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Message: [QUOTE="João Carlos Pereira Martins, post: 163717, member: 201714"] Well, I think Mr. Cameron said one thing I believe it's important: if we don't appreciate the ship and the people on it, we can't appreciate the sinking. Ok, the 97 film is not a masterpiece of cinema but when I saw it for the first time I was hoping for something more focused in the small true stories of the voyage and in the beauty and modernism of that ship and I was expecting the tragedy portraying to be centred in the losses of all lifes, not only in a single story about a cheeky girl who wanted to belong a world that she wasn't born for and that have lost a 2-day lover. Didn't they think in the marriages of decades ripped apart that night? The children which both parents died (many of them were third class, they had no money, no clothes, no place to go!)? The sets are good an I believe and I can see they were faithfully reproduced. But... didn't this wonderful sets deserved a better screenplay? Mr. Andrews talking more about the ship, the passengers making commentaries about the opulence and the comfort, more dialogues regarding the gossip on board, past histories of characters (real and fictional).I was just reminding the 96 miniseries. Excessive number of fictional characters and pathetic special effects,yes, it's all true, but the story was more about the ship. I'm writing a story which takes place on board the Titanic. The story has consistence but I never forget that the ship is the main thing in the book, the character number one. Sorry to disturb the ones with better supported opinions but it was a thought. Thanks everybody, João [/QUOTE]

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