Hi guys! Today I am going to talk mostly about Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio playing alongside their old co-stars in some other films they played in or in Titanic/Revoultionary Road.
Kathy Bates
For example, Kathy Bates is an American actress who stared in Titanic as Molly Brown, who was a first class passenger. I found out last week that Bates also reunited with her old Titanic co-stars (Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio)and played along side them in Revolutionary Road. In R.R, Kathy Bates played Mrs Helen Givings who is a relator and becomes good friends with the Wheelers.
Winslet, DiCaprio and Bates in Titanic
Bates with Winslet and DiCaprio at premiere of R.R
Kathryn Hahn
Kathryn Hahn starred in 'The Holiday' in 2006 alongside Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet herself. Even though Winslet and Hahn didn't perform together in the same scenes, they were both in the same film which means they were co-stars. Winslet and Hahn starred alongside another movie together, 2 years later and that is Revolutionary Road.
Hahn in The Holiday alongside Cameron Diaz
Hahn at RR premiere alongside co-stars
Cameron Diaz
This example isn't quite co-stars reuniting but it is talking abou how Diaz starred in Gangs of New York in 2002 alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, and then in 2008 she stared with Kate Winslet in The Holiday. I thought it was quite intresting how Cameron Diaz stared in 2 films with DiCaprio and Winslet seperatly that are 6 years apart.
Cameron and Kate in The Holiday together (2008)
Diaz and DiCaprio posing with Martin Scorsese in 2002
Hi guys! I'm back and today I am going to talk about another secondary resource I found. This source made me think about Kate Winslet mostly but at the end of the article it mentioned a bit about Titanic.
Quote: "Titanic would be a different film if we imagine replacing Leonardo DiCaprio with Brad Pitt in the lead role"
This quote is asking the readers to think about a star and a different star and think of the consequences that would make. For example, different stars will perform than others and also different stars will make the film different as well. This is why Dyer used DiCaprio and Pitt as the two stars, and said that the audience can't imagine Pitt replaying DiCaprio and playing Jack Dawson in Titanic.
Quote: "We often talk about people whom the camera loves...some people love the camera"
This quote made me think of Kate Winslet. When Winslet first started getting well known, she was the 'girl next door' from Reading (UK), so she always used to talk to the paparazzi and even sometimes have a conversation with some before she was heading to her destination.
Quote: "chosen from among many young woman of virtually identical attributes, to be hyped by the marketing machinery of Hollywood"
Even though the quote isn't talking about Kate Winslet, it has the same idea. This is because in this extract Dyer is talking about Julia Roberts and he is saying that Roberts was a really lucky individual because she was described as likeable, attractive and talented, and funny enough she was all those things. This quote made me think of Winslet because when she auditioned to play the part of Rose in Titanic she wasn't well known. Gwyneth Paltrow, Claire Danes and Gabrielle Anwar was offered the role of Rose and all these young attractive and talented women were well known but they all turned down the role. This made 'girl next door' Winslet get the role of Rose - she was young, talented and attractive woman.
Hi guys! I'm back and yet again I have another secondary resource. I found this book in the Cambridgeshire Library. This source made me think of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet because the pages are talking about Cameron thinking about cast and Winslet's audition in LA.
Source: Paula Parisi, Titanic and the making of James Cameron, 1998, UK and pages 95 -99.
Front cover
Quote: "James Cameron was reluctant to even consider either Kate Winslet for the part of Rose or Leonardo DiCaprio for Jack"
This quote shows us that James Cameron was very certain, that when he started planning the film, he wanted Winslet and DiCaprio as the leads. This shows us that Cameron thought that DiCaprio and Winslet were very good young actors and this was at the start of Winslet's acting career.
Quote: "You've proven that you can do the American accent, now act the same scene for me without thinking about that"
This quote is about Kate Winslet. This is because Winslet is a British actress so in Titanic her character (Rose) was American so she needed to act out an American accent. When Titanic 3-D was released, Winslet said in one interview that she was embarrassed by her performance in Titanic and she can't stand hearing her American accent in it. This shows us she has improved her acting skills and she said hopefully her American accent is a lot better now than the one she did in 1997.
Quote: "Yet DiCaprio, like Winslet, had also accumulated an impressive resume of characters"
This quote made me think of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. This is because James Cameron (the director of Titanic and who said this quote) is saying that both DiCaprio and Winslet are very good actors. Also, it shows us that Cameron also thought that DiCaprio and Winslet are very good at performing different characters for different types of films.
Hi guys! I'm back and today I am going to talk about my first secondary resource and talk about some quotes, which made me think of DiCaprio and Kate separately and as a pair..
Source: Susan Hayward, Cinema Studies; The Key Concepts, (third edition,
Routledge 2006, pp 375-384)
Book cover
Quotes from 'A first definition: star as capital value'
Quote 1: "Meanwhile male stars became more complex. No longer just heroes, they could be anti-heroes, rebels-as-heroes, socially aware of heroes, and so on"
Page:375
This quote made me think of Leonardo DiCaprio individually This is because DiCaprio hasn't played just one particular role, he has played all different roles. For example, in Titanic (1997) he was playing Jack Dawson - Dawson was a third class young boy who luckily won a game at poker and won 2 tickets to go onto Titanic where he met Rose (Winslet). In 2013, DiCaprio played Jay Gatsby who is a millionaire and holds a lot of parties with other millionaires This shows us that DiCaprio can perform different characters that have different status'.
DiCaprio playing different roles
Quote 2: "For some film stars 'going to Hollywood' could make them into megastars"
Page: 376
This quote reminded me of Kate Winslet. This is because Winslet was born in Reading, UK which means she isn't an American actress. When Gwyneth Paltrow, Claire Danes and Gabrielle Anmar were offered the role of Rose, they all turned it down. This is when Winslet campaigned heavily for the role, she sent daily notes to David Cameron (director of Titanic) from UK and then with the help of her agent, Cameron finally invited her to Hollywood for an audition. With Kate Winslet's persistence and her talent, Cameron offered her the role of Rose Dawson. The film became the highest-grossing film of all time with $2.1 billion box office receipts world-wide. Titanic transformed Winslet into a commercial movie star, she later won 'Best British Actress' from Empire Awards for her role in Titanic.
Winslet's first screen-test for Titanic
Quote 3: "Traditions of performance, then, have national as well as individual resonates and need to be borne in mind when analysing a star's performance style."
Page: 376/77
This quote is going towards DiCaprio and Winslet. DiCaprio is an American actor with a German mother and half Italian and half German father, DiCaprio can speak fluent German. Winslet is a British actress and before she got a mega-star she was typically 'the girl next door'.
In Titanic and Revolutionary Road they both played a couple, but in a different way. For example, in Titanic the two characters they play (Rose and Jack) fall in love and their different class doesn't matter to them. Sadly, Jack (DiCaprio) dies in the film from hypothermia.
However, in Revolutionary Road Leonardo and Winslet play a newly married couple (Frank and April) but their relationship is troubled. In this film, April (Winslet) died from an abortion going wrong.
DiCaprio and Winslet in Titanic (left) and Revolutionary Road (right)
