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Apr. 30th, 2012 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liptonrm_backupI just watched Julian Fellowes' Titanic mini-series that aired her in the States a couple weeks ago. It's like Fellowes had the same reaction to Cameron's Titanic that I did, which was to want more about the people who weren't Kate and Leo.
I liked the framework of the series, the interconnecting stories and the way all of the characters were woven together to try to tell the broader story of the ship's passengers. I really liked some of the bits where he thumbed his nose at Cameron: the recreation of an iconic shot but focused on an antagonistic woman from Second Class, not the heroine love interest, and the star-crossed lovers between two servants. I also liked that the hero ran through water looking for his brother who had been locked in with the rest of the Italians to die like rats.
Fellowes is still quite enamored of the upper class and its inherent nobility but it didn't detract from the over all experience. At least it was done with ambivalence, you can tell that Fellowed appreciates the surety of the old social order but does recognize the injustice inherent in the system. But he still wants a nice rich, white man to come and make everything better.
All in all it was a good watch. Also yesterday, thanks to Historiann I stumbled across an interesting article about the Titanic's enduring appeal. People do love a good, romantic tragedy.
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I liked the framework of the series, the interconnecting stories and the way all of the characters were woven together to try to tell the broader story of the ship's passengers. I really liked some of the bits where he thumbed his nose at Cameron: the recreation of an iconic shot but focused on an antagonistic woman from Second Class, not the heroine love interest, and the star-crossed lovers between two servants. I also liked that the hero ran through water looking for his brother who had been locked in with the rest of the Italians to die like rats.
Fellowes is still quite enamored of the upper class and its inherent nobility but it didn't detract from the over all experience. At least it was done with ambivalence, you can tell that Fellowed appreciates the surety of the old social order but does recognize the injustice inherent in the system. But he still wants a nice rich, white man to come and make everything better.
All in all it was a good watch. Also yesterday, thanks to Historiann I stumbled across an interesting article about the Titanic's enduring appeal. People do love a good, romantic tragedy.
