Nearer My God To Thee scene
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tristandude14 — 11 years ago(August 28, 2014 01:07 PM)
Ah, I'm glad to see someone who agrees with me and feels with me on this one. I feel that this movie is really one of the greatest tragedy films of all time. It's very emotional, especially during that scene. I always think of this song when they show footage of the World Trade Center collapsing, too, reminding me that the unthinkable can happen at any time. Even the scenes following the song are haunting, especially seeing the rooms tilting, all the furniture breaking, the walls bursting open and the rooms flooding. Very terrifying.
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Clusium — 11 years ago(September 13, 2014 08:41 PM)
I totally agree with you on that. It is beautifully done, and truly captures the poignancy of the tragedy. I think that is why the movie concludes with the hymn too.
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animerika — 11 years ago(February 21, 2015 09:42 AM)
There are two scenes that made cry like a baby.
This http://www.black-and-white-movies.com/images/a-night-to-remember-robert.jpg
And the band scene, when he started to play alone and everyone came back. -
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hobnob53 — 9 years ago(June 10, 2016 11:47 AM)
The scene is wonderfully played, and in real life the band members were gallant and brave every one of them perished. A huge public funeral was held for the eight band members and there's a monument to their bravery (I think in Belfast but it may have been in Southampton or elsewhere).
Nevertheless, the less attractive side to their sacrifice is that soon after the sinking each one of the members' families received a letter from the White Star Line demanding that the families pay the cost of the uniforms the men wore while playing, which of course went down with the ship along with, incidentally, the band members themselves.
This kind of inhumane, and indeed inhuman, corporate thinking is so reprehensible, so unfathomable in its pettifogging callousness, that's it's no wonder so many people rise up against the cruelty and abuses of big business. It's moronic actions like this that makes so many people justifiably loathe corporations and corporate behavior. -
Woodyanders — 9 years ago(June 10, 2016 11:50 AM)
That brings to mind the scene in which the steward tells the passenger who cuts open the gate with the axe that he is going to have to pay for the damage he did to said gate.
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hobnob53 — 9 years ago(June 10, 2016 12:30 PM)
Yeah, except they'd have to find the guy first. Of course, if such a thing had happened and the offending passenger and tattle-tale steward had survived, I have no doubt White Star would have demanded restitution for a broken gate now irretrievably at the bottom of the ocean.
What's amazing, and distressing, is how many supposedly good people at that time felt that such things as asking the families to reimburse the company for their dead relatives' uniforms or instruments, was perfectly acceptable; while the idea that the families should expect nothing in return no death benefits, certainly no liability payments was equally acceptable. -
dln1700 — 9 years ago(December 12, 2016 07:31 PM)
Don't mistake what happened back then for something that would happen today. It's very different now and companies today are very conscious of public sentiment but back then it probably was standard practice. It's the same as the pay for the sailors on the Titanic who stopped being paid by the company White Star Lines the moment the ship sank. It would NEVER happen today.
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hobnob53 — 9 years ago(December 12, 2016 08:37 PM)
Granted, 2016 is not 1912 and there are laws in place to help protect people and their rights, and the egregious and callous extremes of 1912 are unlikely (but not impossible) to be repeated today.
But the notion that corporations are all somehow nice, responsible, humane citizens is ridiculous. Most continue to do everything they can to gut pay, benefits, contractual rights, and so on. Cheating or deceiving the public and denying liability is commonplace. This stuff goes on quite literally every day. Get real. It may not take the same form or be quite as terrible as 1912 but they certainly do try to get away with anything they can, at their employees' and the public's expense.
The 2008 worldwide economic depression, who suffered and who didn't, who made millions while others lost their life savings, who got bailed out and who didn't, is one little more recent example you may have heard of.
