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Tent Pole Blockbuster - Titanic

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Titanic appeals to everyone in a certain age group. This is known as a tent pole film. A tent pole film is a four quadrant movie that attracts all four of the general quadrants of the movie going audience. According to an article on film website Indiewire, the four quadrants of the audience all have very specific needs concerning the content of a film.[1] Typical females under 25 like films where a girl falls in love, with decent romance scenes. Females over 25 prefer doomed love and triumphs of the human spirit. On the other hand, males under 25 like explosions, blood, poop jokes and sex, but not in a romantic way. Males over 25 like darker films, classic genres such as westerns and war movies. Throughout the film, the theme of love is presented, which capture females under 25’s attention, between Jack and Rose. The director focused on a fictional love story which draws a huge audience to watch this film instead of a boring historical movie that is just based on the history of Titanic. The scene of which Jack dies ends up being one of the most emotionally powerful scene which shatters young females emotion, giving them the feeling that Jack sacrifices himself to save his love of his life, Rose. This particular scene is one of the most touching, it has the ability to melt a million girl’s hearts over Jack’s death. Also having an insanely handsome actor such as Leonardo Dicaprio, appear in the film helps grab young female audiences to watch the film by obsessing over a celebrity crush. Study shows that females over 25 hates seeing child in danger, therefore Titanic has created a safe environment where they put a lot of effort towards keeping child being safe. For example, when the ship’s beginning to stinks, A crew worker asked Captain Smith who should be allow to evacuate on the dinghies, the captain explicitly issued an order for women and children to be saved first, which enforce protection regarding to children's safety. Another example was when Cal saw a little girl crying behind the barriers all on her own, he ignore her at first, but as the movie continues Cal showed humility and went back to save the little girls life, in addition of his own skin. Nevertheless, it does illustrate children being saved. On the other hand, Males under 25 pay much more attention towards action with the realistic contents. The director did this by adding intense action scene as soon as the ship hits the iceberg, the amount of speed, death and harm was caused during the scene when the ship was about to fully over stink. Cameron created a blurred line between reality and illusion where he did

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