In our travels over the holidays, we ran across the traveling Titanic exhibit where apparently you actually go on the ship in some manner. The comments on their advertising say “it feels like the real thing!” Really? Do I want to pay to go on a ship that sinks? Do I want to pay money to be reminded of death, of the massive drownings? Or is 100+ years enough time to get over our fears, our anguish, our misery over the sinking of The Titanic? I’m guessing that’s what the marketing research indicated…
When the Titanic movie came out, friends told us they were going to see it. I said something like, “Hey, you know it sinks at the end, right?” The woman thanked me for spoiling the ending for her. She didn’t know. I felt kinda bad, but not really, ‘cause people should know that stuff. I think I likely better prepared her for the sad ending.
Come to think of it, Hollywood never make a movie or show about a ship unless it sinks: The Titanic, Sink the Bismarck, The Minnow (Gilligan’s Island). Didn’t the Love Boat sink in final episode? Maybe it just sank in the Nielson ratings…
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