thoughts on titanic the movie 10 years later...

Rob's napping and I really should be doing homework, or making something for etsy, or working on my teens corset, but I so don't feel like it.

I went to see Titanic in 3-D with madamekat, blackcat452, ladyxjade, Beth and Rob. We all dressed up and madamekat already shared those photos. Rob wanted to go because of his desire to see how James Cameron handled the post-conversion 3-D (answer VERY well) but I told him he HAD to dress up if he wanted to go. He was not a fan of this idea, and we compromised..he got to dress as steerage :-p In the end I wore the maid costume again, it required no corset and was quite comfortable for sitting 3 hours in a movie theater. Hilariously I looked a tad-preggers in it without the corset (truth be told I always look a tad preggers, stupid genetics carrying all my weight there), so we were joking that I was the knocked-up maid being sent to America.

Titanic has never been my completely favorite movie, and I'd be lying through my teeth if I said it was my favorite fashion era, so I haven't seen more than half of it since it came out ten years ago. And I found it really interesting how my perceptions and feelings towards the characters have changed. I was in high school the first go round, and hadn't had to do this whole real-world-pay-the-bills-thing yet.

1. The first time I saw it I thought that Rose's mother was a complete witch and how on earth could she do that to her daughter! Of course she should marry whoever she wanted blah blah blah. And this time around I felt A LOT of sympathy for her mother, the scene between the two of them when she's lacing Rose's corset was a completely different scene to me this go around. It was more about the horrible choices women have to make, and less about a mother oppressing a daughter.

2. I'm not sure if I could have made the same choices Rose makes. When you're young it's so easy to say "of course she should run off and be an actress!" but with real life experience the weight of that decision is a lot harder.

3. The 3D really added a greater sense of scale, of height and depth. I thought with a movie about a huuuuge ship it really added something.

4. And on a personal note, the first time I saw the movie was with some friends of mine from high school, I got stood up by a boy that was supposed to be meeting us, I was juuust discovering historical costuming and had only made costumes for school plays. NOW I saw it with the most amazingly talented group of friends who I completely count as kindred spirits, an amazing husband who knows how to lace me into a corset and loves me the way I am. I think I liked seeing it this time more :-) Being an adult is hard but I sure like how things have turned out so far.

Okay now that I've talked about being an adult I suppose I'll go do my homework.

pausing to remember

Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me;

Still all my song shall be nearer, my God, to Thee,

Chorus: Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,

Darkness be over me, my rest a stone;

Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to Thee,

Chorus

There let the way appear steps unto heav'n;

All that Thou sendest me in mercy giv'n;

Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee,

Chorus

Then with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,

Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;

So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee,

Chorus

Or if on joyful wing, cleaving the sky,

Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upwards I fly,

Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee,

100 years ago Titanic was sinking and the band played to the end. Nearer, My God, to Thee was reported to be their last song.

I hope those many souls have found rest and peace, especially the ones so often forgotten, the nameless multitude of 3rd class passengers.