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© DR - TITANIC de James Caméron (1997) p28
02/12/2012 16:10
Accueil du public et critiques(suite)
À sa sortie et après, Titanic a su satisfaire la critique à différents degrés. Ainsi, dans CinéLive, le journaliste Laurent Weil parle d'un « grand film », et dit que Cameron signe ici son « long métrage le plus ambitieux, véritable plaisir des yeux et du cœur».
Le magazine Première dit de Cameron qu'il est un « virtuose », et que « si les producteurs ne sont pas sûrs de récupérer leur investissement, on en a nous (enfin, vous) pour notre (votre) argent ». Télérama, plus mitigé, lui donne une note moyenne, considérant cependant que, si Cameron simplifie parfois, il « ne s'est pas borné à exhiber ses effets spéciaux, il a fait du cinéma ».
Jean Tulard, dans son Guide des films, lui donne trois étoiles et considère que, si le naufrage a déjà été évoqué dans maints films, « celui-ci les surpasse sans discussion ».Le site Metacritic relève une moyenne de 74 sur 100 sur trente quatre critiques.The New York Times conclut pour sa part sa critique en faisant le parallèle entre le film et le paquebot au sujet de leur réputation de grandeur, mais que « ce Titanic est trop bon pour couler ».
Le critique américain Roger Ebert se montre très enthousiaste, considérant que tous les éléments du film sont équilibrés, et que les effets spéciaux, loin d'attirer l'attention du spectateur, se contentent de faire leur travail. Il le classe comme le neuvième meilleur film de 1997.
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© DR - TITANIC de James Caméron (1997) p29
02/12/2012 16:19
Accueil du public et critiques (fin)
Certains critiques se sont montrés plus mitigés quant au scénario et aux dialogues. Ainsi, Richard Corliss de Time trouve que le film manque d'éléments émotionnels intéressants.Le Los Angeles Times se montre particulièrement cinglant, déclarant que « ce qui nous fait vraiment pleurer est le fait que Cameron pense que l'écriture de tels films soit dans ses capacités. Non seulement ce n'est pas le cas, mais ça ne s'en approche même pas». (Kesseque cé kse KONNARD!!!) Le réalisateur Robert Altman a déclaré que c'était le pire film qu'il ait pu voir dans sa vie.(oh la jaloooozze!) En 2003, les spectateurs de la BBC One (lesquels?)lui ont accordé le titre de "pire film de tous les temps».
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TRIVIA (suite)
-Most of the decor on the ship was either reconstructed by or under the supervision of researchers of the White Star Line, the original company which constructed and furnished the Titanic.
-When Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) is preparing to draw Rose (Kate Winslet), he tells her to "Lie on that bed, uh I mean couch." The line was scripted "Lie on that couch", but DiCaprio made an honest mistake and James Cameron liked it so much he kept it in.
-In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #83 Greatest Movie of All Time. This was one of the newest entries on the list (from films which were released between 1997 and 2005). [June 2008] Ranked #6 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Epic".
-The movie's line "I'm the king of the world!" was voted as the #4 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. The same was voted as the #100 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
The scenes during which Thomas Andrews chastises Second Office Charles Lightoller for sending the boats away without filling them to capacity is the only scene in the entire film in which the actors' breath was not digitally added in later.
-Was the highest-grossing film in Japan until Hayao Miyazaki's Le voyage de Chihiro opened.
-The engine room scenes were partially filmed aboard the WWII ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien. Smaller railings and catwalks were installed to make the engines appear bigger.
-During the sinking of the actual Titanic, there was concern that the davits might not be strong enough to lower the boats fully loaded, although they had in fact been tested under such a weight. The davits in the film, which can be seen flexing under the weight, were made under the same dimensions as originally designed by the White Star Line.
-Production of the film began in 1995 when James Cameron shot footage of the real wreck of the Titanic. He was able to persuade 20th Century Fox to invest in the film by convincing them that the publicity surrounding a real-life dive to the wreck would be really beneficial to the production.
-The staircase is not actually technically accurate being slightly larger in the film than it was in real life. This is because people in 1997 were actually a bit taller than in 1912 so they would have looked out of place on a staircase that fit the correct dimensions.
-The scene in which Rose meets Jack to thank him for saving her life was improvised by the two actors at James Cameron's request, and the spitting scene was almost all ad-lib. Cameron also credits Kate Winslet with writing the heart-wrenching "This is where we first met" line during the final sinking, as well as suggesting Rose spit in Cal's face rather than (as scripted) jab him with a hairpin.
