If there's one thing that has more inspiration on where we choose to holiday than anything else it has to be the movies. This is why sales of cruise holidays shot up to record level in 1997 after the release of Titanic, and why in 2011, Rome and Bali are firmly on our wish lists after watching the Julia Roberts movie, Eat, Pray, Love. If you're considering booking a cruise in the near future, why not consider watching one of these movies for inspiration:
1936: Dodsworth
This black and white 1936 movie is perhaps the oldest in the world to feature cruise ships. During the movie, two spectacular cruise ships feature, the 1931 Italian Line Liner, REX, and the RMS Queen Mary owned by Cunard. The movie follows Mr and Mrs Dodsworth, a hapless couple taking a cruise UK to New York. Mrs Dodsworth has encouraged her husband to sell up his automobile manufacturing plant and move the both of them over to Europe. Whilst on the cruise, Mrs Dodsworth starts spending time with other men and announces that she's leaving her husband for a member of Italian nobility. However, while in Italy Mr Dodsworth is also reunited with an old flame whom he met aboard a cruise liner to Europe and the two fall in love. Mrs Dodsworth's marriage to the Italian nobleman falls through and, on the cruise liner back to America, the film comes to a romantic conclusion.
1957: An Affair to Remember
Although many could tell you how this famous movie ends, fewer would be able to recall the fact that Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr first met and fell in love on an ocean liner. The couple are both cruising from Europe back to New York when they agree to meet on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building in six months' time in order to see whether or not they should marry.
1971: Diamonds are Forever
From his Martinis, shaken not stirred to his gleaming Aston Martin, it's only the best for Mr Bond, which means that cheap cruises simply won't do. Indeed, it is while on board a luxury cruise liner, that one of the key sequences takes place in "Diamonds are Forever". The two baddies walk on to the ship posing as a waiter and a wine steward and offer Bond a glass of Mouton-Rothschild, while serving James gets a whiff of their cologne and discovers that they aren't who they're making out to be.
1997: Titanic
If there is one film that best brings the grandeur of cruise liners and the golden era of cruising to the big screen then it has to be Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jack, an American who won a place on the Titanic in a dockside card game, while Kate Winslet is society girl, Rose Dawson, who's heading to Philadelphia to marry her rich fiancé, Cal Hockley. While on the cruise ship the two meet and fall in love. Throughout their affair, Jack and Rose experience excitement on both decks - from the upper class snobbery of the top deck, to the raucous parties that took place on the lower deck. The cruise movie became the first ever film in the world to earn more than $1 billion worldwide and is also credited with providing a sizeable boost to cruise holiday sales, with many holidaymakers keen to sample the cruise lifestyle, despite the film's predictable disastrous ending!
Emily Collins is a travel writer with an extensive knowledge of cruise holidays. For more information on cruise UK packages please visit Cruise Answers.
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