The usual obsessing over the disaster has reached unfathomable depths for its 100th anniversary
Look at the BBC's Titanic scheduling and you can't help wondering if the corporation has done enough to own the great heritage disaster. True, it is working hard to prevent Julian Fellowes commandeering the wreck in its entirety, given the perfect fit between the horrifying mass drowning and his signature, vintage melodrama. In its offering Titanic with Len Goodman, for instance, BBC viewers will see the Strictly celebrity travel all over the shop, "to discover how the impact of the Titanic disaster is still felt today".
Principally, of course, the disaster is still felt today courtesy of James Cameron – his 1997 film updated for the anniversary in glorious 3D – and his rival, Julian Fellowes, who describes the sinking as "the perfect disaster in a very compact form". Almost too compact, in that it unfolded more quickly than his TV series.
Look at the BBC's Titanic scheduling and you can't help wondering if the corporation has done enough to own the great heritage disaster. True, it is working hard to prevent Julian Fellowes commandeering the wreck in its entirety, given the perfect fit between the horrifying mass drowning and his signature, vintage melodrama. In its offering Titanic with Len Goodman, for instance, BBC viewers will see the Strictly celebrity travel all over the shop, "to discover how the impact of the Titanic disaster is still felt today".
Principally, of course, the disaster is still felt today courtesy of James Cameron – his 1997 film updated for the anniversary in glorious 3D – and his rival, Julian Fellowes, who describes the sinking as "the perfect disaster in a very compact form". Almost too compact, in that it unfolded more quickly than his TV series.
- 3/25/2012
- by Catherine Bennett
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Dec 28: A cruise company is marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic by recreating the doomed voyage.
British company Titanic Memorial Cruises is taking passengers on 12-night cruise aboard the Fred Olsen liner Balmoral in April 2012 and the trip will take the same route as the Titanic.
Although the cruise will broadly follow Titanic's itinerary, it will leave Southampton on April 8, two days earlier than the 1912 voyage, because the 20-knot, 617ft Balmoral is slower than the 23-knot, 882ft Titanic.
It will also have the same number of passengers on board as in the original voyage.
All.
British company Titanic Memorial Cruises is taking passengers on 12-night cruise aboard the Fred Olsen liner Balmoral in April 2012 and the trip will take the same route as the Titanic.
Although the cruise will broadly follow Titanic's itinerary, it will leave Southampton on April 8, two days earlier than the 1912 voyage, because the 20-knot, 617ft Balmoral is slower than the 23-knot, 882ft Titanic.
It will also have the same number of passengers on board as in the original voyage.
All.
- 12/28/2011
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
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