-At the departure scene the extras were filmed on a green screen in a parking lot.
-A model was used for the ship in the background during the poker scene so the onlookers are missing.
-Most of the ocean which extras were jumping into was 3 feet deep.
-When the scene where a wall of water bursts through a doorway was first shot, James Cameron said that the 40,000 gallons of water dumped into the corridor set were not enough, and asked for triple that amount. The set had to be rebuilt to stand up under the additional weight of water.
-James Cameron was adamant about not including any song in the film, even over the closing credits. Composer James Horner secretly arranged with lyricist Will Jennings and singer Céline Dion to write "My Heart Will Go On" and record a demo tape which he then presented to Cameron, who responded very favorably and included the song over the closing credits. The song went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
-Although a sizable publicity campaign had already been prepared, the release of the film was delayed from summer to Christmas 1997 as some elements in post-production (especially the special effects) took longer to complete than anticipated.
-The "full-size" ship exterior set was constructed in a tank on a beach south of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. Construction started on the 85th anniversary of the real Titanic's launch - May 31, 1996 (see also Atlantique, latitude 41°). To reduce costs, the number of instances of some repeated components (such as windows) was reduced, and other parts (such as the funnels and lifeboats) were built at 90% scale to produce the correct visual appearance. The set was oriented to face into the prevailing wind so that the smoke from the funnels would blow the right way.
-20th Century Fox acquired 40 acres of waterfront south of Playas de Rosarito in Mexico and started building a brand new studio in May 31 1996. A 17 million gallon tank was built for the exterior of the reconstructed ship, providing 270 degrees of ocean view. The ship was built to full scale but production design removed redundant sections on the superstructure and the forward well deck so that it would fit the tank. The remaining sections were filled in digitally. The lifeboats and funnels were shrunk by 10%. While the boat deck and the A-deck were full working sets, the rest of the ship was steel plating. Contained within that was a 50 foot lifting platform for the ship to tilt during the sinking sequences, whilst towering above that was a 162 feet tall tower crane on 600 feet of railtrack. This was used as a construction, lighting and camera platform.
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© DR - TITANIC de James Caméron (1997) p30
02/12/2012 16:24
Nominations et récompenses
-Titanic est nommé pour 14 Oscars et en reçoit 11 en 1998. Il égale ainsi le record historique de Ben-Hur, record par la suite égalé par Le Seigneur des anneaux : Le Retour du roi en 2004. Parmi les récompenses qu'il reçoit se trouvent l'Oscar du meilleur film et celui du meilleur réalisateur.
-Lors de la cérémonie, Cameron s'exclame « Je suis le roi du monde ! », tout comme Jack Dawson dans le film.
-Le film reçoit également de nombreuses autres récompenses du monde entier, notamment quatre Golden Globes sur huit nominations.
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-La musique de James Horner est particulièrement récompensée, recevant un Oscar et deux Golden Globes, en particulier par le biais de la chanson My Heart Will Go On interprétée par Céline Dion, qui est un succès mondial.
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TRIVIA (suite)
-All the scenes where there is an exterior sunset shot were filmed at the Fox Studios set in Baja California, Mexico. The set was constructed specifically for the film, as no studio was large enough at the time to encompass the almost full-scale replication of the ship.
-In the scene where the water comes crashing into the Grand Staircase room, the film makers only had one shot at it because the entire set and furnishings were going to be destroyed in the shot.
-In the scene in the beginning where the captain orders full-speed ahead and the shot moves down into the boiler room, the set was really just about three boilers but the film makers had huge mirrors installed to visualize a great big long room. (In this scene you can see workers shoving in coal, and about 20 feet down the room you can see the mirror image of the workers).
-The only real decks were the boat deck and A deck, with a facade of plating and lighted portholes completed only on the starboard side. So many lights were required that cinematographer 'Russell Carpenter' commented: "And you walk inside, and 70 miles of one kind of cable and 70 miles of another kind all add up to this Terry Gilliam vision of the telephone company of the 1950s."
-Only the starboard side of the exterior set was completed. In the scenes portraying the ship at the Southampton dock, all shots were reversed to give the appearance of the port side of the ship, as it was actually docked in 1912. This required the painstaking construction of reversed costumes and signage to complete the illusion, which was achieved by reversing the image in post-production. One cast member joked, "I wasn't dyslexic before starting this show. I am now."
