1. Titanic - Make It About Any Of The Crew Members Who Died On The Ship
Hey look James Cameron again. This mega-hit, much like Avatar 12 year later, won audiences world- wide for it's stunning visual effects and tragic romance story. Some will agree it was more of the former than the latter that drew them in. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet do their best, but all in all can't generate enough to make us feel for these people when thousands of others are dying around them. The want and needs of these two fictional characters really don't amount to a hill of beans, in the scheme of things. Romance is all well and good but in the face of such a horrific and real disaster it just doesn't hold-up. If someone like Cameron is going to put-forth so much effort and budget into a project like this, how about making it as a tribute to those that died that tragic night? This could've been made about anyone of the real-life characters on the ship. Thomas Andrews was the Titanic's architect and seeing his creation sink into the Atlantic causing so much death is arguably much more tragic and reasonat than Rose and Jack. 2nd officer Lightoller doesn't even get a proper characterization in the film, as a money grubbing confused officer who accidentally shoots an innocent passenger. From all historical accounts he remained calm, cool and collected as he valiantly led the evacuation of the ship, paying for it with his life by eventually went down with it. Of course, probably the most egregious missed opportunity has to be the ship's band members, though portrayed truthfully as playing on through the unimaginable chaos, it shouldn't have been just a footnote in a Titanic movie. The band did play on, serving as a singular calming element in a night of sheer terror, only doing what so many others failed to do: their job. They weren't asked to, they didn't need to, they just did. None of the eight band members made it off alive. In tribute here are their names: Theodore Ronaldo Brailey (Pianist), Roger Marie Bricoux (Cellist), John Frederick Preston Clarke (Bassist), Wallace Henry Hartley (Bandmaster), John Law Hume (Violinist), Georges Alexandre Krins (Violinist), Percy Cornelius Taylor (Cellist), John Wesley Woodward (Cellist) So there you are, ten examples of unrealized potential and missed opportunities. Please leave comments if you feel the need to discuss, as always reasonably...