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

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 1:32pm

Apparently it's a bigger Twitter trend than the anger some kids felt over Rue being black in The Hunger Games movie. Lots of young people are finding their minds blown that there really was a Titanic and it really sank.

It kind of makes me laugh but also kind of sad when I realize how soon people won't know the Holocaust happened.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 1:36pm

My Facebook page was a-buzz after a young relative mentioned that no one in his college class had any idea what the "Falklands Islands War" was. I referred him to Joe Jackson's seminal musical meditation on the subject "Big World" but he, of course, had no idea who Joe Jackson was.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 3:05pm

The kids are going to have even bigger troubles when they realize that Jack and Rose were fictional characters in the film.

I mean, how are they supposed to write history reports if the movies don't tell them the truth?!

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 3:11pm

My friends and I did a History Day (yes, there is or was such a thing!) project on the Titanic in 19(??) and we got to interview Robert Ballard. In retrospect, I'm really pissed that he didn't choose us to announce the scoop that the whole search was really an operation to find sunken nuclear subs nearby.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 3:13pm

Do you think we should tell them about the Hindenberg?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 3:15pm

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 3:39pm

Now that you mention it, the last time I was at the Smithsonian, I had to sort out a family that was puzzled how the "Hope Diamond" got into the museum when the old lady pitched it overboard at the end of the movie.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 3:48pm

I just wanna go on record as saying how much I LOVE the fact that kids named Bibi and Brittany are learning this fact about the Titanic.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 4:04pm

Probably the same kids who were tweeting after the American Music Awards, "Who's Paul Macartney,and why are they letting the old man sing twice?!"

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 4:15pm

I bet we can convince them all the Poseidon was real. The first one, not the terrible remake cuz that was obviously fake.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 5:17pm

Which kids?

(And Matt you're insane if you think those same mysterious kids would care about a movie from the 70s that doesn't even have Fergie... )

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 5:43pm

I AM NOT INSANE! I am "eccentric".

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 5:45pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KClpLzFftU

[tazber]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 5:46pm

So where can I find that blue diamond?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 5:49pm

Jordan sat on it. It may be gone forever.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 5:50pm

I was having dinner with my neighbors when the film was in its original release. Their daughter, who was in her late teens came in and said, "I've gotta get new friends. We saw TITANIC this afternoon and Marcia said, 'It would have been a good movie if the boat didn't sink at the end'."

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 6:17pm

What's the world coming to if this is the new generation. Heavens!

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 6:27pm

Well the bastardization of the Titanic doesn't help. There is almost no reverence shown anymore. It's no wonder it's been trivalized with all the crap they hawk. I saw some woman buying White Star plates and blankets for her Titanic theme party at the Titanic exhibit.

THIS WAS A TRAGEDY PEOPLE!!! WTF???

Are people going to buy Windows On The World plates for their 9/11 party???

It wasn't romantic, it was a monumental tragedy. I appreciated the film, but I respected it for how well it showed the horrific events that unfolded. It didn't make me want to have a Jack and Rose party.

[Wildcard]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 6:29pm

Can't say I'm surprised when these kids were probably also taught that evolution did not happen.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 6:33pm

"Well the bastardization of the Titanic doesn't help. There is almost no reverence shown anymore. It's no wonder it's been trivalized with all the crap they hawk. I saw some woman buying White Star plates and blankets for her Titanic theme party at the Titanic exhibit.

THIS WAS A TRAGEDY PEOPLE!!! WTF???

Are people going to buy Windows On The World plates for their 9/11 party???"

I get your point, but none of that was done by the "kids"--I guess I'm projecting, but my sense from the start of this thread was "tsk tsk ook at how awful the young generation is turning out".

And actually I could picture in 50+ years time a Hollywood blockbuster sentimentalizing 9/11 and turning it into a love story (some might say there's already been some of that). That's one thing that happens to these tragedies when they become mythic.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 6:41pm

I'll take this ignorance over the racist tweets about Rue's skin color in The Hunger Games film. Not only a failure in reading comprehension but making her skin color an issue.

Also related to this, there were people I knew who watched X-Men: First Class who thought the film was good but felt the screenwriters could have found a better tension in the film than having it be USSR vs. USA and thought it was silly to set in Cuba-- as in they had no idea the Cuban Missile Crisis was for real. Poor kids now think Magneto and Professor X saved the day.

I remember hearing about the 1953 Titanic film adaptation with Stanwyck and Robert Wagner being a big deal at the time. There were actual survivors who could have seen it and in fact, the studio invited them to the premiere. Bad idea. People were traumatized, hysterical, some fainted and couldn't stop crying after leaving the theater.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 6:45pm

Titanic Slide for rent at your next Fun Titanic Party!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 6:46pm

Going back to the original release of the film, I was still teaching and a group of my students planned a "Titanic Party". Someone's parents were to be away for a weekend and the kids took out the best china and silverware, dressed in their prom attire and sat down to a regal feast. What was the main course? Macaroni and cheese.

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 7:07pm

There also was the wildly inappropriate cartoon version.
Seriously.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/11/12 at 7:15pm

Can't wait until we get the animated cartoon of the furry little animals in the World Trade Center on 9/11! The Legend Lives On indeed!