Titanic: The Legend Goes On

Titanic: The Legend Goes On (Italian: Titanic, mille e una storia or Titanic: La leggenda continua), also released as Titanic: The Animated Movie, is a 2000 Italian animated musical film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, written and directed by Camillo Teti.

Plot[]

The film centers on a poor girl named Angelica who works for her stepmother and step-sisters. They travel the RMS Titanic along with other passengers. She then meets a rich man named William, who is traveling with his nanny to America. Angelica and William meet in the hallway the fall in love instantly. As their relationship grows, the Titanic meets its fate and strikes an iceberg.

The ship starts to sink, and Angelica is separated from William during the evacuation. She makes it to a lifeboat and watches the sinking of the Titanic, fearing that William did not survive the sinking. It is then revealed that William's nanny, Jenny is Angelica's mother, and they find William alive. An epilogue shows that Angelica and William married and lived "happily ever after"; although Molly, Captain Smith, Jeremy McFlannel, and Winnie died in the sinking.

Characters[]

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Release[]

The film was released in 2001 in Italy and Canada, making copies of the movie hard to find. In 2009, the whole movie was released on YouTube, receiving a large amount of criticism.

Reasons for criticism[]

The movie has been called offensive because of the so-called "happily ever after" ending, making people think that the maker of the film missed the tragic event of the setting of the film. There are many rip-offs of Disney movies, including the Cinderella-like story, elements from Don Bluth’s Anastasia and the fact that the Dalmatians in the film have almost the same appearance as the Dalmatians in 101 Dalmatians and poor animation and recycling of audio and animation are other issues.

The poor animation can be seen throughout the movie, but especially seen in the scene where the gate to third class is opened during the sinking and two women are seen moving in place, but not walking.

The American cut has been very notorious amongst filmgoers for how different it was compared to the Italian cut. One example is the scene where Fritz, instead of telling Maxie to check with him when he decides to go off on his own, immediately sings his song, which has been infamously changed to a song called "Party Time", which had not been featured in the Italian dub.

Historical inaccuracies[]

Factual errors[]

The orchestra did not have a woman who sang, it only had people playing.
The A deck's landings of the Grand Staircase in this film are revealed to be at the Veranda Cafe and Palm Court. This is clearly wrong.
The way of acting of the passengers during the sinking is exaggerated and stretched. In real life, many of the passengers refused to get into the lifeboats because they felt safer on the ship.
An officer asks Winnie to get into a boat, which he said it was the last lifeboat. However, there is still another lifeboat right next to him.
The long-range sinking shots was inconsistent, many of the same scenes are repeated over and over again.
Some of the lifeboats were launched in the wrong place. For example, there is a lifeboat launched from the Aft Well deck.
The ship did not split in two when it sank with the fourth funnel but it split between the third or fourth funnel.
Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee are later in the sinking seen blocking 3rd Class from getting out. In real life Fleet and Lee were probably in lifeboats.
Just like in the Legend of the Titanic do not appear those embarked in Cherbourg and Queenstown.
There was no rap music in 1912; a dog singing a song presented in this style is anachronistic by at least 60 years.

Trivia[]

Much of the sinking sequence (aside from the Titanic breaking in two) seems to be based on Titanic sinking in A Night to Remember.
The film received significant attention online after being discussed by YouTube personality Jon Jafari. Jafari mocked the film for its historical inaccuracies, nonsensical plot, poor voice acting and frequent animation errors. Additionally, he criticized the title of the film for implying the story of Titanic was a mere "legend".
Most of the characters in the film are blatant rip-offs of other famous animated characters. For example; the protagonist, Angelica, is a poor young woman who works for her abusive step-mother and step-sisters. This is the exact same character dynamic as Cinderella, a classic story which was later adapted into an animated Disney film.