Titanic
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Movie Reviews of Titanic
Movie Review: OMG - the most entertaining and therefore the BEST Titanic movie from the Nahtzees
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so sorry, everyone, but this is the best, tightest storytelling of the Titanic tragedy. I saw this on the classic movie channel with the other two black and whites from Hollywood and this one was like a shot of caffeine. Yes, it's propaganda but it is a must see. I despise the Leo version and I've never seen the Catherine Zeta Jones one so for me, this is THE BEST Titanic movie. It didn't persuade me to join the dark side. The propaganda is obvious but it's a really amusing (unintentionally) and a strongly entertaining way to watch a giant cruise ship sink. You'll never look at that German national working on your cruise the same ever again.Movie Review: Titanic
Summary: 5 Stars
My granddaughter was wanting the movie Titanic .So I order it and she like it well and so did I.
It is a good movie to watch and learn .
Movie Review: The Nazi propaganda film about the sinking of the Titanic
Summary: 4 Stars
"Now money means nothing. Now it's just about survival."
This 1943 version of "Titanic" made in Nazi Germany is not the first sound film of the Titanic story, let alone the first movie devoted to the famous disaster. "Atlantic" (1929) was a fictionalized account (changing the name of the ship) directed by Ewald Andre Dupont in England. In the silent era Pier Angelo Mazzolotti made an Italian "Titanic" in 1915 and in Germany "In Nacht und Eis" ("In Night and Ice") was made by Mime Misu and released a few days after the sinking of the ship in 1912. The 1943 version was begun by director Herbert Selpin, who made the mistake of criticizing its writer and the Germany navy, so Joseph Goebbels had him arrested by the Gestapo and the next day Selpin was found hung in his cell. The film was then finished by Werner Klinger but was never released as Goebbels ordered the negative locked up. Speculation is that the scenes of mass death would considered too upsetting to show German audiences, but I am not sure if that ironic explanation rings true.
This Nazi version of the story of the "Titanic" can be reduced to two key elements. First, in an attempt to drive up the price of the stock of the White Star Line by Sir Bruce Ismay (Ernst Fritz Furbringer), who invites the company's board on the Titanic's maiden voyage. Titanic assumes a record speed of 26 1/2 knots, which gets many of the rich men on board to buy stock, but the price is being driven down. Apparently Ismay is not as smart as John Jacob Astor (Karl Schonbock), whose wife is referred to as Lady Astor (Charlotte Thiele) even though she is American. Second, as the ship heads towards its fatal encounter with an iceberg, the only person on board who thinks this is a bad idea and tries to do something about it is 1st Office Petersen (Hans Nielsen), who happens to be the only German officer on board. Ismay dismisses Petersen's concerns, saying the German simply does not want England to win the blue ribbon (apparently the prize for being the fastest ship on earth). Petersen even tries to convince Ismay's mistress, Sigrid Olinsky (Sybille Schmitz, technically the star of the movie since her name comes first, plus she starred in "Vampyre") to persuade him to slow down the vessel, but that does not happen. When the ship hits the iceberg and starts sinking, Petersen blames Sigrid as much as Ismay, and consumed by guilt she gives up her seat in the lifeboat to a woman from steerage. Petersen is moved and gives her his coat.
Obviously there are some interesting aspects to this version of the familiar story. After hitting the iceberg the ship stops and the passengers down in steerage notice, so they all decide to march up to the big party that is going on above them and demand an explanation from the captain. A ship is sighted and they try to contact it by radio, but apparently it is an old ship without a radio. A recurring theme here is that for all the opulence of the ship's massive ballroom, Ismay did not spend money on spare filaments for the searchlights or the right colored rockets for an S.O.S. The flares are seen, but it is assumed the Titanic is celebrating since they are the wrong color (an interesting twist on what really happened to be sure). Oh, and the band on the Titanic? This time it is a virtual marching band with a tuba and xylophone who are still playing "Nearer My God to Me" as the ship goes down. But the oddest sight has to be when the Titanic goes down by the stern.
