Questão 18 - UPF Inverno 2012

‘Titanic 3D’: An unnecessary enhancement

To contemplate "Titanic 3D" - James Cameron\\\'s 1997

action-adventure-historical-romance about the 1912

sinking of the eponymous ship - is to engage in a double

dose of wistfulness. Cameron’s movie takes filmgoers back

not only to an era that seemed to disappear along with the

1,500 people who perished in the disaster, but to a more

recent time, when an un-superstar named Leonardo

DiCaprio and an unknown named Kate Winslet were barely

in their 20s, as ripe and tender as a baby’s sit-down.

With Cameron having converted "Titanic" to 3-D in

celebration of the film\\\'s 15th anniversary, watching the new

version also points up just how unnecessary such

technological gimmicks are when you have a perfectly

good original in the first place. The added visual depth

neither enhances nor detracts from the charm of revisiting

the film\\\'s young actors in the beginning of their fame.

Cameron pays tribute to a Victorian civilization and

culture that went down with the ship, his film pays tribute to

an era when a hugely expensive movie could be made with

no-name stars, just as it announces a coming age when

stars would barely be needed if a director could

manipulate the right computer effects.

Adapted from

http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action? newsId=276511

In paragraph two, the author of the text apparently thinks that by watching Titanic 3-D it is possible to conclude that