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Sparkle (1976)
Sparkle
The movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group. In their endeavors, the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called Satin, whom Sister goes after because she believes he is the "big time" who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life. Though he could be accused of killing her, he really kills only her spirit and will to live, after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose. The story isn't about the street life or the Italian mobster who tries to buy Stix off, then threatens him, it's about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be "discovered" back then.
Titanic (1997)
Thirteen years later ...
The clock is still ticking on this classic.
I rather like to think of people who thought it was horrible as having fish food for brains, but rather than label and resort to name-calling, I have to submit that I thought the movie showed some incredible ingenuity and unapologetic guts, as well as phenomenal talent.
Fiction and non-fiction were interwoven to such a fine twist that not even jealous people who wish they were in or wish they had made the movie themselves can spoil it. It's going to be a VERY long time before anyone whips this one for imagination or "how to tell a lie and get away with it".
As many times as this story has been told, no one has ever quite told it with that kind of depth and breadth and scope and magnificence of clarity of vision and focus.