Truly Titanic. How James Cameron broke the blockbuster rules to create an all-time hit

摘要

Ah, The Innocence Of 1997. No One outside of Bill Clinton's White House had yet heard of Monica Lewinsky. The Spice Girls were the hot pop act, John Elway was leading the Denver Broncos toward a Super Bowl win, and ER topped the TV ratings with a young star named George Clooney. The big movie hits were Men in Black, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Liar Liar-action films and comedies. Who knew that the world was waiting for a love story on a doomed ship? Titanic, James Cameron's 3-hr. 14-min. disaster movie about the sinking of an unsinkable luxury liner-and the rich-girl-poor-boy romance at its center- quickly became the highest-grossing film of all time, earning $600.8 million at the North American box office and an astonishing $1,843 billion worldwide, making it the first picture to reach (and obliterate) the $1 billion mark.