We can learn more about the American culture and values through the analysis of this film。 There are rich meanings in analyzing the film deeply to extol the truth, the goodness and the beauty in human nature, advocate the freedom to love and show the beauty and ugliness of the human in face of disaster from the movie clips。 Experts and scholars at home and abroad have done a lot of researches from the love, the American culture and values, human nature, aesthetics, film literature and music and pictures, and so on。 And this paper mainly talks about the American culture and values, love and human nature through the appreciation of the film。
This essay is pided into five parts。 The first part is introduction。 It includes the background, purpose, significance for writing and research status。 The second part mainly talks about the introduction of Titanic including background, characters, process, plots of the film and its creation background and narrative strategy。 The third part mainly aims at the cultural interpretation of the film Titanic。 It consists of three sections which are the supreme love, the truth, goodness and beauty in human nature and the magnificent artistic expressive force。 The fourth part mainly talks about the values of the mainstream ideology in the United States。 It includes three sections。 They are respectively contemporary American class characteristics, American spiritual culture and human nature, American freedom and happiness。 The last part is the conclusion of the content and the introduction of significance of this paper。文献综述
II。 Brief Introduction of Titanic
2。1 Background of the Shipwreck
Titanic: A huge luxury liner which was made by the Britain white star line in the beginning of the 20th century。 It was the largest luxury liner in the world and called as “never sinking” or “dream liner”。 On April 10, 1912, the Titanic sailed from Southampton of UK to New York and started the maiden voyage of the “dream liner”。 On its maiden voyage, Titanic set off from Souththampton of UK by way of Mr Walcott of Cherbourg of France and Ireland QPR, and the planned destination was New York in America。 At 11 o’ clock at night, April 14, 1912, Titanic dashed against the iceberg。 2:20 in the morning of April 15th，Titanic sank into the Atlantic after breaking into two pieces, 1500 people dead in the bottom of the sea due to lacking of enough lifeboats resulting in one of the most serious marine accidents in peacetime at that time as well as the most famous shipwreck by far。
2。2 Film Synopsis
On April 15, 1912, the luxurious ship Titanic carrying 1316 passengers and 891 crew members collided with an iceberg and sank。 This marine peril is considered as one of the top ten disasters in the world in twentieth Century。 In 1985, the shipwreck of the Titanic was found in two miles and a half of the seabed of the North Atlantic。 American Explorer Lovett (played by Bill Paxton) ped into the sea in person and saw a picture on the wall of the cabin。 The found of Lovett drew an old woman’s (acted by Gloria Stewart) attention right away。 Rose who was already 101 years old said she was the girl in the painting。 In the ping cabin, Rose began to give an account of the story which happened in the Titanic at that time。 The young noble girl Rose (played by Katte Winslet) fell in love with the poor painter Jack (played by Leonardo Dicaprio) in spite of the secular prejudice。 However, on April 14, 1912, one night with a dead silence, the Titanic hit an iceberg。 The Titanic which is called the “Never sinking” ship would face the fate of sinking。 The budding love of Rose and Jack would also have to experience the test of life and death, and finally to be separated forever。 Doddering Rose finished the impressive love and threw the “heart of the ocean” which was the priceless necklace into the bottom of the sea to make it stay with Jack and this love story for eternity。来:自[优E尔L论W文W网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766- 从电影《泰坦尼克号》看美国文化和价值观(2):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_98702.html