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Titanic Research Paper

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James Cameron’s Titanic is one of the most successful movies of all time. Where Titanic may well be unique in the history of cinema is that it is also, arguably, the most hated beloved movie ever made. Any number of celebrated films, of course, have provoked backlashes. What’s special about Titanic is that the backlash happened so quickly, and became so widespread, and grew nearly as mythological as the movie itself. The film was released in December 1997, and a few weeks later, when it started to play around the country to surging, off-the-charts crowds, the voices of dissent had already begun to coalesce ("dynamics of acting," n.d., p. 80).
Titanic was a record-breaking smash because it drew from every demographic there was. But its most

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