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These shots strike precisely the right note; the ship calls from its grave for its story to be told, and if the story is made of showbiz and hype, smoke and mirrors, well, so was the Titanic
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Like a great iron Sphinx on the ocean floor, the Titanic faces still toward the West, intervallic forever on its solitary voyage. We see it in the opening shots of ''Titanic,'' encrusted with the silt of 85 years; a remote-controlled TV camera snakes its way inside, down corridors and through doorways, showing us staterooms built for millionaires and inherited by crustaceans. These shots strike precisely the right note; the ship calls from its grave for its story to be told, and if the story is made of showbiz and hype, smoke and mirrors, well, so was the Titanic. She was ''the largest moving work of man in all history,'' a character boasts, efficiently dismissing the Pyramids and the Great Wall. There is a shot of her, early in the film, sweeping majestically beneath the camera from bow to stern, nearly 900 feet long and ''unsinkable,'' it was claimed, until an iceberg...
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