-The entire set was mounted on hydraulic jacks and could be tilted up to 6° intact within the depth of the tank.
-To achieve tilt angles beyond 6°, the "underwater" parts of the facade were simply detached from the set and the support structure adjusted accordingly.
-After the ship breaks in half, the bow section sinks rapidly. To film this, the full-size set was in fact divided into sections. But the bow section would not sink fast enough, due to its own buoyancy and the narrow clearance between it and the tank. James Cameron observed that once "God's 10,000,000 kW light" had risen they would have to wait until the next night, and suggested sinking the set, letting the air space between the two decks fill with water, then raising the set again and quickly sinking it before the water ran out. This worked.
-The detached stern section of the full-size set was moved onto a separate tilting platform which would allow it to be rapidly turned vertical for the final phase of sinking. There were 10 takes, each requiring 100 stunt players to fall from or along the set while 1,000 extras were attached to the railings by safety harnesses.
-In some shots the apparent tilt angle was steepened using various tricks such as tilting the camera and horizon.
-Interior shots also involved hydraulically tilted sets in tanks (in various studio soundstages).
-A 1/8 scale model of the ship's stern was also used.
-Gloria Stuart, being only 86, was aged by makeup to play Rose at age 101. She did not find this a pleasant experience.
-In preference to hiring new extras all the time and repeatedly having to fit them for clothes and coach them in proper 1912 mannerisms, a group of 150 "core extras" was hired who would stay with the picture through the entire production. They and other performers learned proper 1912 behavior in a 3-hour course from Lynne Hockney, who was also the film's choreographer. Hockney also produced a video "Titanic Etiquette: A Time Traveler's Guide", which was then left playing continuously in the wardrobe department.
-On the final night of shooting in Nova Scotia, one or more pranksters mixed the dissociative hallucinogen PCP (angel dust) into the clam chowder served to the cast and crew. 80 people were taken ill, and more than 50 were hospitalized with hallucinations. When James Cameron realized what was happening, he forced himself to vomit before the drug took full effect. Bill Paxton felt listless for two weeks after the incident (although PCP's primary effects only last a few hours, the drug itself can take eight or more days to completely metabolize out of the body). The culprit(s) were never caught.
-The name of the character Caledon Hockley derives from two small towns (Caledon and Hockley) near Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, where James Cameron's aunt and uncle live.
-The bedtime story the Irish mother tells her children is the story of "The Children of Lir," an old Irish folktale about children turned into swans. That is, unless it's actually the story of "Tir na nOg, Land of eternal youth and beauty", an Irish folktale where no one ages.
-At $200 million, the movie cost more than the Titanic itself. The cost to construct the ship in 1910-1912 was £1.5 million, equivalent to $7.5 million at the time and about $120 to $150 million in 1997 dollars.
-After filming, the remains of the full-size set were sold as scrap metal.
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© DR - TITANIC de James Caméron (1997) p31
02/12/2012 16:44
Oscar du meilleur film
Oscar du meilleur réalisateur - James Cameron
Nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure actrice - Kate Winslet
Nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle - Gloria Stuart
Oscar de la meilleure direction artistique
Oscar de la meilleure photographie
Oscar de la meilleure création de costumes
Oscar du meilleur montage
Nomination à l'Oscar du meilleur maquillage
Oscar de la meilleure musique de film - James Horner
Oscar de la meilleure chanson originale - James Horner
Oscar du meilleur mixage de son
Oscar du meilleur son
Oscar des meilleurs effets visuels
Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe du meilleur film dramatique
Golden Globe du meilleur réalisateur - James Cameron
Nomination au Golden Globe du meilleur acteur dans un film dramatique - Leonardo DiCaprio
Nomination au Golden Globe de la meilleure actrice dans un film dramatique - Kate Winslet
Nomination au Golden Globe de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle - Gloria Stuart
Golden Globe de la meilleure musique de film - James Horner
Golden Globe de la meilleure chanson originale - Céline Dion
Nomination au Golden Globe du meilleur scénario - James Cameron
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© DR - TITANIC de James Caméron (1997) p32
02/12/2012 16:56
Kathy Bates
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Diffusion à la télévision
Le film rencontre un grand succès à la télévision française où les audiences restent élevées malgré la durée du film ainsi que sa large exploitation aucinéma et en vidéo.En novembre 2001, lors de sa première diffusion en clair (hors Canal+), sur deux soirées sur TF1, le film a été vu par 7,7 millions pour sa première partie (32,3 % de part d'audience - PDA) et 8,2 millions pour la deuxième (34,2 % de PDA).
