Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History

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Summary: The writer defends Cameron and ignores the facts....
Review: It's amazing how the writer of this book defends Cameron and this movie while ignoring the fact that this movie ran so over-budget and almost caused Fox to shut the movie down because it ran so out of control both with money and movie resources. She also ignores the fact that the movie's script and lead actors were so wooden and under-developed ( a fact not lost by the dozens of movie critics that bashed this picture). This book ignores that Cameron sold out to the cheapness of making a cheap picture about a historical disaster and did it with bad taste. In short, this book is about as much garbage as the movie and the director have become. A fact that has not been lost on Fox as they re-released ALIENS on DVD recently and placed more of the success of that movie on the fact that Gale Anne Hurd produced it (not on Cameron's directing) which tells you something.

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Summary: Very Interesting
Review: I found this book very good. I am very interested about The Ship Titanic and it's terrible fate.This book is very easy to read and explores just on how James Cameron made the movie.There are many interesting facts therein that as you watch the movie, will make it that more entertaining.(VLS)

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Summary: Mediocrity is the essence of this book
Review: I read this book about six months ago, and at the time I was very interested in learning whatever I could about the experiences and vision that this fine director brought to his artistic achivement "Titanic." Now, a short tme later, I can't for the life of me remember what the book had to say--and that's unusual for me, to finish a book and then not retain any clear sense of what the book had to say or what it contributed to my knowledge/understanding of a subject. The book itself is very easy to understand--simple-minded, even, in its handling of the material--yet it leaves no lasting impact on me. Far more vivid for me, as far as getting a sense of how Cameron looks at things and what "Titanic" meant for him, was "James Cameron's Titanic." That's the book to read if you want to get a feel for Cameron's emotional and working relationship to the movie.

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Summary: Kind of biased and not historically correct
Review: If you are looking for a book on the movie Titanic that includes quotes from the stars, this is not the book for you. The author rarely quoted Leo and Kate and even put in some criticizing facts, like Leo playing video games everyday and Kate calling in sick everyday. While these may be true, she seemed biased because she turned around to praise Cameron. At times it seemed more like Cameron's biography than a book on his movie.
This author is also not an expert on Titanic. What little historical information that is included is wrong. For example, she says the Titanic hit the iceberg at 10:30 pm and sank in 2 hours and 40 minutes, at 2:20 am. It should be that the Titanic hit the iceberg at 11:40 pm and sank at 2:20 am. If she had done her research on the event as well as the movie and it's making, she would have known that.
This book is okay. I would not recommend buying it because I have read better books on the making of this great movie.

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Summary: The InterWorkings of a movie mastermind
Review: This book brought the movie into a new perspective. It made it very easy to explain certain scenes to our kids, so that they could truly understand the complexity of the movie and thus of the disaster. The actors/actresses speaking of the fear they felt on the set just trying to recreate the worst maritime disaster in history-gives us a small glimpse of what the passengers/crew faced that nite. Also, it gave us a new respect for all the hard work, long hours, difficulties that had to be overcome to delivery the greatest movie of all time to the public. Also, we get to see that James Cameron is human, he gets frustrated and upset just like everyone else, that in and of itself was reassuring, because he is so often portrayed as larger than life.

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Summary: The Inside Scoop
Review: This book is the closest thing to actually being there whilethe film was made. Parisi's exclusive access to the set and Cameronpermits an over the shoulder view describing details and nuances that went into making a movie of epic proportions. Many facets of directing are not generally known and we are made aware of the struggle and persistence to get things done. Thus we have insight into the genius of Cameron and respect for the author's ability to translate the enormity of making this masterpiece. I enjoyed being a fly on the wall thanks to Parisi's book.