Sociological Themes In The Movie Titanic

During the years of 1909 to 1912 the Titanic was being constructed and was launched in Belfast, United Kingdom. “I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” Captain Edward Smith. The Titanic impacted American history through manufacturing ships stronger and the International Ice Patrol.

Social class plays a major role in today’s society because people want to exhibit their position in ranking, in comparison to others. However, it was much more significant during the era when the ship set sail in 1912, the Titanic era. The Titanic was divided by people’s status. People from the upper class were placed on the higher deck, middle class people were placed in the middle deck, and low class people were placed on the lower deck. But how did they know how to differentiate between the three classes? Well, their way of dressing and their manners. Women of high class would wear gowns, walk straight, wear heels, eat and talk proper. In addition, the men would wear suits and always have their hair combed and nicely done. However,

in popular culture, such as Cameron’s 1997 Titanic which focuses largely on the folly in placing trust in technology.

Titanic portrayed sexuality with attraction between a man and a woman. Rose was a beautiful woman whom her fiancée Hockley was the son of a rich and powerful steel mill owner. However, the sexual interest here was actually in the form of business. Rose was marrying him because of the money Hockley would inherit when his father died, a very prominent practice during that time. Men with power and money were shown to be desirable from all of Rose 's companions on the ship. This common theme of sexuality was broken from Jack 's introduction into Rose 's life. Jack was a polar opposite of Hockley, and he took on a different theme of sexuality of being free, seeing a woman as an equal, and not being rich. Jack ' sexuality was expressed in may forms different from Hockley. When he saved Rose from falling overboard, in his folk-style dancing with Rose, and in his chase of Rose which included kissing and having sex with her. Jack’s simple flirtation with Rose and his later aid in her freedom from the gender binds she was in became the cornerstone of the theme of the movie.

The sinking of the Titanic was a tragedy that had an impact for the entire world. To this day, everyone is familiar with the event. It’s no wonder why mention of the ship would incite a certain dread in the hearts of those who lay their eyes on it. The title, “Titanic” (391), however, is a mere decoy. It’s a tool used to set up the ironic tone of the poem. This is made clear through the rather blunt first line, “Who does not love the Titanic?” The word “love” is a rather explicit word used to describe the world’s reaction toward the vessel for years to come. While the initial set up seems to be satirical, this isn’t the speaker’s true intention. The poem references something other than fear or

Titanic, one of the highest box office movie in the history of film industry, is an epic romance-disaster movie written and directed by James Cameron. The movie depicts the love story of Jack, a penniless artist, and Rose, a 17-year-old upper class lady, which happened aboard the Titanic—ship of dreams—during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Since the release of this movie, many generations are aware of this tragic historical event from this elaborate film. Meanwhile, the critics never had ended their analysis and conversation about this heated movie. And, interestingly, their claims are widely different from each other. Peter Krämer claims that the Titanic is a female-centered action adventure movie. James Kendrick says that Cameron takes the side with the poor, thus spread the idea saying that class does not matter. Moreover, “this is a film that made quite remarkable claims for its own historical accuracy”, said Richard Howells by questioning the historical fact of this movie throughout his article. And also Peter Middleton, he believes that this movie reflects our own value at the specific time period. Although Kendrick seems to talk about the class issue, he never had developed a precise analysis about it.

The Titanic may be one of the most famous and well known shipwrecks of our time. Just about everyone learns of the tragedy in school and how it was a complete accident. Information has been found that point to the tragedy not being what we think it is. There is evidence that shows that the ship thought to be the Titanic may actually be named the Olympic, and may have been used in an insurance scam. This evidence includes pictures showing different amounts of port holes and even people working on the ship coming forward. It has yet to be proven if this is 100% true, but most would agree that all of this points to it being true.

On April 14,1912 a great ship called the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. That night there were many warnings of icebergs from other ships. There seems to be a conflict on whether or not the warnings reached the bridge. We may never know the answer to this question. The greatest tragedy of all may be that there were not

The movie Titanic, directed by James Cameron, was a fictional story based on the true ship, Titanic. Cameron's movie was based on a love story; however, the focus of this paper will be on some of the differences between the two classes aboard the Titanic. This movie clearly portrayed how differently the first and second-class people were treated during the time of the Titanic. This can be related to many other times in American history when groups were segregated as well.

