'Titanic' Marked the End of a Very Specific Type of Hollywood Blockbuster
Looking over the list of the highest-grossing movies in history at the worldwide box office, Titanic certainly stands out as something unique compared to the other movies dominating the top 10 on that chart. Sure, Titanic was a super-expensive movie full of groundbreaking visual effects work based on extremely well-known material that everyone young and old knew about like so many other box office titans.
'Titanic' Carried on the Tradition of Expensive Romantic Epics The romantic epic used to be a staple of Hollywood filmmaking, with one of the most popular movies of the 1930s, Gone with the Wind, proving so lastingly influential that it solidified that the romantic epic would loom largely over American cinema for decades to come.
What Happened to the Romantic Epic After 'Titanic'? In the years that followed Titanic, Hollywood, just like when any movie makes a pretty penny at the box office, was desperate to replicate that success. A wave of romantic epics began to creep into theaters, with Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor being the most obvious example of a Titanic knock-off .
Romance Movies Were a Lot Riskier Than Action or Superhero Vehicles It didn’t help that the 2000s saw Hollywood begin to morph into its current form, with an emphasis on blockbusters based on pre-existing source material. This type of film had always had a soft spot in the hearts of executives, with Titanic’s success in the late 1990s being a reprieve from a deluge of Batman and Lethal Weapon sequels.
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