somewhere in Time. There's a little trick that can be played with the end scene of Titanic and the music to Somewhere in Time if you open these two links in separate tabs:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlGPpS9hl0 (Titanic)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bhahbyEjFPw (Somewhere in Time)
Pause both and rewind to the beginning if necessary. Then mute Titanic while leaving it paused, switch to Somewhere in Time and start it (with sound enabled), then quickly switch back to Titanic and set it running. The timing can be a little tricky, but the two fit together pretty well. If you're very lucky, the timing is spot on, and it really does send a chill down the spine.”
I’ve only seen the 1997 version of Titanic once;…I really couldn’t watch it again. I think the eerie music and Céline bleedin’ Dion was a lot to do with it.
It probably sounds a bit wimpish but I found it a little too poignant,…especially as it’s based on a true story, albeit heavily dramatized.
I’m from a seafaring background and a number of my good friends and colleagues have perished at sea.
One particular real good mate of mine died when his ship struck rocks just off Iceland and sank within minutes;…the weather conditions were eerily similar to ‘Titanics’ fateful night;…winter, unusually calm and windless, and it was the early hours of the morning, so it was pitch black.
When the Icelandic rescue services arrived my mate, along with 7 others, was found floating in the sea.
Some of the 8 had on nothing more than shorts and t-shirts,.. but all of them had a lifejacket on. None of those in lifejackets had drowned,… all died from hypothermia;
…a lonely and wretched way to die.
All 12 people onboard the ship perished. Some bodies were never recovered.
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