Movies Are Just Movies. They Aren't Real.

This week has been a case of Titanic-mania in the media because the 100th anniversary of the disaster was on the 14th. And, as usual, the Hollywood movie industry decided to make a bit of coin by retailing a disaster as a form of entertainment. In this case it, was a release of James Cameron's Titanic in 3-D some odd teen years after it was originally released.
There are two troubling things with the motion picture. The first is that many young people are so unschooled in history that they think that the whole Titanic story is a fiction created by Cameron. That, if nothing else, is a slam at the educational system in the United States and at the media in general. The second is that Cameron demonizes people ion the film who were not evil or bad willed. In particular, he makes a ship's officer a selfish and self-preserving lout when, in fact, the man went down with the ship. But, of course, in Hollywood the only good officer is the maverick officer while those who do their duty are either dupes or tools:

Remembering James Cameron's Titanic Inaccuracy

During the 1990s Whit Stillman made a trilogy of movies that we here at the Bloody Nib Mano enjoyed. All the films were based on the lives of the East Coast bourgeoisie, people with whom neither the lovely Lady Nib nor this writer have had anything to do with. But we have been able to appreciate a certain universality of the stories he told. In particular, Metropolitan, which is a retelling of Mansfield Park. We here at the Manor are of the working middle class and the world of debutante balls is very foreign to us. But Stillman tells universal stories with a Yuppie gloss. And he likes his Yuppies. Hollywoood doesn't. Stillman has a new movie that has been recently released called Damsels in Distress which we hope to see soon. And because of the movie the popular press has taken an interest in him and finds him odd:

Whit Stillman breaks Hollywood taboo, says he was 'blacklisted' from directing TV - Washington Times