Titanic Games James Cameron made everyone think he would fail (including)

When modified for inflation, James Catanic is one of the highest wonderful films in all ages, and it is only exceeded by Cameron and Victor Fleming. Endgame. 2025 Chinese huge animation “Nezha 2” Cameron’s romantic epic at the box office did not exceed the time of writing this report.

Those who were watching movies in 1997 and 1998 remember the overwhelming phenomenon. “Titanic” runs 195 minutes, however SCADS has seen it again and again in theaters. The Academy Awards swept, and 11 out of 14 nominations won. The soundtrack was huge. “Titanic” was opened on December 19, 1997, and the number 1 was at the box office every week until “Lost in Space” … in the following April. The world will not see anything huge until the next Cameron movie in 2009. One can no longer talk about “Titanic” without mentioning first how popularly. For many years, it stood like a certain type of Hollywood film manufacturing.

It is difficult to imagine, then, it is expected that “Titanic” will become a huge bomb as it is produced. The film, as many people know, was the most expensive film that was ever produced at the time, as its budget was already mirrped from $ 100 million to $ 200 million. Even the expensive Tentpole “Waterworld” was not Which – which beloved. In fact, the film was so extent that Cameron recalled planning his professional life while he was still in the middle of its manufacture, convinced that “Titanic” could never become profitable. It has become fortunate to be this phenomenon, with a total of two billion dollars at the global box office.

In fact, Cameron mentioned several times, including a video interview with CNN To celebrate the twenty -fifth anniversary of the film, he did not even think the movie will be broken. Titanic has been the largest gamble in Hollywood so far.

In an CNN interview, Cameron Frank, recalling the Arc de Tarker whose crew in the movie was feeling during production:

“We did not think that it would earn any money. Frankly. We went to it, and we went (…) from” we will never work again “to” we’ll work again again, as long as we did not do another movie like “Titanic.”

Cameron was similarly explicit when he spoke to Wireless In 2009. He, with anyone else followed the development of “Titanic”, the constant budget and the lost final dates. This is true: “Titanic” was initially supposed to be a summer version, but it ended again to December 1997 to give Cameron enough time to finish filming and editing the movie. Meanwhile, Cameron was just scary like the film’s financiers, worried that he was making a movie that could not sell tickets. As the legend says, Cameron kept a shaving blade in his office, with a dark, attached note, “Use only if you absorb the movie.” This was not a sign of depressive thinking, but it was an indication that Cameron was facing some terrible risks. As it put it:

“When we imagined” Titanic “, (…) we were just trying to know how much money we would lose. (…) I just realized (when talking to a friend), I made dust with a value of $ 200 million where everyone dies. What is the right of hell I was thinking? (…) I would have to rebuild my career from scratching.”

Anything that costs a lot these days is a “sure thing”. When the movie “Star Wars” or Marvel film cost $ 200 million, it is seen as a relatively low -risk investment, as these films generally achieved a profit (at least in the past decade). When Cameron was making “Titanic”, this type of spending did not hear on a movie. “Titanic” should have been a great success, otherwise the professions would end and the companies would close.

After more than two billion dollars, the risks were absorbed.

It is worth noting, a Washington Post The article, published in May 1997, quoted a few executives in the twentieth century who were cautious about “Titanic”. The article noted that Paramount (which was dealing with the domestic distribution of the film) and Fox (which was dealing with international operation) had to stand by Cameron at that point. After all, it was 200 million dollars beyond the “Cut and Run” point. Tom Chirac, President of Fox at the time, has become an existence around “Titanic”, saying:

“The bottom line is, no one wants to spend this type of money, but this is the way it is clear. Should this be done? “

Titanic turned into an epic, but the question remains: Is it a lot of money? The post indicated, in 1997, that Hollywood was adopting the “larger mentality is better”. This year was “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”, “Men In Black”, “Air Force One” and “Liar Liar”. The films were getting more expensive, but it seemed that “Titanic” crosses a line. If executive managers at the studio at that time witness an abundance of excessive spending in late 2010 and early twenties. Just search for “Jurassic World” film budgets at some point. Or the latest movie “Star Wars” and “Star Trek”. Or the fifth movie “Indiana Jones”. Heck, see Dissy does not hit like Netflix Russos “The Electric State”. Or expensive bombs Like Todd Philips “Joker: Folia for two.” Money is burned regularly.

Can the line be crossed? Hollywood seems to be trying to reduce its spending, as it is no longer until the “Star Wars” films are hitting anymore. But the industry will continue to encourage it to be irresponsible even if it is one in 10 MB and the budget is provided with black. 1997 was just the beginning. The present is much larger.