Titanic aims to let you relive the experience of the actual event through "cinematic story-telling". This tells me that the film had to create spectator response and a reaction. This therefore leads James Cameron to use cinematic convections such as dramatic irony, suspense, empathy and characterisation. Each of these example can be seen in the film.
Dramatic irony when Mr Lovejoy places The Heart of the Sea in Jacks pocket and only the audience are aware of that and as a result Jack is taken from Rose.Suspense is created through the different stories on the ship whilst it is sinking. Having Jack and Rose fight to stay together, the 3rd class struggle to get to the life boats and Huckly try his hardest to find Rose and then a boat. Empathy is simply created when a montage of different peoples stories are shown as the ship sinks, for example the old couple who stay in bed together and the mother who tells a bedtime story to her children. Characterisation is maintained though the whole film especially through Roses character as she develops through the disaster. First a damsel in distress then a final girl.
Each of these techniques lead to the film creating "true lies" this is due to James Cameron wanting to us as a modern audience to relate to the story "more than mere fact or documents ever could." This shows that Titanic is good representation into the fact that fact in fiction needs to be modified due to consumer demand.
Lubin, D.M. (1999) ‘Titanic’. London: British Film Institute
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