They're saying the kids didn't realize the Titanic was real- Page 2

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 7:29pm

Bettyboy, my late father used to get really ticked off about Titanic jokes, he was born on the anniversary of the sinking. You have a great point about how tragedies become tchotchkes.

Years ago a friend of mine came back from visiting historic Salem, Masschusetts, where there are any number of adorable smiling witches on brooms on t-shirts and as plushy toys, stickers and you-name-it. She wondered if in 300 years one will be able to buy happy little Jewish caricatures when visiting the futuristic gift shoppe at Auschwitz?

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 8:22pm

I do think the Titanic is a bit different than things like the Holocaust, 9/11 (or the Salem trials). It's fascination over people is a bit different because it was more (simplistically stated--though I know class issues,m etc, were also involved with who survived) about how people made all of these mistakes, and not people being persecuted. So maybe it'll take a few more years--but (centuries later) Mel Brooks made a musical number about The Inquisition--time (the amount depending on many factors) does change things.

But the famous Titanic school children's song has been sung a long time now. (Apparently it was composed some 15 years after the tragedy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Titanic_(song) )

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 8:31pm

This is just an Internet meme--all those people tweeting know perfectly well the Titanic was real.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 8:44pm

So, the tweets about John were fake too?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 11:05pm

You can't convince me they knew Rue was black, PJ.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 7:45am

There are some kids on the main board who think the original Carrie really happened too.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 10:50am

Millvina Dean, who was 9 weeks old when she survived the Titanic and the last remaining survivor when she died in 2009 once said

"The Titanic was a tragedy which tore so many families apart. I lost my father and he lies on that wreck. I think it is disrespectful to make entertainment of such a tragedy."

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 11:49am

The same has been said of murder mysteries. Why don't they do rape mystery dinner theater?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 11:53am

I do that! It's called eating Lean Cuisine while watching Law and Order: SVU.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 12:21pm

I don't know, Matt. Lean Cuisine seems to be far better quality than you would receive at most dinner theatres. You must be living in some TV fantasy land.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 12:41pm

This book brought my first real knowledge of what the Titanic disaster really was. Up to that point I had heard of it mostly through references in films like "Ghostbusters II" or even "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". And, yes, "Unsinkable Molly Brown" has more than just a loose reference but at that time I hadn't seen the film from start to finish yet. I don't really remember actually being taught about it in school. Maybe it was never expressly taught.


Nicole (Sunfire)

Updated On: 4/12/12 at 12:41 PM