This "Titanic" is certainly interesting, although its inherent propaganda value is more interesting than its dramatic impact. The latter is conveyed more by the screams of the panicking passengers than anything in terms of the limited special effects. After all, we are talking a model of the ship and a luxury liner that is clearly not sinking; all of the lifeboats are away before suddenly the camera tilts to indicate what is happening. Besides, while the panic might have been intended to show the English as being cowardly, the fact that most of those screaming passengers are from steerage and going to die takes away notions of racial superiority. I assume John (Sepp Rist) and Anna (Lisolette Klinger) are a German couple, which explains why they are calm and compassionate while the non-Aryan passengers are trampling each other to death. Their fate is one of the key attempts at pathos here, along with the radio operator's pet bird, but the tacked on melodrama in the final scene undoes what had been effective with the couple up to that point.
Meanwhile, the ship is going down and Ismay is trying to make a deal to save his job, because this guy is really scum, which is certainly an indictment of the capitalists. No wonder Captain Smith (Otto Wernicke) refuses to do anything to save him. Fortunately Petersen is too good of a guy to let Sigrid go down with him and the ship; their parting is the one point in the film that tries to do something artistic, along with the capsizing of one of the lifeboats. Again, the desperate fight for survival, as those who are in the water try to climb aboard a overflowing lifeboat only to be beaten off by those already safe, can be read either way: as the inherent baseness of the English or as what happens to all human beings when they are reduced to simply trying to stay alive. But if you have any doubt about what the point of "Titanic" was, that is settled by the declaration at the end of the film that, "The deaths of 1,500 people remain unatoned for...an eternal condemnation of England's quest for profit."
Movie Review: Alternate view of the Titanic disaster...
Summary: 4 Stars
This film has a bizzare history, starting as a propaganda piece for the Nazi party, to the suicide of it's director in military prison, to the constant re-editing and outright banning by the political censors.
Much has been made of how the film is a politically motivated indictment of Great Britain, but that never truly comes across except in the final coda at the end. If anything, the film (at least from a modern perspective), is more focussed on condemning the greed of the rich and powerful.
While the Germans played a bit fast and loose with history (such as having a "good" German officer/hero take the place of the British Lightoller, and White Star Line president Ismay being freely offered place in a lifeboat), most of the film is fairly accurate in depicting the basic events we are all familiar with. However, and perhaps not surprisingly, there is a noticable lack of heroism except for the actions of the one German officer. The balance of the passengers and crew are evil and greedy corporate and society types, or otherwise just downright helpless.
The drawing room intrigue and staid romantic entanglements get a bit dry after a while, but once the ship gets into trouble, things pick up nicely. Although the slanting of the decks is not effectively realized, the actual flooding of the ship is well done with miniatures and live action sets. Fans of James Cameron's "Titanic" will no doubt recognize the innocent-man-trapped-in-a-flooding-cabin sequence, among other things.
Kino has done a pretty good job restoring the film to it's original running time. Some elements are washed out, and others show scuffs and scratches. However, it's probably the best that could be hoped for given the film's history.
Arguably the best part of the disc is the bonus section. Included is a press gallery, footage of Captain Smith in a post-disaster newsreel, as well as an extensive, 20 minute promotional film selling the public on the grandeur of Titanic's sister ship, Olympic. Both vintage offerings have a new, and very excellent, silent film score.
Movie Review: as entertainment. pretty good..... but
Summary: 4 Stars
luckily we all have been brought up learning about the horrors of the naziregime. This is a propaganda product, but there are interesting things in it; such as the performances, sets, costumes and special effects...
It IS way overboard concerning factual matters concerning the Titanic(the worst being the 1997 epic).
Norwegian Kirsten Heiberg is much too like the other female stars of the film(they all look like the UFA superstar - Swedish Zarah Leander. Zarah was never a member of The Party and returned to Sweden in 1942. Goebbels and his like begged her to stay, but still she was unfavourable labeled after that. Kirsten however, married German composer Franz Grothe in 1938 and her loyalty leaves a lot to be desired...
A major error; When Gloria(Kirsten Heiberg) is thown overboard from the lifeboat, it is not more focused than that of an extra... A major blow since it concerns one of the principal stars...
A NIGHT TO REMEMEMBER is the most accurate account of the Titanic story(unless u count the final spectacular moments in the 1997-film).
But entertainment wise (u have to excuse the laughable propaganda of the Third Reich) this is the best - with the 1958-1:-)