“Titanic” Returns to Theaters for 25th Anniversary
By Angelina Stambouli, Staff Writer
TITANIC, Roland Arhelger, Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Beginning Feb. 10, James Cameron’s “Titanic” (1997) returned to the silver screen for a limited time.
The limited time re-release commemorated the blockbuster’s 25th Anniversary, remastered in 4K 3D HDR for audiences to plunge beneath the North Atlantic alongside fictional Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), reliving her long-lost memories of both a bygone era and true historic tragedy, intertwined with the forbidden love trope shared between Rose and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio).
While initially released in late December of 1997, Cameron opted to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the film on Valentine’s Day instead.
According to an interview with SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, Cameron’s decision came from the fact that the film’s “highest-grossing single day of the release was Valentine’s Day” for its evident ode to love, although the 1997 film had then been in theaters for two months prior.
Cameron first re-released the film to theaters in 2012, but mentioned how “another kind of half-generation of people that haven’t seen ‘Titanic’ in a movie theater…” came to mind for the 25th Anniversary re-release.
Having been a die-hard fan of the film from a young age, I knew I had to revisit its fascinating historic elements interwoven with a beautiful love story between a young Leo and Kate in Gettysburg’s own R/C Gateway Theater 8.
On Feb. 11, I took the opportunity as soon as possible to fully immerse myself in the timeless film for the first time in several years. While this was much to my boyfriend’s disappointment, he ultimately enjoyed “Titanic” more than he had years prior.
Late composer James Horner’s breathtaking, 1998 Academy Award-winning film score with melodies like “Rose,” “Hymn to the Sea,” and the original song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion, reverberated off of the theater’s walls and even poured outside of its doors for all moviegoers to soak in, whether there to see “Titanic” or not.
Horner’s score felt and sounded even more groundbreaking than I imagined, which is supported by Cameron’s decision to utilize Atmos sound.
The R/C Gateway Theater 8 had limited showings for “Titanic” until Feb. 23.