When researching movies for my paper, I decided that the Titanic was the perfect option. Being that the movie was based on the true event of the RMS Titanic sinking, I knew I could also find a lot of research during the time of the Titanic to help strengthen my paper. The movie Titanic took place in the early 1900’s, a time rich in sociological issues. Their way of life was a lot different than ours today. Some major sociological concepts that were shown several times in the movie were, social stratification, gender inequality and sexism, inequality of income, and discrimination. During this time period people faced huge gaps in wealth, gender, class, and race. Gaps between the rich and poor were extreme. The wealthy were rich and the poor were in poverty. The “middle class” was not a common standing within society: you were either upper or lower class. It was very difficult to rise above the lower class standing, and easier to fall below the upper class line (Prezi web). Men dominated in almost all social standings; voting, ownership of land, professions, wealth, etc. Women were still viewed as “property” and in most ways, treated as such. The gap between the upper and lower class caused discrimination amongst them. Lower-class was treated poorly by the upper-class and seen as less worthy. In my paper I plan to include all of these sociological issues, and clearly connect them within the movie, Titanic.

The main fictional aspect of the film was the love story between Jack and Rose, two people who never actually traveled on the Titanic, or even existed. James Cameron envisaged the entire concept of this love story during pre-production, and uses the idea to manipulate the audience throughout the entire film. Character development in the film was vital, as this led the audience to care for what actually happened to these people. The death of 1500 people was tragic, but without key characters the audience feels no strong connection to what happens in the film. To make this connection even more effective, he uses a flashback and framing technique in the telling of the love story. He begins the story in the present day for the starting proportion of the film. He then uses a flashback sequence to 1912 for the majority of the rest, and then cuts back to the present day for the concluding part of the film. He also visits the present day a few times briefly during the main chunk of the movie set in 1912, to make important links between the two different aged Roses'. The first 25 minutes of the film are shot entirely in the present day. The old Rose' is shown as a feeble old woman who is being flown out to help a deep-sea recovery team in the finding of a priceless diamond necklace. A drawing recovered from the ship of Rose by her lover Jack is shown to the old Rose. The emotions shown by the actress playing her on the sight of this picture conveys highly effectively to the

Interpersonal communication plays a major role in everyone’s daily life. Because it is so important, theorists have developed two views about how to determine whether a transaction is interpersonal or not. We will be looking at the situational and the developmental view by applying it to a scene from a movie in order to determine which one is a better indicator. The particular scene that will be discussed is a scene from James Cameron’s Titanic. The scene takes place the day after Jack sees Rose hanging off the edge of the ship while she debates whether she should jump or not. Jack convinces her not to jump, and she agrees. But, her foot slips and Jack saves

Within the context of film industry, the film Titanic by James Cameron belongs to epic romance/ disaster genre. The film, released in 1997, was a global box office hit because the director provided equal importance to history, fiction and romance. To be specific, one can see that the film’s plot is based upon the history of RMS Titanic. On the other side, the main characters including the protagonist and the heroine (Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater/Dawson) are fictional characters. Besides, the element of romance between the main characters (Jack and Rose) is the film’s main attraction. Thesis statement: The critical analysis of the film Titanic proves that the innovative mode of storytelling (flash back and other techniques),

puts a story on the screen and into life so that people can see it.

First, social satisfaction plays a huge role in the movie. Social satisfaction is defined in the text as a “society’s categorization of its people into a ranking of socioeconomic tires based on factors like wealth, income, race, education and power”. The social satisfaction clearly appears in the movie, where Jack, a poor man who won the lucky tickets when he was gambling. Jack lives in the overcrowded lower decks, while Rose lives in the upper decks, a lot of space to walk around with the high society types. Rose’s condition is very fashionable. Her fiance and she have their own bedroom with all the privacy they could ever want including their own servantو while Jack lives in a tight room with other people. When Rose’s family invited Jack to a dinner for saving her life, there was a discussion going on between Jack and the rest of the people who were sitting at that table including Rose’s family. In the discussion, there was a lack of contentment coming from Rose’s family. When Jack was talking about the poverty field life, they did not understand how he does not want anything out of his life and that he is happy where he is at. It is surprising how the mother looked down at the Jack, with such looking as if he was like an insect. This also could be a type of discrimination because looking at middle and lower class with such a look basically means you are labeling people with certain qualities. Moreover, I’ve seen so many social experiments videos on Youtube where there is