Titanic was the pinnacle of human innovation sunk by the might of nature when it was least expected. But such a calamitous happening could not be forgotten, that was for certain. It sold out magazine editions, newspaper headlines and the outpouring of public sympathies, for this ship had drowned fortunes both literally and metaphysically. 1997 was yet another year that added extra lustre to the already achieved immortality of the Titanic legend.
Cue Leonardo Di Caprio. The impossibly handsome leading man that catapulted straight into the hearts of women, teenage and adult alike with his looks that could in a reasonable way be said as the incarnation of a softer Alain Delon. Delon was undoubtedly handsome, but his face conveyed something harsh, enigmatic, something that was reinforced by the glacial indifference he imbibed into already chilling characters, most notably Tom Ripley in Plein Soleil(1957).
Caprio had been winning acclaim for roles like the Basketball Diaries, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and a role like this was to place him gently among the legendary category. His male charisma found it’s perfect antithesis in the doe-eyed, tender Kate Winslet, who found love on the ultimately doomed ship and then in a tragic Romeo-Julietesque fashion perished on it, but not without setting ablaze the hearts of viewers in true Romantic fashion.
In recent news, also the topic of this article, the overcoat that Kate Winslet made famous, as a film and fashion trend, has now gone under the hammer, sponsored by the Godin auctioneers. Prices have crossed 100k in characteristic hysteria as should be expected in a movie of such stature. The overcoat won the designer Deborah Lynn Scott the Oscar as well, which undoubtedly makes one believe in the ideas of fortune based on the use of talismans and Svengalis.
