第七十届(97年)奥斯卡最佳影片——《泰坦尼克号》又名《铁达尼号》Titanic
《泰坦尼克号》上演不到二十天，票房就超过了两亿美元，到1998年4月已近十一亿美元（国内票房为3亿元人民币）。它是美国电影史上迄今为止制作时间最长（五年），制作费用最高（二亿五千万美元），获奥斯卡奖提名最多，获奥斯卡奖项最多，票房最高的影片。在7O年的奥斯卡奖历史上，只有1959年的影片《宾虚》获得过11项奥斯卡奖。尽管如此，它却与四项表演奖无缘。
美国第70届电影艺术与科学学院奖(奥斯卡金像奖)于1998年3月23日晚颁发。故事影片《泰坦尼克号》共获11项奥斯卡金像奖：最佳影片奖、最佳导演奖、最佳编辑奖、最佳插曲奖、最佳音乐奖、最佳艺术指导奖、最佳摄影奖、最佳视觉效果奖、最佳音响奖、最佳音响编辑奖和最佳服装奖。该片拍摄历时五年，耗资二亿五千万美元。《泰坦尼克》1997年底公映以来，获得巨大的成功，曾获得金球奖的四个奖项。
若要评选该片最风光的人物那无疑是集导演、编剧、制片人和剪辑于一身的詹姆斯.卡梅隆了。提及此君，我国观众长不陌生他的《终结者》、《第一滴血》、《异形》等作品早已是家喻户晓，而在1994年，由他编剧导演、制片的《真实的谎言》更是在全球大获成功，在我国的票房居然超过一亿元大关。他执导的《泰坦尼克号》，是一部根据人类历史上曾经建造的最大客轮－－"泰坦尼克"号那悲剧性的沉没为背景拍摄的史诗性灾难爱情片。
1997年，融合卡梅隆五年多心血的《泰坦尼克号》终于驶进全球各大影院。卡梅隆说："泰坦尼克号这艘梦之船的首航在噩梦中悲惨地结束了。正是人类独有的弱点：傲慢、自负和贪婪将人类征服自然的雄心碾转粉碎。我拍摄这部影片既想再现这艘巨轮既有浓重悲剧色彩的死亡之旅。又想展示它短暂而又壮观的生命历程。在剧中重现泰坦尼克号的美仑美奂，表现出的乘客和船员们的少激情、乐观和希望的同时，在揭示这场灾难中人类表现出的可歌可泣的牺牲精神。《泰坦尼克号》是警世箴言是一面人类时时审视自已劣根性的明镜。它还是一则包融信念、勇气、牺牲，当然还有爱的不朽传奇。"在接受最佳导演奖时，卡梅隆还提议为"泰坦尼克号"沉船事件中的死难者默哀。
《泰坦尼克号》使全球的观众争睹了詹姆斯.卡麦隆制造的这一灾难神话。不少女观众是泪眼汪汪地看完的，纷纷称赞这是一部弘扬伟大的人间真情的巨片，而且片子的视觉效果极佳，观众仿佛自己置身? 坦尼克号轮船上，与片中人物共同经历了葬身大海的惊险历程。然而，影评人士却纷纷对该片提出批评，认为该片后半部分惊险、特技效果应贯穿全片，以突出灾难片的份量；前半部分的爱情戏显然画蛇添足、无足轻重，完全可以压缩；片长达三小时，使观众难以坐得住，也限制了该片单位放映次数等等。
《泰坦尼克号》的两位主角莱昂纳.多迪卡普里奥（关于他最新的消息是勾引他人的老婆并威胁使用武力）和凯特.温斯莱特也因该片而大红大紫。
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Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it -- from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.
In each of his previous outings, Cameron has pushed the special effects envelope. In Aliens, he cloned H.R. Giger's creation dozens of times, fashioning an army of nightmarish monsters. In The Abyss, he took us deep under the sea to greet a band of benevolent space travelers. In T2, he introduced the morphing terminator (perfecting an effects process that was pioneered in The Abyss). And in True Lies, he used digital technology to choreograph an in-air battle. Now, in Titanic, Cameron's flawless re-creation of the legendary ship has blurred the line between reality and illusion to such a degree that we can't be sure what's real and what isn't. To make this movie, it's as if Cameron built an all-new Titanic, let it sail, then sunk it.
Of course, special effects alone don't make for a successful film, and Titanic would have been nothing more than an expensive piece of eye candy without a gripping story featuring interesting characters. In his previous outings, Cameron has always placed people above the technological marvels that surround them. Unlike film makers such as Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, Cameron has used visual effects to serve his plot, not the other way around. That hasn't changed with Titanic. The picture's spectacle is the ship's sinking, but its core is the affair between a pair of mismatched, star-crossed lovers.
