During the 2020 pandemic, re-watching Titanic resonated Although I didn't really fall for the movie when it came out, fortunately the accompanying publicity and hype entertained.
Now with the pandemic, Titanic as tragedy as new resonance. Lately I've become an admirer of the film, the actors, the story. While performing post-film research on the shipwreck remains, James Cameron stated he pitched the film by showing a water color painting of Titanic at night, pointed to it, and said, "This and Romeo and Juliet." The shortest film pitch he ever made.
When Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet first came out in the 1980's, I saw it. Any literature major is drawn to modern re-telling of Shakespeare. What I've noticed since re-watching Romeo + Juliet is that the first meeting between the two star-crossed lovers takes place in and under water. How prescient that Leonardo DiCaprio and Baz Luhrmann used swimming pool and fish aquarium water, long a Shakespearean symbol of rebirth and redemption, a year or three before LDC appeared in Titanic.
Thanks to the following website:
https://www.eightieskids.com/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-romeo-juliet/
