Saturday 14 January 2012

James Cameron Snaps Up Costa Concordia Movie Rights

Tragically, the menu featured quite a lot of pasta
Leading Hollywood director James Cameron has already made a preliminary swim around the wreck of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise liner, trying to picture in his mind’s eye the most dramatic way to frame doomed passengers tumbling down the sides of the awful monument to man’s hubris, after buying up the exclusive film rights to the terrible maritime disaster.

The cinematic visionary has already filmed Kate Winslet standing like a living figurehead at the prow of the enormous vessel, and is currently tying weights to Leonardo diCaprio.

“I’d like to thank the passengers who have died or are still missing for inspiring me to make a stack of bucks out of their unimaginable suffering,” he told admiring reporters, as he ordered Mexico to build him a full-sized replica of the floating behemoth as it would have appeared in its heyday, i.e. Thursday evening.

2 comments:

James Cameron said...

You are joking. That is not true. Please respect those who died. What happened is not entertainment. 32 people lost their lives. Be respectful towards the ones who are in Heaven. May God bless their souls.

Nev said...

James, I presume you're not the film director - who probably has better things to do than point out that a satirical news blog is "not true" - but some other James Cameron who happened to find this article whilst Googling your own name.

People have different ways of respecting the victims of tragedy, and the target of my satire was what I felt to be a gloating media circus surrounding this tragic event - reminding me of the movie Titanic's trivialisation of the loss of many more lives by telling a fictional love story with 1,517 people who once existed dying cinematically in the background. You see, it's not just the recently deceased who are worthy of respect.

Meanwhile, I reserve the right to hold and express an opinion which isn't the same as yours, and to highlight entirely serious issues through satire. Disrespect was aimed squarely at the media, and not the victims.

Finally, I hope that God - if such a being exists - takes better care of the victims of this collision now they're dead than he did while they were alive.