Titanic is a romance, an adventure, and a thriller all rolled into one. It contains moments of exuberance, humor, pathos, and tragedy. In their own way, the characters are all larger-than- life, but they're human enough (with all of the attendant frailties) to capture our sympathy. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Titanic is that, even though Cameron carefully recreates the death of the ship in all of its terrible grandeur, the event never eclipses the protagonists. To the end, we never cease caring about Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio).
Titanic sank during the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic, killing 1500 of the 2200 on board. The movie does not begin in 1912, however -- instead, it opens in modern times, with a salvage expedition intent on recovering some of the ship's long-buried treasure. The expedition is led by Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton), a fortune hunter who is searching for the mythical "Heart of the Ocean", a majestic 56 karat diamond which reputedly went down with the ship. After seeing a TV report about the salvage mission, a 101-year old woman (Gloria Stuart) contacts Brock with information regarding the jewel. She identifies herself as Rose DeWitt Bukater, a survivor of the tragedy. Brock has her flown out to his ship. Once there, she tells him her version of the story of Titanic's ill-fated voyage.
The bulk of the film -- well over 80% of its running time -- is spent in flashbacks. We pick up the story on the day that Titanic leaves Southampton, with jubilant crowds cheering as it glides away from land. On board are the movie's three main characters: Rose, a young American debutante trapped in a loveless engagement because her mother is facing financial ruin; Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), her rich-but-cold-hearted fianc? and Jack Dawson, a penniless artist who won his third-class ticket in a poker game. When Jack first sees Rose, it's from afar, but circumstances offer him the opportunity to become much closer to her. As the voyage continues, Jack and Rose grow more intimate, and she tries to summon up the courage to defy her mother (Frances Fisher) and break off her engagement. But, even with the aid of an outspoken rich women named Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), the barrier of class looms as a seemingly-insurmountable obstacle. Then, when circumstances in the Rose/Cal/Jack triangle are coming to a head, Titanic strikes an iceberg and the "unsinkable" ship (that term is a testament to man's hubris) begins to go down.
By keeping the focus firmly on Rose and Jack, Cameron avoids one frequent failing of epic disaster movies: too many characters in too many stories. When a film tries to chronicle the lives and struggles of a dozen or more individuals, it reduces them all to cardboard cut-outs. In Titanic, Rose and Jack are at the fore from beginning to end, and the supporting characters are just that -- supporting. The two protagonists (as well as Cal) are accorded enough screen time for Cameron to develop multifaceted personalities.
As important as the characters are, however, it's impossible to deny the power of the visual effects. Especially during the final hour, as Titanic undergoes its death throes, the film functions not only as a rousing adventure with harrowing escapes, but as a testimony to the power of computers to simulate reality in the modern motion picture. The scenes of Titanic going under are some of the most awe-inspiring in any recent film. This is the kind of movie that it's necessary to see more than once just to appreciate the level of detail.
One of the most unique aspects of Titanic is its use of genuine documentary images to set the stage for the flashback story. Not satisfied with the reels of currently-existing footage of the sunken ship, Cameron took a crew to the site of the wreck to do his own filming. As a result, some of the underwater shots in the framing sequences are of the actual liner lying on the ocean floor. Their importance and impact should not be underestimated, since they further heighten the production's sense of verisimilitude.
For the leading romantic roles of Jack and Rose, Cameron has chosen two of today's finest young actors. Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo + Juliet), who has rarely done better work, has shed his cocky image. Instead, he's likable and energetic in this part -- two characteristics vital to establishing Jack as a hero. Meanwhile, Kate Winslet, whose impressive resume includes Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, and Jude, dons a flawless American accent along with her 1912 garb, and essays an appealing, vulnerable Rose. Billy Zane comes across as the perfect villain -- callous, arrogant, yet displaying true affection for his prized fianc? The supporting cast, which includes Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill (as Titanic's captain), and David Warner (as Cal's no-nonsense manservant), is flawless.
While Titanic is easily the most subdued and dramatic of Cameron's films, fans of more frantic pictures like Aliens and The Abyss will not be disappointed. Titanic has all of the thrills and intensity that movie-goers have come to expect from the director. A dazzling mix of style and substance, of the sublime and the spectacular, Titanic represents Cameron's most accomplished work to date. It's important not to let the running time hold you back -- these three-plus hour pass very quickly. Although this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
(c) 1997 James Berardinelli
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