Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
Lives were certainly sacrificed to the
effort to put on this show, and the movie itself presents a feast o f death, the deaths
of fifteen hundred people being re-enacted for our entertainment and edification.
There is still something compelling about the spectacle of death on such a massive
scale, like the gladiatorial combats and ritual sacrifices of the ancient world. A vast
amount of life force is being released all at once, and in an almost ghoulish way
we feast on it. At the sight of people hurtling from a great height to smash against
various machinery our eyes grow big, as i f we are drinking in the sight of death. W e
study the sea of frozen faces for signs of how they died and how it will be for us.
Titanic plays on fears that have a high degree of identification for the audience
— the universal fear of heights, fear of being trapped and imprisoned, fear of drown
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