La deuxième diffusion en novembre 2004 a rassemblé 6,6 millions de téléspectateurs (34,1 % de PDA).
La troisième en mai 2007 a réuni un peu plus de 7 millions de téléspectateurs (35,8 % de PDA)
La quatrième, qui fut concomitante avec la sortie en 3D au cinéma en avril 2012, a attiré presque 6,2 millions de téléspectateurs sur France 2 (26,4 % de PDA — en tête des audiences de la soirée). Pourtant, 5 jours plus tôt, France 2 avait déjà diffusé un docufiction sur le Titanic en début de soirée (13,8 % de PDA — 3e sur la tranche horaire).
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TRIVIA (suite)
-That's real Beluga caviar in the first class dining room sequence. After sampling it, Jonathan Hyde said he "made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater".
-The first class lounge was deemed to be too expensive a set to be built. As a miniature of it was required for the flooding scenes, one was built to quarter of the real size. This was then greenscreened as background for the scenes where the actors were seen sitting in the lounge.
-Mark Lindsay Chapman was fired and rehired twice, and survived an accident where he was struck by a boat and had to be pulled from the water.
-On the set of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio's pet lizard was run over by a truck, but with some TLC, Leo nursed him to health.
-The most expensive first-class suite on the Titanic cost $4,350, the equivalent of about $75,000 today.
James Cameron forfeited his $8 million director's salary and his percentage of the gross when the studio became concerned at how much over budget the movie was running.
-When James Cameron was writing the movie, he intended for the main characters Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson to be entirely fictitious. It was only after the script was finished that he discovered that there had been a real "J. Dawson" who died aboard the Titanic. This "J. Dawson" was trimmer Joseph Dawson, who had been born September 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. His body was salvaged and buried at Fairview Lawn cemetery in Nova Scotia with many other Titanic victims. Today, his grave stone (#227) is the most widely visited in the cemetery.
-As is the case with many 20th Century Fox films, the film cans for the advance screening and show prints had a code name. Titanic's was "Baby's Day Out 2."
-In 1998 it became the first film since 1966 to win the Oscar for Best Picture but not be nominated for its screenplay (the previous film to hold this "honor" was La mélodie du bonheur.
-Titanic is the most Oscar-nominated film (with 14 nominations) not to win in any acting categories.
-Gloria Stuart was the only person who worked in the production of the film who was actually living in 1912.
-This was the first movie to win both the Academy and MTV Movie Award for Best Picture.
-Came eighth in the UK's Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas.
-Early in production, this film's brief "decoy" working title was "Planet Ice".
-One of three films to win a total of 11 Academy Awards, the others being Ben-Hur and Le seigneur des anneaux - Le retour du roi.
-A number of scènes are arranged and in some cases scripted almost identically to similar sequences in Atlantique, latitude 41°. This is particularly true of these scenes:
- Thomas Andrews telling Capt. Smith the sinking is "a mathematical certainty";
- The Titanic's band preparing to depart at the end, only to turn around and regroup as Hartley begins playing "Nearer My God to Thee" by himself (though a different version of the song is used in the 1958 film).
- A shot of Ismay in a lifeboat as the Titanic sinks behind him.
- Thomas Andrews looking at a painting as Titanic prepares to sink - Andrews encountering a man by the Grand Staircase and telling him the ship is doomed (in this film, he tells Rose).
-Was the highest grossing film in box office history with a worldwide gross of US$1.8 billion until it was surpassed by Avatar. Both films were directed by James Cameron.
-The drawing Jack made entitled "Lady Bijou" wasn't really just any picture. They got the idea from an old 1933 photograph taken by Brassai called "Bijou".
-The film was initially budgeted at $135,000,000, but going two months over schedule required asking Paramount Pictures to contribute an additional $65,000,000 in exchange for U.S. distribution rights.
-Shay Duffin, who played the pubkeeper in England, is related to one of the original Irish workers who built the Titanic.
-The original release date was 25 July 1997. When Harrison Ford, whose upcoming film, Air Force One, was scheduled to be released the same day, found out, he demanded that Paramount push the release date to a different time. Paramount, who had distributed many successful films of Ford's agreed, being worried that Ford would never do another film for them again.
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