'Never Leave Me'
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because the real story of Titanic is sufficiently upsetting that a romance tacked on front irritates me.
I am of this type. Story-izing an event that is already quite dramatic is excessive in my mind. When it is on TV, I can only ever bear to watch the second half, and of that, only the parts about the boat itself going belly-up.
the Straus's, who gave up their spots on the lifeboats.
He was handing her into the lifeboat, waiting his turn--which he knew would never come--in another boat, and she stepped back out and told him they'd come this far together and she wasn't going to leave him now.
I wish they'd shown that.
Shut up! I am reading that Contino thing right now and it's fucking...disturbing, actually. Hello? Ellroy.(Hivemind creeping me out.) But he is very talented, despite being right there with Lehane in my personal "You think you have issues?!" lexicon making me think I write kids and puppies.
I liked Titanic as well. The thing that got to me the most was just the physical scale of the disaster - Here was this incredibly huge object that dwarfed any human that was slowly slipping between the waves. I could imagine myself being on the ship - my experience of the event and my desire to Not Die would be utterly insignificant in the face what was physically taking place.
If that makes sense.
I so coveted the "The ship sank. Get over it." t-shirt, you have no idea. Go ahead, act surprised.
There was a t-shirt at K-Mart that said something like Titanic Swim Team. It was one of those generic looking sports t-shirts, only the team was Titanic, and it definitely had something to do with swimming. It took a moment for the impact to sink in, when I saw it.
I so coveted the "The ship sank. Get over it." t-shirt, you have no idea. Go ahead, act surprised.
Heh, a close friend of a close friend (I was at a wedding with the guy in June) created those t-shirts. Made a ton of money off of them too.
Funny! Well, I guess somebody had to.
I love Philip Glass' soundtrack to The Hours.
Also, I like Titanic too. Not for the romance, but for everything else. The human story, and the sinking ship.
I found Titanic interminable and overblown. And I kept thinking "You've got two minutes to live in the North Atlantic, die Leo, die!" And the more people cried around me in the theatre, the more hysterical the movie seemed to me.